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James E. Auer
Research Professor of Management of Technology at the Vanderbilt School of Engineering
Director, Center for U.S.-Japan Studies and Cooperation
His research interests are U.S.<eth>Japan security, and political, economic and defense-related technology relations. Office: 163 Peabody
Phone: (615) 343-6980, 343-6982
E-mail: james.e.auer@vanderbilt.edu</eth>
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Gerald Figal
Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies
He teaches courses in Japanese history and cultural studies and is the author of Civilization and Monsters: Spirits of Modernity in Meiji Japan (Duke, 1999). He is currently working on an interdisciplinary study of tourism development in Okinawa entitled Beachheads: War, Peace, and Tourism in Postwar Okinawa.
Office: 241 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-4712
E-mail: gerald.figal@vanderbilt.edu
Professor Figal's course web sites.
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Yoshikuni Igarashi
Associate Professor of History
Director, East Asian Studies Program
He is a historian of modern Japan. He is particularly interested in the legacies of the Asia Pacific War in JapanÕs postwar history.
Office: 242 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-3334
E-mail: yoshikuni.igarashi@vanderbilt.edu
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Jinah Kim
Assistant Professor of History of Art
She specializes in the art of South and Southeast Asia. Her research interests range from exploring the relationship between text and image, to understanding the pragmatic meaning and function of religious objects in different contexts, investigating female representations and patronage in South Asia, and searching for a new critical framework for the interpretation of the multivalent and the issues of re-appropriation of “art” objects from South and Southeast Asia. She is currently working on a book that discusses the text-image relationship in Buddhist manuscripts from South Asia and the archaeology of the book-cult.
Office: 210 Fine Art Building
Phone: (615) 322-3657
E-mail: jinah.kim@vanderbilt.edu
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Ling Hon Lam
Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
He received his Ph.D. degree in Chinese literature at the University of Chicago. His dissertation, "Emotional In-Difference: Exploring Exteriority in Late Imperial Chinese Drama and Fiction," is about the performativity of emotion and the material process of constructing the interiority at the intersection of various media. His research and teaching interests include Ming-Qing drama and fiction, women's writing, sex and gender, history of sentiments, nineteenth- and twentieth-century media culture, and critical theories. His recent publications include "Cannibalizing the Heart: The Politics of Allegory in The Journey to the West" (included in Literature, Religion, and East/West Comparison) and "The Matriarch's Private Ears: Performance, Reading, Censorship, and the Fabrication of Interiority in The Story of the Stone " (HJAS 65.2).
Office: Buttrick 252
Phone: 322-2527
E-mail: ling.hon.lam@vanderbilt.edu
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James J. Lang
Associate Professor of Sociology
Over the past decade, he has conducted field work in Asia on farmers, agricultural research, and food production. The project was supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and by research centers such as the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) in the Philippines, and the International Potato Center, with offices in Indonesia, China, and India. He published two books based on this research: Feeding a Hungry Planet: Rice, Research, and Development in Asia and Latin America (UNC Press, 1996) and Notes of a Potato Watcher (Texas A&M, 2001). He has done fieldwork in Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines, India, and Indonesia.
Office: 207 Garland
Phone: (615) 322-2716
E-mail: Langjj@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
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Xianmin Liu
Senior Lecturer in Chinese; Chinese Language Program Coordinator
Her interests are in semantic, pragmatic, and functional analyses and explanation of Chinese language; language pedagogy; and Chinese culture.
Office: 254 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 343-7824
E-mail: xianmin.liu@vanderbilt.edu
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Peter Lorge
Senior Lecturer in History
He specializes in the military and political history of tenth and eleventh century China. Having completed a manuscript on the creation of the Song dynasty (960-1279), he is now writing a history of war and its effects on society in China from 900 to 1800, and finishing the translations of about sixty personal letters from the eleventh century for an epistolary history of the period. In addition to modern and pre-modern China, and Chinese military thought, he also teaches courses on Hong Kong film.
Office: 218 Benson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-3707
E-mail: peter.lorge@vanderbilt.edu
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Tracy Miller
Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
She specializes in the visual culture of China, India, and Japan with particular interest in Chinese architecture. The focus of her current research is the influence of popular religion and local politics on temple architecture in north China from the Song through the Ming dynasties.
Office: 210 Fine Arts Building
Phone: (615) 322-0214
E-mail: tracy.miller@vanderbilt.edu
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Keiko Rose Nakajima
Senior Lecturer in Japanese; Japanese Language Program Coordinator
She specializes in TESOL and second language acquisition. Her interests are in pragmatics and cross-cultural communication.
Office: 256 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-2027
E-mail: keiko.r.nakajima@vanderbilt.edu
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Ann Oslin
Administrative Assistant, International Programs
Office: 230 Buttrick Hall
Phone: (615) 322-2527
E-mail: ann.oslin@vanderbilt.edu
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Ruth Rogaski
Associate Professor of History
She is a historian of modern China. Her teaching and research interests include the history of medicine and science in China, gender history, and the history of martial arts. She has written on a variety of topics, including orphanages, public health, Bruce Lee, and germ warfare. Her first book, Hygienic Modernity (California, 2004), explores how concepts of health and disease changed in China during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is presently working on a new research project about the role of the biological and natural sciences in the formation of Asian empires from the eighteenth century to the present.
Office: 223 Benson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-3351
E-mail: ruth.rogaski@vanderbilt.edu
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Yuh-Fen Shu
Library Assistant for East Asian Studies
Office: 408 General Library
Phone: (615) 343-2091
E-mail: yuh-fen.shu@vanderbilt.edu
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