CEAS Faculty

The Center for East Asian Studies acts as a clearing house and coordinating center bringing together an interdisciplinary group of faculty, staff, and students interested in the study of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet.  CEAS includes more than 70 core and associate faculty members who teach some 240 undergraduate and graduate East Asia-related courses through 30 departments in 6 different schools and colleges.

Faculty (alphabetical)

Jaerin Ahn

Position title: Instructor of Korean

Email: ahn43@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 1212 Van Hise

Yeohyun Ahn

Position title: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design

Email: yahn27@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 6351 Humanities Building

Bernadette Baker

Position title: Professor of Curriculum and Global Studies; Director of Graduate Programs

Email: bbaker@education.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.4657

Address:
Office: 464a Teacher Education

Panle Barwick

Position title: The Todd E. and Elizabeth H. Warnock Distinguished Chair Professor

Email: pbarwick@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-264-2973

Address:
7422 Social Sciences Building

Steffani Bennett

Position title: Assistant Professor of Japanese Art, and the Joan B. Mirviss Chair in Japanese Art

Email: steffani.bennett@wisc.edu

Address:
214 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building

Gilles Bousquet

Position title: Professor; French Chair

Email: bousquet@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.4062

Address:
Office: 734 Van Hise

Gudrun Buhnemann

Position title: Professor

Email: gbuhnema@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.5881

Address:
Office: 1234 Van Hise

Kaiping Chen

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: kchen67@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.0184

Address:
Office: 316 Hiram Smith Hall

Menzie Chinn

Position title: Professor of Public Affairs and Economics

Email: mchinn@lafollette.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.7397

Address:
Office: 7418 Social Science

Peggy Choy

Position title: Associate Professor of Dance and Asian American Studies

Email: pachoy@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.6674

Address:
Office: 125 Lathrop Hall

Franciska Coleman

Position title: Assistant Professor of Law; Associate Director, East Asian Legal Studies Center

Email: facoleman@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-265-6266

Address:
Office: 6101 Law School

Charo D'Etcheverry

Position title: Professor

Email: cdetcheverry@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 1266 Van Hise

Joe Dennis

Position title: Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies

Email: dennis3@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1853

Address:
Office: 5135 Mosse Humanities

Laurie Dennis

Position title: Assistant Director

Email: ldennis@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.3643

Anatoly Detwyler

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: detwyler@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 1238 Van Hise Hall

Yoriko Dixon

Position title: Japanese Studies Librarian

Email: yoriko.dixon@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.265.2728

Address:
Office: 412F / 312 Memorial Library

Wei Dong

Position title: Professor

Email: weidong@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.8805

Address:
Office: 3134 Nancy Nicholas Hall

David Fields

Position title: Associate Director

Email: dpfields@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.265.6583

Joan Fujimura

Position title: Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology

Email: fujimura@ssc.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.265.2724

Address:
Office: 7101 Sewell Social Sciences

Steven Gagnon

Position title: Korean Language Teaching Faculty

Email: sggagnon@wisc.edu

Address:
Van Hise

Naomi Geyer

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: nfgeyer@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.9221

Address:
Office: 1260 Van Hise

Maggie Hawkins

Position title: Professor

Email: mhawkins@education.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.4667

Address:
Office: 514D Teacher Education

Matthew Hora

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: matthew.hora@wisc.edu

Phone: (608) 265-5629

Address:
Office: 21 N Park St

Florence Hsia

Position title: Professor; Associate Vice Chancellor for Arts and Humanities; Assistant Dean, Graduate School

Email: fchsia@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1784

Address:
Office: 4123 Mosse Humanities

Rania Huntington

Position title: Professor

Email: huntington@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.9216

Address:
Office: 1268 Van Hise

Jack Jiang

Position title: Professor

Email: jjjiang@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.265.7888

Address:
Office: Medical Sciences Center

Eunsook Jung

Position title: Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science

Email: esjung@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.0617

Address:
Office: 110 Ingraham Hall

Mark Kenoyer

Position title: George F. Dales Jr. and Barbara A. Dales Professor of Anthropology

Email: jkenoyer@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.5696

Address:
Office: 5402 Sewell Social Science

Adam Kern

Position title: Professor

Email: alkern@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.9592

Address:
Office: 1270 Van Hise Hall

Jampa Khedup

Position title: Senior Lecturer

Email: khedup@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.5844

Address:
Office: 21 N Park St

Charles Kim

Position title: Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History

Email: charles.kim@wisc.edu

Monica Kim

Position title: William Appleman Williams & David G. and Marion S. Meissner Chair in U.S. International and Diplomatic History; Associate Professor of History

Email: mkim687@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 5109 Mosse Humanities

Nam Kim

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: nckim2@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.2187

Address:
Office: 5438 Sewell Social Science

Yoon Jeon (YJ) Kim

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: yj.kim@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 144A Teacher Education Building

Judd Kinzley

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: kinzley@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1861

Address:
Office: 4121 Mosse Humanities

Min Li

Position title: Senior Lecturer

Email: min.li@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-262-3816

Address:
3116 Grainger Hall

Weijia Li

Position title: Clinical Professor, Director of Global Higher Education Master's Degree Program

Email: wli255@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.6784

Address:
Office: 253F Education Building

Yafei Li

Position title: Professor

Email: yafeili@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 1158 Van Hise

Yang Li

Position title: Anna Julia Cooper Postdoctoral Fellow (2024-25); Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Integrated Liberal Studies Program (Fall 2025)

Email: yli2829@wisc.edu

Address:
Mosse Humanities

Yuhang Li

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: yuhang@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1175

Address:
Office: 218 Elvehjem

Byung-Jin Lim

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: byungjin.lim@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.3341

Address:
Office: 1214 Van Hise

Chaeyoon Lim

Position title: Professor

Email: chaeyoon.lim@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.5146

Address:
Office: 8105 Sewell Social Sciences

Ran Liu

Credentials: Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies (EPS)

Email: ran.liu@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 225 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall

Joseph Mason

Position title: Professor; Department Chair of Geography

Email: mason@geography.wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 207 Science Hall

Antonio Mello

Position title: Frank Graner Professor in Finance; Director of the Nicholas Center for Corporate Finance and Investment Banking

Email: antonio.mello@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.3423

Address:
Office: 5249 Grainger Hall

Xiuyuan Mi

Position title: Assistant Professor of Classical Chinese Literature and Culture

Email: mi8@wisc.edu

Address:
Van Hise

Yuri Miyamoto

Position title: Professor

Email: ymiyamoto@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.890.1035

Address:
Office: 418 Psychology

Junko Mori

Position title: Professor

Email: jmori@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.3871

Address:
Office: 1204 Van Hise

Viren Murthy

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: vmurthy2@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1627

Address:
Office: 4108 Mosse Humanities

Takako Nakakubo

Position title: Faculty Associate

Email: tnakakubo@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.3473

Address:
Office: 1258 Van Hise

Adam Nelson

Position title: Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History

Email: anelson@education.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.2629

Address:
Office: 203 Education

Eunsil Oh

Position title: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures

Email: eas@eastasia.wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 8105 Sewell Social Sciences

John Ohnesorge

Position title: George Young Bascom Professor of Law; Director for East Asian Legal Studies

Email: john.ohnesorge@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.7603

Address:
Office: 9112 Law School

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

Position title: William F. Vilas Professor

Email: eohnukit@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.2866

Address:
Office: 5450 Sewell Social Science

Kristopher Olds

Position title: Professor

Email: kolds@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.5685

Address:
Office: 346 Science Hall

Zhongdang Pan

Position title: Professor

Email: zhongdangpan@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.3920

Address:
Office: 6138 Vilas Hall

Jae Park

Position title: Professor

Email: jkpark@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.7247

Address:
Office: 3230 Engineering Hall

Thomas Popkewitz

Position title: Professor

Email: tspopkew@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.7343

Address:
Office: 464B Teacher Education

Bin Ran

Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor

Email: bran@engr.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.0052

Address:
Office: 2312 Engineering Hall

Steven Ridgely

Position title: Associate Professor; CEAS Director

Email: steve.ridgely@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.1740

Address:
Office: 1206 Van Hise Hall

Kim Ruhl

Position title: Curt and Sue Culver Professor of Economics; Co-Director, Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy (CROWE)

Email: ruhl2@wisc.edu

Address:
7444 Social Sciences Building

James Schauer

Position title: Professor

Email: jjschauer@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.4495

Address:
Office: 115 Water Science & Engineering Lab

Guanming Shi

Position title: Professor

Email: gshi@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.6250

Address:
Office: 433 Taylor Hall

Yuki Shimizu

Position title: Faculty Director of Japanese House

Email: yshimizu3@wisc.edu

Jung-hye Shin

Position title: Associate Professor; Graduate Program Chair

Email: jshin9@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.890.3704

Address:
Office: 3138 Nancy Nicholas Hall 1300

Mark Sidel

Position title: Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law

Email: mark.sidel@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.5608

Address:
Office: 6104 Law School

Enno Siemsen

Position title: Professor; Associate Dean of the MBA and Masters Programs; Executive Director of the Erdman Center for Operations & Technology Management

Email: esiemsen@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.890.3130

Address:
Office: 4335 Grainger

Ben Singer

Position title: Associate Professor

Email: ben.singer@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.3923

Address:
Office: 6054 Vilas Hall

Sarah Thal

Position title: Professor

Email: thal@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.265.6033

Address:
Office: 4117 Mosse Humanities

Jing Wang

Position title: Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication

Email: jing.wang@wisc.edu

Address:
5115 Vilas Hall

Yi Wang

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: wang52@wisc.edu

Phone: 608-335-0933

Address:
Office: 492 Horticulture Building

Anlin Yang

Position title: Chinese and Korean Studies Librarian

Email: anlin.yang@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.890.1783

Address:
Office: 412E Memorial Library

Sijia Yang

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: syang84@wisc.edu

Jerry (Chi-Ping) Yin

Position title: Professor

Email: jcyin@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.5014

Address:
Office: 3434 Genetics/Biotech

Yang Ying

Position title: Chinese Language Teaching Faculty

Email: ying.yang@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 1112 Van Hise

Louise Young

Position title: Professor

Email: louiseyoung@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.263.1829

Address:
Office: 4102 Mosse Humanities

Jinwen Yu

Position title: Professor

Email: jwyu@education.wisc.edu

Phone: 608.363.6655

Address:
Office: 121 Lathrop Hall

Dayin Zhang

Email: dayin.zhang@wisc.edu

Address:
Grainger Hall

Tianlu Zhang

Position title: Faculty Associate

Email: tianlu.zhang@wisc.edu

Address:
Office: 1254 Van Hise

Axing Zhu

Position title: Professor

Email: azhu@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.0272

Address:
Office: 550 North Park St.

Weihua Zhu

Position title: Assistant Professor

Email: wzhu34@wisc.edu

Phone: 608.262.9218

Address:
Office: 1264 Van Hise