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
Address:
Office: 1212 Van Hise
Yeohyun Ahn
Position title: Assistant Professor of Graphic Design
Email:
yahn27
Address:
Office: 6351 Humanities Building
Bernadette Baker
Position title: Professor of Curriculum and Global Studies; Director of Graduate Programs
Email:
bbaker
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
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
Address:
214 Conrad A. Elvehjem Building
Gilles Bousquet
Position title: Professor; French Chair
Email:
bousquet
Phone: 608.262.4062
Address:
Office: 734 Van Hise
Gudrun Buhnemann
Position title: Professor
Email:
gbuhnema
Phone: 608.262.5881
Address:
Office: 1234 Van Hise
Kaiping Chen
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
kchen67
Phone: 608.262.0184
Address:
Office: 316 Hiram Smith Hall
Menzie Chinn
Position title: Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
Email:
mchinn
Phone: 608.262.7397
Address:
Office: 7418 Social Science
Peggy Choy
Position title: Associate Professor of Dance and Asian American Studies
Email:
pachoy
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
Phone: 608-265-6266
Address:
Office: 6101 Law School
Charo D'Etcheverry
Position title: Professor
Email:
cdetcheverry
Address:
Office: 1266 Van Hise
Joe Dennis
Position title: Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Studies
Email:
dennis3
Phone: 608.263.1853
Address:
Office: 5135 Mosse Humanities
Anatoly Detwyler
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
detwyler
Address:
Office: 1238 Van Hise Hall
Yoriko Dixon
Position title: Japanese Studies Librarian
Email:
yoriko.dixon
Phone: 608.265.2728
Address:
Office: 412F / 312 Memorial Library
Wei Dong
Position title: Professor
Email:
weidong
Phone: 608.262.8805
Address:
Office: 3134 Nancy Nicholas Hall
Joan Fujimura
Position title: Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology
Email:
fujimura
Phone: 608.265.2724
Address:
Office: 7101 Sewell Social Sciences
Steven Gagnon
Position title: Korean Language Teaching Faculty
Email:
sggagnon
Address:
Van Hise
Naomi Geyer
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
nfgeyer
Phone: 608.262.9221
Address:
Office: 1260 Van Hise
Maggie Hawkins
Position title: Professor
Email:
mhawkins
Phone: 608.263.4667
Address:
Office: 514D Teacher Education
Matthew Hora
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
matthew.hora
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
Phone: 608.263.1784
Address:
Office: 4123 Mosse Humanities
Rania Huntington
Position title: Professor
Email:
huntington
Phone: 608.262.9216
Address:
Office: 1268 Van Hise
Jack Jiang
Position title: Professor
Email:
jjjiang
Phone: 608.265.7888
Address:
Office: Medical Sciences Center
Eunsook Jung
Position title: Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science
Email:
esjung
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
Phone: 608.262.5696
Address:
Office: 5402 Sewell Social Science
Adam Kern
Position title: Professor
Email:
alkern
Phone: 608.262.9592
Address:
Office: 1270 Van Hise Hall
Jampa Khedup
Position title: Senior Lecturer
Email:
khedup
Phone: 608.262.5844
Address:
Office: 21 N Park St
Charles Kim
Position title: Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History
Email:
charles.kim
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
Address:
Office: 5109 Mosse Humanities
Nam Kim
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
nckim2
Phone: 608.262.2187
Address:
Office: 5438 Sewell Social Science
Yoon Jeon (YJ) Kim
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
yj.kim
Address:
Office: 144A Teacher Education Building
Judd Kinzley
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
kinzley
Phone: 608.263.1861
Address:
Office: 4121 Mosse Humanities
Min Li
Position title: Senior Lecturer
Email:
min.li
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
Phone: 608.263.6784
Address:
Office: 253F Education Building
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
Address:
Mosse Humanities
Yuhang Li
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
yuhang
Phone: 608.263.1175
Address:
Office: 218 Elvehjem
Byung-Jin Lim
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
byungjin.lim
Phone: 608.262.3341
Address:
Office: 1214 Van Hise
Chaeyoon Lim
Position title: Professor
Email:
chaeyoon.lim
Phone: 608.263.5146
Address:
Office: 8105 Sewell Social Sciences
Ran Liu
Credentials: Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies (EPS)
Email:
ran.liu
Address:
Office: 225 Education Building, 1000 Bascom Mall
Joseph Mason
Position title: Professor; Department Chair of Geography
Email:
mason
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
Phone: 608.263.3423
Address:
Office: 5249 Grainger Hall
Xiuyuan Mi
Position title: Assistant Professor of Classical Chinese Literature and Culture
Email:
mi8
Address:
Van Hise
Yuri Miyamoto
Position title: Professor
Email:
ymiyamoto
Phone: 608.890.1035
Address:
Office: 418 Psychology
Junko Mori
Position title: Professor
Email:
jmori
Phone: 608.262.3871
Address:
Office: 1204 Van Hise
Viren Murthy
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
vmurthy2
Phone: 608.263.1627
Address:
Office: 4108 Mosse Humanities
Takako Nakakubo
Position title: Faculty Associate
Email:
tnakakubo
Phone: 608.262.3473
Address:
Office: 1258 Van Hise
Adam Nelson
Position title: Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History
Email:
anelson
Phone: 608.263.2629
Address:
Office: 203 Education
Eunsil Oh
Position title: Assistant Professor of Sociology and Asian Languages and Cultures
Email:
eas
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
Phone: 608.263.7603
Address:
Office: 9112 Law School
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Position title: William F. Vilas Professor
Email:
eohnukit
Phone: 608.262.2866
Address:
Office: 5450 Sewell Social Science
Kristopher Olds
Position title: Professor
Email:
kolds
Phone: 608.262.5685
Address:
Office: 346 Science Hall
Zhongdang Pan
Position title: Professor
Email:
zhongdangpan
Phone: 608.263.3920
Address:
Office: 6138 Vilas Hall
Jae Park
Position title: Professor
Email:
jkpark
Phone: 608.262.7247
Address:
Office: 3230 Engineering Hall
Thomas Popkewitz
Position title: Professor
Email:
tspopkew
Phone: 608.263.7343
Address:
Office: 464B Teacher Education
Bin Ran
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Email:
bran
Phone: 608.262.0052
Address:
Office: 2312 Engineering Hall
Steven Ridgely
Position title: Associate Professor; CEAS Director
Email:
steve.ridgely
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
Address:
7444 Social Sciences Building
James Schauer
Position title: Professor
Email:
jjschauer
Phone: 608.262.4495
Address:
Office: 115 Water Science & Engineering Lab
Guanming Shi
Position title: Professor
Email:
gshi
Phone: 608.263.6250
Address:
Office: 433 Taylor Hall
Jung-hye Shin
Position title: Associate Professor; Graduate Program Chair
Email:
jshin9
Phone: 608.890.3704
Address:
Office: 3138 Nancy Nicholas Hall 1300
Mark Sidel
Position title: Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law
Email:
mark.sidel
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
Phone: 608.890.3130
Address:
Office: 4335 Grainger
Ben Singer
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
ben.singer
Phone: 608.263.3923
Address:
Office: 6054 Vilas Hall
Sarah Thal
Position title: Professor
Email:
thal
Phone: 608.265.6033
Address:
Office: 4117 Mosse Humanities
Jing Wang
Position title: Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication
Email:
jing.wang
Address:
5115 Vilas Hall
Yi Wang
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
wang52
Phone: 608-335-0933
Address:
Office: 492 Horticulture Building
Anlin Yang
Position title: Chinese and Korean Studies Librarian
Email:
anlin.yang
Phone: 608.890.1783
Address:
Office: 412E Memorial Library
Jerry (Chi-Ping) Yin
Position title: Professor
Email:
jcyin
Phone: 608.262.5014
Address:
Office: 3434 Genetics/Biotech
Yang Ying
Position title: Chinese Language Teaching Faculty
Email:
ying.yang
Address:
Office: 1112 Van Hise
Louise Young
Position title: Professor
Email:
louiseyoung
Phone: 608.263.1829
Address:
Office: 4102 Mosse Humanities
Jinwen Yu
Position title: Professor
Email:
jwyu
Phone: 608.363.6655
Address:
Office: 121 Lathrop Hall
Tianlu Zhang
Position title: Faculty Associate
Email:
tianlu.zhang
Address:
Office: 1254 Van Hise
Axing Zhu
Position title: Professor
Email:
azhu
Phone: 608.262.0272
Address:
Office: 550 North Park St.
Weihua Zhu
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
wzhu34
Phone: 608.262.9218
Address:
Office: 1264 Van Hise