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Sadia Abbas
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Associate Professor of English, SAS-Newark
Research:
Hellenism, historicism, European perceptions of Europe’s own history and identity, networks of cultural circulation in the Mediterranean, religion, theology and theory, the history of European Christianity, religious fundamentalisms, neoliberalism, the rise of the global right, contemporary British fiction, gender and religion to early Netherlandish and Renaissance painting, contemporary Pakistani art
Takashi Amano
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Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work, Rutgers SAS-Newark
Research:
social work, gerontology, Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, long-term services and supports, community-engaged research
Daniel Asen
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Associate Professor and Undergraduate Director, Federated Department of History, SAS-Newark
Research:
Modern Chinese history, history of forensic science, history of the body
Sahar Aziz
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Distinguished Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Rutgers Law-Newark
Research:
National Security, Race and Civil Rights, Ethnic and Religious Minorities, Authoritarianism
Sylvia Chan-Malik
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Associate Professor of American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research:
Critical Ethnic Studies, Transnational American Studies, Critical Muslim Studies, Asian American Literature and Culture, Third World Feminism, Islamic Feminism, Cultural Theory, Race and Religion
Alexandra Chang
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Associate Professor of Practice in Arts, Culture and Media. SAS-Newark
Research:
Global Asias art and visual cultures, Asian diasporic art, Asian American art, Asian Caribbean Art, visual cultures, Eco-art
Kornel Chang
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Associate Professor and Chair of History, SAS-Newark
Research:
Asian migration, labor, and exclusion in the Americas and the United States in the Asia-Pacific World
Jessey Choo
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Associate Professor of Chinese History and Religion
Research:
Medieval China, Culture of Remembrance, Everyday Religious and Ritual Practices, Epigraphy, and Gender and Body
Jae Won Edward Chung
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Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Asian Languages and Cultures
Research:
Modern and contemporary Korean literature; visual culture; photography; colonialism; Cold War; neoliberalism; affect; translation studies; intermediality; temporality
Kayo Denda
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Head, Margery Somers Foster Center & Librarian for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, NB Libraries Library Faculty, NB Libraries
Research:
Women’s and Gender Studies, Visual Culture and Literacy, Asians in the Americas and Diasporas
Asher Ghertner
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Professor of Geography
Research:
India, urban displacement and violence, environmental law and politics, urban aesthetics
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel
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Associate Professor of Anthropology
Research:
Media anthropology, visual anthropology, photography, ethnographic and documentary film, historical anthropology, cultures of knowledge production especially news and journalism, anthropology of the imagination, politics in everyday life, migration and the construction of citizenship. Turkish and Ottoman Studies, American Studies, migration studies.
Alex Hinton
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention
Research:
Genocide, mass atrocity, extremism, transitional justice, law and society, human rights, memory and trauma, cultural anthropology, Southeast Asia, Cambodia
Xian Huang
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Associate Professor of Political Science
Research:
political causes and consequences of social inequality, stratification, and mobility; redistribution, social welfare, and health polices; public preferences under authoritarian rule; regional focus – China and East Asia
Chie Ikeya
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Associate Professor of History
Research:
Inter-Asian intimacies; histories, laws, and geopolitics of marriage, family, and collaboration, 1850–1950
Allan Punzalan Isaac
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Professor of American Studies and English
Research:
Asian American literature and culture, critical race theory, Filipino labor, U.S. postcolonial studies
Tao Jiang
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Professor of Religion and Philosophy and Director of Rutgers Center for Chinese Studies
Research:
Mahāyāna Buddhist Philosophy, Classical Chinese Philosophy, Cross-Cultural Philosophy
Nick Kapur
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers-Camden
Research:
Modern Japanese history; postwar & contemporary Japan; World War II in Asia; social movements; U.S.-Japan relations; environmental governance; contemporary China
Eun-jin Keish Kim
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Presidential Postdoc
Research:
undocumented immigrant organizing, migration, feminist disability studies, transnational feminism, queer-of-color critique, ethnic studies
Suzy Kim
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Professor of Korean History / Editor of positions: asia critique
Research:
Gender history of North Korea, visual culture of the postwar period from the 1950s to the 1990s, critical theory, gender studies, and oral history
Yeon-Soo Kim
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Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Research:
Asian diaspora to Spain, diasporic interculturality, critical race theory, Asians in Spanish novelas Negras, and alternative media for Asian-Spanish identity construction,“Yellow Peril in Spain”
Youngrim Kim
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Assistant Professor of Journalism & Media Studies, School of Communication & Information
Research:
technology & society; platform studies; critical data studies; digital infrastructures; datafication and platform governance in East Asia; statecraft
Triveni Kuchi
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Librarian for Sociology, Criminal Justice, South Asian Studies and Middle
Research:
Eastern Studies; Faculty & Graduate Student services coordinator 2019-2022, New Brunswick Libraries
Christian Lammerts
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Associate Professor of Religion & Editor of Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society
Research:
Buddhist studies, Southeast Asia, legal history
Ji H. Lee
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Director of the Asian American Cultural Center
Sukhee Lee
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Associate Professor of History
Research:
Middle Period Imperial China: Social and Intellectual History
Peng Liu
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese
Research:
Daoist Ritual, Late Imperial Chinese Fiction and Drama, Medieval Chinese Buddhist Hagiographies
Kathy López
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Associate Professor of Latino and Caribbean Studies and History
Research:
Asian diasporas and migrations in Latin America and the Caribbean; co-edits the book series Historical and Cultural Interconnections between Latin America and Asia (Palgrave Macmillan) with Ignacio López-Calvo.
Michiru Lowe
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Teaching Instructor of Japanese, Asian Languages and Cultures
Research:
Heritage language learning, community engagement, multilingual/multi-cultural education, and language learning and identity,transnational literature, language and culture in language teaching
Martin F Manalansan IV
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Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Research:
Sexuality and gender, migration, Filipino Americans, urban studies, vernacular globalization, Philippines, Southeast Asia, decoloniality and the social sciences
Mukti Lakhi Mangharam
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Associate Professor of English
Research:
Postcolonial literatures, the history of colonialism in South Asia, South Asian diasporas including South Asian Americans, comparative racialization in the US, ideas of freedom in Indian literature and culture.
Preetha Mani
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Associate Professor of South Asian Literatures
Research:
Modern Hindi, Tamil and Indian literature; South Asian feminisms, women’s writing, world literature, translation studies, realisms and modernisms, and postcolonial studies
Johan Mathew
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Associate Professor of History
Research:
Indian Ocean world, Histories of Capitalism, Political Economy, Labor Studies, Histories of Medicine, Science and Technology Studies
Matt Matsuda
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Professor of History
Research:
Pacific Islands global and comparative histories and Asia-Pacific. Memory and historical consciousness, historiography, European empire and colonialism. Modern Europe, France, Nineteenth Century cultural and intellectual histories. Histories of genomics, decolonization, and science especially in Oceania
Pamela McElwee
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Professor of Human Ecology
Research:
Environment, climate, development, sustainability, biodiversity, ecosystems, Southeast Asia
Carah A. Naseem
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Associate Editor, Rutgers University Press
Research:
literature in translation; Asian American and diaspora studies; Jewish Studies; colonialism and imperialism; labor and social justice movements; ecocriticism; (re)emergent discourses on gender, sexuality, and race.
Anjali Nerlekar
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Associate Professor/Chair of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) and Editor of Modernism/modernity
Research:
Multilingual Indian modernisms; modern Marathi literature; Indian English literature; Indo-Caribbean literature; archipelagic studies; world literatures; translation studies; postcolonial studies; Indian print culture; Indian visual studies
Jeongeun Park
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Associate Director of Rutgers Oral History Archives
Hieu Phung
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Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
Research:
environment; climate history; water history; Vietnam; Southeast Asia; premodern East Asia
Victoria Ramenzoni
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Assistant Professor of Human Ecology
Research:
Environmental anthropology; human behavioral ecology; coastal communities; marine and coastal policies
Edward Ramsamy
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Chairperson and Associate Professor of Africana Studies
Research:
International development planning; geographies of globalization
Kavitha Ramsamy
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies
Research:
Geographies and histories of African and Asian peoples in comparative national contexts; social movements at the intersection of Black Atlantic Studies and Indian Ocean Studies in the US and South Africa
Nancy Yunhwa Rao
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Distinguished Professor of Music, Mason Gross School of the Arts & Editor of American Music
Research:
Chinese in North America, opera performance in Chinatown theaters, gender and music, sketch studies, music modernism, cultural fusion in music, racial representations, and the music history of early Chinese Americans
Roland Rich
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Associate Teaching Professor and Director of the United Nations and Global Policy Studies Program of the Department of Political Science
Research:
Democratization, Global Governance, Regionalism in East Asia
Jesse Rodenbiker
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography
Research:
environmental governance, urban geography, inequality,displacement, political ecology, sustainability, biodiversity, oceanic and archipelagic geographies, global China
Puja Sahney
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Teaching Instructor, Rutgers English Language Institute
Paul Schalow
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Professor of Japanese Literature, Asian Languages & Cultures
Research:
Japanese literature; literatures of trauma; comparative literature
Ethan D. Schoolman
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Assistant Professor of Human Ecology
Research:
Environmental sociology; local and alternative food systems and environmental sustainability; public health; social justice, food systems in the United States and Japan
Tamara Sears
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Associate Professor of Art History
Research:
South Asian visual culture; religious art and architecture; medieval studies; colonial historiography; landscape studies; environment; transregional studies
Tatiana Seijas
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Associate Professor of History
Research:
Philippine Islands, Slavery & freedom, Pacific World — 17th century, Early Modern economics, Mexico, African Diasporas, Iberian empires
Meheli Sen
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Associate Professor of AMESALL and Cinema Studies
Research:
Indian cinema; gender; genre; modernity; globalization; new media cultures
Weijie Song
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Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Asian Languages & Cultures
Research:
Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film, urban imagination, martial arts narratives, popular culture, environmental humanities, comparative imagology, Sinophone and diaspora studies
Julia Stephens
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Associate Professor of History
Research:
Colonial and Post-Colonial South Asia; legal history
Wendy Swartz
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Professor of Chinese Literature
Research:
medieval Chinese literature, comparative poetry and poetics, literary theory and criticism, landscape and environmental studies
Audrey Truschke
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Professor and Asian Studies Director
Research:
South Asia, India, Hinduism, Islam, Early Modern India, Mughal Empire, Sanskrit, Persian, Hindu nationalism
Andy Urban
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Associate Professor of American Studies and History
Research:
Labor history; immigration and race; public humanities projects on 1940s Seabrook Farms, frozen foods agribusiness and company town in south NJ that recruited incarcerated Japanese Americans, British West Indies guestworkers, European Displaced Persons, and stateless Japanese Peruvians
Haruko Wakabayashi
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Associate Teaching Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures
Research:
Social, cultural, and religious history of medieval Japan; visual culture of medieval Japan; late 19th-early 20th century relationship between Rutgers and Japan
Xiaojue Wang
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Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Director of Graduate Studies, Program in Comparative Literature
Research:
Chinese literature, cultural Cold War studies, Chinese-German connections, film and media studies, gender and sexuality
Chinghsin Wu
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Associate Teaching Professor of Art History, Rutgers-Camden
Research:
Modernism, Modern Art, Japanese At, Chinese Art, Taiwanese Art, Buddhism, Surrealism, Expressionism, watercolor, Cubism, Imperialism, Colonization, Primitivism, Gender and the Arts, Animation, Nihonga, Bird and Flower Painting, Landscape, Silk Road, Art History
Shelley Zhang
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Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology, Rutgers New Brunswick, Mason Gross School of the Arts
Research:
transpacific migration, citizenship, contemporary China, Asian North America, music performance, Orientalisms, neoliberalism
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