Undergraduate Program in East Asian Studies
9 Kirkland Place
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-495-8365
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STAFF 2007-08
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Undergraduate Coordinator
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Assistant Head Tutor for Seniors
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Assistant Head Tutor for Juniors
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AFFILIATED FACULTY 2007-08
(The following are faculty whose home departments are outside of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Bestor, Theodore C. (Anthropology) Professor of Anthropology. Research interests: Markets, globalization, urban studies, economic institutions and exchange; food systems and cultures, space, place and identity; Japan , East Asia, North Atlantic . Publications: Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World 2004, University of California Press, Doing Fieldwork in Japan Co-edited by Theodore C. Bestor, Patricia G. Steinhoff, and Victoria Lyon Bestor 2003, University of Hawai'i Press, “Inquisitive Observation: Following Networks in Urban Fieldwork,” in Bestor, Steinhoff, and Bestor (eds.), Doing Fieldwork in Japan , University of Hawai'i Press. 2003. “Markets and Places: Tokyo and the Global Sushi Trade,” in Setha Low and Denise Lawrence-Zuniga (eds.) The Anthropology of Space and Place , Blackwell. 2003.
Estévez-Abe, Margarita (Government) Paul Sack Associate Professor of Political Economy Courses: Government 1273: The Political Economy of Japan . Research interests: Japanese politics and economy, comparative social policy, varieties of capitalism and gender inequality. Publications: "Forgotten Link? Welfare-Finance Nexus" in Manow and Ebbinghaus eds. Varieties of Welfare States; "Social Protection and Skill Formation" (co-authored with Torben Iversen and David Soskice) in Hall and Soskice eds. Varieties of Capitalism; "Negotiating Welfare Reform" in Rothstein and Steinmo eds. Restructuring the Welfare State; Welfare and the Unwinding of Japan (forthcoming).
Harrison, Henrietta (History) Professor of History. Research interests : social and cultural history of 19th and 20th century China . Cultural history of the Nationalist period and the Taiwan indigenous people. Shanxi province, rural history, infanticide, and the history of the Catholic church in China . Chinese nationalism and ethnicity, Christianity in China , the 1949 Communist revolution and Chinese history since 1949. Publications: The Making of the Republican Citizen: Ceremonies and Symbols in China, 1911-1929. Oxford University press (2000) , The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man , Stanford University Press (2005), China: Inventing the Nation , Arnold (2001). Courses: HAS 13 China : Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization, History 1828 Christianity and Chinese Society: Research Seminar. History 2822 Readings on the 1949 Revolution in China : Seminar and History 2823 Readings in Modern Chinese History: Proseminar
Johnston, Alastair Iain (Government) Governor James Albert Noe Sr. and Linda and Christel Noe Laine Kelley Professor of China in World Affairs Research interests: socialization; the 'measurement' of identity; Chinese foreign policy; East Asian Security.
Kirby, William (History) Edith and Benjamin Geisinger Professor in the Department of History ; Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor; Chairman, Harvard China Fund; and Director, John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Research interests: Modern Chinese History, with special concern for 20th century Political and Economic History; Chinese-foreign cultural and economic relations. Publications: A World Transformed: A Global History of the Twentieth Century (forthcoming), Cambridge Modern China Series editor, Global Conjectures: China in Transnational Perspective co-editor (2006), Normalization of U.S.-China Relations: An International History co-editor (2006).
Lippit, Yukio (History of Art and Architecture) Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Courses: L&A B-23: The Japanese Woodblock Print; HAA 188j: Japanese Architecture Research interests: Sino-Japanese ink painting, Zen Buddhist culture, all aspects of Japanese urbanism and architecture. Publications : Awakenings: Zen Figure Painting in Medieval Japan (exhibition catalogue); “The Heirloom Painting in Early Modern Japan”; “Verisimilitude and its Discontents: The Zen Portrait in Medieval Japan”; “Japan's Southern Barbarian Screens”; “Urakami Gyokudo: An Intoxicology of Japanese Literati Painting”; “Tawaraya Sotatsu and the Watery Poetics of Ink Painting”
MacFarquhar, Roderick (Government) Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science . Courses: Government 2884: Chinese Authors on Chinese Politics Research interests: Origins of the Cultural Revolution. Publications: The Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Chinese Intellectuals, The Sino-Soviet Dispute, China under Mao; Sino-American Relations, 1949-1971; The Secret Speeches of Chairman Mao; the final two volumes of the Cambridge History of China (edited with the late John Fairbank); The Politics of China 2nd Ed: The Eras of Mao and Deng; and a trilogy, The Origins of the Cultural Revolution.
Mowry, Robert (Fine Arts) Senior Lecturer on Fine Arts; Curator of Chinese Art and Head of Asian Art, Harvard University Art Museums Research interests: Chinese ceramics; Chinese jades; Chinese bronzes; Chinese Buddhist art; Korean ceramics; Korean Buddhist art; Korean painting
Perry, Elizabeth (Government) Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government Courses: East Asian Studies 98r: Tutorial – Junior Year: State-Society Relations in Modern China ; Government 1280: Government and Politics of China ; Government 2285: Political Science and China ; Government 90pn: The Chinese Revolution in Comparative Perspective. Research Interests: popular protest and grassroots politics in modern and contemporary China . Selected Publications: Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China (1980); Shanghai on Strike (1993); Proletarian Power (1997); Patrolling the Revolution: Worker Militias, Citizenship and the Modern Chinese State (2006); and Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China (2007).
Pharr , Susan (Government) Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics. Courses: Government 90gs: Civil Society in Asia; East Asian Studies 98r: Tutorial – Junior Year: State and Society in Contemporary Japan . Research interests: social and political change in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia; comparative political behavior; democratization and social change; political economy of East Asia; international relations of East Asia; political corruption; environmental politics; gender and politics; the role of the media in politics; the role of Japan and the U.S. in development; and international political economy of development. Her current research focuses on the forces shaping civil societies, and the changing nature of relations between citizens and states in Asia . Publications: Political Women in Japan (1981 ); Losing Face: Status Politics in Japan (1990); (with Ellis S. Krauss) Media and Politics in Japan (1996); (with Robert D. Putnam) Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? (2000); and (with Frank J. Schwartz) The State of Civil Society in Japan (2003).
Steedly, Mary M. (Anthropology) Professor of Anthropology Courses: Anthropology 238: Reorienting South East Asia . Research interests : Historical ethnography; colonialism and nationalism; gender and cultural studies; Indonesia ; southern U.S. and military culture. Publications: "The importance of proper names: Language and 'national' identity in colonial East Sumatra," American Ethnologist (1996); "What is culture: Does it matter?" in M. Garber, P. Franklin and R. Walkowitz (eds.), Field Work: Sites in Literary and Cultural Studies (Routledge, 1996); "Surrogates, slips and incidental encounters: The tale of Raja Bakaléwat," Anthropology and Humanism (2000), and "The state of culture theory in the anthropology of Southeast Asia," Annual Review of Anthropology (2000)
Wang, Eugene (History of Art and Architecture) Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Watson, James L. (Anthropology) Harvard College Professor and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society. Research interests: Chinese kinship and social organization; ritual and political symbolism; social stratification; migration; historical ethnography; social aspects of food and eating; China, Taiwan and Britain.
Watson, Rubie (Anthropology) Senior Lecturer on Anthropology . Research interests: Chinese rural society, especially in the Hong Kong region, Cantonese women's sub-culture and the dynamics of family change, material culture, repatriation, and museums and memory. |