East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University

Located in a lively and affordable mid-Atlantic coastal city, Johns Hopkins was founded in 1876 as America’s first research university, offering the first program leading to the Ph.D. It remains among the country’s finest centers of higher learning, boasting some of the most eminent academic departments producing professional scholars. Its departments feature Hopkins’ distinctive “seminar system” of graduate education, emphasizing collective faculty and graduate student critical analysis of emerging scholarship, and the ongoing production of research by all participants. Recent Ph.D.’s in East Asian studies from Hopkins have gone on to faculty positions at the University of Michigan, the City University of New York, Texas A & M University, California State University, Indiana University, Syracuse University, and other excellent institutions.

Through its Language Teaching Center, the Krieger School offers outstanding, intensive training in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages. The Hopkins-Nanjing Center, a division of Hopkins’ School of Advanced International Studies and the only branch of an American university located in China itself, affords advanced language training and a research base for Krieger School students specializing in China. The Milton S. Eisenhower Library on the Krieger School campus hosts a fine and growing collection of materials in East Asian languages, and the Library of Congress, located in nearby Washington, has nearly unparalleled resources in this area. Other institutions in the Baltimore-Washington area with materials useful to graduate students include the U.S. National Archives, the Walters Art Museum and the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Sackler and Freer Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution, and Hopkins’ own Welch Medical Library and George Peabody Library.