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Members of the Committee on East Asian Studies include the following: Joel Andreas is a sociologist studying social change in China since 1949, focusing on the institutional foundations of social inequality. Erin Chung studies the politics of East Asia, with particular interests in citizenship, immigration, and civil society in Japan and South Korea. Marta Hanson is an historian of medicine in late imperial China who works on the history of disease, epidemics, regionalism, gender, publishing, and the interaction between elite and vernacular knowledge of Chinese medicine. Morris Low is an historian of East Asian science and technology, and is especially interested in Japanese physics and technology, the cultural history of science in Japan, science and gender, and the transfer of laboratory science from the U.S. to Japan. Tobie Meyer-Fong studies the history of late imperial and modern China, with particular focus on issues of memory, commemoration, and literary culture. William T. Rowe is an historian of late imperial and modern China, with interests in urban and rural social organization, violence, and the history of Chinese political thought. Sonia Ryang is a social anthropologist of Japan and Korea, focusing on ethnic identities and politics, ideology, kinship, and love and romantic relations, among other issues. Kellee Tsai is a political scientist who specializes in the domestic politics of contemporary China, with interests in the political economy of development and institutional analysis. This core group is supplemented by a number of excellent language instructors, by other Krieger School faculty with comparative interests in East Asia (including strong concentrations of South Asianists, Africanists, and Latin Americanists), by visiting faculty (recent visitors have taught such subjects as Japanese history, Chinese and Korean literature, Buddhism, and East Asian business), and by a distinguished group of East Asianist faculty at such nearby Baltimore institutions as Towson University, Loyola University of Maryland, the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, who routinely participate in our seminars. |