CAPS Affiliated Faculty

CAPS 2024 annual reception

Affiliated Faculty

CAPS invites all UO faculty whose research intersects with Asia and/or the Pacific Islands to connect with us. If your work falls within these areas but you are not currently affiliated with CAPS, please reach out to our director Rachel DiNitto (rdinitto@uoregon.edu) or associate director Kylie Post (kpost@uoregon.edu).

Anthropology

Erica Bornstein, Professor –South Asia
Alison Carter, Associate Professor — SE Asia
Scott Fitzpatrick, Professor — Pacific Islands
Lamia Karim, Professor — South Asia
Gyoung-Ah Lee, Professor — China, Korea
Leah Lowthorp, Assistant Professor — South Asia

Architecture and Design

Kyu-ho Ahn, Associate Professor — Korea
Nancy Cheng, Associate Professor – East Asia
Howard Davis, Professor — South Asia, East Asia
 

 

Arts

Mariachiara Gasparini, Associate Professor — China, Central Asia
Akiko Walley, Maude I. Kerns Assistant Professor — Japan
 

Business

Lynn Kahle, Professor Emerit of Marketing — East Asia
Nagesh Murthy, Roger Engemann Professor of Operations and Business Analytics — South Asia
Jinky Panaganiban, Professor of Practice (Portland), Asia Pacific

Cinema Studies

Sangita Gopal, Associate Professor — South Asia
Dong Hoon Kim, Associate Professor — Korea
HyeRyoung Ok, Career Instructor — Korea

Comparative Literature

Steven Brown, Professor — Japan
Tze-Yin Teo, Associate Professor — China

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Roy Bing Chan, Associate Professor — China
Rachel DiNitto, Professor — Japan
Sunhee Woo, Instructor — Korea
Maram Epstein, Professor — China
Alisa Freedman, Professor — Japan
Yukari Furikado-Koranda, Senior Instructor — Japan

Denise Gigliotti, Senior Instructor — China
Alison Groppe, Assistant Professor — China, Malaysia
Luke Habberstad, Associate Professor — China
Reiko Hashimoto, Senior Instructor — Japan
Kaori Idemaru, Professor — Japan
Rika Ikei, Senior Instructor — Japan
Zhuo Jing-Schmidt, Professor — China

Nayoung Kwon, Associate Professor –Korea
Jina Kim, Associate Professor — Korea
Naoko Nakadate, Senior Instructor — Japan
Glynne Walley, Associate Professor — Japan
Yugen Wang, Professor — China
Jean Wu, Senior Instructor – China

Economics

Shankha Chakraborty, Professor – South Asia
Woan Foong Wong, Assistant Professor – East and Southeast Asia

Geography

Xiaobo Su, Associate Professor — China
Daniel Buck, Associate Professor — China

History

Ina Asim, Associate Professor — China
Bryna Goodman, Professor Emerita– China
Andrew Goble, Professor — Japan
Ryan Jones, Professor — Pacific Islands
John Lesiure, Visiting Assistant Professor — Japan
Arafaat Valiani, Associate Professor — South Asia

Honors College

Ellen Fitzpatrick, instructor, Indonesia, Pacific Islands
Eric Pederson, Associate Professor Emerita — South Asia

Global Studies

Kathie Carpenter, Professor — SE Asia
William Hatungimana, Assistant Professor –Africa-China relations
Ali Malik, Assistant Professor–South Asia
David Meek, Associate Professor – South Asia
Haruka Nagao, Assistant Professor – China
Lesley Jo Weaver, Associate Professor — South Asia
Anita Weiss, Professor Emerita — South Asia

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Yan Geng, Curator –Chinese Art
Soojin Jeong, Post-Graduate Fellow – Asian Art
Anne Rose Kitagawa, Curator — East Asia

Journalism

Bish Sen, Associate Professor — South Asia

Knight Library

Noelle Jang, Korea Cataloger
Bing Li, Chinese Cataloger
Kevin McDowell, Japan Studies Librarian
Kumiko McDowell, Japanese Cataloguer
Xiaotong Wang, China Studies Librarian
Le Yang, Associate Vice Provost & Senior Librarian

Law

Eric Priest, Associate Professor — China

Linguistics

Don Daniels, Associate Professor — Papua New Guinea
Tom Payne, Research Associate – Philippine and Manchu
Narayan Sharma, Postdoctoral Research Fellow –Himalayan region
Nathaniel Sims, Assistant Professor — Himalayan region

Music

Wonkak Kim, Associate Professor — Korea
Robert Kyr, Professor — SE Asia

Planning, Public Policy, and Management

Yizhao Yang, Professor — East Asia

Political Science

Tuong Vu, Professor — SE Asia

Religious Studies

Mark Unno, Professor — Japan
Jeff Schroeder, Associate Professor — Japan

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Susanna Lim, Associate Professor – Korea

Sociology

Michael Dreiling, Professor –Japan
Hannah Waight, Assistant Professor – China

Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Yu-Fang Cho, Professor – Transnational Asia