Faculty by Department

CEAS represents an interdisciplinary community of faculty and scholars across the University of Chicago campus. Explore the list of schools, departments, centers, and committees below to learn more about University faculty affiliated with CEAS.

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Distinguished Service Professor of Economics and PCL Faculty Scholar
  • Thomas Talhelm, Associate Professor of Behavioral Science

2024-2025 Committee Chair

  • Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Interim Director of Graduate Studies in TAPS

Committee Members

  • Yao Chen, Director of East Asian Collection, University of Chicago Library
  • Julie Y. Chu, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
  • Paul Copp, Associate Professor in Chinese Religion and Thought
  • Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor in Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
  • Ariel Fox, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Cassandra Guan, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies
  • Donald Harper, Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies
  • Paola Iovene, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature
  • Yi-Lu Kuo, Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Meng Li, Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Yung-ti Li, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Shuo Liang, Chinese Studies Librarian, East Asian Collection, University of Chicago Library
  • Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor of Art History and the College
  • Zhaotian Luo, Assistant Professor of Political Science
  • Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College
  • Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Haun Saussy, University Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought
  • Edward Shaughnessy, Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies
  • Laura Skosey, Lecturer in Classical Chinese and Lecturer in Ancient Chinese Law,  Law School
  • Xiaorong Wang, Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor at Harris School of Public Policy
  • Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Ming Xiang, Professor of Linguistics
  • Shan Xiang, Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science
  • Jun Yang, Director of Chinese Language Program, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language
  • Alice Yao, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
  • Yujia Ye, Assistant Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Alan C.L. Yu, William Colvin Professor of Linguistics and the College
  • Brook Ziporyn, Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought, Divinity School

2024-2025 Committee Chair

  • Michael Bourdaghs, Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College

Committee Members

  • Yukiko Asai, Assistant Instructional Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy
  • Susan Burns, Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Yuting Dong, Assistant Professor of History
  • Michael Fisch, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
  • Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College and Director, Center for East Asian Studies
  • Miku Fukasaku, Associate Instructional Professor in Japanese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Yoko Katagiri, Instructional Professor in Japanese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Tomoko Kern, Assistant Instructional Professor in Japanese Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Stephan Licha, Assistant Professor, Divinity School, and in the College
  • Hoyt Long, Professor of Japanese Literature, Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Interim Director,Japanese Language Program
  • Takeaki Okamoto, Assistant Instructional Professor in Japanese Language
  • Melissa Van Wyk, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Literatures
  • Kazuo Yamaguchi,  Ralph Lewis Professor of Sociology
  • Ayako Yoshimura, Japanese Studies Librarian, East Asian Collection, University of Chicago Library

2024-2025 Committee Chair

  • Kyeong-Hee Choi, Associate Professor in Modern Korean Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Committee Members

  • Rachel Bahng, Assistant Instructional Professor in Korean Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Bitsol Kim, Assistant Instructional Professor in Korean Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Jieun Kim, Director, Korean Language Program, Senior Lecturer in Korean Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Wonkyung Na, Associate Instructional Professor in Korean Language, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Susan Burns, Professor of Japanese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Kyeong-Hee Choi, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
  • Chelsea Foxwell, Associate Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College and Director, Center for East Asian Studies
  • Paola Iovene, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice
  • Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History and the College
  • Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Theater and Performance Studies

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Angie Heo, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, Divinity School
  • Mee-ju Ro, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Matthew Briones, Associate Professor of American History and the College
  • Angie Heo, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, Divinity School
  • Dwight Hopkins, Alexander Campbell Professor of the Divinity School and the College
  • Mee-ju Ro, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor at Harris School of Public Policy

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Valerie Levan, Assistant Senior Instructional Professor and Humanities Core Pedagogy Coordinator

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Yuting Dong, Assistant Professor of History
  • Michael Fisch, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
  • Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Ariel Fox, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Melissa Van Wyk, Assistant Professor in Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
  • Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Interim Director of Graduate Studies in TAPS

CEAS Faculty and Members

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Julie Y. Chu, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
  • Michael Fisch, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College
  • Alice Yao, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences in the College

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College and Director, Center for East Asian Studies
  • Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor of Art History and the College
  • Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Ellen Larson, Center for the Art of East Asia Postdoctoral Instructor

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Cassandra Guan, Assistant Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Rachel Bahng, Assistant Instructional Professor in Korean Language
  • Michael Bourdaghs, Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College
  • Susan Burns, Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Kyeong-Hee Choi, Associate Professor in Modern Korean Literature
  • Paul Copp, Associate Professor in Chinese Religion and Thought
  • Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor in Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
  • Ariel Fox, Associate Professor
  • Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College and Director, Center for East Asian Studies
  • Miku Fukasaku, Associate Instructional Professor in Japanese Language
  • Donald Harper, Centennial Professor of Chinese Studies
  • Paola Iovene, Associate Professor in Chinese Literature
  • Yoko Katagiri, Instructional Professor in Japanese Language
  • Tomoko Kern, Assistant Instructional Professor in Japanese Language
  • Bitsol Kim, Assistant Instructional Professor in Korean Language
  • Jieun Kim, Director, Korean Language Program, Senior Lecturer in Korean Language
  • Yi-Lu Kuo, Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Meng Li, Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Yung-ti Li, Associate Professor
  • Wei-Cheng Lin, Associate Professor of Art History and the College
  • Hoyt Long, Professor of Japanese Literature, Chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Interim Director, Japanese Language Program
  • Wonkyung Na, Associate Instructional Professor in Korean Language
  • Takeaki Okamoto, Assistant Instructional Professor in Japanese Language
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College
  • Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Haun Saussy, University Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Committee on Social Thought
  • Edward Shaughnessy, Lorraine J. and Herrlee G. Creel Distinguished Service Professor in Early Chinese Studies
  • Youjung Sul Shin, Lecturer in Korean Language
  • Laura Skosey, Lecturer in Classical Chinese and Lecturer in Ancient Chinese Law,  Law School
  • Xiaorong Wang, Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Melissa Van Wyk, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature
  • Wu Hung, Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Shan Xiang, Associate Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Jun Yang, Director of Chinese Language Program, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Language
  • Yujia Ye, Assistant Instructional Professor in Chinese Language
  • Judith Zeitlin, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Interim Director of Graduate Studies in TAPS

 

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Mee-ju Ro, Assistant Professor, English Language and Literature

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Susan Burns, Professor of Japanese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Yuting Dong, Assistant Professor of History
  • Jacob Eyferth, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, History, and the College
  • Kenneth Pomeranz, University Professor of Modern Chinese History and the College
  • Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History and the College

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

CEAS Faculty and Members

 

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Kagan Arik, Instructional Professor in Modern Turkish and Turkic Languages
  • Richard Payne, Associate Professor of History, NELC, the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, and the College

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Woowon Kang, Professor of Physics, James Franck Institute, and the College
  • Young-Kee Kim, Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics, Enrico Fermi Institute, and the College, and Senior Advisor to the Provost for Global Scientific Initiatives

CEAS Faculty and Members

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Thomas Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Faculty Director, Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Susan Goldin-Meadow, Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in Psychology and Committee on Human Development

CEAS Faculty and Members

 

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Stephan Licha, Assistant Professor of Japanese Buddhism, and the College
  • Brook Ziporyn, Mircea Eliade Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Angie Heo, Associate Professor of the Anthropology and Sociology of Religion and the College
  • Dwight Hopkins, Alexander Campbell Professor of Theology and the College
  • Christian Wedemeyer, Associate Professor of the History of Religions and in the College, Associate Faculty in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chair of the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, and Assistant Marshal of the University

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor at Harris School of Public Policy

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Yukiko Asai, Assistant Instructional Professor at Harris School of Public Policy
  • Shaoda Wang, Assistant Professor at Harris School of Public Policy

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Thomas Lamarre, Gordon J Laing Distinguished Service Professor Department of Cinema and Media Studies, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
  • Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Thomas Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Faculty Director, Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Thomas Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Faculty Director, Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression

CEAS Faculty and Members

  • Johanna Ransmeier, Associate Professor of History and the College
  • Haun Saussy, University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Committee on Social Thought

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Thomas Ginsburg, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law, Ludwig and Hilde Wolf Research Scholar, Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director, Malyi Center for the Study of Institutional and Legal Integrity, Faculty Director, Forum for Free Inquiry and Expression

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Jonathan Lio, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Global Health
  • Chun-su Yuan, Cyrus Tang Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Director, Tang Center for Herbal Medicine Research

CEAS Affiliated Faculty

  • Yōu Wáng, Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Collegiate Assistant Professor