East Asia: Faculty
GUY S. ALITTO Ph.D., Harvard University, 1975. Associate Pro-fessor of Modern Chinese History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1980.
galitto@uchicago.edu or 702-8390
SPEIAL INTERESTS: Modern Chinese Intellectual and Social History; Chinese Labor History; The Chinese Communist Movement.
SUSAN BURNS Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994. Associate Professor of Japanese History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
slburns@uchicago.edu or 702-8934
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Early Modern and Modern Japanese Intellectual History, Cultural History, History of Medicine; Gender and the Body.
BRUCE CUMINGS Ph.D. Columbia University, 1975. Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy, International Relations, and the College. Teaching at Chicago from 1987 to 1994 and since 1997.
rufus88@uchicago.edu or 834-1818
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Modern Korean History, East Asian Political Economy; International History.
PRASENJIT DUARA Ph.D., Harvard University, 1983. Chair, Department of History. Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Committee on the History of Culture, and the College. Teaching at Chicago since 1991.
dua1@uchicago.edu or 702-8285
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Modern Chinese Social and Cultural History; Nationalism and Transnationalism; History and Post-Structuralist Theory.
JAMES KETELAAR Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1987. Professor of Japanese History and of of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Director of The Center for East Asian Studies.
jketelaa@uchicago.edu or 834-0763
SPECIAL INTERESTS: Nationalism and Religion; Pre-modern and Modern Japanese History.
Associated Faculty
Norma Field (Professor, EALC) Area of Teaching/Research: Modern Japanese literature with an interest in the dialectical pursuit of structural and historical analyses, "naïve" and "scholarly" responses; translation as interpretive, creative, and scholarly activity; feminism; all of the above in the context of contemporary capitalism.
Greg Golley (Assistant Professor, EALC) Cultural and literary history of Japan with special interest in modernity and its critique; the relationship between the technologies of mass culture and literary modernism; the early twentieth century transformation of time and space -- as theory and as experience -- and the role of this transformation in reshaping notions of ethnic and national identity.
Michael Raine (Assistant Professor, EALC) Cinema and media studies.
Hans Thomsen (Lecturer, EALC) Interests include early modern salon culture; rituals and functions of religious objects; Japanese reception of Chinese and Korean art; contemporary ceramic art; issues of connoisseurship and patronage; word and text relationships; and the history of museums and collections.