Fellows
Faculty Fellows

Susan Blum
Anthropology
Blum asks us: What does the world look and feel like to people, and what are the factors that shape those views?

Michael Brownstein
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Michael Brownstein teaches courses on Japanese language and culture, and his past research has been centered on the Meiji Period writer Kitamura Tokoku (1868-1894) and Meiji Period literary thought.

Liang Cai
History
The focus of Cai's research are early Chinese Empires, Classical Chinese thought—in particular Confucianism and Daoism, digital humanities, and the material culture and archaeological texts of early China.

Hsueh-Chia Chang
College of Engineering
Chia Chang, Director of the Center for Microfluidics and Medical Diagnostics, is a leading researcher in micro/nanofluidics, particularly in the area of nano-electrokinetics.

Nitesh Chawla
Computer Science and Engineering
Nitesh Chawla, the Frank M. Freimann professor of computer science and engineering, is passionate about Big Data for the Common Good. His research is making fundamental advances in network and data science.

Danny Chen
Computer Science and Engineering
Danny Chen has developed many efficient sequential and parallel algorithms for solving fundamental geometric, graphic, and combinatorial problems, and has published over 150 journal and conference papers in these areas.

David Chiang
Computer Science and Engineering, Natural Language Processing Group
David Chiang's research is in the subfield of computer science that aims to enable computers to understand and produce human language.

Tarryn Chun
Film, Television, and Theatre
Tarryn Chun's research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese theatre. She teaches courses on Asian theatre, global theatre history, intercultural performance, adaptation, and intersections among theatre and other arts.

Ann-Marie Conrado
AAHD: Industrial Design
Conrado's research focuses on using design to address social and humanitarian concerns. Working primarily in Nepal, she has worked with fair trade artisans to design and develop product lines.

David Cortright
Keough School of Global Affairs
David Cortright is the director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and special advisor for policy Studies at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He also is chair of the Board of the Fourth Freedom Forum.

Zhi Da
Finance (Mendoza College of Business)
Zhi Da is a Professor of Finance who's research focuses on empirical asset pricing and investment.

Nan Z. Da
English
Nan Da's research and teaching interests are in nineteenth-century American literature and letters, Qing and early-Republic Chinese literature and letters, and literary nationalism and transnationalism

Diane Desierto
Keough School of Global Affairs
Diane Desierto is an Associate Professor of Human Rights Law and Global Affairs. Desierto is also active as lead/collaborating counsel in human rights and public interest-related economic disputes in the Philippines and Southeast Asia.

Amitava Dutt
Political Science
Amitava Dutt's areas of specialization are macroeconomic theory, development economics, international economics, political economy and international political economy.

Eva Dziadula
Economics
Her research interests include the determinants of citizenship among the foreign born in the United States, country-specific human capital, fertility of the foreign born in the United States, gender preference and assimilation of Asian immigrants, and child labor.

Joshua Eisenman
Keough School of Global Affairs
Joshua Eisenman’s research focuses on the political economy of China’s development and its foreign relations with the United States and the developing world—particularly Africa.

Georges Enderle
Marketing (Mendoza College of Business)
Georges Enderle conducts research on the ethics of globalization, wealth creation, business and human rights, corporate responsibilities of large and small companies, with a view on developments in China.

A. Nilesh Fernando
Economics
Nilesh Fernando's research focuses on understanding frictions in labor markets and the agricultural sector in the developing world.

Harindra Joe Fernando
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Fenando is a mechanical engineer who studies monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in South Asia.

Agustín Fuentes
Anthropology
Agusín Fuentes examines human evolution from several perspectives, sheding light on common misconceptions about race, sex and aggression.

Naoki Fuse
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Naoki Fuse has taught courses from Elementary to Advanced Japanese. His research is focused on a theory of language called “Language-as-Process Theory,” developed by a Japanese linguist, Motoki Tokieda (1900-1967).

Umesh Garg
Physics
Umesh Garg’s current research interests include experimental investigation of compressional-mode giant resonances and exotic quantal rotation in nuclei.

Liangyan Ge
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Liangyan Ge teaches Chinese language and literature. Ge's primary research interest is in the field of premodern Chinese culture and fictional literature.

Robert Gimello
Theology
Gimello is an historian of Buddhism with special interests also in the Theology of Religions and in Comparative Mysticism.

Eric Haanstad
Anthropology
Haanstad's work has focused on state security, music in ethnographic fieldwork, as well as symbolic expression and theatrical performance in Southeast Asia.

Noriko Hanabusa
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Hanabusa teaches all levels of Japanese language. Her area of specialty is Japanese Pedagogy.

Michel Hockx
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Michel Hockx is a professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the Director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies.

Sharon Hu
Computer Science and Engineering
Sharon Hu's research spans several areas including hardware-software codesign, real-time embedded systems, low-power system design, and computer-aided treatment planning.

Roger Huang
Mendoza College of Business
Roger Huang teaches global finance in the Executive MBA program and multinational financial management in the MBA program.

Caroline Hughes
Peace Studies
Caroline Hughes' work conceptualizes peace and development as political relationships constructed to legitimize unequal distributions of resources and subject to ongoing contestation by different social groups.

Victoria Hui
Political Science
Hui's research examines the dynamics of international politics and state-society relations in historical China and historical Europe.

Jennifer Huynh
American Studies
Jennifer’s research and teaching interests focus on Race and Ethnicity, Asian American Studies, Immigrant integration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora.

Lakshmi Iyer
Economics
Prof. Iyer's primary research fields are development economics and political economy, with a special emphasis on property rights and the distribution of political power within societies.

Lionel Jensen
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Jensen's research is identified closely with the intellectual history of “Confucianism."

Madhav Joshi
Kroc
Madhav Joshi is research assistant professor and associate director of the Peace Accords Matrix (PAM).

Anton Juan
Film, Television, and Theatre
Playwright and director Anton Juan is internationally recognized for his work that often challenges convention, stunning visual poetry, and language in space.

Hye-jin Juhn
East Asian Languages and Cultures, Hesburgh Libraries
Hye-jin Juhn is the subject specialist for East Asian Studies at the Hesburgh Libraries. She researches and selects resources in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English.

Hana Kang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Dr. Hana Kang is an Associate Professional Specialist/ Associate Professor of the Practice. Her research interests include foreign language acquisition, computer-assisted language learning, and language learner identity.

Ahsan Kareem
Civil & Environmental Engineering & Earth Sciences
Ahsan Kareem's work focuses on modeling of dynamic load effects due to wind, waves and earthquakes on tall buildings, long span bridges, offshore structures.

Kwan Kim
Kellogg Institute for International Studies, Economics
Kwan S. Kim, professor emeritus of economics and fellow of the Kellogg Institute and Liu Institute for Asian Studies, is an international development economist

Karrie Koesel
Political Science
Karrie J. Koesel is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame where she specializes in the study of contemporary Chinese and Russian politics, authoritarianism, and religion and politics.

Elisabeth Köll
History
Elisabeth Köll's current research focuses on the managerial, legal, and financial evolution of firms and entrepreneurship in China from the 19th century to the present.

Julia Kowalski
Keough School of Global Affairs
Kowalski is a cultural anthropologist who studies gender, kinship, and transnational rights discourse in India and in the United States.

Krupali Krusche
School of Architecture
Prof. Krupali Uplekar Krusche teaches architectural design and historic preservation in the Rome Program of the School of Architecture.

Byung-Joo Lee
Economics
Lee's teaching and research area in economics is econometric analysis. He has written extensively on theoretical and applied econometrics subjects.

George Lopez
Kroc
George A. Lopez is the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is a leading expert on economic sanctions, peacebuilding, and various peace-related issues.

Congcong Ma
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Congcong Ma is currently teaching First Year Chinese language courses. The scope of her teaching covers almost all levels from elementary to advanced.

Iris Ma
Keough School of Global Affairs
Iris Ma is a literary and cultural historian specializing in late imperial China and the modern Chinese-speaking world. Her research engages with questions related to gender, popular religion, Cross-Strait cultural exchange, and “Chinese-ness.”

Nelson Mark
Economics
Prof. Mark has done research and published in international macroeconomics, international and general finance, econometrics, and macroeconomics of China.

Rebecca Tinio McKenna
History
Prof. McKenna's research centers on modern American social and cultural history, and she is especially interested in the history of U.S. imperialism, political economy, and the intersections of capitalism and culture.

Nikhil Menon
History
Nikhil Menon is a historian of modern South Asia, specializing in the intellectual and political history of twentieth-century India. His current research also engages with transnational histories of economic development, the Cold War in South Asia, and the history of science.

Mahan Mirza
Keough School of Global Affairs
Mirza is the lead faculty member for the University of Notre Dame’s Contending Modernities project that aims to advance scientific and theological literacy in madrasa discourses in India.

Peter Moody
Political Science
Peter Moody specializes in Chinese politics and has written on Chinese politics, Asian international affairs, Chinese political thought, and international relations theory.

Ebrahim Moosa
Keough School of Global Affairs
Moosa co-directs Contending Modernities, the global research and education initiative examining the interaction among Catholic, Muslim, and other religious and secular forces in the world.

Jonathan Noble
Notre Dame International
As assistant provost for internationalization, Noble leads the office’s Global Engagement and Faculty Partnership Team and heads the Asia regional team.

Abigail Ocobock
Department of Sociology
Abigail Ocobock teaches in the Department of Sociology. Her project focuses on second and third generation South Asian Muslims experiencing arranged marriages in the United States

Raymond Offenheiser
Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development
Raymond Offenheiser leads the Notre Dame Initiative for Global Development. His research interests and areas of expertise include poverty alleviation, human rights, United States foreign policy, and international development.

Rahul Oka
Anthropology
Prof. Oka is an economic anthropologist and his research interests include the anthropology of urbanism and social network analysis.

Susan Ostermann
Global Affairs
Susan Ostermann seeks to understand why we sometimes see compliance with regulations in very unlikely places: those in which the state is weak and actors, be they individuals or organizations, have strong incentives to break the law.

Anand Pillay
Mathematics
Professor Pillay is a specialist in model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, and also works at the interface of logic and other areas of mathematics.

Vinicius M. Placco
Physics
Placco is a research assistant professor in Astrophysics and part of the Galactic Archaeology group at the Department of Physics.

Natalie Porter
Anthropology
Natalie Porter is a medical anthropologist specializing in multispecies anthropology and the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine.

Sebastian Rosato
Political Science, ISP
Sebastian Rosato is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and teaches International Relations Theory.

Mei-Chi Shaw
Math
Prof. Shaw's research interests are in several complex variables, partial differential equations and complex geometry.

Dean Shepherd
Entrepreneurship (Mendoza College of Business)
Dean Shepherd's research and teaching is in the field of entrepreneurship leadership.

Mun'im Sirry
Theology
Mun'im Sirry's academic interests include political theology, modern Islamic thought, Qur’anic studies, interreligious relations, and Southeast Asian religions and cultures.

Julia Thomas
History
Julia Adeney Thomas investigates concepts of nature in Japanese political ideology, the impact of the climate crisis on historiography, and photography as a political practice.

Anne Tsui
Mendoza College of Business; Management
Anne S. Tsui is a distinguished professor of management at Peking University and Fudan University, as well as the Motorola Professor Emerita of International Management at the Arizona State University.

Thomas Tweed
American Studies and History
Prof. Tweed's interests are diverse but he has focused on reorienting U.S. religious history in terms of the Atlantic World, the Pacific World, and the Western Hemisphere.

Sayako Uehara
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Sayako Uehara's research interests revolve around phonology, phonetics, and sociolinguistics.

Anré Venter
Psychology
Dr. Venter is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Psychology Department for both the Psychology major and the Neuroscience and Behavior major. Dr. Venter's focus is on teaching, advising, and administering the undergraduate major.

Neeta Verma
AAHD: Visual Communication Design
Neeta Verma's areas of research interest explore historical influences in graphic design and how these cultural differences have defined the profession today.

Kevin Walsh
Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Kevin Walsh's research interests are in the fields of resilient and sustainable infrastructure. His research includes the built environment of Asian immigrants to New Zealand as well as historic building materials in Myanmar.

Xian Wang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Xian Wang’s research and teaching interests encompass modern Chinese literature and film, popular culture, gender studies, and cultural theory.

Wei Wang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Wei Wang is currently teaching First Year and Second Year Chinese.

Jessica McManus Warnell
Management (Mendoza College of Business)
Prof. McManus-Warnell's research explores moral reasoning and business ethics curricula, sustainability education, and business ethics in the U.S. and Japan.

Oliver Williams, C.S.C.
Management (Mendoza College of Business)
Oliver Williams, C.S.C. specializes in the areas of business ethics, corporate governance, and Catholic social teaching.

Xiaoshan Yang
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Xiaoshan Yang teaches Chinese language, literature, and culture. He specializes in classical Chinese poetry and poetics.

Weibing Ye
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Weibing Ye specializes in Chinese language pedagogy and his current research interests include Media Chinese Instruction, Chinese Oral Proficiency Assessment and Application of Technology in Language Education.

Chengxu Yin
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Chengxu Yin has taught beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels of Chinese language courses. Professor Yin serves as the Language Program Coordinator for Chinese.

K. Lira Yoon
Psychology
Dr. Yoon’s research program focuses on the interplay between cognition and emotion in the context of psychological disorders, especially depression and anxiety disorders.

Yeonhee Yoon
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Dr. Yoon is a Korean Linguist whose specializations are Sociopragmatics and general Korean Linguistics.

Yongping Zhu
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Yongping Zhu specializes in historical Chinese syntax and Chinese pedagogy.
Affiliated Scholars

Michael Davis
Michael Davis, a professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong until 2016, remains a senior fellow in the university’s Centre for Comparative and Public Law.

Laura Elder
Global Studies, St. Mary's College
Elder is a Associate Professor of Global Studies and focuses on gender and economy in Southeast Asia.

Sean King
Sean King is the Senior Vice President for Park Strategies, LLC and an East Asia specialist. His focus is Asia, generating business and supporting clients in the region.

Tianlin Wang
Saint Mary's College, Psychology
Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, Language Learning, Language Development in Infancy and Adulthood

Yidi Wu
Assistant Professor, History, St. Mary's College
Wu's specializations include social movements in East Asia and 20th-century Chinese higher education.
Visiting Fellows

Fletcher Coleman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Art History and Design
Coleman is a specialist on the religious arts of China, whose research spans the early medieval through early modern periods.

Alexander Hsu
Keough School of Global Affairs
Hsu's research focuses on early Buddhist scriptures in medieval China and employs perspectives from manuscript studies, genre theory, and cultural history in order to examine how the use of texts reflects transformations in religious reading practices.

Kyle Jaros
Liu Institute
Jaros' research focuses on the politics of subnational development, urban governance, and evolving central-local relations in China.

Megan Rogers
Department of Sociology
Megan Rogers is a Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Center for the Study of Religion and Society

Marianne Tarcov
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Tarcov's research interests include twentieth-century Japanese poetry, issues of translation and cultural exchange, and postwar literature.