Fellows

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

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.

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.

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, 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 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's research is in the subfield of computer science that aims to enable computers to understand and produce human language.

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.

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 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 is a Professor of Finance who's research focuses on empirical asset pricing and investment.

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

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’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 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.

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

Fenando is a mechanical engineer who studies monsoon intraseasonal oscillations in South Asia. 

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

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

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

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

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

Hanabusa teaches all levels of Japanese language. Her area of specialty is Japanese Pedagogy.

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

Roger Huang teaches global finance in the Executive MBA program and multinational financial management in the MBA program.

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. 

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

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

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.

Professor Jensen's research is identified closely with the intellectual history of “Confucianism."

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

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 is the subject specialist for East Asian Studies at the Hesburgh Libraries. She researches and selects resources in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and English.

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's work focuses on modeling of dynamic load effects due to wind, waves and earthquakes on tall buildings, long span bridges, offshore structures. 

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

Kowalski is a cultural anthropologist who studies gender, kinship, and transnational rights discourse in India and in the United States.

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

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

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 is currently teaching First Year Chinese language courses. The scope of her teaching covers almost all levels from elementary to advanced.

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.”

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

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 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. 
 

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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. 

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

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

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

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

Dean Shepherd's research and teaching is in the field of entrepreneurship leadership.

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

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 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.

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's research interests revolve around phonology, phonetics, and sociolinguistics.

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's areas of research interest explore historical influences in graphic design and how these cultural differences have defined the profession today.

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. 

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

Wei Wang is currently teaching First Year and Second Year Chinese.

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. specializes in the areas of business ethics, corporate governance, and Catholic social teaching.

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

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

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

Dr. Yoon is a Korean Linguist whose specializations are Sociopragmatics and general Korean Linguistics.

Professor Yongping Zhu specializes in historical Chinese syntax and Chinese pedagogy.

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. 

Elder is a Associate Professor of Global Studies and focuses on gender and economy in Southeast Asia.

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.

Cognitive and Developmental Psychology, Language Learning, Language Development in Infancy and Adulthood

Wu's specializations include social movements in East Asia and 20th-century Chinese higher education.

Coleman is a specialist on the religious arts of China, whose research spans the early medieval through early modern periods.

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.

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

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

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