Fellows

Christopher Ball is a linguistic and sociocultural anthropologist with specialization in discourse and interaction, cultural symbolism, and the politics of communication.

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.

Paolo Carozza's current research revolves around the relationships between law, human rights, education, and integral human development.

Christine Cervenak is the associate director at the Center for Civil and Human Rights. Her expertise focuses on international law, conflict resolution, and human rights.

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 natural language processing, 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.

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

Yih-Fang Huang teaches electrical engineering. A native of Taiwan, his research interests focus on theory and applications of detection and estimation.

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.

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.

Jae-woong Lee, a Visting Scholar at the Liu Institute, is the former deputy consul general for the Korean consulate general in Chicago.

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

Malkovsky's area of interest is the doctrinal and spiritual relation of Christianity to other religions. His area of specialization is the Hindu-Christian encounter

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. 
 

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.

Jonathan Noble was appointed assistant provost for Asia within Notre Dame International in 2012. Noble is the founding director of the Beijing Global Gateway and the Greater China Scholars Program, and he oversees Notre Dame International’s Global Centers in Hong Kong and Mumbai.

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. 

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

Steve Reifenberg is executive director and associate professor at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies whose research interests in lie in international education, international development, and negotiation.

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

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

Sharon Schierling is the Associate Director at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

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.

Prof. Steil is actively involved in the cause of sustainable, ecological, traditional urbanism and architecture

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.

Margaret Triyana's research interests lie at the intersection of development and health economics, where she focuses on evaluating the effects of health interventions and social assistance programs particularly in Southeast Asia.

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.

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. 

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.

Yang Wu is a visiting assistant librarian specializing in Chinese history.

Dr. Xing’s work can be categorized into 4 areas: GaN based devices; nanowire enabled devices, including InGaN nanowires; graphene physics and devices; and tunneling field effect transistors.

Dr. Yang specializes in international relations between China, Japan, Korea, and the United States.

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

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