Advisory Council
The Asian Studies Advisory Council (ASAC) provides guidance and support to the Asian Studies Program Director, oversees Asian Studies degree programs, makes recommendations on policy matters related to teaching and research about Asia at the university, and encourages the participation of students and faculty colleagues in the scholarly and co-curricular activities of the Asian Studies Program. Their activities are guided by the ASAC Bylaws. Advisory Council members serve for 3-year terms. Members of the Asian Studies Executive Committee (marked with *) advise the Director between meetings of the Advisory Council, meet with the College of Arts and Sciences Dean, and make recommendations to the Advisory Council on policy and curriculum changes. Members are elected by the Advisory Council and serve for 1-year terms.
Department of Chemistry
Specialties include research in the fate and transport of pollutants and environmental chemistry and toxicology.
Department of Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering
Specialties include air pollution control and the development of sustainable materials that will improve indoor and outdoor air quality.
Department of Geography
Specialties include economic and urban geography, innovation and industry studies, foreign direct investment, and biotech and bioenergy.
UB School of Law
Specialties include administrative law, national security, federal liability and federal jurisdiction, immigration, law and culture, and legality and political culture in Greater China.
UB School of Law
Research interests include the intersections of law, anthropology, legal theory, religious studies and Buddhist legal systems, and Tibetan and Indonesian immigration and cultural issues.
Department of Economics
Research interests include international trade and economics, and East Asian economies.
School of Social Work
Specialties include Child welfare policy and practice; family policy; youth development; immigration and transnational issues.
Department of English and Asian Studies Program
Research interests include Urdu and Indo-Persian literature, Mughal and early colonial history in northern India, and Sufism and Islam in South Asia.
Department of Communication
Research focuses on global communication issues, relationships between media and society in Asian societies, and how media formations differ in different societies.
Graduate School of Education
Research interests include building learning communities for environmental science.
Linguistics, Korean Language Program
Specialties include Specialties: Korean Language, Race and Ethnicity, Identity, Multicultural Education, and TESOL.
School of Social Work
Specialties include Immigrants and refugees; refugee-related trauma; post-resettlement challenges; cultural competence/humility in interprofessional education; community-based participatory research.
School of Social Work
Research interests include Asian immigrants, Asian immigrant elders and their mental health, alcohol use and gambling, immigration and acculturation, and community-based research.
Department of Linguistics, Asian Studies Program
Research interests include natural language semantics, second language acquisition, and the structure of the Korean language.
Department of English
Specialties include Asian American literature and culture; theories of race, ethnicity, migration, and diaspora; cultures of liberalism.
Department of History.
Specialties include the history of medicine in the first millennium, the history of pharmacology, religious healing (Daoism and Buddhism), and alchemy.
Linguistics, Chinese Language Program
Specialties include Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Animation Studies, Chinese-English Translation.
School of Social Work
Research interests include microfinance and masculinity, domestic violence, genocide, political violence, trauma, and social movements.
Department of History and Asian Studies Program
Research interests include Buddhism in Korean history, law and religion, transnational religious developments, and religious propagation in Asia.
School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Research interests include urban economics and transportation modeling as applied to natural and man-made environmental and security problems.
Department of Geography, Director of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Study Center
Research interests include economic and regional development, political economy of Asia, Asian business networks, and globalization and multinationals in Asia.
UB Libraries, Asian Studies Liaison
Department of Linguistics
Research interests include properties of Japanese grammar, lexical-semantic and psycholinguistic aspects of categorization in Japanese, and Japanese syntax in conversation.
School of Architecture and Planning, Department of Architecture
Research interests include urban regeneration through building façade, urban housing in Asia, and sensation and affection in memorial design.
Department of History
Research interests include modern China, the history of Chinese family life, Chinese socialism, humor in history, and the place of non-U.S. history in American intellectual life.
Graduate School of Education Early Childhood Research Center, Learning and Instruction
Research interests include technology and early learning & development, digital literacies and science inquiry, and early education in international contexts.
Department of Geography
Research interests include GIScience, geostatistics, spatial statistics, public health and environmental modeling, spatial hedonic modeling, and uncertainty analysis.
The Asian Studies Executive Committee members are: Jeehyun Lim and Molly Poremski. Asian Studies Director Mark Nathan and Director of Undergraduate Studies Amanda Kennell serve ex officio.
Advisory Council Chairs: Rebecca French