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 IAS
 Portland State University
 P.O. Box 751
 Portland, OR  97207-0751

 503-725-8571
 Email: iasias@pdx.edu

 

IAS Affiliated Faculty
Name Title Department Regional
Interest
Courses with
Asian Content
Research -
Interest
Linda Ueki Absher Librarian [PSU Library]
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Barbara Brower Professor [Geography]
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Sharon Carstens Professor [Anthropology] China, Southeast Asia
| Intro to Asian Studies, Chinese Culture & Society, Southeast Asian Society & Culture, Asian American Experience
Southeast Asian Chinese, Identities, Folk Religion, Transnational Media and Mandarin Bilingual Education
Christine Chaille Professor, Head of Department [Curriculum & Instruction]
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Nobuko-Murakami Chalfen Japanese Language, Instructor [Business Administration] China, Japan and Korea
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Japanese Language and Culture
Heejun Chang Associate Professor [Geography] East Asia
GEOG 340 | Global water issues and sustainability
Climate change, urbanization, and water resource issues in East Asia
Geoffery Duh Associate Professor, Director of GIS Program [Geography]
| Geographic Information System & Science, Remote Sensing
Connie Earnshaw Adjunct Faculty [Liberal Arts and Sciences] China & Japan
| Introduction to Asian Studies, Asian Women in Film, and courses in Asian Art History, including History of Chinese & Japanese Landscape Painting, & History of Japanese Ukiyo-e Prints
Images of women in Ming Dynasty, Chinese painting and Tang poetry, women entertainers and musicians in historical China and Japan, Chinese and Japanese ceramics.
Suzanne Feeney Associate Professor [Public Administration]
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Michele Gamburd Associate Professor [Anthropology] South Asia, Sri Lanka, Middle East
ANTH 317 | Peoples and Cultures of South Asia

ANTH 447/547 | Advanced Topics in South Asian Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology, transnationalism, globalization, migration, alcohol consumption, identity, rural development, social change, violence, gender, hierarchy, aging, social constructionism, political economy.
Linda George Associate Professor [Environmental Sciences & Resources]
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Mel Gurtov Professor [Political Science]
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Hiroyuki Ito Assistant Professor [Economics] China, Japan
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International Macroeconomics, finance,economic development, Japanese economy, East Asian economics, financial globalization, capital flows in the East Asia region,Chinese economy
Priya Kapoor Associate Professor [Communication]
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Laurence Kominz Professor of Japanese [Foreign Languages & Literature]
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Tom Larsen Database Management and Catalog Librarian [PSU Library] Southeast Asia
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Manchu Language
Gil Latz Professor of Geography,
Vice Provost
[Office of International Affairs]
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Jung Hee Lee Associate Professor [Fine Arts] Korean Art, Buddhist Art of India, Central Asia, China,  Korea and Japan
| Introduction to Asian Art, 200 level course. Survey of Asian Art I: South and Southeast Asian Art Survey of Asian Art II: Chinese and early Korean Art Survey of Asian Art III: Japanese and Korean Art Survey of Korean Art Chinese Painting Japanese Painting Chinese Buddhist Art Japanese Buddhist Art Modern Japanese Painting Issues in Asian Art
Marie Lo Assistant Professor [English]
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Meiru Liu Chinese Language Professor,
Director of Confucius Institute
[School of Business Administration]
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Eko Susan Noble Adjunct Professor [International Studies]
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John Oh Professor of Finance [Business Administration]
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Pramod Parajuli Associate Professor of Education Policy Foundation Administration [Education]
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Jonathan Pease Professor of Chinese [Foreign Languages & Literature]
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Ma Ji Rhee Professor of Korean [Foreign Languages & Literature]
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Ken Ruoff Professor [History]
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Yoko Sakurauchi Lecturer [Foreign Languages & Literature]
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Vivek Shandas Assistant Professor [Urban Studies & Planning] South Asia, Vietnam, China
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Jhaj Sukhwant Director [University Studies & Academic Affairs]
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Gerald Sussman Professor [Urban Studies & Planning] Southeast Asia
USP 445U/545 | Cities & Third World Development
SE Asia, political economy, politics, globalization, development studies
Ron Tammen Director, Hatfield School of Government [Urban & Public Affairs] India, China
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Sully Taylor Associate Dean [School of Business Administration]
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Patricia Thornton Associate Professor & IAS Director [International Studies] China
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Barbara Tint Assistant Director [Conflict Resolution Department]
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Steve Wadley Professor of Chinese [Foreign Languages & Literature]
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Linda Walton Professor [History] China, Japan
| Social & Intellectual History of Song & Yuan China; East Asian Civilizations; History seminars on Medieval China, The Mongol Empire; upper division/grad courses on Chinese Social History, Thought & Religion
Jian Wang Serials Catalog Librarian & Associate Professor, Technical Services [PSU Library] China, Japan
| Chinese Language/Culture or Library Science courses with an International focus
Chinese language or culture, international librarianship focusing on Chinese libraries
Suwako Watanabe Professor of Japanese [Foreign Languages & Literature]
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Patricia Wetzel Professor of Japanese [Foreign Languages & Literature] Japan
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Japanese linguistics, linguistic pragmatics, language pedagogy. Special area of focus: honorifics (keigo)
Dilafruz William Professor of Education Policy Foundation Administration [Education]
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