Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Steven Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Department Chair, Religion

Program Coordinator, Asian Studies

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Pearson Hall 209

Links

  1. Profile
Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Cheryl Sharp

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  2. Trotter Hall 107
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110
  3. Trotter Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:30 p.m.

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

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John Bundschuh

Assistant Professor

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5537
  2. Kohlberg Hall 311

Links

  1. Profile
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Pallabi Chakravorty

Stephen Lang Professor of Performing Arts

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6161
  2. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 4

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Publications and Choreographies

Areas of interest: Kathak dance, Visual Anthropology, South Asia

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BuYun Chen

Associate Professor

History

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3978
  2. Trotter Hall 207
  3. Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12-1 p.m.

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: China, East Asia, women, science and technology

Professor BuYun Chen

Rikker Dockum

(he-him-his-himself)

Visiting Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8203
  2. Pearson Hall 106

Links

  1. Website
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Will Gardner

Professor

Section Head, Chinese; Japanese

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6875
  2. Kohlberg Hall 315

Links

  1. Profile
Will Gardner

Emily Gasser ’07

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Linguistics

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6162
  2. Pearson Hall 101
  1. Website

P.I., Pacific Languages & Linguistics Lab

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David Harrison

Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 7

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Google Scholar
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Steven Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Department Chair, Religion

Program Coordinator, Asian Studies

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Pearson Hall 209

Links

  1. Profile
Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Wol A Kang

Senior Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2048
  2. Kohlberg Hall 314
Wol Kang

Haili Kong

Professor Emeritus

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8457
  2. Kohlberg Hall 310
Haili Kong

Gerald Levinson

Jane Lang Professor of Music

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8236
  2. Lang Music Building 409

Links

  1. Profile
Gerald Levinson

Lei Ouyang

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Asian American Studies

On Leave - Academic Year

Music

Asian American Studies

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2020
  2. Lang Music Building

Links

  1. Profile
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Roseann Liu

(she-her-hers-herself)

Assistant Professor

Educational Studies

Asian American Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6383

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Personal website

race, inequality, and education

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Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor

Chinese

On Leave - Spring

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7675
  2. Kohlberg Hall 305

Links

  1. Profile
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Tomoko Sakomura

Provost & Dean of the Faculty

Professor

On Leave

Provost's Office

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8119
  2. Parrish Hall E228S
  3. Beardsley Hall 206

Links

  1. Profile
  2. CV
Tomoko Sakomura

Joe Small ’05

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Dance

Dance

Contact

  1. Eugene M. and Theresa Lang Performing Arts Center 8
  2. Office Hours: By appointment.
  1. Profile
  2. Profile
  3. Website
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Kirsten Speidel

Senior Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7766
  2. Kohlberg Hall 314
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Atsuko Suda

Senior Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8147
  2. Kohlberg Hall 301

Links

  1. Profile
Atsuko Suda

Jonathan Washington

Associate Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6134
  2. Pearson Hall 105

Links

  1. Website
  2. Phonetics Lab
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Tyrene White

Richter Professor of Political Science

Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8138
  2. Trotter Hall 307
  3. Office Hours: Tues/Thurs 4:00-5:30 pm or by appointmentOnline Office Hours: https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/463122253

Links

  1. Profile

Tyrene White's current research is on the local political influence of Chinese NGO's and on the use of litigation to improve the status of Chinese women. She teaches courses on contemporary China, East Asia, and population issues, and introductory courses in comparative politics.

Tyrene White

Tom Whitman ’82

Co-Director of the Swarthmore College Gamelan Semara Santi

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8234
  2. Lang Music Building 414
  1. Profile
Thomas Whitman