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- Associate Professor, Teaching and Learning
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Lecturer, Comparative Studies, History, Pharmacy, International Studies
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- Senior Lecturer, Marketing and Logistics
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- Japanese Studies Librarian
Ann Marie Davis joined the University Libraries as Japanese studies librarian (assistant professor) in May 2016. She comes to OSU via Connecticut College in New London, CT where she was a member of the History Department for seven years. She holds a Masters in Library Science from Southern Connecticut State University (2015), PhD in Japanese History from the University of California, Los Angeles (2009), and MA in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University (2001). She was drawn to Library Science during her final years as a PhD student, when she worked part-time collecting and archiving oral histories on "Big Science" in postwar Japan. Her current research takes two directions based on her specializations in Japanese History and Library and Information Science. Her book, Imagining Prostitution in Modern Japan, 1850-1913 (published in March 2019 with Lexington Books), traces the symbol of the prostitute as a project of nation- and empire-building in the late nineteenth century. She has also published articles on the rise of makerspaces (collaborative spaces where people gather to hack, invent, and experiment with DIY projects) in college and research libraries and on collaborative, student-centered projects exploring library special collections and tools in the Digital Humanities.
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- Graduate Student, Anthropology
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- Professor, Department of Teaching and Learning
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- Professor Emeritus, Economics
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- Korean Geography Web Research
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- Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
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- Professor Emeritus, DEALL
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- Assistant Director, East Asian Studies Center
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- Graduate Student, History
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- Associate Professor, Educational Studies
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- Professor, Distinguished University Scholar, Earth Sciences
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- Assistant Professor, Dentistry
Professor Chow served as a law clerk to the Honorable Constance Baker Motley, chief judge for the Southern District of New York, following graduation from law school, and then became an associate with Debevoise and Plimpton in New York.
He came to Ohio State in 1985 and teaches International Law, International Transactions, Jurisprudence, Asian Law, and Property. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
Professor Chow was featured on CBS' 60 Minutes II program on January 28, 2004. In "The World's Greatest Fakes," he said "We have never seen a problem of this size and magnitude in world history. There's more counterfeiting going on in China now than we've ever seen anywhere."
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- Financial Operations Lead Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center
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- Associate Professor
- Director, Institute for Korean Studies
Danielle Pyun is an associate professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prof. Pyun earned her PhD in Foreign and Second Language Education at Ohio State. She specializes in Korean language pedagogy with particular interests in individual learner variables in second/foreign language learning and issues in inter-language pragmatics. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Korean culture, Korean language, and Korean language pedagogy and serves on the board of directors of the American Association of Teachers of Korean.
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- East Asian Studies Center Director
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Interim Director, Institute for Japanese Studies
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- Visiting Professor of Law
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- Program Coordinator, East Asian Studies Center
Areas of Expertise
Tense and aspect dialectology
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- Professor, Vice Provost for Global Strategies and International Affairs
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Professor, University Libraries
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- Associate Professor of Political Scienc
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- Professor Emeritus, Economics
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Andersons Chair in Agricultural Marketing, Trade and Policy Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics
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- Professor Emeritus, DEALL
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- Assistant Director of Outreach, East Asian Studies Center
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- Associate Professor, DEALL
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- Graduate Student, History
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- Graduate Student, Linguistics
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- Armstrong Chair, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Professor, John Glenn College of Public Affairs
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- Graduate Student, Advanced Chinese Language and Culture
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- Professor, Public Affairs
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- History of Art
- Specialist in Chinese
Julia F. Andrews, a specialist in Chinese art, was the first American art historian to conduct dissertation research in China after formal establishment of US-China relations in 1979. Painters and Politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979 (1994), which she wrote during her early years at Ohio State, won the Joseph Levenson Prize of the Association for Asian Studies for the best book of the year on modern China. University of California Press will release her most recent book, Art of Modern China, (co-authored with Kuiyi Shen) in 2012. In addition to teaching and writing, from time to time she curates an exhibition, and is a frequent contributor to exhibition catalogues. She conceived one of the first American exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, Fragmented Memory: The Chinese Avant-Garde in Exile, at OSU's Wexner Center for the Arts in 1993, and the Guggenheim Museum's ground-breaking 1998 exhibition, A Century in Crisis: Modernity and Tradition in the Art of Twentieth Century China, shown in New York and Bilbao.
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- Professor, Food, Agricultural, and Biological Engineering
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- Professor Emeritus, DEALL
Kirk Denton specializes in the fiction and literary criticism of the Republican period (1911-1949). He regularly teaches undergraduate courses in modern Chinese literature in translation, Asian American film, and Chinese film, as well as graduate courses and seminars on modern Chinese fiction, the writer Lu Xun, popular culture, Taiwan literature, and Chinese film. He is especially interested in the inception and formation of a discourse of modernity in the May Fourth period and how that discourse was to some degree informed and shaped by traditional concerns. Professor Denton's edited collection, Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature. 1893-1945, was published by Stanford University Press in 1996. Two years later, his The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature: Hu Feng and Lu Ling was also published by Stanford. He is associate editor of the Chinese section of The Columbia Companion to Modern East Literature (Columbia, 2003) and a coeditor of China: Adapting the Past, Confronting the Future (Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 2002). He is co-editor, with Michel Hockx, of Literary Societies in Republican China (Lexington, 2008). He also edited China: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Whereabouts, 2008). He has published several articles on museum culture, including in The China Quarterly and Japan Focus, and he is presently writing a book on the politics of historical representation in museums and memorial sites in Greater China entitled Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics and Ideology of Museums in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Denton is editor of the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture and manager of the online MCLC Resource Center, which hosts the MCLC LIST, a listserv devoted to scholarly discussion on the culture of modern and contemporary China. Denton has been a visiting professor at Harvard University and National Chung-hsing University.
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- Ted and Lois Cyphert Distinguished Professor, Educational Studies
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- Professor
- Professor, Teaching and Learning
Lin Ding is a professor in science education in the Department of Teaching and Learning. He has extensive experience in discipline-based physics education research, including students' conceptual learning, problem solving and scientific reasoning, curriculum development and assessment design. Prior to joining the EHE faculty, Ding was a research associate and lecturer in Ohio State's Department of Physics.
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Graduate Student, Advanced Chinese Language and Culture
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- Professor Emeritus, DEALL
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- Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics in the Department
- Associate Professor, DEALL
Marjorie K.M. Chan is Associate Professor of Chinese Linguistics in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics, at The Ohio State University. A faculty member at OSU since academic year 1987-1988, her research area is Chinese linguistics, with focus on phonetics (particularly with respect to prosody-discourse interface), phonology (synchronic and diachronic), and dialectology. Recent publications include collaborative works on the Mandarin and Cantonese ToBI systems of prosodic transcripton, studies pertaining to humor, language and gender, as well as pragmatic functions of sentence-final particles. Her research interest and publications also extends to studies on written Cantonese, Chinese regional operas (with their different dialect bases), and Chinese computing, including corpus linguistics and issues concerning concordancing of Chinese e-texts.
Professor Chan advises graduate students in their M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Chinese Linguistics, and offers a full range of graduate courses in Chinese linguistics. She also advises Chinese majors and teaches an undergraduate course in Chinese linguistics, as well as two culture-oriented courses. One of these is traditional Chinese Culture (GEC course) and the other Chinese opera (addressing both national and regional varieties). Three additional undergraduate courses in Chinese linguistics will be offered in DEALL under the new semester system (beginning Autumn 2012). Yet to be proposed is a new Asian American studies course for students in the upper-undergraduate/graduate level, to be entitled, "Language, Ethnic Identity, and the Asian American Experience." All Professor Chan's courses are taught in multimedia classrooms, integrating course assignments and classroom activities with computer technology.
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- Professor and Department Chair, DEALL
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- Professor Emerita, Linguistics
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- Professor Emeritus, Economics
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor, Geography Director
- Interim Director
Max Woodworth is an associate professor in the Department of Geography. He earned his PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley after earning his B.S. in Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University and M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. He also holds a Certificate in Chinese Studies from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Max is a geographer with research interests in multiple aspects of China's urban transformations, including the political economy of land development, urban governance, city planning and spatial design, urbanization in resource extraction regions, and large-scale new-town development. He has recently expanded his scope of research to include Taiwan. His work there focuses on military enclaves during the White Terror period and mining settlements. Max has previously served as the Chair of the East Asian Studies Interdisciplinary M.S. Graduate Studies Committee and currently serves on the committee. He has also served as the Principal Investigator of the Asian Futures Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme grant. He teaches courses in human geography, geopolitics, urban China, and international economic development.
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- Associate Professor, Comparative Studies
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- Graduate Student, Anthropology
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- Administrator
- Director, East Asian Studies Center
- Director, Faculty in Korean Studies
- East Asian Studies Center Director
- Professor, History Director, East Asian Studies Center
Mitch Lerner, professor in the Department of History, is one of the nation's leading experts on Korean foreign policy and US-Korea relations. His first book, a study of US-Korean relations in the 1960s, won the John Lyman Book Prize and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Since the book's publication in 2004, he has authored nearly 20 journal articles and 3 edited volumes. He is also a regular public commentator on this topic, with op-eds in such venues as the New York Times, Washington Post, Korea Times, Cleveland Plains Dealer, The Diplomat, and The National Interest, and appearances on television, radio, and newspapers across the globe. Prof. Lerner has been a fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs, served on the governing council of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, and is on the advisory board of the North Korea International Documentation Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. He has also held the Mary Ball Washington Distinguished Fulbright Chair at University College-Dublin. He currently serves as associate editor of the Journal of American-East Asian Relations, and is a newly-appointed member of the Association for Asian Studies' Distinguished Speakers Bureau. He received his PhD from the University of Texas-Austin.
At Ohio State, Prof. Lerner is an experienced administrator and educator. He served as director of the Institute for Korean Studies (IKS) from 2012-2020. Under his leadership, the institute has developed new partnerships both within the US and abroad, increased course offerings related to Korea, and organized numerous academic events as well as community outreach and teacher training events. Perhaps most notably, Prof. Lerner was an important member of a team of Korean specialists from across Big Ten universities that partnered to develop an e-school of Korean-related classes to be shared, live and interactive, among Big Ten universities. In addition to his role at IKS, Prof. Lerner is a faculty associate at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies. For his work in the classroom, he has won both the OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching and the Ohio Academy of History's Distinguished Teacher Award. He has also trained numerous MA and PhD graduate students in both History and the Interdisciplinary East Asian Studies MA Program.
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- Professor, Management and Human Resources
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- Associate Professor, Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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- Graduate Student, History
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- Associate Professor in Japanese Literature
- Associate Professor, DEALL
- Director, Institute for Japanese Studies
Naomi Fukumori is an associate professor in Japanese Literature in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Prof. Fukumori received her A.B. from Harvard University and her Ph.D. from Columbia University. She is a specialist in Heian (794-1185) and Kamakura period (1185-1333) court literature (poetry and prose), with particular interests in issues of women's writing; history and narrative; and the dynamics among patronage, literary practice, and canonization in premodern literature. She is currently finishing a manuscript, provisionally entitled Sei Shônagon's Pillow Book and the Poetics of Amusement, on the 11th-century "miscellany" written by a lady-in-waiting to an empress (forthcoming from Cornell East Asia Series). Her second book project investigates the literary functions of ritual and ceremony in mid-Heian period texts such as The Tale of Genji, bringing together ritual, performance, and narratological theories to explore scenes of complexly structured meaning in courtly narratives. Fukumori teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in premodern Japanese literature and culture, East Asian women's writing, and Japanese American literature.
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- Professor, Business Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management
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- Graduate Student, History
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- Associate Professor, DEALL
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- Professor, Political Science
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- Graduate Student, Teaching and Learning
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- Professor Emeritus, School of Environment and Natural Resources
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- Professor and Chair, Speech and Hearing Science Professor by Courtesy, Linguistics
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- Graduate Student, Political Scienc
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- Professor, Human Sciences
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- Graduate Student, Advanced Chinese Language and Culture
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- Professor and Chair, History
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- Associate Professor Emeritus, DEALL
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- Associate Professor, University Libraries
Director Shinkai Makoto's Your Name (2016) is an animated feature length film about two teenagers who begin to mysteriously swap bodies. The girl, Mitsuha, lives in the fictional rural town of Itomori and the boy, Taki, lives in Tokyo. At first, they are completely flummoxed when they wake up in another person's body, but they eventually figure out what is going on and devise ways to keep in touch and keep tabs on what the other person is doing during a body swap. Bored in the countryside, Mitsuha is thrilled to explore Taki's metropolitan Tokyo life. When he is in Mitsuhas body, Taki learns about local traditions from Mitsuha's grandmother, the caretaker of a Shinto temple where both Mitsuha and her younger sister perform ritual duties. Eventually, Taki decides to call Mitsuha on the phone and establish a real connection between them. The call does not go through, and suddenly, the diary entries that Mitsuha had recorded in Taki's phone when she was living his life begin to disappear. The body swaps end suddenly. Taki is disappointed and eventually travels to the rural area where Itomori is located, but he has trouble finding the exact town. He is devastated to find out that three years prior, in 2013, Itomori was destroyed by a falling asteroid. The body swaps, it turns out, had also been time travel. In the present, 2016, Mitsuha and her entire town have been dead for three years. Remembering that a ritual sake (Japanese rice wine) made by Mitsuha during a Shinto ceremony is imbued with cosmic meaning, Taki finds the shrine it was stored and drinks it in hopes of swapping with Mitsuha one last time to save her. The switch works, Taki wakes up as Mitsuha and organizes her friends to warn the town. In a dramatic scene, the two characters finally meet and switch back. Mitsuha is able to save the town from annihilation. The two characters, however, forget each other, each one vaguely aware that something is missing from their life but unsure what or who that missing piece is. The film ends several years in the future, when the young adult versions of the two protagonists meet by chance in Tokyo, where Mitsuha now lives, and realize that they are somehow familiar to each other. A romantic conclusion is implied.
Your Name was Japan's top grossing film in 2016; it was also very popular in South Korea and China. While ostensibly a supernatural story about cosmic coincidence, the film is a response to Japan's 3/11 Triple Disaster, the Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear meltdown. Together with Suzume (2023), Shinkai's most recent film, it is part of a large body of cultural products that deal with the traumatic aftermath of the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster that struck Japan on March 11 th, 2011. Your Name retells the story of unforeseeable catastrophe, but crucially, it allows characters to intervene and save the lives of unsuspecting villagers, connecting the rural and urban in a redemptive relationship. It also offers commentary on the strained relationship between Japan's declining rural areas and its thriving urban centers. It was after all, the peripheries of Japan's great metropolises that suffered most in the Tōhoku disaster, a calamity that underscored their decade-long decline.
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- Management and Human Resources
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- Academic Program Specialist, DEALL
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- Associate Professor, Slavic and East European Studies
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- Associate Professor, Communication
Susan L. Huntington, Ph.D., is Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University in Columbus. A specialist in the art of South Asia, her main publications include The Art of Ancient India (with contributions by John C. Huntington), The Pala-Sena Schools of Sculpture, and Leaves From the Bodhi Tree (with John C. Huntington). Her work on the early Buddhist art of India, published in several articles and a forthcoming book, has stimulated considerable debate and discussion within the academic community. Over the course of her career, Dr. Huntington has received many awards and grants from prestigious sources such as the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Fulbright Award program, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution. From the Ohio State University Dr. Huntington has received the Distinguished Scholar Award, the Distinguished University Professorship, and two awards for outstanding teaching. In 1998, Dr. Huntington was the Numata Distinguished Visiting Professor at Bailliol College at Oxford University and in 2005 she was the Mary Jane Crowe Visiting Professor at Northwestern University. For the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Huntington is a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on a fellowship funded by the Mellon Foundation. Dr. Huntington has advised many master's and doctoral students, most of whom are now active scholars and teachers in the field of South Asian art in universities and museums throughout the country. She has also served as an officer and/or Board member of numerous national and international societies and committees, including the American Committee for South Asian Art, the Association for Asian Studies, the American Institute of Indian Studies, the Fulbright Award Committee, the College Art Association, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. She is currently Director of the Huntington Photographic Archive of Buddhist and Related Art at The Ohio State University.
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- Professor Emeritus, Comparative Studies
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- Graduate Student, Advanced Chinese Language and Culture
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- Professor Emeritus, Musicology
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- Graduate Student, History
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- Graduate Student, History
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- Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscienc
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- Associate Professor, DEALL
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- Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School
- Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Yasuyuki (Yas) Motoyama is an assistant professor in the City and Regional Planning Section at the Knowlton School. His main research areas are economic development, innovation, entrepreneurship, and science and technology development.
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Graduate Student, History of Art
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- Professor, Foreign and Second Language Education
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- Graduate Student, Linguistics
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- Academic Program Specialist, DEALL
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- Associate Professor, DEALL