Asian Studies

Faculty

Ellen Hauser
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology and Political Science
Lentz Hall 312
·(262) 551-5949
Ellen Hauser currently teaches courses in sociology, political science, and women's and gender studies. She teaches courses on global poverty, women and politics, African transitions, women of Africa, and women's ...
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James Lochtefeld
  • Director of the Asian Studies Program
  • Director of the Global Heritage Program
  • Professor of Religion
Lentz Hall 207
·(262) 551-5913
James Lochtefeld specializes in Hindu pilgrimage. His dissertation research focused on the north Indian pilgrimage city of Hardwar; the dissertation draws on Sanskrit texts, archival documents, and field research to ...
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Jonathan Marshall
  • Associate Professor of Political Science
Lentz Hall 419A
·(262) 551-5894
Jonathan Marshall teaches courses in comparative politics, East Asian politics, constitutional law, and law and society. His research focuses on legal mobilization and citizen litigants in Japan, where he lived ...
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Eric Pullin
  • Assistant Professor of History
Johnson Arts Center 203
·(262) 551-6323
Eric Pullin earned a B.A. in history from Rockford College, an M.A. in history from Northern Illinois University, an A.M. in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois ...
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Wenjie Sun
  • Assistant Professor of Geography and Earth Science
  • Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Straz Center B10-B
·(262) 551-2377
Wenjie Sun teaches courses in Geographic Information Science (GIS), Satellite Image and Air Photo Analysis, Human Geography, and Geography of East Asia. She has also led multiple interdisciplinary themed J-term ...
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Stephen Udry
  • Chair of the History Department
  • Associate Professor of History
Johnson Arts Center 210
·(262) 551-5891
Stephen Udry has traveled extensively throughout Asia, and has resided in Taiwan, where he taught English for five years. He also has visited China, Japan, Korea, Nepal, Tibet and Thailand. ...
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Yan Wang
  • Assistant Professor of Modern Languages — Japanese
Lentz Hall 334
·(262) 551-6344
Yan Wang teaches courses in Japanese, Chinese and Global Heritage. Her research interests include Japanese/Chinese discourse analysis, pragmatics, syntax, pedagogy and cultural anthropology. Her recent publications and conference presentations focus ...
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Mimi Yang
  • Professor of Modern Languages
Clausen Center 219
·(262) 551-5941
Mimi Yang is multi-lingual in Chinese, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. A native of China, she majored in Spanish language and literature, earning her B.A. from Beijing University, and her M.A. ...
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