Asian Studies Program

Faculty and Staff

CORE FACULTY

Robert Foster, Professor of History and Asian Studies; Coordinator of History Program

Gordon Gray, Assistant Professor of Media and Culture

Nathan Patton, Instructor of Japanese

Jeffrey L. Richey, Associate Professor of Religion and Asian Studies; Coordinator of Asian Studies Program

 

ASSOCIATED FACULTY

Shan Ayers, Professor of English and Theatre

Rebecca Bates, Associate Professor of History

Jill Bouma, Associate Professor of Sociology

Ashley Elston, Assistant Professor of Art History

Libby Falk Jones, Professor of English

Eileen McKiernan González, Associate Professor of Art History

Neil Mecham, Professor of Child and Family Studies

Michelle Tooley, Eli Lilly Professor of Religion; Coordinator, Peace & Social Justice Studies

 

EXAMPLES OF FACULTY ACTIVITY

Asian Studies Development Program

National Consortium for Teaching about Asia

NEH Summer Programs in the Humanities

Penn Japan Seminar

Robert Foster’s translation of the Classic of Go 

Gordon Gray’s Cinema: A Visual Anthropology

Jeffrey L. Richey’s Confucius in East Asia

Reviews of Foster’s and Richey’s contributions to Teaching Confucianism