East Asian Institute

Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI), formerly the Columbia East Asian Institute (EAI)

"Since its establishment in 1949, Columbia University's East Asian Institute has been a major center for research, teaching, and publishing on modern and contemporary Asia, covering China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Korean peninsula, and the countries of Southeast Asia; in recent years the scope has expanded to include Tibet and Inner Asia. The Institute is affiliated with Columbia's Schools of Business, Law, International and Public Affairs, and Arts and Sciences, bringing together over 50 full-time faculty, a diverse group of visiting scholars and professionals, and students from the United States and abroad.

"As of January 2003, the East Asian Institute was renamed the Weatherhead East Asian Institute to honor the generosity of the Weatherhead Foundation." 

"The Weatherhead Foundation, which has supported the East Asian Institute since 1980, was founded by A. J. Weatherhead, Jr. in 1953 and is currently headed by his son, A. J. Weatherhead, III." 

Faculty & scholars by regional expertise
The roster of scholars associated with WEAI is subject to annual changes....2007 WEAI faculty web page

China

 * Thomas P. Bernstein, Professor of Political Science and Government
 * Research Interests: Chinese politics, state-society relations, comparative communist and post-communist systems, Chinese foreign policy


 * Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Anthropology Department
 * Research Interests: Chinese culture and society


 * Samuel S. Kim, Adjunct Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Korean Research; Senior Research Associate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
 * Research Interests: Korean Foreign Relations, International relations, Chinese Foreign Policy


 * Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College
 * Research Interests: History of China and gender


 * Eugenia Lean, Assistant Professor of Chinese History
 * Research Interests: Gender, law, media, and popular urban culture in late imperial and modern China


 * Benjamin Liebman, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law; Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies
 * Research Interests: The Chinese legal system


 * Xiaobo Lü, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
 * Research Interests: East Asian political economy


 * Roberta H. Martin, Senior Research Scholar; Director, East Asian Curriculum Project; Executive Director, Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum
 * Research Interests: Education in China; the Chinese Communist Party


 * Adam McKeown, Assistant Professor of History
 * Research Interests: Modern trans-Pacific history, with an emphasis on the Chinese Diaspora


 * Andrew J. Nathan, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and Chair of Political Science Department
 * Research Interests: Contemporary Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, comparative political participation and political culture


 * Carl Riskin, Senior Research Scholar; Adjunct Professor of Chinese Economics
 * Research Interests: Income distribution in China, effects of development strategy on poor regions and social strata, problems of economic reform


 * Morris Rossabi, Adjunct Associate Professor of Early Chinese and Inner Asian History more
 * Research Interests: Central Eurasian and Mongolia


 * Dan Rosen, Adjunct Associate Professor
 * Research Interests: International economics, Chinese economics


 * James D. Seymour, Senior Research Scholar
 * ''Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, Taiwan, Tibet, and Mongolia; comparative studies of human rights


 * Wei Shang, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature
 * Research Interests: Late Imperial fiction, Qing materials, Classical Chinese


 * Dorothy Solinger, Senior Research Scholar
 * Research Interests:China's "floating population" (migrant labor), urban unemployment


 * Edwin A. Winckler, Adjunct Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: The politics of East Asian development, especially the People's Republic of China and Taiwan


 * Guobin Yang, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
 * Research Interests: Sociology of China; media sociology; social movements; social memory; voluntary associations


 * Madeleine Zelin, Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Columbia East Asian National Resource Center
 * Research Interests: Modern Chinese social and economic history, early modern business, the meaning of "modernity" in early twentieth-century China, translation of twentieth-century Chinese literature

Japan

 * Paul Anderer, Professor of Japanese Literature
 * Research Interests: Modern Japanese fiction, film, literary criticism and theory


 * Lisbeth Kim Brandt, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
 * Research Interests: Twentieth-century Japanese cultural and social history


 * Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program
 * Research Interests: Comparative politics, Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations


 * Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of History; Director, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Director, Asia Perspectives Series, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
 * Research Interests: Modern Japanese history, historiography and public memory, international relations


 * Robert M. Immerman, Senior Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: Japanese multilateral diplomacy, particularly in the United Nations


 * Marilyn Ivy, Associate Professor of Anthropology
 * Research Interests: Modern Japanese anthropology


 * Merit Janow, Professor in the Practice of International Trade, School of International and Public Affairs; Co-Director, APEC Study Center
 * Research Interests: International trade law and policy, Japan


 * Carol Kinney, Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: Japanese social work


 * Curtis J. Milhaupt, Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions; Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies
 * Research Interests: Comparative corporate governance, comparative financial regulation, law and economic development


 * Hugh T. Patrick, R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business; Co-Director, APEC Study Center
 * Research Interests: U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy


 * Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History
 * Research Interests: Early modern and modern Japanese History, historical constructions of gender and sexuality in Japan


 * Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture
 * Research Interests: Pre-and early modern Japanese literature


 * Henry D. Smith II, Professor of Japanese History
 * Research Interests: Urban and cultural history of nineteenth-century Japan


 * Tomi Suzuki, Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures
 * Research Interests: Modern Japanese literature


 * David Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy
 * Research Interests: International economics, Japanese economy

Korea

 * Charles K. Armstrong, Assistant Professor of Korean History
 * Research Interests: Modern Korean History, contemporary Korean history and historiography, international relations in the Asia Pacific, issues of ethnicity and boundary making in Northeast Asia


 * Ja Hyun Kim Haboush, King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies
 * Research Interests: Pre-modern and early modern Korean history


 * Samuel S. Kim, Adjunct Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Korean Research; Senior Research Associate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
 * Research Interests: Korean Foreign Relations, International relations, Chinese Foreign Policy

Mongolia

 * Morris Rossabi, Adjunct Associate Professor
 * Research Interests: Early Chinese and Inner Asian History


 * James D. Seymour, Senior Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, Taiwan, Tibet, and Mongolia; comparative studies of human rights

Southeast asia

 * Amy L. Freedman, Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: Political Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia


 * Rosalind C. Morris, Associate Professor of Anthropology
 * Research Interests: Modernity in Thailand, ritual and performance in cultural order, the effects of mass reproduction technologies on visuality


 * Ann Marie Murphy, Adjunct Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: Indonesian politics


 * Hugh T. Patrick, R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business Co-Director, APEC Study Center
 * Research Interests: U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy


 * John Pemberton, Professor of Anthropology
 * Research Interests: Modern Indonesian Cultural Anthropology


 * Elizabeth Wishnick, Adjunct Associate Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: East Asian international relations

Taiwan

 * Myron L. Cohen, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Anthropology Department
 * Research Interests: Chinese culture and society


 * James D. Seymour, Senior Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, Taiwan, Tibet, and Mongolia; comparative studies of human rights


 * Edwin A. Winckler, Adjunct Research Scholar
 * Research Interests: The politics of East Asian development, especially the People's Republic of China and Taiwan

Tibet

 * Robert J. Barnett, Senior Research Scholar, Lecturer
 * Research Interests: Modern Tibetan Studies


 * Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
 * Research Interests: Early 20th century views of Tibetan Buddism in China

Directors

 * Myron L. Cohen, Director
 * Waichi Ho, Assistant Director

General Administration

 * Elizabeth Demissie, Business Manager
 * Janice Duffin, Administrative Assistant
 * Judy Jamal, Administrative Assistant
 * Madge Huntington, Publications Director
 * Caroline Batten, Administrative Assistant
 * Victoria Greenberg, Administrative Assistant
 * Kazue Tomiyama, Financial Assistant

Program Officers

 * Greg Alcock, Programming and Public Relations Officer
 * Celia Bhattacharya, Program Officer, Student Affairs
 * Heidi Johnson, Program Officer, ExEAS Program hj20

Asia for Educators (AFE) Program
2006
 * Roberta H. Martin, Director
 * Sara Leeun Huong, Web Designer/Producer
 * Karen Kane, Staff Associate
 * Madge Huntington, Publications Director

Contact

 * Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
 * 9th Floor, International Affairs Building
 * 420 West 118th Street, Mail Code 3333
 * New York, NY 10027
 * Web: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/index.html