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Asia Pacific Center Faculty


Executive Committee

Min ZhouDistinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies and Director, UCLA Asia Pacific Center (on leave 2024-2025)

Stephen Acabado Associate Professor, Anthropology

Victor Agadjanian Professor, Sociology

Katsuya Hirano Associate Professor, History

Shu-mei Shih Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies


Faculty Advisory Committee

Hitoshi Abe Director; Professor, Architecture & Urban Design; UCLA Terasaki Chair for Contemporary Japanese Studies

Stephen Acabado Associate Professor, Anthropology

Victor Agadjanian Professor, Sociology

Stephanie Balkwill Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures

Michael Berry Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures

Keith L Camacho Professor & Chair

Su Chen Head of Richard C. Rudolph East Asian Library; East Asian Studies Librarian

Lily Chen-Hafteck Professor and Special Assistant to the Inaugural Dean for Curricular Reform, Music Education

Michael Emmerich Associate Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures

Andrea Goldman Associate Professor, History and Interim Director, Asia Pacific Center

Christopher P. Hanscom Associate Professor of Korean Literature

Kevan Harris Associate Professor, Sociology

Ursula Heise Professor of Humanities, Department of English and Institute of the Environment

Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda Associate Professor

Katsuya Hirano Associate Professor, History

Ka Kit Hui Physician, Director and Professor of Medicine

Suk-Young Kim Professor, School of Theater, Film and Television

Kevin Y. Kim Assistant Professor

Choon Hwee Koh Assistant Professor, Department of History

Hui-shu Lee Associate Professor, Art History

Ching Kwan Lee Professor, Sociology

Nancy Levine Professor, Department of Anthropology

Seiji Lippit Associate Director; Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures

Diego Loukota Sanclemente Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures

Sean Metzger Professor

Jerry Nickelsburg Senior Economist, UCLA Forecast

Akihiro Nishi Associate Professor, Epidemiology

Kyeyoung Park Professor, Korea Times-Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair in Korean-American Studies

David Schaberg Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures

Shu-mei Shih Professor, Asian Languages & Cultures, Comparative Literature, Asian American Studies

Margaret Shih UCLA Anderson Board of Visitors Term Chair in Management

Monica L. Smith Professor, Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies, Dept of Anthropology, Institute of the Environment & Sustainability

Hongyin Tao Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures

Michael Thies Chair, Global Studies and International & Area Studies Interdepartmental Programs

Hsian-Rong Tseng Professor, Molecular and Medical Pharmacology

Lothar von Falkenhausen Professor, Art History & Archaeology

Ronald Vroon Professor and Chair, Slavic Languages & Literatures

Alex Wang Professor of Law

May C. Wang Professor of Community Health Sciences

Lee Ann Wang Assistant Professor, Asian American Studies and Social Welfare

Weng Kee Wong Professor of Biostatistics

Sherry Wu Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations

Wei-Hsin Yu Professor, Sociology






Asia Pacific Faculty Directory

UCLA Faculty with research and teaching interests on Asia, listed by regional specialization:

All Asia Faculty

Central Asia

China

Japan

Korea

Southeast Asia

South Asia

Buddhism