Core Faculty
Luke Habberstad
Associate Professor, Early Chinese Literature and Religion
Program Head & Director, Asian Studies Program
E-mail: lukehabb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4006
Office: 401 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Religious Studies
Interests: Literature, religion, and material culture of early China (5th century BCE-3rd century CE); early Chinese historical writing; excavated texts; politics and cultures of dynastic and monarchical courts; ancient empires; religious ritual.
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Daniel Buck
Associate Professor
E-mail: danielb@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-2353
Office: 109 Condon Hall
Departments: Geography, Asian Studies
Interests: Human Geography/Asian Studies, Economic Geography, Development, Political Economy, Environment/Society, East Asia and China
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Maram Epstein
Professor, Chinese Literature
Director, Center for Asian Pacific Studies
E-mail: maram@uoregon.edu
Office: 303 Friendly Hall
City: Eugene
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
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Alisa Freedman
Professor, Japanese Literature & Film
Editor-in-Chief, U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal
E-mail: alisaf@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-979-7794
Office: 404 Friendly Hall
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
Interests: Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, youth culture, visual media, digital culture, urban studies, and gender
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Jina Kim
Associate Professor, Korean Literature & Culture
E-mail: jinak@uoregon.edu
Office: 403 Friendly Hall
City: Eugene
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
Interests: Modern Korean literature, Comparative literature, Sound studies, Transmedia, Korean diaspora
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Arafat A. Valiani
Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies and Global Health
E-mail: valiani@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-5763
Office: 301 McKenzie Hall
City: Eugene
Programs, Research and Outreach: Wayne Morse Center
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Clark Honors College
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Tuong Vu
Professor
E-mail: thvu@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4866
Office: 940 PLC
City: Eugene
Programs, Research and Outreach: Center for Equity Promotion
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies
Interests: comparative politics, state and society, ideology, contentious politics, East and Southeast Asia
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Yugen Wang
Professor, Chinese Literature and Department Head
E-mail: ygwang@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-3503
Office: 304 Friendly Hall
City: Eugene
Affiliated Departments: Asian Studies, Comparative Literature
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