China
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is home to over 30 faculty and research scholars of China from across the disciplines of anthropology, business, history, law, literature, political science, social work, and urban planning, among others. Each year, guests from academia, government, the nonprofit sector, and the arts are invited to speak at public events and workshops addressing the history, politics, economics, and culture of China and the region.
Additionally, the Institute supports undergraduate and graduate research as well as publications about the region and works closely with affiliates such as Columbia Global Centers | Beijing, the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program, the Center for Chinese Legal Studies, the China Center for Social Policy, the Center for US-China Arts Exchange, the Center on Chinese Education, and others. Through its Master of Arts in Regional Studies - East Asia program, the Institute provides graduate students the opportunity to take courses on a wide variety of topics concerning mainland China and Taiwan.
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Affiliated Faculty & Scholars
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Nicholas Allyn Bartlett
Assistant Professor, Asian & Middle East, Barnard College
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Adjunct Research Scholar
Maria Adele Carrai
Adjunct Research Scholar; Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai; Marie Curie Fellow, KU Leuven School of Law
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Associate Member
Jim Cheng
Director, C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Starr East Asian Library
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Thomas J. Christensen
James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations; Director, China and the World Program
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Myron Cohen
Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology
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Alex Eble
Associate Professor of Economics and Education, Teachers College
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Leta Hong Fincher
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Cameron K. Foltz
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
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Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Sau-yi Fong
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute
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Qin Gao
Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice; Associate Dean for Doctoral Education, School of Social Work; Director, China Center for Social Policy
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Xiaolu Guo
2020–2021 Writer-In-Residence, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; former Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Junyan Jiang
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
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Eugenia Y. Lean
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs; Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Benjamin L. Liebman
Robert L. Lieff Professor of Law, School of Law; Director of the Hong Yen Chang Center for Chinese Legal Studies at Columbia Law School
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Lydia H. Liu
Wun Tsun Tam Professor in the Humanities, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
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Xiaobo Lü
Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science, Barnard College
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Yao Lu
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology
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Roberta H. Martin
Director Emerita, Asia for Educators; Director, Columbia University National Coordinating Site of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
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Andrew J. Nathan
Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Dept of Political Science
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Ying Qian
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Associate Member
Morris Rossabi
Adjunct Professor of East Asian Language and Cultures, East Asian Langs & Cultures
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Honorary Affiliate
Orville Schell
Arthur Ross Director, Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
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Wei Shang
Wm. Theodore and Fanny Brett de Bary and Class of 1941 Collegiate Professor of Asian Humanities; Du Family Professor of Chinese Culture
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Nick R. Smith
Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Barnard College
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Gray Tuttle
Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, East Asian Languages & Cultures
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Associate Member
Chengzhi Wang
Collection Development/Reference Librarian (Chinese); Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Starr East Asian Library
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Shang-Jin Wei
N. T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy and Professor of International and Public Affairs, Graduate School of Business
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Adjunct Research Scholar
Elizabeth A. Wishnick
Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, WEAI; Senior Research Scientist, CNA
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Adjunct Research Scholar
William Wooldridge
Adjunct Research Scholar; Associate Professor of History, Lehman College, City University of New York
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Weiping Wu
Vice Provost for Academic Programs, and Professor and Director of the M.S. in Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
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Madeleine H. Zelin
Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies; Professor of History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History
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