Leadership and Administrative Staff
Dr. Constantine Vaporis
Director, Asian Studies Program; Professor, Dept of History
Early Modern Japan, East Asia, Asian Studies
vaporis@umbc.edu
Meredith Power
Program Management Specialist
Fine Arts 548
410-455-8410
m.power@umbc.edu
Asian Studies Faculty
Lecturer
Political Science; Korea; International Relations in East Asia
kimsy@umbc.edu
Postdoctoral Fellow of Global Asias
Postwar Transpacific Empire, US-Japan Postwar Relations, Public History
mthornburg@umbc.edu
Asian Studies Affiliate Faculty
(organized alphabetically by last name)
Dr. Tamara Bhalla
Associate Professor, Dept of American Studies; Director of Asian American Studies Minor
Asian American Literatures and Cultures; South Asian American and Diasporic Literature and Culture
tbhalla@umbc.edu
Dr. William Brown
Senior Lecturer, Dept of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Chinese Language, Literature, and Film
wbrown@umbc.edu
Irene Chan
Professor, Dept of Visual Arts
Visual and Performance Art, Asian American History and Taoism
ichan@umbc.edu
Dr. Bambi Chapin
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dept of Anthropology and Sociology
Families and Child Development in Sri Lanka and South Asia
bchapin@umbc.edu
Dr. Charissa Cheah
Professor, Dept of Psychology
Asian and Asian American Children and Adolescent Social, Emotional, Health Development
ccheah@umbc.edu
Dr. Randolph Ford
Assistant Professor, Dept of Ancient Studies
Greco-Roman World in Late Antiquity; History and Historiography of Early Medieval China and Central Asia
rford3@umbc.edu
Dr. Brian Grodsky
Professor, Dept of Political Science
Central Asia; Comparative Politics; Human Rights; Democratization; Post-Communist Politics
bgrodsky@umbc.edu
Dr. Devin Hagerty
Professor, Dept of Political Science
South Asian Politics
dhagerty@umbc.edu
Dr. Tomoko Hoogenboom
Principal Lecturer, Japanese Area Coordinator, Dept of Modern Languages, Linguistics and Intercultural Communication
Japanese Language and Culture
tmkhgnbm@umbc.edu
Dr. Joonho Lee
Assistant Professor, Dept of Philosophy
Ancient Chinese Philosophy; Moral Motivation in Mencius
joonho.lee@umbc.edu
Dr. David Mitch
Professor, Dept of Economics
Asian Economics
mitch@umbc.edu
Dr. Annie Nguyen
Assistant Teaching Professor, Dept of English
Creative Writing; Asian Literature
annien2@umbc.edu
Dr. Julie Oakes
Assistant Director of Curriculum and Retention, The Honors College; Affiliate Adjunct II, Dept of History
East Asian Civilizations; Modern Japanese History and Culture
juloakes@umbc.edu
Dr. Meredith Oyen
Associate Professor, Dept. of History
US Foreign Policy with Asia, China, Asian Immigration
oyen@umbc.edu
Dr. Manil Suri
Professor, Dept of Mathematics and Statistics
South Asian Literature
suri@umbc.edu
Dr. Christopher K. Tong
Associate Professor, Dept of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Culture, Politics, and Environment; China and Hong Kong; Critical Theory
ckt@umbc.edu
Dr. Sharon Tran
Assistant Professor, Dept of English
Multiethnic American Literature with Emphasis on Transnational Asian Literature and Visual Culture
stran@umbc.edu
Dr. Guan Wang
Assistant Professor, Dept of Political Science
Chinese Foreign Relations, U.S.-China Relations, U.S. Foreign Policy, Research Methods
gwang921@umbc.edu
Dr. Fan Yang
Associate Professor, Dept of Media and Communication Studies
China and Globalization; Cultural Studies; Modern and Contemporary Chinese Media; Urbanism and Urban Communication
fanyang@umbc.edu
Dr. Kyung-Eun Yoon
Assistant Professor, Coordinator of Korean, Dept of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication
Korean Language and Culture
kyoon@umbc.edu
Dr. Noor Zaidi
Assistant Professor, Dept of History; Director of Religious Studies Minor
Middle East, Islamic World, Gender
nzaidi@umbc.edu
Dr. Jinghong Zhang
Assistant Professor, Dept of History
Modern China and East Asia; History of Medicine; Science and Technology Studies (STS)
jhzhang@umbc.edu
Emeritus Faculty
Dr. Ka-che Yip
Professor, Dept of History
East Asian History; Medicine and Culture in East Asia
yip@umbc.edu