Asian Studies Programs
The 2008-09 membership of the Council on Asian Studies had not been determined at the time Courses of Instruction went to press; below is the Committee’s most recent roster. If complete membership information for 2008-09 becomes available, it will be added to the on-line course catalog.
Faculty of the Council on Asian Studies
Anthony Saich, Daewoo Professor of International Affairs (Kennedy School) (Chair)
Ryuichi Abe, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions
Theodore C. Bestor, Professor of Anthropology
Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities (on leave fall term)
Barry R. Bloom, Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, and Dean of the Faculty of Public Health (Public Health)
Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harold Bolitho, Professor of Japanese History (on leave 2008-09)
Sugata Bose, Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs
Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology (on leave 2008-09)
James K. M. Cheng, Librarian of the Harvard-Yenching Library
Diana L. Eck, Fredric Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry in Society
Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History (on leave spring term)
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History (on leave spring term)
Shengli Feng, Professor of the Practice of Chinese Language
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies (Divinity School)
Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society
William C. Hsiao, K. T. Li Professor of Economics (Public Health)
Wilt L. Idema, Professor of Chinese Literature
Wesley M. Jacobsen, Professor of the Practice of Japanese Language
William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies (FAS) and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School), Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Medical Anthropology (FAS) in the Faculty of Medicine (Medical School)
Wai-yee Li, Professor of Chinese Literature
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science
David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature
Michael B. McElroy, Gilbert Butler Professor of Environmental Studies
Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions (Divinity School)
Robert D. Mowry, Alan J. Dworksy Curator of Chinese Art, Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Stephen Owen, James Bryant Conant University Professor
Elizabeth J. Perry, Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government
Susan J. Pharr, Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Politics
Michael J. Puett, Professor of Chinese History (on leave 2008-09)
J. Mark Ramseyer, Professor of Japanese Legal Studies (Law School)
Mary M. Steedly, Professor of Anthropology (on leave 2008-09)
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History
Wei-Ming Tu, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies (on leave fall term)
Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp, Professor of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Richard H. K. Vietor, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management (Business School)
David Der-Wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature (on leave spring term)
Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
James L. Watson, Harvard College Professor and John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Professor of Chinese Society (on leave fall term)
Louis T. Wells, Jr., Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Business Management (Business School)
Martin K. Whyte, Professor of Sociology
The Council on Asian Studies was created by resolutions of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of April 12, 1972, and April 25, 2001. It exists to coordinate, advise, and promote teaching and research on Asia. It is comprised of faculty members from different departments of the FAS and from several schools of the University who study East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Inner Asia. It oversees or advises several academic programs mentioned below, and it provides faculty oversight to the Harvard University Asia Center.
The AM program in Regional Studies—East Asia is supervised by the Council and is described below.
The AB Concentration in East Asian Studies is advised and supported by the Council, and is described under East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Courses on East Asian languages, early history, literature, and thought are listed under East Asian Languages and Civilizations.
Programs in South Asian Studies and in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies are advised and supported by the Council and are listed separately in the catalog.
Other courses in Asian Studies are listed under the Core Curriculum, Anthropology, Economics, Government, History, History of Art and Architecture, Linguistics, Psychology, Sociology, the Study of Religion, and other departments.
The Harvard University Asia Center was created in 1997. Its Steering and Executive Committees are drawn from the Faculty of the Council on Asian Studies. The Center coordinates and supports research, teaching, and public programs on Asia throughout the University. The Center sponsors lectures, seminars, and conferences; supports faculty and student research; publishes books and journals; funds research and travel grants to undergraduate and graduate students; administers Harvard’s National Resource Center for East Asian Studies, and manages the competition for Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships for graduate and professional students. The Center publishes a bi-weekly calendar of events during the Academic Year. The Asia Center is located at the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), 1730 Cambridge Street, room S113.
The 2008-09 membership of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional Studies-East Asia had not been determined at the time Courses of Instruction went to press; below is the Committee’s most recent roster. If complete membership information for 2008-09 becomes available, it will be added to the on-line course catalog.
Faculty of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Master of Arts in Regional Studies–East Asia
David Der-Wei Wang, Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature (Chair) (on leave spring term)
Henrietta Harrison, Professor of History (on leave fall term)
Sun Joo Kim, Associate Professor of Korean History
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History
Yukio Lippit, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture (on leave 2008-09)
Roderick MacFarquhar, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science
David McCann, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Literature
Karen Thornber, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Xiaofei Tian, Professor of Chinese Literature
The program in Regional Studies–East Asia, leading to a Master of Arts degree, is a basic preparation (1) for students who intend to go on to PhD work in an East Asian specialization; and (2) for students who wish to equip themselves for nonacademic work. The program, which normally requires two years for completion, aims to make the student broadly conversant with the societies of the region, and also to give him or her a sound knowledge of one of the languages of the area. Details may be obtained from the Committee’s offices at 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 or 617-495-3777.
Faculty of the Standing Committee on the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History and East Asian Languages
Mark C. Elliott, Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History (Chair) (on leave spring term)
Peter K. Bol, Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Carter J. Eckert, Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History (on leave spring term)
Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History
Henrietta Harrison, Professor of History (on leave fall term)
William C. Kirby, T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies (FAS) and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration (Business School), Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Shigehisa Kuriyama, Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History
Michael J. Puett, Professor of Chinese History (on leave 2008-09)
Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Kenneth T. Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History
As of 2006, the Standing Committee on the PhD in History and East Asian Languages is not accepting new applications to the program. Interested students should consult the listing for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations under “Degree in History and East Asian Languages” in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Handbook.
Graduate Courses of Reading and Research
*Regional Studies — East Asia 300. Reading and Research
Catalog Number: 4614
Members of the Committee
Designed to provide students with the opportunity to do reading and research in an approved area of their choice under the direction of a member of the Committee.
Note: Limited to students affiliated with the Regional Studies-East Asia program.
*Regional Studies — East Asia 310. Thesis Development
Catalog Number: 8453
Members of the Committee
Designed to allow students to develop previous research or a previously written paper into the AM thesis, under the direction of an appropriate faculty advisor.
Note: Limited to students affiliated with the Regional Studies-East Asia program. Counts as course credit, but not towards the basic course requirements for the degree.