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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Steven P. Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion

Asian Studies Program Coordinator

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Fax: (610) 328-7687
  3. Pearson 209
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Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Bertha Saldierna

Administrative Assistant II

Interdisciplinary Programs Office

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7674
  2. Trotter Hall 107
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Debbie Sloman

Administrative Assistant in Classics, Interdisciplinary Programs

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Trotter Hall 110 Classics
  3. Trotter Hall 107 Interdisciplinary Programs
Debbie Sloman

Program Committee

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Trotter 212
  3. Office Hours:

    Fridays, 12 - 3 pm

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Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Professor Azfar selfie in the city.

Pallabi Chakravorty

Professor

Chair

Stephen Lang Professor of Performing Arts

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6161
  2. Lang Music Building 406
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  2. Website
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Areas of interest: Kathak dance, Visual Anthropology, South Asia

BuYun Chen

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3978
  2. Trotter 207
  3. Office Hours:

    Thursdays, 11am - 1pm

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Interests: China, East Asia, women, science and technology

Professor BuYun Chen

Will Gardner

Professor, Section Head

Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-6875
  2. Kohlberg 315
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Will Gardner

K. David Harrison

Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson 102
  3. Office Hours:

    Please email: harrison@swarthmore.edu to schedule a time to meet. 

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Steven P. Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion

Asian Studies Program Coordinator

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Fax: (610) 328-7687
  3. Pearson 209

Links

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Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Yoshiko Jo

Senior Lecturer

Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2047
  2. Kohlberg 306
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Yoshiko Jo

Wol A Kang

Senior Lecturer

Chinese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2048
  2. Kohlberg 314
Wol Kang

Haili Kong

Professor, Section Head

Chinese

On Leave S'21

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8457
  2. Kohlberg 310
Haili Kong

Jerry Levinson

Jane Lang Professor of Music

Composition, Music Theory

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8236
  2. Lang Music Building 409
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Gerald Levinson

Roseann Liu

Visiting Assistant Professor

Educational Studies

Contact

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anthropology of education, ethics, migration, and urban studies

Bakirathi Mani

Professor, Department of English Literature

Coordinator, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program

English Literature

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8132
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 307
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Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor - Chinese

Acting Section Head S'21

Chinese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7675
  2. Kohlberg Hall K-305
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Tomoko Sakomura

Dean of Students

Professor of Art History

Art

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8119
  2. Parrish 108
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  2. CV
Tomoko Sakomura

Joe Small

Asst Professor PT - Dance

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8670
  2. LPAC 008
  3. Office Hours:

    By appointment.

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Kiki Speidel

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Chinese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7766
  2. Kohlberg 314
Kirsten Speidel

Atsuko Suda

Senior Lecturer

Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8147
  2. Kohlberg 301
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Atsuko Suda

Jonathan Washington

Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6134
  2. Pearson Hall 105
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Tyrene White

Professor of Political Science

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8138
  2. Trotter 307
  3. Office Hours:

    Remote TTh 1:30-3:00 and by appointment.

    Online Office Hours

    Join Zoom Meeting
    https://swarthmore.zoom.us/j/463122253

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Tyrene White's current research is on the local political influence of Chinese NGO's and on the use of litigation to improve the status of Chinese women. She teaches courses on contemporary China, East Asia, and population issues, and introductory courses in comparative politics.

Tyrene White

Thomas Whitman ’82

Additional Courses - Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8234
  2. Lang Music Building 411
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Thomas Whitman