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Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Steven P. Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion

2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Coordinator of Asian Studies

Contact

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

Cheryl Sharp

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7750
  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:

    Wednesdays, 10:30am-12:30pm

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

Pallabi Chakravorty

Professor

Stephen Lang Professor of Performing Arts

Absent on leave, 2022-23

Music & Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6161
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 004
  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Publications and Choreographies

Areas of interest: Kathak dance, Visual Anthropology, South Asia

BuYun Chen

Associate Professor

History

Asian Studies

Contact

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

    Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

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

Professor BuYun Chen

Rikker Dockum

Visiting Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8203
  2. Pearson Hall 106
  1. Website

Will Gardner

Professor, Section Head

Japanese

Contact

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

Emily Gasser

Associate Professor and Chair

Director of Pacific Languages & Linguistics Lab

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6162
  2. Pearson Hall 101
  1. Website

K. David Harrison

Professor

On leave Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Linguistics

Contact

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  2. Website
  3. Google Scholar

Steven P. Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion

2021 Guggenheim Fellow

Coordinator of Asian Studies

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

Contact

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

Gerald Levinson

Jane Lang Professor of Music

Composition, Music Theory

On Leave Spring 2023

Contact

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

Bakirathi Mani

Professor, Department of English Literature

Co-Director, Asian American Studies

Asian American Studies

Contact

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

Lei X. Ouyang

Chair, The Music Program in the Dept. of Music and Dance

Associate Professor - Music

Music & Dance

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-2020
  2. Lang Music Building 412
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Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor

Chinese

Contact

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

Professor of Art History and Dean of Students

Contact

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

Joe Small

Assistant Professor of Dance

Music & Dance

Contact

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

    By appointment.

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  3. Website

Kiki Speidel

Senior Lecturer

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
  1. Profile
Atsuko Suda

Jonathan Washington

Associate Professor

Director of Phonetics Lab

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6134
  2. Pearson Hall 105
  1. Website
  2. Phonetics Lab

Tyrene White

Richter Professor of Political Science

On Leave Fall 2022

Contact

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

    Online Office Hours: 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

Professor

Contact

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