Faculty & Staff

Program Coordinator and Staff

Lei Ouyang

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Asian American Studies; Asian Studies

Music

Asian American Studies

Asian Studies

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile

Co-Director, Chinese Music Ensemble

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Kelly Gomez Zimmer

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Coordinator

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5048
  2. Old Science Hall 107

Links

  1. Profile
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Deb Sloman

(she-her-hers-herself)

Administrative Assistant II, Classics; Administrative Assistant II, Asian Studies; Administrative Support, Classics

Classics

Interdisciplinary Programs

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8165
  2. Old Science Hall 110
  3. Old Science Hall 107
Deb Sloman

Program Committee

Farid Azfar

Associate Professor

History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5765
  2. Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., or by appointment

Links

  1. Profile

Interests: Early Modern Europe, urban, sexuality

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John Bundschuh

Assistant Professor

Program Coordinator, Comparative Literature

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5537
  2. Kohlberg Hall 308

Links

  1. Profile
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Pallabi Chakravorty

Stephen Lang Professor of Performing Arts

Dance

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6161
  2. Lang Performing Arts Center 4

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Publications and Choreographies

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

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BuYun Chen

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

History

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-3978
  2. Old Science Hall 207
  3. Office Hours: On leave 2025-2026

Links

  1. Profile

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

Professor BuYun Chen

Rikker Dockum

(he-him-his-himself)

Visiting Assistant Professor

Linguistics

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile
Rikker Dockum

Will Gardner

Professor

Section Head, Chinese; Japanese

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile
Will Gardner

Emily Gasser

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Linguistics

Contact

Links

  1. Website

P.I., Pacific Languages & Linguistics Lab

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David Harrison

Professor

On Leave - Spring

Linguistics

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 690-5785
  2. Pearson Hall 7

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Website
  3. Google Scholar
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Steven Hopkins

Mari S. Michener Professor of Religion and Asian Studies

Religion

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8035
  2. Pearson Hall 209

Links

  1. Profile
Steven Hopkins at Collioure

Haili Kong

Professor Emeritus

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

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

Lei Ouyang

(she-her-hers-herself)

Associate Professor

Program Coordinator, Asian American Studies; Asian Studies

Music

Asian American Studies

Asian Studies

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile

Co-Director, Chinese Music Ensemble

Photo of Lei Ouyang

Roseann Liu

(she-her-hers-herself)

Assistant Professor

On Leave - Academic Year

Educational Studies

Asian American Studies

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 957-6383

Links

  1. Profile
  2. Personal website

race, inequality, and education

Roseann Liu Headshot 2024

Benjamin Ridgway

Assistant Professor

On Leave

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Asian Studies

Contact

  1. Kohlberg Hall

Links

  1. Profile
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Tomoko Sakomura

(she-her-hers-herself)

Professor

On Leave

Art History

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8119
  2. Beardsley Hall 214B

Links

  1. Profile
  2. CV
Tomoko Sakomura

Joe Small ’05

Associate Professor

Department Chair, Dance

Dance

Contact

  1. Lang Performing Arts Center 8
  2. Office Hours: By appointment.
  1. Profile
  2. Profile
  3. Website
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Kirsten Speidel

Senior Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-Chinese

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-7766
  2. Kohlberg Hall 314
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Atsuko Suda

Senior Lecturer

Modern Languages & Literatures-Japanese

Contact

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

Links

  1. Profile
Atsuko Suda

Jonathan Washington

Associate Professor

Linguistics

Contact

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

Links

  1. Website
  2. Phonetics Lab
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Tom Whitman ’82

Co-Director of the Swarthmore College Gamelan Semara Santi

Music

Contact

  1. Phone: (610) 328-8234
  2. Lang Music Building 414
  1. Profile
Tom Whitman