The Asia Center Faculty Affiliates
The Asia Center Faculty Affiliates are advocates for Asian Studies who support and publicize Asia Center programs and collaborate on funding opportunities for curriculum development, research, and community engagement.
Full-time University of Kentucky faculty members, University of Kentucky Emeritus faculty, and Asian Studies faculty from other Kentucky colleges and universities are eligible to become Asia Center Affiliated Faculty, and may apply for affiliation through this application.
College of Agriculture
College of Arts and Sciences
College of Business and Economics
College of Communications and Information Studies
College of Design
College of Education
College of Engineering
College of Fine Arts
College of Law
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
Sunny Ham Nutrition and Food Science
Multicultural studies between US and Korean consumers on the hospitality industry.
Wuyang Hu Agricultural Economics
Agricultural marketing and consumer economics. East Asia with focus on China.
Vanessa Jackson, Merchandinsing, Apparel and Textiles
E-commerce.
Cross-cultural Consumer Decision Making, East Asia.
Chad Lee Agronomy
Applied research in grains production, including corn, soybean, grain sorghum and small grains.
Min-Young Lee , Merchandinsing, Apparel and Textiles
International Retailing. South Korea, China.
Susan Michelman, Merchandinsing, Apparel and Textiles
Social, cultural and personal identity and dress. Southeast Asia, Indonesia.
Seungahn Nah Community & Leadership Development
Media, community and democracy/East Asia (Korea, China, and Japan)
Thomas Nieman Landscape Architecture
Sustainable land use as related to agriculture and community development. Indonesia, Thailand, and China.
Micheal Reed Ag Economics
International Trade in Agricultural Products; International Economic Development
Brent Rowell Horticulture
Sustainable vegetable crop production and management, biological control of insect pests; in Southeast Asia: esp. Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia.
Keiko Tanaka Community & Leadership Development
Sociology of science and technology; Sociology of agriculture and food; East Asia (Japan and China); Pacific
COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Patricia Ahmed, Sociology
Sociology—South Asia and China
Mingzhen Bao, Chinese Studies
Speech Production and Perception, Lexical Tone Processing and Acquisition, Language Learning
Srimati Basu, Gender and Women's Studies
Legal Anthropology, Women in Development, Feminist Jurisprudence. South Asia
Ronald Bruzina Philosophy
Phemenology; 20th Century German and French Philosophy; Japan.
Denise Ho History
Social and Cultural History of Modern China
Marro Inoue Japan Studies
Cultural Anthropology; Japan, Okinawa, the U.S.
P.P. Karan, Geography
Environment, development, and social change in non-Western cultures. South Asia, Japan.
Thomas Leinbach Geography
Economic geography, transportation issues, global production, trade and regional development in Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam)
Keh-Fei Liu Physics
High Energy Physics
Liang Luo, Chinese Studies
Gender, class, religion, youth and radicalism in East Asia through studies of literature, performing arts, and film.
Robert Olson History
History and politics of the Middle East, Turkey, Central Asia and Russia
Lucinda Ramberg, Gender and Women's Studies
Sexuality, Gender, Religion, Power. South Asia
Jeanmarie Rouhier- Willoughby Modern and Classical Languages- Russian
Siberia, folklore
Dong-Sheng Yang Chemistry
Physical Chemistry
Doug Slaymaker Japan Studies
Fiction, visual culture of Japan
John Stempel Patterson School of Diplomacy
Diplomacy, Cross Cultural Negotiation and Bargaining, Near Eastern Politics, and Developmental Change
Greg Stump Linguistics
Morphological theory, early Indic languages, especially Sanskrit.
Akiko Takenaka History
Cultural and Social history of modern Japan
Mathew Wells Chinese Studies
Early Chinese literature, literary theory, historiography, autobiography
COLLEGE OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
Robert Dahlstrom Management- Marketing
International marketing (Philippines)
Yoonbai Kim Economics
International finance and macroeconomics. East Asia
Nancy Johnson Management
Industrial Relations & Human Resource Management
Anita Lee-Post Decision Science
Japanese management philosophies and practices
Joe Peek Management- Finance
Finance-Banking; Japan
Radhika Santhanam Decision Science
Management of Information Technology in Organizations
Dan Stone Accountancy
Asian Values and popular culture about money.
COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION STUDIES
Lois Chan Library Science
Information storage and retrieval; Asia
Zixue Tai, Journalism and Telecommunications
Social impact of new media in China
COLLEGE OF DESIGN
Richard Levine Architecture
Architecture, Sustainable Cities, Sustainability.
Lars Björk Education Leadership Studies
Professional preparation of principals and superintendents; leadership; organizational studies (China)
Alan DeYoung Education Policy Studies and Evaluation
Educational Reform in former Soviet Central Asia since Independence
Beth Goldstein Education Policy Studies and Evaluation
Comparative and International Education; Southeast Asia and US primarily
Xin Ma Curriculum and Instruction
Mathematics Education, School Effects, Policy Analysis, Advanced Quantitative Methods. Asia (China, Singapore)
Kathleen Swan Curriculum and Instruction
Social Studies Education and Instructional Technology
Patrick Yang, Education Policy Studies and Evaluation
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Yang-Tse Cheng Chemical & Materials Engineering
Materials Science and Engineering, Applied Physics
G.T. Lineberry Mining Engineering
Engineering education; occupational safety and health; China, Malaysia
Kozo Saito Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Science; Asian Philosophy
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS
Robert Haven Theatre
Kabuki and Japanese Costume Construction
Andrew Kimbrough Theatre
Chinese opera, spoken drama, and performance
Donna Lee Kwon, Musicology
Music of Korea, East Asian and Asian-American popular musics
Andrew Maske Art History
Asian ceramics; Japanese art and culture
Jane Peters Art
Early modern European art
David Sogin Music Education
Music, Teaching, China.
Cecilia Wang, Music Education
Multicultural music education; China
COLLEGE OF LAW
Michael Healy International Environmental Law; China
Evelyn Knight, Health Behavior, Appalachain Center Director
Community Health,
Appalalachia in the World- Mountain-to-Mountain Collaborative, SE Asia; Manipur India
UK LIBRARIES
Kazuko Hioki, WT Young Library
Conservation and preservation for libraries and archival materials, Japan.
The Asia Center icon is based on the Flying Horse of Gansu, China. On June 15, 2000, the city of Xi'an, China presented a life-size, bronze copy of this Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) antique to Lexington, the "Horse Capital of the World", and it is now a downtown landmark.