- Weatherhead East Asian Institute
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute (WEAI) at Columbia University is a community of scholars affiliated with Columbia's Schools of Business, Law, International and Public Affairs, and Arts and Sciences, bringing together over 50 full-time faculty, a diverse group of visiting scholars and professionals, and students from the United States and abroad. Its mission is to train new generations of Asian experts in the humanities, social sciences, and the professions and to enhance understanding of East Asia in the wider community. [ [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/about.html Weatherhead East Asian Institute home page] ]
The importance of the East Asian Institute (EAI) and East Asian Studies at Columbia has been recognized by a wide variety of funding sources, including the U.S. Department of Education, which, since 1960, has designated Columbia as an East Asian National Resource Center.
The Weatherhead endowment supports a significant expansion of EAI programs, including the creation of postdoctoral fellowships, visiting professorships, a faculty research program, graduate training grants, student internships, a resident fellows program, and symposiums and workshops. The endowment will also support graduate fellowships for students pursuing advanced degrees in East Asian-related fields. [ [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/pr/00/02/weatherhead.html Columbia University press release (23 February 2000)] ]
Weatherhead Foundation
The Weatherhead Foundation, which has supported the East Asian Institute since 1980, was founded by A. J. Weatherhead, Jr. in 1953 and is currently headed by his son, A. J. Weatherhead, III. The Weatherhead Fund at Columbia is named in honor of another of the founder's sons, the late Richard W. Weatherhead, who earned an M.A. in history from Columbia, followed by a Ph.D. in 1966.
Since its inception, the endowment created by the Weatherhead Foundation has risen in value to more than $18 million.
The family foundation concentrates on endowments for higher education. Since its establishment, it has supported Case Western Reserve University, [Marriott, Michael. "WHAT'S NEXT; A Campus for Collaboration, at a Billion Bits Per Second," "New York Times." August 15, 2002.] Columbia University, Harvard University, [Berkman, Johanna. "Harvard's Hoard,' "New York Times." June 24, 2001.] the University of Texas at Houston, and Tulane University." [ [http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/1997/11.06/WeatherheadsDev.html Harvard University Gazette] ]
East Asian Institute
Founded in 1949, the East Asian Institute is Columbia's center for research and training on modern Asia, covering China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea, and the countries of Southeast Asia. In its 50 years of existence, the Institute has trained many of the world's Asia experts in the humanities, social sciences, and professions, and has been a major contributor to current understanding of the region.
Faculty & scholars by regional expertise
The roster of scholars associated with Weatherhead Institute is subject to annual changes. [ [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/faculty.html 2007 WEAI faculty web page] ]
China
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Thomas P. Bernstein , Professor of Political Science and Government:"Research Interests": Chinese politics, state-society relations, comparative communist and post-communist systems, Chinese foreign policy*
Myron L. Cohen , Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Anthropology Department:"Research Interests": Chinese culture and society*
Samuel S. Kim , Adjunct Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Korean Research; Senior Research Associate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute:"Research Interests": Korean Foreign Relations, International relations, Chinese Foreign Policy*
Dorothy Ko , Professor of History, Barnard College:"Research Interests": History of China and gender*
Eugenia Lean , Assistant Professor of Chinese History:"Research Interests": Gender, law, media, and popular urban culture in late imperial and modern China*
Benjamin Liebman , Associate Professor of Law, Columbia School of Law; Director, Center for Chinese Legal Studies :"Research Interests": The Chinese legal system*
Xiaobo Lü , Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Political Science, Barnard College:"Research Interests": East Asian political economy*
Roberta H. Martin , Senior Research Scholar; Director, East Asian Curriculum Project; Executive Director, Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum:"Research Interests": Education in China; the Chinese Communist Party*
Adam McKeown , Assistant Professor of History:"Research Interests": Modern trans-Pacific history, with an emphasis on the Chinese Diaspora*
Andrew J. Nathan , Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science and Chair of Political Science Department:"Research Interests": Contemporary Chinese domestic politics and foreign policy, comparative political participation and political culture*
Carl Riskin , Senior Research Scholar; Adjunct Professor of Chinese Economics:"Research Interests": Income distribution in China, effects of development strategy on poor regions and social strata, problems of economic reform*
Morris Rossabi , Adjunct Associate Professor of Early Chinese and Inner Asian History more:"Research Interests": Central Eurasian and Mongolia*
Dan Rosen , Adjunct Associate Professor:"Research Interests": International economics, Chinese economics*
James D. Seymour , Senior Research Scholar:"Research Interests: Politics of the PRC, Taiwan, Tibet, and Mongolia; comparative studies of human rights*
Wei Shang , Associate Professor of Chinese Literature:"Research Interests": Late Imperial fiction, Qing materials, Classical Chinese*
Dorothy Solinger , Senior Research Scholar:"Research Interests":China's "floating population" (migrant labor), urban unemployment*
Edwin A. Winckler , Adjunct Research Scholar:"Research Interests": The politics of East Asian development, especially the People's Republic of China and Taiwan*
Guobin Yang , Associate Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College:"Research Interests": Sociology of China; media sociology; social movements; social memory; voluntary associations*
Madeleine Zelin , Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures; Director, Columbia East Asian National Resource Center:"Research Interests": Modern Chinese social and economic history, early modern business, the meaning of "modernity" in early twentieth-century China, translation of twentieth-century Chinese literatureJapan
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Paul Anderer , Professor of Japanese Literature:"Research Interests": Modern Japanese fiction, film, literary criticism and theory*
Lisbeth Kim Brandt , Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures:"Research Interests": Twentieth-century Japanese cultural and social history* Gerald L. Curtis, Burgess Professor of Political Science; Director, Toyota Research Program:"Research Interests": Comparative politics, Japanese politics, U.S.-Japan relations
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Carol Gluck ,George Sansom Professor of History; Director, Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Director, Asia Perspectives Series, Weatherhead East Asian Institute:"Research Interests": Modern Japanese history, historiography and public memory, international relations*
Robert M. Immerman , Senior Research Scholar:"Research Interests": Japanese multilateral diplomacy, particularly in the United Nations*
Marilyn Ivy , Associate Professor of Anthropology:"Research Interests": Modern Japanese anthropology*
Merit Janow , Professor in the Practice of International Trade, School of International and Public Affairs; Co-Director, APEC Study Center:"Research Interests": International trade law and policy, Japan*
Carol Kinney , Adjunct Associate Research Scholar:"Research Interests": Japanese social work*
Curtis J. Milhaupt , Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions; Director, Center for Japanese Legal Studies:"Research Interests": Comparative corporate governance, comparative financial regulation, law and economic development*
Hugh T. Patrick , R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business; Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business; Co-Director, APEC Study Center:"Research Interests": U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy*
Gregory Pflugfelder , Associate Professor of Japanese History:"Research Interests": Early modern and modern Japanese History, historical constructions of gender and sexuality in Japan*
Haruo Shirane , Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture:"Research Interests": Pre-and early modern Japanese literature*
Henry D. Smith II , Professor of Japanese History:"Research Interests": Urban and cultural history of nineteenth-century Japan*
Tomi Suzuki , Professor of Japanese Literature and East Asian Languages and Cultures:"Research Interests": Modern Japanese literature* David Weinstein, Carl S. Shoup Professor of Japanese Economy:"Research Interests": International economics, Japanese economy
Korea
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Charles K. Armstrong , Assistant Professor of Korean History:"Research Interests": Modern Korean History, contemporary Korean history and historiography, international relations in the Asia Pacific, issues of ethnicity and boundary making in Northeast Asia*
Ja Hyun Kim Haboush , King Sejong Professor of Korean Studies:"Research Interests": Pre-modern and early modern Korean history*
Samuel S. Kim , Adjunct Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Korean Research; Senior Research Associate of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute:"Research Interests": Korean Foreign Relations, International relations, Chinese Foreign PolicyMongolia
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Morris Rossabi , Adjunct Associate Professor:"Research Interests": Early Chinese and Inner Asian History*
James D. Seymour , Senior Research Scholar:"Research Interests": Politics of the PRC, Taiwan, Tibet, and Mongolia; comparative studies of human rightsoutheast asia
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Amy L. Freedman , Adjunct Associate Research Scholar:"Research Interests": Political Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia*
Rosalind C. Morris , Associate Professor of Anthropology:"Research Interests": Modernity in Thailand, ritual and performance in cultural order, the effects of mass reproduction technologies on visuality*
Ann Marie Murphy , Adjunct Research Scholar:"Research Interests": Indonesian politics*
Hugh T. Patrick , R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business Director, Center on Japanese Economy and Business Co-Director, APEC Study Center:"Research Interests": U.S.-Japan economic and business relations, Asia Pacific economic relations, structural adjustments in the Japanese economy*
John Pemberton , Professor of Anthropology:"Research Interests": Modern Indonesian Cultural Anthropology*
Elizabeth Wishnick , Adjunct Associate Research Scholar:"Research Interests": East Asian international relationsTaiwan
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Myron L. Cohen , Professor of Anthropology and Chair of Anthropology Department:"Research Interests": Chinese culture and society*
James D. Seymour , Senior Research Scholar:"Research Interests": Politics of the PRC, Taiwan, Tibet, and Mongolia; comparative studies of human rights*
Edwin A. Winckler , Adjunct Research Scholar:"Research Interests": The politics of East Asian development, especially the People's Republic of China and TaiwanTibet
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Robert J. Barnett , Senior Research Scholar, Lecturer:"Research Interests": Modern Tibetan Studies*
Gray Tuttle , Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, department of East Asian Languages and Cultures:"Research Interests": Early 20th century views of Tibetan Buddhism in ChinaReferences
* WEAI Annual Report, 2005-2006. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/documents/WEAI%20Annual%20Report,%202005-2006.pdf]
* WEAI Annual Report, 2004-2005. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/documents/WEAI%20Annual%20Report,%202004-2005.pdf]
* WEAI Annual Report, 2003-2004. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/documents/WEAI%20Annual%20Report,%202003-2004.pdf]
* WEAI Annual Report, 2002-2003. [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/weai/documents/WEAI%20Annual%20Report%202002-2003.pdf]
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