Cynthia J. Brokaw
Professor of History, Chair of History
Ming, Qing, book culture, late imperial China, print culture, woodblock publishing
Faculty
Tamara Chin
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
Comparative approaches to antiquity, with a focus on: Han dynasty and early Chinese texts; the Afro-Eurasian "Silk Road"; historical narrative; and with broader interests in classical reception; and in economic, environmental, and kinship studies.
- +1 401 863 2818
- tamara_chin@brown.edu
Lyle Goldstein
Director of the China Initiative
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
Chinese and Russian military strategic development and the China-Russia relationship, including especially the Arctic and also Central Asia.
- +1 401 441 0093
- lyle_goldstein@brown.edu
James W. Head III
Louis and Elizabeth Scherck Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Geological Sciences, Professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences (Research)
- +1 401 863 2526
- james_head_iii@brown.edu
Tyler Jost
Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs
Chinese foreign policy, bureaucratic politics, international security
- +1 401 863 2827
- tyler_jost@brown.edu
Dore Levy
Professor of Comparative Literature
Professor of East Asian Studies
Classical Chinese poetry and fiction, forms of narrative literature, and East Asian and European literature.
- +1 401 863 7975
- dore_levy@brown.edu
Simin Liu
Professor of Epidemiology
Professor of Surgery
Professor of Medicine
- +1 401 863 5247
- simin_liu@brown.edu
John Logan
Professor of Sociology
Urban Sociology, Race & Ethnicity, Migration & Immigration, Family, Political Sociology
- + 1 401 863 2267
- john_logan@brown.edu
Katherine A. Mason
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
China studies, anthropological demography, anthropology of reproduction bioethics, gender studies, global health, infectious diseases, medical anthropology, population studies, public health, science and technology studies
Rebecca A. Nedostup
Associate Professor of History
China, Taiwan, diaspora, displacement, history, migration, modernity, nationalism, religion, ritual, secularism, state-building, war
Edward Steinfeld
Dean's Professor of China Studies
Professor of Political Science
Political economy of contemporary China, political economy of global production and innovation, political economy of energy.
- +1 401 863 1814
- edward_steinfeld@brown.edu
Arvind Subramanian
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
Growth, Development, India, China, Trade
Ashutosh Varshney
Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences
Director of the Brown-India Initiative
lndian politics, political economy of development, ethnic conflict and nationalism.
- +1 401 863 6059
- ashutosh_varshney@brown.edu
Lingzhen Wang
Associate Professor of East Asian Studies
Modern Chinese literature and culture, Gender Studies, Transnational Feminist Theory, and Film Studies.
Gregory A. Wellenius
Associate Professor of Epidemiology
Primarily focused on studying the effects of ambient air pollution on the risk of cardiovascular events and its effects on cardiovascular physiology.
Kenneth Wong
Walter and Lenore Annenberg Professor of Education Policy
Professor of International and Public Affairs
Professor of Political Science
Education governance and politics, school funding reform, accountability and equity issues in the US.
- +1 401 863 1486
- kenneth_wong@brown.edu
