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  [### Ryuichi Abe

 ](/people/ryuichi-abe) <rabe@fas.harvard.edu>Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

On leave 2025-26

Interim Director of Undergraduate Studies

Walter C. Cabot Fellowship (2024-25)

 

 

 After completing an undergraduate degree in Economics at Keio University, Ryūichi Abé acquired a master’s degree from School of Advanced International Affairs, the Johns Hopkins University. He then turned to Religious Studies and was awarded an M. Phil... 

 

 

      ![a picture of Prof. Ryuichi Abe, a Japanese male wearing a suit and tie](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/abe_ryuichi004r.png?itok=y1mS_DQ5) 

 

 

 

   [### Kanghun Ahn

 ](/people/kanghun-ahn) <kaa682@g.harvard.edu>Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL

 

 

 

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   [### Alexander Akin

 ](/people/alexander-akin)

 Printed Maps in Late Ming Publishing Culture: A Trans-Regional Perspective 

 

 

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   [### Jakobina Arch

 ](/people/jakobina-arch)

 Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900 

 

 

      ![2014hkhj.png](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/2014hkhj.png?itok=D-IK5YPk) 

 

 

 

   [### Naomi Asakura

 ](/people/naomi-asakura) <nasakura@fas.harvard.edu>Preceptor in Japanese

 

 

 

      ![Smiling woman with long black hair pulled into a pony tail and wearing a pink cardigan smiles at the camera in front of a white backdrop.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/naomi_asakura.jpg?itok=w5TDsiND) 

 

 

 

   [### David Atherton

 ](/people/david-atherton) <datherton@fas.harvard.edu>Thorley D. Briggs 1953 Associate Professor of the Humanities

 

 

 David C. Atherton is a scholar of literature, focusing primarily on Japan’s early modern period (also known as the Edo or Tokugawa period, ca. 1600-1867). His work seeks to understand how the intrinsic, literary dynamics of early modern texts interacted... 

 

 

      ![A man with short hair and facial hair smiles into the camera against a leafy backdrop](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-11/Atherton%20Headshot.jpeg?itok=VEFstowH) 

 

 

 

   [### Keung Yoon (Becky) Bae

 ](/people/keung-yoon-becky-bae)

 A Hall of Mirrors: Film Regulation and Industry Strategy in Colonial Korea, under Empire and its Aftermath 

 

 

      ![White text on a red background reading "2020. Film/Korea. Alexander Zahlten](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/becky_bae_alumni.jpg?itok=fn8RxHaQ) 

 

 

 

   [### Mikael Bauer

 ](/people/mikael-bauer)

 The Power of Ritual: An Integrated History of Medieval Kôfukuji 

 

 

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   [### Carolyn Bell

 ](/people/carolyn-bell) <cbell@g.harvard.edu>Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese Art History

 

 

 Carolyn Bell studies the history of ritual dress and bodily adornment in medieval Japan, focusing on the production and reception of East Asian textiles in relation to Buddhist visual and material culture. She received her BA in Asian Studies and History... 

 

 

      ![Carolyn Bell, a young woman with curly shoulder-length brown hair, wears a floral shirt and smiles at the camera.](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/carolyn_bell_head_shot.jpg?itok=c0D78eV0) 

 

 

 

   [### Lucas Bender

 ](/people/lucas-bender)

 Du Fu: Poet Historian, Poet Sage 

 

 

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   [### Peter Bernard

 ](/people/peter-bernard)

 Rural Japanese Gothic: The Topography of Horror in Modern Japanese Literature 

 

 

      ![A thumbnail with white text on a dark red background reading "2019, Japanese Lit, Tomiko Yoda"](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/ealc/files/peter_bernard_alumni_thumbnail.jpg?itok=oseS52Va) 

 

 

 

   [### Peter K. Bol

 ](/people/peter-k-bol) <pkbol@fas.harvard.edu>Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

On leave Fall 2026

 

 

 Peter K. Bol is the Charles H. Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7 th to the 17 th century. He is the author of "This... 

 

 

      ![A Caucasian man with short brown hair, blue eyes, and glasses looks solemnly at the camera. ](/sites/g/files/omnuum3106/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2025-01/Bol2.jpg?itok=C6nZwuUa) 

 

 

 

  

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