Faculty

Uyen Nguyen

unguyen@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Uyen T. Nguyen is a historian of modern Vietnam with a strong interest in historical transitions and the interactions between politico-economic changes and socio-cultural identity. Her current book project, Beloved City, Depraved City: Communist Takeovers...

Kyoungwon Oh

kyoungwon_oh@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Korean

Sunyoung Park

sunyoung_park@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Korean

Sunyoung Park joined the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations as a language Instructor in the Korean Language Program in Fall 2023. Prior to coming to Harvard, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and served as a Foreign Language...

Si Nae Park

sinaepark@fas.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Si Nae Park is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia in 2012. As a scholar of the literature and literary culture of Chosŏn Korea...

Michael Puett

puett@fas.harvard.edu

Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology

Harvard College Professor

Director, Harvard University Asia Center

Michael Puett is the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology. He holds a joint appointment in the EALC and Anthropology departments. His interests focus on the inter-relations between religion, history, anthropology, and philosophy...

James Robson

jrobson@fas.harvard.edu

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations;

Harvard College Professor

Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute

James Robson is Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He has served as Director of Graduate Studies for the Regional Studies East Asia M.A. program. He teaches East Asian religions, in particular Daoism, Chinese Buddhism, and Zen. Robson...

Lindsay Schaffer

lindsayschaffer@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Korean

Yunnam Seo

yunnam_seo@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Korean

Michael Szonyi

szonyi@fas.harvard.edu

Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History

Michael Szonyi is Professor of Chinese History and former Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. He is a social historian of late imperial and modern China. His research focuses on the local history of southeast China...

Sae Tagawa

saetagawa@fas.harvard.edu

Language Instructor in Japanese

Chikako Takehara

ctakehara@fas.harvard.edu

Preceptor in Japanese

On Leave Spring 2026

Kwok Leong Tang

kwokleongtang@fas.harvard.edu

Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Digital China Project Manager

Kwok-leong Tang serves as a lecturer for the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the Managing Director of the Digital China Initiative at Harvard University. By training, he is a historian. He received his bachelor's and master's...