Department Chair Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History
Professor David L. Howell grew up in Hilo, Hawai'i. After graduating from the University of Hawai'i at Hilo, he studied at Hokkaido University in Sapporo...
Professor of the Practice of Japanese Language Director of the Japanese Language Program
Professor Wesley Jacobsen was born in Tokyo and raised largely in Japan, returning to the U.S. in his later high school years. After graduating from...
Senior Preceptor in Japanese (on leave in academic year 2023-24)
Yuko Kageyama-Hunt has been teaching in the Japanese Language Program (JLP) since 2001, first as a preceptor, then since 2013 as senior preceptor. She has...
Senior Preceptor in Korean Director of the Korean Language Program
In the Fall of 2015, Hi-Sun Kim joined the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations as the Director of the Korean Language Program. Prior to coming... Read more about Hi-Sun Kim
Lecturer on East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Fall 2024) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Korea Institute
Sung Eun Kim is 2024–25 SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences at the Harvard Korea Institute. He is a historian of modern Korea...
