Search

EAS Faculty

Page

Click to view a dynamic list of faculty members across the University available to serve as thesis advisors to EAS concentrators. Concentrators writing an interdisciplinary thesis may choose more than one advisor from different departments, in order to...

2020 Tazuko Ajiro Monane and Noma-Reischauer Prize Winners Announced

News

On Monday, December 7, 2020, faculty, students, families, and staff attended a Zoom gathering to celebrate the awarding of this year’s Tazuko Ajiro Monane and Noma-Reischauer Prizes. Co-sponsored by the Japanese Language Program and the Edwin O...

Featured Courses Spring 2021

Page

We invite you to explore below a sampling of our faculty's spring semester courses. Access the Harvard Course Catalog online for a complete list of courses taught in EALC. For a list of courses at Harvard and elsewhere that qualify for EAS concentration...

East Asian Studies 115. Japanese Monsters

Page

Course Canvas Site Academic “monster studies” has boomed over the past twenty years and Japan offers a rich history for exploring how a culture’s monstrous imagination has been shaped by (and in turn shaped) social, political, economic, and technological...

General Education 1145. Global Japanese Cinema

Page

What can film from Japan tell us about the strange pair of intensifying global interconnections and rising nationalism in the world today? Prof. Alexander Zahlten Global Japanese Cinema introduces some of the masterworks from the rich history of Japanese...

East Asian Studies 161. Animated Spirituality

Page

This course addresses the representation of religion in Japanese popular culture, with emphasis on anime, manga, and film. The course examines depictions of religious figures, themes, and human dilemmas in contemporary popular culture as a gateway to...

History 1023. Japan in Asia and the World

Page

Prof. Andrew Gordon Japan is a collection of islands, but its past and present unfolds through continuous interaction with wider worlds. This course places Japan in contexts of Asian and global history. It begins with the people, institutions, and ideas...

Japanese History 120. Japanese Religions in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Page

An examination of religion and society from the end of the Meiji period (1912) to the present. This course explores the meaning of the modern in Japanese religions, the development of the public sphere and religion's relations with it, religion and...

Uyghur B. Elementary Uyghur

Page

Continuation of Uyghur A. Completion of basic Uyghur grammar, listening and speaking practice with the aid of audio-visual materials, selected readings from Uyghur literature and academic prose. Course website Prof. Gülnar Eziz

East Asian Studies 98J. Political Economy of 21st Century China: Junior Tutorial

Page

Prof. Daniel Koss This course examines central challenges facing the Chinese leadership since 2000, in (1) domestic politics, (2) economics, and (3) foreign policy. Concepts and methods from the social sciences are introduced to analyze topics including...

East Asian Studies 142. Wisdom

Page

Prof. Hisa Kuriyama Prof. Thomas Kelly Modern universities offer instruction in a dazzling variety of fields, but it is rare to find courses focused explicitly on wisdom. How should we understand this? After all, for much of history, wisdom was prized as...

Chagatay B. Elementary Chagatay

Page

This course is intended to develop a basic reading knowledge of Chaghatay, the classical antecedent of modern Uzbek and modern Uyghur, and the common literary language of all Central Asian Turks from the fourteenth to the early twentieth centuries. The...