This list includes all Berea College faculty who teach courses in Asian Studies.  Core faculty (who teach more than one occasional course) are indicated by an asterisk (*).

Rebecca Bates, Professor of History

*Jarrod Brown, Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Nashwa Cahill, Assistant Professor of Health & Human Performance

Ashley Elston, Associate Professor of Art History

*Robert Foster, Professor of History and Asian Studies

*Gordon Gray, Associate Professor of Media and Culture; Chair of Asian Studies Department

Deborah Martin, Professor of Theatre; Chair of Theatre Department

*Lauren McKee, Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies (on sabbatical leave, 2022-23)

Eileen McKiernan González, Professor of Art History; Associate Provost

*Nathan Patton, Instructor of Japanese and Asian Studies

*Jeffrey L. Richey, Professor of Asian Studies

Nancy Sowers, Professor of Finance

*Jianfen Wang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies

Stephanie Woodie, Associate Professor of Health & Human Performance

 

Examples of Faculty Activity

Professional Development

• Asian Studies Development Program
• ASIANetwork Faculty Enhancement Program
• ASIANetwork Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
• National Consortium for Teaching about Asia
• University of Pennsylvania Faculty Curriculum Development Seminar on Japan
• US-Japan Network for the Future Fellowship

Profiles and Interviews

• BCnow interview with Gordon Gray
• Berea College Facebook profile of Jianfen Wang
• Berea College Magazine feature on Jarrod Brown
• Berea College Magazine feature on Lauren McKee
• Life in the Bubble guest blog by Jeffrey L. Richey
• Smithsonian profile of Robert Foster

Research and Scholarship

• Brown, Jarrod.   “Land-Cover/Land-Use Change in Southern Vietnam Through the Lenses of Conflict, Religion, and Politics, 1980s to Present.”  [3-year research grant through NASA’s South/Southeast Asia Research Initiative (SARI)]
• Foster, Robert W.  “The Southern Song Dynasty, 1127-1279.”  In Victor Cunrui Xiong and Kenneth J. Hammond, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Imperial Chinese History (London and New York: Routledge, 2018), 197-212.
• ___.  “Teaching with Kristin Stapleton’s Fact in Fiction: 1920s China and Ba Jin’s Family.” Education About Asia 22/1 (Spring 2017): 64–65.
• ___.  “Neo-Confucianism.” In Tim Wright, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2015).
• ___.  “The Silk Road and Chinese Identity, Past and Present.”  In Jacqueline Moore, ed., Teaching the Silk Road: A Guide for College Teachers (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), 45-58.
• ___, trans.  The Classic of Go (Dūnhuáng Qíjīng 敦煌碁經).  International Dunhuang Project, 2009.
• Gray, Gordon. “Being Modern, Malay, and Muslim in the Movies.”  ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal of Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts 22/2 (2015): 49-58.
• ___.  Cinema: A Visual Anthropology.  Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010.
• McKee, Lauren.  Japanese Government and Politics. Association for Asian Studies Key Issues in Asian Studies series.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
• ___.  “Modeling East Asia: An East China Sea Simulation.”  Education About Asia 22/1 (Spring 2017).
• Patton, Nathan, et al.  Beginning Japanese: An Integrated Approach to Language and Culture.  North Clarendon, VT: Tuttle Publishing, 2016.
• Richey, Jeffrey L. Confucius in East Asia.  2nd revised ed.  Association for Asian Studies Key Issues in Asian Studies series.  New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
• ___. “Daoist Cosmogony in the Kojiki 古事記 Preface.” Religions 12/9 (2021): 761.
• ___. “The Comma at the End of the Silk Road: Tracing the Development of an Early Eastern Eurasian Ornamental Motif.” Sino-Platonic Papers 299 (March 2020): 1-33.
• ___.  “Confucius.”  In Tim Wright, ed., Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018).
• ___. “‘Honor the Power Within’: Daoist Wizards, Popular Culture, and Contemporary Japan’s Spiritual Crisis.” In Ken Koltun-Fromm and Assaf Gamzou, eds., Comics and Sacred Texts: Reimagining Religion and Graphic Narratives (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2018), 172-192.
• ___, ed.  Daoism in Japan: Chinese Traditions and Their Influence on Japanese Religious Culture.  London and New York: Routledge, 2015.
• ___.  “Society and Culture: Confucianism in East Asia Today.” In Anne Prescott, ed., East Asia in the World: An Introduction (London and New York: Routledge, 2015), 174-184.
• Wang, Jianfen, and Junqing (Jessie) Jia, eds.  Performed Culture in Action to Teach Chinese as a Foreign Language.  New York: Routledge, 2022.
• Wang, Jianfen, and Gordon Gray.  “The Journey to the West: A Platform for Learning about China Past and Present.” Education About Asia 24/1 (Winter 2019): 5-11.
• Wang, Jianfen, et al.  Perform Suzhou: A Course in Intermediate to Advanced Spoken Mandarin.  New York: Routledge, 2018.