Faculty

 

Kumiko Akama

Instructor, Japanese. Email: kakama@tulane.edu

 

Carl Bankston (co-director, Asian Studies)

Professor, Sociology. Email: cbankst@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Immigration, race/ethnicity, education, Asian American studies

 

William Brumfield

Professor, Russian Studies. Email: brumfiel@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Russian art and architecture.

 

Kathleen Davis

Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese. Email: kedavis@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Chinese literature

 

Brian Demare

Assistant Professor, History. Email: bdemare@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Modern Chinese history

 

Mai Do

Assistant Professor, International Health and Development. Email: mdo@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Quality of care, health communication, impact evaluation

 

Shanshan Du (director, Asian Studies)

Associate Professor, Anthropology. Email: sdu@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Cultural anthropology, gender, ethnicity, China

 

Richard Marksbury

Associate Professor, Asian Studies, and Dean, School of Continuing Studies and Summer School. Email: rmarksby@tulane.edu
Research Interests: South Pacific, South Asia, marriage, and culture change

 

Nancy Maveety

Professor, Political Science. Email: nance@tulane.edu
Research Interests: judicial process, comparative judicial politics.

 

Rebecca Starr

Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology and Asian Studies. Email: rlstarr@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Linguistics, sociolinguistics, Mandarin, Cantonese

 

Allison Truitt

Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Email: atruitt@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Sociocultural anthropology, economic transformations, consumption and globalization, Southeast Asia, Vietnam

 

Victoria Tsai

Instructor, Chinese. Email: victoriac@yahoo.com

 

Mark VanLandingham

Professor, International Health and Development. Email:  mvanlan@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Migration and health, disasters and health, immigrant health, HIV/AIDS, Southeast Asia.

 

Joseph Vuong

Instructor, Vietnamese. Email:jvuong@tulane.edu

 

Nina Wen

Instructor, Chinese. Email: ninawen@gmail.com

 

Michael Wood

Professor of Practice, Japanese. Email: mwood3@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Early-modern and modern cultural history of Japan, East Asia, and the Pacific.

 

Huimin Xie

Professor of Practice, Chinese. Email: hcxie@tulane.edu
Research Interests: Sociolinguistics, Chinese linguistics

 

Saeko Yatsuka-Jensen

Instructor, Japanese. Email: syatsuka@tulane.edu