Asian Studies

Professor Scoggins teaches courses on Chinese politics, research methods, comparative politics, and social movements. Her research interests include policing, protest management, bureaucratic politics, rights consciousness, and authoritarian control in reform era China. Her book manuscript, Policing in the Shadow of Protest, looks […]

Professor Lu teaches classes on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Asian American histories. His first scholarly monograph Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China (Cornell University Press, November 2024), explores the role that physical appearance has played in […]

My research is interdisciplinary in nature reflecting my continued interest in the politics of knowledge production. With a geographic focus mainland Southeast Asia, I concentrate on a number of inter-related topics—from state-sponsored violence and forced migration to the politics of […]

Alexander Murphy received his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2022. His research centers on modern Japan with a focus on the relationship between sound, language, and the body across literature, media, and performance. In these settings, he is […]

Professor Scoggins teaches courses on Chinese politics, research methods, comparative politics, and social movements. Her research interests include policing, protest management, bureaucratic politics, rights consciousness, and authoritarian control in reform era China. Her book manuscript, Policing in the Shadow of Protest, looks […]