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Luke Habberstad

Director, Asian Studies Program

Literature, religion, and material culture of early China (5th century BCE-3rd century CE); early Chinese historical writing; excavated texts; politics and cultures of dynastic and monarchical courts; ancient empires; religious ritual.

Daniel Buck

Associate Professor

Political economy; political ecology; economic geography; development; food and agrarian studies; urban studies; Asian studies; China and East Asia; industrial network restructuring in urban and rural Shanghai; China’s urbanization and transition to capitalism through the prism of 19th-century Europe and America; peak oil through the relationship between natural resources, technology change, and capitalism; the agrarian roots of flexible production networks in Taiwan; and the political economy of organic agriculture.

Alisa Freedman

Professor

Modern Japanese literature, popular culture, youth culture, visual media, digital culture, urban studies, and gender.