Palmira Brummett
Dr. Brummett's research interests include economic and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire, Mediterranean history, and rhetorics of cross cultural identity.

Hilde De Weerdt
Dr. De Weerdt's research interests include Chinese intellectual history,theories of statecraft and local administration, the history of political opinion writing, education and the history of reading in imperial China.

Wayne Farris
Dr. Farris's main research interests are premodern Japanese population and agriculture, the rise of the bushi and comparative militaries, Japanese historical archaeology, and other aspects of Japanese premodern social and economic history.

James Fitzgerald
Dr. Fitzgerald's research centers upon the translation of the Mahabharata and the interpretation of it as a work of religious and political literature in its historical context. Dr. Fitzgerald is the general editor of the University of Chicago Press translation of the Mahabharata and he himself is responsible for translating the one-fourth of the Poona edition of the Mahabharata that lies in Books Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen (the Book of the Women, the Book of Peace, and the Book of Instructions), which will form Volumes 7, 8, and 9 of the series.

James Gehlhar
Dr. Gehlhar's main research interest is comparative stylistic development of Persian and Ottoman Turkish literature.

Rosalind Gwynne
Dr. Gwynne's research interests include Arabic philosophy, Islamic philosophy and theology, Islamic law, and interpretation of the Qur'an (Koran). Recently, Dr. Gwynne has been researching and writing on how Usama bin Ladin uses the Qur'an in arguing his point of view.

Scott Kinzy
Dr. Kinzy's research focuses on Japanese domestic architecture and their respective gardens. Dr. Kinzy is specifically interested in the study of "intermediate space" and the connection of the home to its garden. He is also interested in the teachings of Zen Buddhism as it effects design, notions of beauty, and the impact it has on life styles.

Jon LaCure
Dr. LaCure's research has been on the use of computers to disambiguate the unique rhetorical devices of classical Japanese verse. He is specifically interested in how changes in the use of literary devices reflect changes in style. Most of his research has been on the Kokinshu, an early tenth-century poetic anthology containing approximately 1,100 poems.

Miriam Levering
Dr. Levering's research covers history of Buddhism in medieval China and Japan and history of women in East Asian Buddhism, particularly in China and Zen Buddhism.

Lu Liu
Dr. Liu’s research involves the Chinese "Great Retreat" in the War of Resistance (1937-1945). Her research explores the roles of total war and nationalism in the transformation of Chinese modernity. The process of retreat contributed to such state agendas as centralization, control of industry and the mobilization of the masses. For the people, a consciousness of national belonging was increasingly generated in the course of the retreat. Her work seeks to revise the traditional periodization in the historiography of Republican China. Rather than viewing the war as an interim period for Republican China and as an impediment to the Nationalist schemes of modernization, she argues that total war was part and parcel of a continuum of nation-building efforts in modern China.

Catherine Luther
Dr. Luther's main area of research is in international communication. More specifically, she is particularly interested in studying media-state relationships in various nations, especially in Japan and South Korea. She is also interested in communication processes of non-governmental social action groups, including groups in Asia.

Jeff Sahadeo
Dr. Sahadeo's main research interest is on the impact of European colonial rule in Asia in the 19th and 20th centuries. His research focuses on the Russian conquest of Central Asia,particularly the city of Tashkent. His research examines the complexity of the colonial encounter and its impact on both the colonizer and colonized.

Suzanne Wright
Dr. Wright's research interests have tended to coalesce around three issues: material culture as functional object; painting-print relationships; and the significance of non-Han subject matter and/or stylistic elements in visual art. Specifically, the majority of Dr. Wright's research has concerned painting and woodblock print topics of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

Yang Zhong
Dr. Zhong's main research interests include Chinese political culture, democratization in China, Chinese local government, Sino-U.S. relations, and relations between mainland China and Taiwan. He is also interested in developmental theories and comparative political theories.