Faculty
May Sim
Director, Asian Studies
Professor, Philosophy
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: Ancient Philosophy (Plato & Aristotle), Asian Philosophy (Confucianism & Daoism), ethics, metaphysics and human rights
Email: msim@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 522 Phone: (508) 793 2508
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I Nyoman Catra
Visiting Fellow in Balinese Music, Theatre and Dance
Ph.D., Wesleyan University
Fields: Balinese Theatre
Email:icatra@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 489 Phone: 508-793-2762
Oliver De La Paz
Associate Professor, English
M.F.A, Arizona State University
Fields: Creative Writing: Poetry and Hybrid Genres; Contemporary American Poetry; Asian American Literature
Email: odelapaz@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 227 Phone: 508-793-2698
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Miao Dou
Visiting Instructor
Email: mdou@holycross.edu
Thomas R. Gottschang
Professor, Economics
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Economic History, Comparative Economic Systems, Economic Growth and Development, Transitional Economics, China, Vietnam
Email: tgottsch@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 510 Phone: 508-793-2678
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Ji Hao
Associate Professor, Chinese
Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Fields: Chinese language and literature
Email: jhao@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 427 Phone: 508-793-2608
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Stephen A. Kocs
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: International relations; national security policy
Yongli Li
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara
Fields: Chinese Film and Media Studies
Email: yonglili@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 426
Yu-Jung Lin
Assistant Professor, Chinese
Ph.D., Indiana University Bloomington
Fields: Phonology and phonetics (syllable structure, tones, rhythm), Psycholinguistics (the influence of orthography on sound processing), Second language acquisition
(tense and lax vowel distinction by L1 and L2 learners, diphthong production and perception by L1 and L2 learners)
Email: yjlin@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 426
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Joanna Linzer
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Yale University
Fields: History of Science; Environmental, Technology; Japan
Email: jlinzer@holycross.edu
Office: 508-793-3454
Lynn Kremer
Distinguished Professor of Humanities
M.F.A., Brandeis University
Fields: Theatre (Southeast Asia, Indonesia)
Email: kremer@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 470 Phone: 508-793-2462
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Ann Marie Leshkowich
Professor, Sociology and Anthropology
Ph.D., Harvard University
Fields: Anthropology (Vietnam, Southeast Asia), gender, economic transformation, neoliberalism, middle classness, fashion, social work, and transnational adoption in Vietnam
Email:aleshkow@holycross.edu
Office: Beaven 230 Phone: (508) 793-2788
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Todd Lewis
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Humanities
Ph.D., Columbia University
Fields: Buddhism, Hinduism, East Asian religions, anthropology of religions, modernization, ecology and religion
Email: tlewis@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 425 Phone: 508-793-3436
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Tat-Siong Benny Liew
Professor, Class of 1956 Chair in New Testament Studies
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Fields: synoptic gospels, gospel of John, cultural and racial interpretations and receptions of the Bible, apocalypticism, Asian American history and literature
Email:bliew@holycross.edu Office: Smith 422
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Aditi Malik
Associate Professor, Political Science
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Fields: Comparative Politics, African Politics, South Asian Politics, political violence
Email: amalik@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 311 PO Box: 49A Phone: 508-793-2516
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Jennifer McIntire
Visiting Assistant Professor, Visual Arts
Ph.D., Princeton University
Ke Ren
Assistant Professor, History
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Fields: late imperial and modern Chinese history, Cultural and intellectual history, Sino-Western exchanges, cosmopolitanism, and transnational movements
Email: kren@holycross.edu
Office: O'Kane 369 PO Box: 61A Phone: 508-793-2764
Sanjog Rupakheti
Associate Professor, History
Ph.D., Rutgers University
Email: srupakhe@holycross.edu
Office: O’Kane 391 PO Box: 165 A Phone: 508-793- 3496
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Jorge Santos
Associate Professor, English
Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Fields: Ethnic American Literature; Immigrant/Migrant Literature; Ethnic Studies; American Cultural Studies; Graphic Narrative; Asian American Literature
Email: jsantos@holycross.edu
Office: Fenwick 225 Phone: 508-793-3460
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Xu Xi
English - Creative Writing
Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters
MFA Fiction, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1985)
Fields: Novel, Literary Essay, Short Fiction, Memoir; Transnational literatures in English; World Literatures in translation (especially literatures of Asia and postcolonial spaces); World Politics (esp. China-US relations); Indonesian language and literature.
Faculty Emeriti
Gary P. DeAngelis
Lecturer, Associate Director of Special Studies
Ph.D., Boston University/ Harvard University
Email:gdeangel@holycross.edu
Office: Smith 326 Phone: 508-793-2498
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Shirish Korde
Distinguished Professor of Humanities, Music
M.M., New England Conservatory of Music
Fields: Music (India), Theory, Composition, World Music
Email: skorde@holycross.edu
Office: Brooks 457 Phone: 508-793-2294
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Susan Rodgers
Professor Emerita, Anthropology
Distinguished Professor Emerita, Ethics and Society, Holy Cross
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Fields: Anthropology of literature, print literacies, anthropology of art and museums, Indonesia, Sumatra
Email: srodgers@holycross.edu
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Claudia N. Ross
Professor Emerita, World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Chinese
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Linguistics (lexical and semantic structure), Chinese language pedagogy
Email: cross@holycross.edu
Office: Stein 442 Phone: 508-793-3335
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Karen L. Turner
Professor, Emerita
Distinguished Professor of Humanities, History, Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Fields: Comparative law; Chinese legal history; Vietnamese history; Women and war; Law and human rights in Asia; Comparative empires.
Email: kturner@holycross.edu
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