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Faculty
Alexei Ditter, Associate Professor of Chinese
Medieval and late imperial Chinese prose, poetry and fiction, genre theory, cultural memory and commemoration, economics of writing in medieval China.
B.A. 1995 University of Minnesota. M.A. 2001, Ph.D. 2009 Princeton University. Reed College 2006–.
Office: Eliot 114
Phone: 503-517-7348
Website: Alexei Ditter
Denise Hare, Dr. Lester B. Lave Professor of Economics
Economics of development, labor economics, economics of transition, China's economy.
B.A. 1983 Carleton College. Ph.D. 1992 Stanford University. Reed College 1992–.
Office: Eliot 406
Phone: 503-517-7463
Website: Denise Hare
Jing Jiang, Associate Professor of Chinese and Humanities
Modern Chinese literature and culture, theories of modernity, nationalism, subjectivity, gender studies, film studies.
B.A. 1992 Nanjing University, Nanjing. M.A. 1995 Peking University, Beijing. Ph.D. 2006 University of Michigan. Reed College 2006–.
Office: Eliot 428
Phone: 503-517-7376
Website: Jing Jiang
Charlene Makley, Professor of Anthropology
Development, globalization, anthropology of capitalism, exchange and value, gender, ethnicity, nationalism, religion and ritual, feminist theory, linguistic anthropology, China, Tibet, East Asia.
B.A. 1986 Middlebury College. M.A. 1993, Ph.D. 1999 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Reed College 2000–.
Office: 312 Vollum
Phone: 503-517-7461
Website: Charlene Makley
Hyong Rhew, Professor of Chinese and Humanities
Classical Chinese literature, Chinese literary theory, Chinese intellectual history, Korean literature.
B.A. 1978 Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. M.A. 1983 Fu-Jen Catholic University. M.A. 1987, Ph.D. 1993 Princeton University. Reed College 1988–.
Office: Eliot 122
Phone: 503-517-7392
Website: Hyong Rhew
Michelle H. Wang, Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities
Art and archaeology of early China.
B.A. 2007 Swarthmore College. Ph.D. 2014 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 2015–.
Office: Library 323
Phone: 503-517-7730
Website: Michelle H. Wang
Jinhui Wu, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese and Humanities
Late imperial Chinese literature, translation studies, digital humanities, Chinese language and culture pedagogy.
B.A. 2004, Nanchang University. M.A. 2016 , University of Colorado Boulder. PhD 2021, University of Arizona. Reed College 2022– .
Office: Eliot 114
Phone: 503-517-4785
Website: Jinhui Wu
Xue Zhang, Assistant Professor of History
Early Modern China
B.A. 2010 Wuhan University. M.A. 2012, Wuhan University. M.A. 2016, Ph.D. 2020 Princeton University. Reed College 2022–.
Office: Eliot 423
Phone: 503-517-4759
Website: Xue Zhang
Emeritus/Emerita
Kenneth Brashier, Thomas Lamb Eliot Professor of Religion and Humanities, Emeritus
Chinese Religions, early Chinese ancestral cult, early Chinese cosmology, early Chinese oral culture.
B.J. 1987 University of Missouri, Columbia. B.A. 1990 University of Oxford. M.A. 1993 Harvard University. Ph.D. 1998 University of Cambridge. Reed College 1998–2021.
Office: ETC 203
Phone: 503-517-7377
Website: K. E. Brashier
Douglas Fix, Elizabeth C. Ducey Professor of Asian Studies and Humanities, Emeritus
Modern China and Japan.
B.A. 1977 University of Colorado, Boulder. M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1990–2021.
Office: Eliot 423
Phone: 503-517-7422
Website: Formosa: 19th Century Images