Faculty

Kenneth E. Brashier, Associate Professor of Religion and Humanities

  • Chinese Religions, early Chinese ancestral cult, early Chinese cosmology, early Chinese oral culture. 
  • B.A. 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–.
  • Office: ETC 203
  • Phone: 503-517-7377
  • Website: K. E. Brashier

Lisa Claypool, Assistant Professor of Art History and Humanities

  • East Asian art and theory.
  • B.A. 1986 Kalamazoo College. M.A. 1990 University of Chicago. M.A. 1994 University of Oregon. Ph.D. 2001 Stanford University. Reed College 2006–.
  • Office: Library 321
  • Phone: 503-517-7364
  • Website: L. Claypool

Alexei K. Ditter, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese

  • Classical Chinese literature, prose and narrative theories, Chinese literary history.
  • B.A. 1995 University of Minnesota. M.A. 2001 Princeton University. Reed College 2006–.
  • Office: Eliot 114
  • Phone: 503-517-7348

Douglas L. Fix, Professor of History and Humanities

  • Modern China and Japan. 
  • B.A. 1977 University of Colorado, Boulder. M.A. 1983, Ph.D. 1993 University of California, Berkeley. Reed College 1990–. 
  • Office: Eliot 423
  • Phone: 503-517-7422
  • Website: Formosa: 19th Century Images

Denise Hare, Associate Professor of Economics

  • Economics of development, labor economics, China and Vietnam. 
  • B.A. 1983 Carleton College. Ph.D. 1992 Stanford University. Reed College 1992–. 
  • Office: Eliot 427
  • Phone: 503-517-7463
  • Website: Denise Hare

Jing Jiang, Assistant Professor of Chinese and Humanities

  • Modern Chinese literature, translation theory, post-colonial theory.
  • B.A. 1992 Nanjing University, Nanjing. M.A. 1995 Peking University, Beijing. Ph.D. 2006 University of Michigan. Reed College 2006–.
  • Office: Eliot 119
  • Phone: 503-517-7376

Charlene E. Makley, Associate Professor of Asian Studies

  • Globalization, development, 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: Makley Image Archive

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: Reed College Chinese Department