Asian Studies Archives

Naomi Pitamber

Naomi Pitamber is an art and architectural historian of the Byzantine and Crusader periods. Her research in Mediterranean region has been supported by the Council for Library and Information Resources, the Council for American Overseas Research Centers, the Archaeological Institute of America, the Fulbright Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the…
Gohar Siddiqui

Gohar Siddiqui is a film scholar whose work focuses on Indian cinema, film remakes, and gender studies. She joined Clark University’s Department of Visual and Performing Arts in Fall 2017. Her courses range from foundational courses on the study of film to courses on international cinema, film melodrama, remakes, and Bollywood. Her book, Déjà Viewed:…
Lex Lu

Professor Lu teaches classes on Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Asian American histories. His first scholarly monograph, Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China (Cornell University Press, November 2024), explores the role that physical appearance has played in Chinese political culture. Professor Lu is also a registered General Contractor in the state of…
Suzanne Scoggins

Professor Scoggins teaches courses on Chinese politics, research methods, comparative politics, and social movements. Her research interests include policing, protest management, bureaucratic politics, rights consciousness, and authoritarian control in reform era China. Her book manuscript, Policing in the Shadow of Protest, looks at the police bureaucracy in China and explores how different patterns of bureaucratic control over…
Jie Park

Jie Park is an Associate Professor of Education. She holds a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from Stanford, and a Ph.D. (2010) in Education from the University of Pennsylvania. A language and literacy scholar, she studies immigrant youth and their literacy and language practices in out-of-school and school-based settings. She has conducted longitudinal studies…
Stephen Levin

Professor Levin specializes in contemporary British and postcolonial literature, transnational cultural studies, and critical and literary theory. His research focuses on the ways in which twentieth-century global conditions have shaped contemporary culture and produced new discourses of self and identity. In his recent book, The Contemporary Anglophone Travel Novel: The Aesthetics of Self-Fashioning in the Era…
Ken MacLean

My research is interdisciplinary in nature reflecting my continued interest in the politics of knowledge production. With a geographic focus mainland Southeast Asia, I concentrate on a number of inter-related topics—from state-sponsored violence and forced migration to the politics of humanitarianism and international criminal law. I have published widely on these issues with the goal…
Cynthia Caron

As a development sociologist and practitioner in international development and humanitarian assistance, Cindy Caron’s research focuses on gender relations in a variety of contexts: agricultural production, access to land and natural resources, land and natural resource governance, displacement, and reconstruction programming. She also researches adolescent girls empowerment programming and problematizes girlhood. Her research employs qualitative…
Wes DeMarco

Dr. DeMarco (Ph.D, Vanderbilt University 1991) has taught full time at Clark since 2007, serving as Lecturer since 2011 and Senior Lecturer since 2014. He has worked for three decades to develop a ‘Neosocratic’ philosophy that engages Western and Asian wisdom traditions, and which offers a fresh approach to the philosophical life, meaning, metaphysics, nature,…
Betsy Huang

Betsy Huang is Professor of English at Clark University. She served as Associate Provost and Dean of the College from 2019 to 2024 and held the Andrea B. and Peter D. Klein ’64 Distinguished Professorship from 2018 to 2023. Dr. Huang joined Clark’s English Department in 2003 as its first specialist in U.S. multi-ethnic literature.…