Faculty

Name & Title

Contact

Wendy Singer, Director

Roy T. Wortman Distinguished Professor of History

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P: (740) 427-5324

E: singerw@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Seitz House 08

Areas of Expertise

History of India and South Asia, Indian politics, globalization and migration, transnational communities.

Joseph Adler

Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies and Religious Studies

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E: adlerj@kenyon.edu

Areas of Expertise

Chinese religions, Japanese religions, Buddhism.

Qussay Al-Attabi

Assistant Professor of Arabic

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P: (740) 427-4275806

E: alattabi1@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Ascension Hall 025

Areas of Expertise

Modern Arabic literature; contemporary Iraqi literature; world literature; nationalism and literature; literary and cultural theory; and translation studies.

Kyoungjin Bae

James P. Storer Assistant Professor of Asian History

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P: (740) 427-5463

E: bae1@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Seitz House 03

Areas of Expertise

Late imperial China, the history of science and technology, visual and material culture, early modern
Sino-European exchanges, global history.

Jianhua Bai

Robert A. Oden Jr. Professor of Chinese

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P: (740) 427-5530

E: bai@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Ascension Hall 112

Areas of Expertise

Foreign language pedagogy, linguistics, computer-assisted language instruction.

Sarah Blick

Professor of Art History

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P: (740) 427-5347

E: blicks@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Gund Gallery 116

Areas of Expertise

Medieval art history, Asian art history.

Joy Brennan

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

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P: (740) 427-5290

E: brennanj@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
O'Connor House 204

Areas of Expertise

Buddhism, East Asian religions.

Hilary Buxton

Assistant Professor of History

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P: (740) 427-5355

E: buxton1@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Seitz House 05

Areas of Expertise

Modern imperial Britain; colonial and global history; race, gender and disability studies; postcolonial science studies

Jessica Chandras

Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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P: (740) 427-5220

E: chandras1@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Palme House 101

Areas of Expertise

Linguistic anthropology, education, India.

Ruth Dunnell

Professor Emerita of History

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E: dunnell@kenyon.edu

Areas of Expertise

Chinese and inner-Asian history, comparative history of north Asia 11th-14th centuries, Mongol empire.

Kathleen Fernando

Assistant Professor of English

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P: (740) 427-5754

E: fernandok@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
English Cottage 204

Areas of Expertise

Post-colonial literature(s) and theory, South Asian literature, Canadian diasporic writing.

Janelle Gondar

Visiting Instructor of Spanish

P: (740) 427-1111

E: gondar1@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Ascension Hall 110

Brad Hostetler

Assistant Professor of Art History

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P: (740) 427-5743

E: hostetler1@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Gund Gallery 113

Areas of Expertise

Late Antique and Byzantine art history; ekphrasis, epigrams, and epigraphy

Nurten Kilic-Schubel

Associate Professor of History

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P: (740) 427-5320

E: kilicn@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Acland House 04

Areas of Expertise

Islamic history, history of Central Eurasia, Ottoman history, women and gender in Islamic history.

Andrea Lechleitner

Administrative Assistant in the Academic Division

P: (740) 427-5247

E: lechleitnera@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
O'Connor House 105

Jack Jin Gary Lee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies

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P: (740) 427-5074

E: lee7@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Ralston House 204

Areas of Expertise

Law and society; Empire and colonialism; Politics of social difference

Maria Mendonca

James D. & Cornelia W. Ireland Associate Professor of Music

Music and Anthropology Departments

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P: (740) 427-5723

E: mendoncam@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Storer Hall 028

Michelle Mood

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies

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P: (740) 427-5429

E: moodm@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Acland House 21

Areas of Expertise

Chinese politics, Chinese rural development, political economy of development, women in politics, globalization.

Pashmina Murthy

Associate Professor of English

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P: (740) 427-5213

E: murthyp@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
English Cottage 108

Areas of Expertise

Postcolonial studies, critical theory, transnational studies.

Sam Pack

Professor of Anthropology

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P: (740) 427-5888

E: pack@kenyon.edu

Campus Address
Palme House 106

Areas of Expertise

Cultural identity formation and contestation, global and local dynamics of mass media, media ethnography, reception studies, indigenous modes of (self-re)presentation, subject-generated imagery, life history, Native North America, Southeast and East Asia.