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List of Professors
| Name |
Years at Michigan |
Position | |
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Carl William Belser |
1889 - 1893 | Assistant Professor of Oriental Languages |
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James Alexander Craig |
1893 - 1913 | Professor of Oriental Languages |
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William Muss-Arnolt |
1894 | Acting Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Oriental Languages |
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Leroy Waterman |
1914 - 1945 |
Professor of Semitics Chair of Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures |
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Robert B. Hall |
1923 - 1966 |
Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Geography Director of the Center for Japanese Studies |
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Joseph K. Yamagiwa |
1937 - 1968 | Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures |
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Yao Shen |
1947 - 1962 |
Associate Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of English |
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James I. Crump Jr. |
1949 - 1988 |
Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures |
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Arthur E. Link |
1957 - 1964 | Professor of East Asian Thought |
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Robert I. Crane |
1958 | Assistant Professor of Asian Studies |
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James E. Dew |
1958 - 1983 | Associate Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature |
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Paul B. Denlinger |
1962 - 1966 |
Associate Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures Associate Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures |
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Yi-Tsi Feuerwerker |
1962 - 2000 | Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Chinese Languages and Literatures |
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Yung Shih Yu |
1962 - 1966 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Chinese, History |
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Donald J. Munro |
1964 - 1996 | Professor of Philosophy, Chinese |
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Charles O. Hucker |
1965 - 1983 | Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures, History |
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Robert H. Brower |
1966 - 1988 |
Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Japanese Language and Literature Chair of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures |
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Harriet C. Mills |
1966 - 1990 | Professor of Chinese Languages and Literatures |
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Susumu Nagara |
1966 - 1987 | Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature |
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Edward G. Seidensticker |
1966 - 1978 | Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Chinese Studies, Japanese Language and Culture |
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Ronald C. Miao |
1969 - 1973 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Chinese Languages and Literatures |
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Peter E. Hook |
1970 - 2006 |
Professor of Indo-Aryan Languages Professor of Linguistics |
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Kenneth J. Dewoskin |
1973 - 1999 | Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Business |
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Shuen-Fu Lin |
1973 - 2012 |
Professor of Chinese Languages & Literatures Director, Center for Chinese Studies 1994-1997 Chair Asian Languages & Cultures 1995-2002 |
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Robert Lyons Danly |
1979 - 1997 |
Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Japanese Language and Literature Director of Center for Japanese Studies |
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Ken K. Ito |
1984 - 2011 | Professor of Japanese Language & Literature |
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Griffith T. Foulk |
1987 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Buddhist Studies |
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David Solnit |
1988 - 1995 | Assistant Professor of Southeast Asian Linguistics |
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Paul Forage |
1991 - 1997 | Assistant Professor of History, Asian Languages and Cultures |
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Eun-Su Cho |
1996 - 2004 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Korean Language and Culture |
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Hugh B. Z. de Ferranti |
1998 - 2002 |
Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Cultures Assistant Professor of Musicology |
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Henry H. Em |
1999 - 2006 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Asian Languages and Cultures, Musicology |
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John Lie |
2001 - 2003 |
Professor of Sociology Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Studies |
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Mayumi Y. Johnson |
2001 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Japanese Language and Literature |
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Lydia Liu |
2002 | Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Chinese Studies, Asian Languages and Cultures, Comparative Literature |
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Srilata Raman |
2006 - 2008 | Assistant Professor of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, Asian Languages and Cultures |
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Manishita Dass |
2006 - 2010 |
Assistant Professor of Screen Arts & Cultures Assistant Professor of Asian Languages & Cultures |