Faculty Teaching in the East Asia/Japanese Studies Area

Miho Fujiwara, Associate Professor of Japanese. Chair of Department of Japanese and Chinese. Ph.D., Georgetown University, Applied Linguistics, 2000. B. Ed., Hiroshima University. Ministry of Education exchange student, University of Michigan, 1988-89. Fields of Interest: Japanese language, culture, and society. Joined the Willamette faculty in August 2000.

Kumiko Koishi, Instructor, Japanese. MA, Japanese Language and Pedagogy, University of Oregon 1998. MS Western Oregon University, 1995. Joined the Willamette faculty in August 1998.

Ronald P. Loftus, Professor of Japanese and East Asian History. Ph.D. 1975 Claremont Graduate School, Modern Japanese History. Fields of Interest: Modern Japanese Language, History, and Literature. Joined Willamette in 1983. Personal Homepage.

Diana Tenckhoff, Instructor, Ph.D., Art History, University of Kansas, 1997. Major field of interest: Chinese Painting of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Teaching interests: Art and Culture of Japan and China. At Willamette since 1997.

Juwen Zhang, Associate Professor of Chinese. Ph.D. in Folklore and Folklife, The University of Pennsylvania, 2001

Xijuan Zhou, Associate Professor of Religious Studies. Ph.D.1994, Columbia University. Fields of Interest: Chinese and Japanese Religion; Indo-Iranian Religions. At Willamette since 1997.