Ann Sherif (Professor, East Asian Studies) has a PhD in Japanese Literature from the University of Michigan. She was the Co-Principal Investigator of the LIASE Exploratory Grant and is currently the Co-Director of the LIASE Implementation Grant. Her publications include Japan’s Cold War: Literature, Media, and the Law (Columbia University Press). At Oberlin, Sherif teaches a First-Year Seminar on “Nature and the Environment in Asia” and is a member of the Environmental studies committee
Chie Sakakibara (Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies and Environmental Studies) is a cultural geographer (Ph.D. University of Oklahoma), and also has her academic background in art history, anthropology, and Indigenous studies. Her teaching and research interests lie in the field of the human dimensions of global environmental change among indigenous peoples in North America, Circumpolar Arctic, and East Asia, specifically on their cultural resilience and socio-environmental justice.
Steven Wojtal
Professor of Geology, Assoc. Dean of Curriculum
Bachelor of Science, Brown University, 1974
Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1976
Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1982
Qiusha Ma
Associate Professor of Chinese
Bachelor of Arts, Beijing Normal University, 1982. Master of Arts, Beijing Normal University, 1984. Master of Arts, Case Western Reserve University, 1990. Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, 1995
Student Assistants
Kana Sakamoto
2022-2023 Student Assistant
Class of 2026
Noah Kawaguchi
Summer & Fall 2022 Student Assistant
Class of 2022
Jazz Studies Major, East Asian Studies Minor
Past Student Assistants
Lea Watkins-Chow
Class of 2022
Environmental Studies Major
Howard Sinclair
Class of 2022
Environmental Studies Major
James Bilhartz (he/him/his)
Class of 2021
Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies
Christina Mariani (she/her)
Class of 2023
Prospective Neuroscience Major
Spencer Tu
Class of 2021
Economics Major
Leina Fieleke
2018-2020 Student Assistant
Class of 2021
Psychology and Art History major
Jasmine Mitchell
2018-2019 Student Assistant
Class of 2021
East Asian Studies and Law & Society Major
Rex Simmons
2017-19 Student Assistant
Class of 2019
East Asian Studies and Environmental Studies Major
Kazuki Ni
2018-2019 Student Assistant
Oberlin College, Class of 2021
Prospective Economics and Environmental Studies major
Shang Yasuda
2017-2018 Student Assistant
Class of 2018
History and East Asian Studies Major
Danyang Dong
2017-2018 Student Assistant
Class of 2018
Environmental Studies and Biology Double Major, Politics Minor
Brendan Nuse
2016-2017 Student Assistant
Class of 2017
East Asian Studies and Environmental Studies Major
Katie Mercer-Taylor
2016-2017 Student Assistant
Class of 2017
Environmental Studies Major, East Asian Studies Minor
Jonathan Shapiro
2016-2017 Content Provider
Oberlin College, Class of 2017
Anthropology and Creative Writing Major
Jane Clark
2014 Student Assistant
Oberlin College, Class of 2016
Environmental Studies and East Asian Studies Major
Eric Xue
2014-2015 Student Assistant
Oberlin College, Class of 2015
Environmental Studies and Biology Major
Yuran Pan
2015 Student Assistant
Oberlin College, Class of 2015
Environmental Studies Major, Economics Minor