Faculty and Staff

Prasanta Bandyopadhyay
Office: Wilson 2-148
Phone: (406) 994-5212
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Philosophy of Science, Epistemology, Indian Philosophy

Maggie Greene
Office: Wilson 2-162
Phone: (406) 994-5203
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Modern Chinese History; Modern Japanese History; Modern Chinese Literature and Cultural Studies; Pre-modern Chinese History

Holly Grether
Assistant Teaching Professor of Religious Studies
Office: Linfield 401
Phone: (406) 994-5578
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Buddhism, Hinduism, Ritual

Yuka Hara
Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese, Curriculum Coordinator of Japanese Language Instruction
Office: Gaines 118
Phone: (406) 994-5136
Email: [email protected]

Hua Li
Office: Gaines 118A
Phone: (406) 994-6449
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Contemporary Chinese Literature; Su Tong and Yu Hua's coming-of-age stories; contemporary Chinese army-writer fictions

James Meyer
Office: Wilson 2-102
Phone: (406) 994-6798
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Islamic world history, the Balkans, Turkey & the Middle East, and post-Soviet space

Peter Tillack
Office: Gaines 118D
Phone: (406) 994-6441
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Modern & contemporary Japanese literature; literary/filmic representations of social space during Japan's "economic miracle"

Brett Walker
Office: Wilson 2-160
Phone: (406) 994-5201
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Environmental History, Japanese History, History of Science and
Medicine

Philip Williams
Office: Gaines 118
Phone: (406) 994-5136
Email: [email protected]
Research Interests: Chinese and Japanese literature and culture; Monsoon Asian civilization; Chinese language and migration studies
Tomomi Yamaguchi
Office: Wilson 2-120
Phone: (406) 994-7288
Email: [email protected]
Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies courses taught: ANTY 337: Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Japan, ANTY441: Social Movements in Japan, ANTY343: Popular Culture – Japan
Research interests: Professor Yamaguchi is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the cultural construction of gender and sexuality; feminism, nationalism and social movements; and popular culture in post-war Japan. She is working on a book about a Japanese feminist group and its attempt to represent the history of Japanese feminism from the 1970s to 1990s. Other interests include examining anti-feminist backlash, as well as nationalism and xenophobia in contemporary Japan. She also has a project on the “atomic age” – related to nuclear weapons and energy in Japan and elsewhere.