East Asian Studies Faculty

Courses I teach:  

Lucero Estrella (she/her) is an interdisciplinary historian of Japanese migration to the Americas, focusing on diasporic communities in northeastern Mexico and south Texas.

I teach courses in Religious Studies and Gender Studies. My research centers on early twentieth-century Tibetan Buddhist life writing, with a focus on the religious teacher Adzom Drukpa (1842-1924).

I'm a cultural and medical anthropologist whose courses include ethnography of Japan and East Asia, medical anthropology, disability studies, culture and aging (cultural gerontology), the anthropology of biomedicine, and the history of anthropological theory.

Brigid E. Vance's research focuses on the intellectual and cultural history of dreams and dream divination in late Ming China.

Born and bred in southeastern Wisconsin, I've spent my life serving, first in the US Air Force and then as a teacher.