Council of Advisors

David Adams
2004-2010
Assistant Director for Asia and the Pacific, Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)

Roger Ames
2006-2012
Professor of Philosophy, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Editor, "Philosophy East and West"

Thomas B. Coburn
2009-2012
President, Naropa University

Vishakha N. Desai
2007-2010
President, Asia Society

Lucien Ellington
2003-2012
Editor, "Education about Asia"
UC Foundation Professor of Education, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga


Rita Kipp
2008-2011
Provost and Dean of the Faculty, Marietta College

Henry Rosemont, Jr.
2008-2011
Visiting Scholar of Religious Studies, Brown University

Mark Selden
2009-2012
Coordinator, "The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus"
Visiting Fellow, East Asia Program, Cornell University


Richard Smith
2004-2010
George and Nancy Rupp Professor of Humanities, Rice University

Patricia Stranahan
2007-2010
President, United Board