T. J. Pempel (Ph.D., Columbia) joined Berkeley's Political Science Department in July 2001 and was director of the Institute of East Asian Studies from 2002-2005 and holder of the Il Han New Chair. Just prior to coming to Berkeley, he was at the University of Washington. From 1972 to 1991, he was on the faculty at Cornell University; he was also Director of Cornell's East Asia Program. He has also been a faculty member at the University of Colorado and the University of Wisconsin. Professor Pempel's research and teaching focus on comparative politics, political economy, contemporary Japan, and Asian regionalism. His recent books include From Crisis to Catalyst: The Political Economy of Dynamic Asia (Cornell University Press), Remapping East Asia: The Construction of a Region (Cornell University Press), Beyond Bilateralism: U.S.-Japan Relations in the New Asia-Pacific (Stanford University Press), The Politics of the Asian Economic Crisis, and Regime Shift: Comparative Dynamics of the Japanese Political Economy. Professor Pempel was Chair of the Working Group on Northeast Asian Security of CSCAP, is on editorial boards of several professional journals, and serves on various committees of the American Political Science Association, the Association for Asian Studies, and the Social Science Research Council. He is currently doing research on various problems associated with Asian regionalism.