The Department of Asian Studies serves as the institutional center of Cornell's diverse research and teaching interests, strengths and potentials in Asia. It is the home for instruction in the languages, literatures, religions, cultures, and intellectual histories of Asian societies and is one of the few departments in America that offers instruction in social sciences, the humanities and languages across all three regions of Asia: East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). The professorial faculty members are a multi-disciplinary group in the humanities who conduct research and teach on topics arranged under our rubrics of "Literature & Linguistics," "Religion," and "Society & Culture," as well as offering more broad courses under the "General Education" heading and more specialized courses such as honors or graduate seminars. Associated faculty throughout the university teach courses about the politics, economics, history, culture and contemporary development of Asian regions. Faculty members at the rank of senior lecturer, lecturer and teaching associate offer instruction in 14 modern Asian languages, and the department also offers instruction in five classical Asian languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Literary Chinese, Literary Japanese and Literary Vietnamese).
The department works with Asian specialists of all disciplines across campus, who collectively comprise the East, South and Southeast Asia area studies programs. Undergraduate students can major in Asian studies or minor in East Asian studies, South Asian studies or Southeast Asian studies. The department is home to two graduate programs: Asian Studies (MA) and Asian Literature, Religion, and Culture (MA/PhD).
Associated Faculty
- Hom Acharya
- Nick Admussen
- Eriko Akamatsu
- Christine Bacareza Balance
- Daniel Bass
- Anne M. Blackburn
- Bronwen Bledsoe
- Daniel Boucher
- Andrew Campana
- Thak Chaloemtiarana
- Misako Chapman
- Razima Chowdhury
- Todd C. Clary
- Brett de Bary
- Stephanie A. H. Divo
- Chiara Formichi
- Arnika Fuhrmann
- Su George
- Durba Ghosh
- Daniel Gold
- Gregory Hanks Green
- Edward M. Gunn Jr.
- Andrew Harding
- Meena Haribal
- Bandara Herath
- Kyaw Yin Hlaing
- Nielson Hul
- Sahoko Ichikawa
- Ngampit Jagacinski
- Hyun-ho Joo
- Yukiko Katagiri
- Sayuri Kato
- Yu Yu Khaing
- Hankyul Kim
- Joy Kwon
- Naomi Nakada Larson
- Jane-Marie Law
- Fangfang Li
- Shiqi Lin
- Rui Liu
- Jyun-hong Lu
- Barbara C. Lust
- Shaoling Ma
- Lawrence J. McCrea
- Daniel McKee
- Robin McNeal
- Yufen Lee Mehta
- Drisana Misra
- Sreemati Mukherjee
- Mayu Okawara Muller
- Kaori Nishikino
- Shambhu Oja
- Jolanda M. Pandin
- Jahyon Park
- Hannah Phan
- Naaz Rizvi
- Kristin Roebuck
- Cheran Rudhramoorthy
- Naoki Sakai
- M. Theresa Centeno Savella
- A Dam Seok
- Sujata Singh
- Suyoung Son
- Meejeong Song
- Misako Suzuki
- Keith Weller Taylor
- Felicia Qiuyun Teng
- Hoai Khai Tran
- Thuy D. Tranviet
- Ding Xiang Warner
- John U. Wolff
- K.T. Wong
- Ivanna Sang Een Yi
- Asiya Zahoor
