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Faculty by Area / Discipline


Faculty marked with an asterisk (*) are not officially part of the Asian Studies Program, but are included as their fields of expertise relate to Asia.

Asian American/Asian Diaspora

Suresh Canagarajah (Applied Linguistics and English)
Tina Chen (English)
Grace Delgado (History)
Eric Hayot (Comparative Literature)
Reiko Tachibana (Comparative Literature)
Xiaoye You (English)

East Asia

Jessamyn Abel (History)
Jonathan Abel (Comparative Literature)
David Atwill (History)
Erica Brindley (History and Religious Studies)
Charlotte Eubanks (Comparative Literature)
Eric Hayot (Comparative Literature)
Ronnie Hsia (History)
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature)
Ping Li (Psychology)
On-cho Ng (History and Religious Studies)
Bee-yan Roberts (Economics)
Denis Simon (School of International Affairs)
Gregory Smits (History)
Susan Strauss (Applied Linguistics)
Reiko Tachibana (Comparative Literature)
Xiaoye You (English)

South and Southeast Asia

Suresh Canagarajah (Applied Linguistics)
Gretchen Casper (Political Science)
Kumkum Chatterjee (History)
Madhuri Desai (Art History)
Sumita Raghuram (Labor Studies & Employment Relations)
Veena Raman (Communication Arts & Sciences/Science, Technology and Society)*
Manini Samarth (English)*
Suchismita Sen (Religious Studies)*
Mrinalini Sinha (History)

West Asia

Jonathan Brockopp (History)*
Nergis Erturk (Comparative Literature)*
Tijana Krstic (History)*
Gonzalo Rubio (Classics and Mediterrenean Studies)
Nina Safran (History)*

Language Instruction

Liana Chen (Chinese; program coordinator)
Chunyuan Di (Chinese)
Haruko Iwami (Japanese; program coordinator)
Natsuko Osada (Japanese)
Megumu Tamura (Japanese)
Rose Tan (Chinese)          

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