People
Department Head
On-cho Ng
- Head of the Asian Studies Department
- Professor of History, Asian Studies and Philosophy
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Faculty
Jessamyn R. Abel
- Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
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Jonathan Abel
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese
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Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
- Assistant Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kathlene Baldanza
- Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
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Jessica Birkenholtz
- Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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Erica Brindley
- Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy
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Suresh Canagarajah
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies
- Director, Migration Studies Project
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Gretchen Casper
- Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
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Tina Chen
- Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
- Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
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Madhuri Desai
- Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies
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Charlotte Eubanks
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
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Eric Hayot
- Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
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Ronnie Hsia
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History
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Elaine Hui
- Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies.
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Prakash Kumar
- Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
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Flynt Leverett
- Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies
Xiaofei Lu
- Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
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Kimberly Powell
- Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies
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Sumita Raghuram
- Associate Professor, Human Resource Management
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Jooyeon Rhee
- Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
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Bee-yan Roberts
- Professor of Economics and Asian Studies
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Gonzalo Rubio
- Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History
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Flora Shao
- Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
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Shuang Shen
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese
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Gregory Smits
- Professor of History and Asian Studies
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Susan G. Strauss
- Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
- Editor, The Korean Language in America Penn State University
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Reiko Tachibana
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
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Chang Tan
- Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies
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Nicolai Volland
- Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
- Director of Graduate Studies
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Vineeta Yadav
- Assistant Professor of Political Science
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Xiaoye You
- Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies
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Ning Yu
- Professor of Asian Studies and Applied Linguistics
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Boliang Zhu
- Associate Professor of Political Science
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Ran Zwigenberg
- Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies
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Lecturers
Hyun Soon (Julie) Cho-Min
- Lecturer in Korean
Erika Hirano
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese
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Haruko Iwami
- Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese
- Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program
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Lan Kim
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean
- Coordinator of the Korean Language Program
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Yupeng Kou
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese
- Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program
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Na-Young Ryu
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean
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Suchsmita Sen
- Associate Teaching Professor of Hindi
- Coordinator of the Hindi Language Program
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Hsiao-Hui Yang
- Assistant Teaching Professor of Asian Studies
Staff
Rebecca M. Bressler
- Administrative Support Coordinator 4
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Olivia Brown
- Administrative Support Assistant 3
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Rebecca Cross
- Administrative Support Assistant 4
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