On-cho Ng

• Head of the Asian Studies Department
• Professor of History, Asian Studies and Philosophy

Jessamyn R. Abel

• Associate Professor of Asian Studies

Jonathan Abel

• Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese

Jade Atwill

• Asian Studies Librarian

Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis

• Assistant Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Kathlene Baldanza

• Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies

Jessica Birkenholtz

• Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Erica Brindley

• Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy

Suresh Canagarajah

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies
• Director, Migration Studies Project

Gretchen Casper

• Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies

Tina Chen

• Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
• Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias

Madhuri Desai

• Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies

Charlotte Eubanks

• Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies

Eric Hayot

• Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies

Ronnie Hsia

• Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History

Elaine Hui

• Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies.

Prakash Kumar

• Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies

Flynt Leverett

• Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies

Xiaofei Lu

• Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies

Kimberly Powell

• Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies

Sumita Raghuram

• Associate Professor Emeritus, Human Resource Management

Jooyeon Rhee

• Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Bee-yan Roberts

• Professor of Economics and Asian Studies

Gonzalo Rubio

• Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History

Flora Shao

• Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies

Shuang Shen

• Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese

Mary Shenk

• Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography, and Asian Studies

Gregory Smits

• Professor of History and Asian Studies

Susan G. Strauss

• Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
• Editor, The Korean Language in America Penn State University

Reiko Tachibana

• Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies

Chang Tan

• Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies

Nicolai Volland

• Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
• Director of Graduate Studies

Vineeta Yadav

• Associate Professor of Political Science

Xiaoye You

• Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies

Ning Yu

• Professor of Asian Studies and Applied Linguistics

Boliang Zhu

• Associate Professor of Political Science

Ran Zwigenberg

• Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies

Hyun Soon (Julie) Cho-Min

• Lecturer in Korean

Chunyuan Di

• Lecturer in Chinese

Ying Feng

• Lecturer in Chinese

Erika Hirano

• Assistant Teaching Professor of Japanese

Haruko Iwami

• Associate Teaching Professor of Japanese
• Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program

Lan Kim

• Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean
• Coordinator of the Korean Language Program

Ok-sim Kim

• Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean

Yupeng Kou

• Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese
• Coordinator of the Chinese Language Program

Shuishui Long

• Lecturer in Chinese

Miki Murakami

• Lecturer in Japanese

Natsuko Osada

• Lecturer in Japanese

Na-Young Ryu

• Assistant Teaching Professor of Korean

Suchsmita Sen

• Associate Teaching Professor of Hindi
• Coordinator of the Hindi Language Program

Rose Tan

• Associate Teaching Professor

Mami Tanaka

• Lecturer in Japanese

Fang Wan

• Lecturer in Chinese

Hsiao-Hui Yang

• Assistant Teaching Professor of Asian Studies

Jia Yu

• Lecturer in Chinese

Bryan Buschner

Vasilije Ivanovic

Hee Jin Lee

Eunice Lim

Victoria Lupascu

Kendra McDuffie

Aubrey Waddick

Cheuk Fung Wayne Yeung

Rebecca M. Bressler

• Administrative Support Coordinator 4

Olivia Brown

• Administrative Support Assistant 3

Rebecca Cross

• Administrative Support Assistant 4

Sue Stewart

• Administrative Support Assistant 3