Affiliate Faculty
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Asian Studies
![Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/mxb1065.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
![Soo-yong Byun](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Soo-yong-Byun.png)
Associate Professor of Education, Demography, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-1626
![Suresh Canagarajah](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Suresh-Canagarajah-199x300.jpg)
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies
Director, Migration Studies Project
(814) 865-6229
![Madhuri Desai](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Madhuri-Desai-300x300.jpg)
![E Hayot](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/E-Hayot.jpg)
Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 865-1188
![Ronnie Hsia](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Ronnie-Hsia.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/ElaineHui.jpg)
Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies
(814) 865-0066
![Prakash Kumar](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/P-Kumar.jpg)
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![sara liao](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/sara-liao.jpg)
![Xiaofei Lu](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Xiaofei-Lu.jpg)
![kim powell](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/kim-powell.png)
Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies
(814) 865-7318
![Bee-yan Roberts](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Bee-yan-Roberts.jpg)
![](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Gonzalo-Rubio.png)
Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History
![Mary SHenk](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Mary-shenk.jpg)
![Gregory Smits](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Gregory-Smits.jpg)
![Vineeta Yadav](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Vineeta-Yadav.jpg)
![Boliang Zhu](https://asian.la.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2021/07/Boliang-Zhu.jpg)