Faculty
Jessamyn R. Abel
- Associate Professor of Asian Studies
(814) 865-3931
Jonathan Abel
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Japanese
(814) 865-2263
Michelle Bae-Dimitriadis
- Assistant Professor of Art Education & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Kathlene Baldanza
- Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
(814) 863-0131
Jessica Birkenholtz
- Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(814) 865-5747
Erica Brindley
- Professor of Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy
(814) 867-3261
Suresh Canagarajah
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor in Applied Linguistics, English, and Asian Studies
- Director, Migration Studies Project
(814) 865-6229
Gretchen Casper
- Associate Professor of Political Science and Asian Studies
(814) 865-8748
Tina Chen
- Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies
- Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
(814) 863-9592
Madhuri Desai
- Associate Professor of Art History and Asian Studies
(814) 865-4885
Charlotte Eubanks
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4933
Eric Hayot
- Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 865-1188
Ronnie Hsia
- Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History
(814) 863-8942
Elaine Hui
- Assistant Professor of Labor and Employment Relations and Asian Studies.
(814) 865-0066
Prakash Kumar
- Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4923
Flynt Leverett
- Professor of International Affairs and Asian Studies
Xiaofei Lu
- Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
(814) 865-4692
Kimberly Powell
- Associate Professor of Education, Art Education and Asian Studies
(814) 865-7318
Sumita Raghuram
- Associate Professor Emeritus, Human Resource Management
(814) 865-5425
Jooyeon Rhee
- Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
(814) 867-5284
Bee-yan Roberts
- Professor of Economics and Asian Studies
(814) 863-1996
Gonzalo Rubio
- Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies, and History
(814) 863-4946
Flora Shao
- Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
(814) 865-4847
Shuang Shen
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese
(814) 863-0589
Mary Shenk
- Associate Professor of Anthropology, Demography, and Asian Studies
Gregory Smits
- Professor of History and Asian Studies
(814) 863-0172
Jayoung Song
- Assistant Professor of Korean
(814) 867-3260
Susan G. Strauss
- Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Asian Studies
- Editor, The Korean Language in America Penn State University
(814) 863-7986
Reiko Tachibana
- Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4932
Chang Tan
- Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies
(814) 867-3708
Nicolai Volland
- Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
- Director of Graduate Studies
(814) 867-3422
Vineeta Yadav
- Associate Professor of Political Science
(814) 867-3715
Xiaoye You
- Liberal Arts Professor of English and Asian Studies
(814) 863-4533
Ning Yu
- Professor of Asian Studies and Applied Linguistics
(814) 867-7365
Boliang Zhu
- Associate Professor of Political Science
(814) 865-6901
Ran Zwigenberg
- Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Jewish Studies
(814) 867-4608