Department Homepage
The College of Arts & Sciences
The department is the home for instruction in the languages, literatures, religions, cultures, and intellectual histories of Asian societies and is one of the few departments in America that offers instruction in social sciences, the humanities and languages across all three regions of Asia: East Asia (China, Japan and Korea), Southeast Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar, The Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore), and South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh). The Department is committed to the examination of social, political, and cultural formations that transcend traditional national and areal boundaries.
Location: Rockefeller Hall, 374 (Asian Studies Lounge)
Location: Goldwin Smith Hall, History of Art Gallery (ground floor, south end of Goldwin Smith)
Location: Goldwin Smith Hall, History of Art Gallery (ground floor, south end of Goldwin Smith)
Location: Klarman Hall, Atrium
Location: Goldwin Smith Hall, History of Art Gallery (ground floor, south end of Goldwin Smith)
The College of Arts & Sciences' Society for the Humanities Fall Fellows’ Conference on Survival takes place Oct. 30 at Cornell University’s A.D. White House. Fellows will present interdisciplinary research on resilience, climate change, literature, history and culture.
Cornell’s Society for the Humanities marked its 60th anniversary Sept. 18-19 with events celebrating six decades of humanities research and collaboration. Based in the College of Arts & Sciences, the Society has hosted more than 800 fellows.
Twenty new faculty have joined the College of Arts & Sciences this year, strengthening departments and programs with their wide-ranging expertise and filling numerous leadership roles for the College and university.
Graduate students connected to Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences departments — history, linguistics, Asian studies, history of art and visual studies, government, comparative iiterature, Romance studies and music —have received Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies East Asia Program fellowships and grants for the 2026-2027 academic year.
Only this year! Seminars on the Silk Roads, the Cold War in Southeast Asia, and Partition in South Asia.
Now accepting applications for a Visiting Assistant Professor in Contemporary Taiwanese Humanities - deadline for applications is November 15, 2026
Department of Asian Studies Mission Statement