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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.
Thess Savella, senior lecturer of Tagalog in the Department of Asian Studies, has been awarded this year’s Sophie Washburn French Instructorship for excellence in language pedagogy.
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Faculty from six colleges across Cornell tackle issues ranging from the health of endangered wild dogs to the spread of misinformation through social media.
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This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences will take part in groundbreaking research on campus with 61 faculty as part of the Nexus Scholars Program.
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Zhiyuan Zhou is majoring in history, Asian studies, government & College Scholar.
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"A theme of the Harrison College Scholar Program is that our students are independent but not isolated."
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This summer, Cornellians will venture across continents as they pursue a wide variety of international projects funded by the Department of Asian Studies and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. “We not only aim at giving our students scholarly knowledge and understanding of the re...
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Cornell’s Department of Asian Studies is delighted and honored to inaugurate the Tina Han Su Cooper ’66 Award. This undergraduate summer funding opportunity recognizes an outstanding Cornell undergraduate engaged in the study of Chinese cultural areas.
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Throughout her time in academia, Prof. Chiara Formichi, Asian Studies, has researched the relationship between Asian cultures and Islam, primarily focusing on Indonesia. Formichi began studying the topic as an undergraduate student, earning a B.A. in Islamic Studies from Sapienza University of Ro...
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The Asian Studies Department of Cornell University is pleased to announce the Kyoko Selden Translation Prize for 2022 in this, our final year of the prize.
In the category of previously published translators, the 2022 award went to Matthew Fraleigh, Honorable Mention in this category was awarded to Shi-Lin Loh, and the award in the previously unpublished category was given to Yi Deng.
For more information, view our announcement.
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