Students in the field of Asian Studies
| Bellows, Ian development of multivalent identities within mono-ethnic Sherpa communities in Nepal's Solukhumbu region e-mail: idb8@cornell.edu |
| Cui, Yijun East Asian female subcultures e-mail: yc827@cornell.edu |
| Dong, Lingyu rural society in China, cultural anthropology, development study e-mail: ld488@cornell.edu |
| Jing, Yuanxue Japanese electronic literature, video games, and digital media e-mail: yj458@cornell.edu |
| Li, Heting social and cultural forces in rural China e-mail: hl779@cornell.edu |
| Li, Rui Japanese popular culture from the 20th century e-mail: rl657@cornell.edu |
| Loebell, Daniel Nepal-China relations e-mail: dpl74@cornell.edu |
| Luo, Jiaxin Buddhist art in constructing religious identity in medieval China e-mail: jl4285@cornell.edu |
| Naiyapatana, Anna Western ideology's infiltration into the Thai political sphere e-mail: aan38@cornell.edu |
| Qu, Yingchuan |
| Robinson, Casey Buddhist philosophy, specifically on thinkers such as Nagarjuna, the founder of the Madhyamaka school, and Dharmakirti, the seminal thinker in the Buddhist epistemological tradition e-mail: cmr268@cornell.edu |
| Shen, Jiahui social and cultural history of contemporary China e-mail: js2877@cornell.edu |
| Sukmono, Nikita themes of democratization, ethnic identity/identity politics, and comparative analysis in Southeast Asia e-mail: nas324@cornell.edu |
| Wang, Ting promotion of woodblock printing led to the vigorous development and evolution of popular literature in the Ming Dynasty e-mail: tw359@cornell.edu |
| Xu, Yixin history of decorative art in East Asia e-mail: yx528@cornell.edu |
| Zeng, Yujun Sino-Vietnamese relations and Vietnamese perception of China e-mail: yz767@cornell.edu |
Students in the field of Asian Literature, Religion and Culture
| Akepiyapornchai, Manasicha Vedanta; the doctrines of self-surrender (prapatti) and the path of devotion (bhaktiyoga) in the South Indian Srivaisnava Tradition; and Vedantadesika and his multilingual corpus e-mail: ma886@cornell.edu |
| Awasthi, Tarinee ideas of 'tradition' and 'transmission' in Indian spiritual traditions, and possibilites of alternatives to post-Enlightenment epistemes they open up e-mail: ta358@cornell.edu |
| Burgess, Vincent discourses of abnegation and the cultural/countercultural articulations of asceticism and renunciation in North Indian religious movements, specifically regarding the utilization/abnegation of intoxicants and dietary restrictions e-mail: veb24@cornell.edu |
| Chou, Yung-Hui practice of and influences behind literary collection compilation in Tang and Song China e-mail: yc2483@cornell.edu |
| Cummins, Patrick Sanskrit; poetics, grammar, hermeneutics, and logic e-mail: ptc46@cornell.edu |
| Dharmasinghe, Geethika nationalism, democracy, violence, and rituals; current research: formation of Sinhala Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka e-mail: gdi4@cornell.edu |
| Du, Yunfei contemporary Chinese literature, Chinese labor culture & migrant worker poetry, subaltern studies, Marxism e-mail: yd363@cornell.edu |
| Duan, Yuanyuan writing and reading practices of Buddhist multilingual texts found in Southwest China (11-16th century), with a focus on the knowledge exchanges and borderlands formation among China, India, and Tibet e-mail: yd382@cornell.edu |
| Hua, Liyu |
| Kam, Joshua Chun Wah culinary connections to the Middle East in classical Malay and Javanese Sufism e-mail: jk2357@cornell.edu |
| Koshcheeva, Anna imagining of Laos at the crossroads of the Cold War e-mail: ak2597@cornell.edu |
| Li, Yanting-Leah territory of contemporary Chinese poetry, in particular how poets in modern China negotiate their individual agencies and literary sovereignty with ideological apparatus under the socialist regime e-mail: yl3376@cornell.edu |
| Long, Mary Kate women and gender in Buddhism; Buddhist institutions in Burma/Myanmar and Southeast Asia; religious diversity; friendship e-mail: ml2458@cornell.edu |
| Seo, Su-Yeon orality and aurality of logographic Sinitic language e-mail: ss2872@cornell.edu |
| Sethia, Saumya twentieth-century Navayana Buddhism; consciousness studies; subjectivation; the space between literature, religion and philosophy in non-Anglophone cultures e-mail: ss2842@cornell.edu |
| Shirley, Bruno Buddhist kingship; the Pali Cosmopolis (particularly Sri Lanka); textual and material records e-mail: bms297@cornell.edu |
| Sireerat, Tinakrit Japanese history; animal history; comparative history of Japan and Thailand e-mail: ts677@cornell.edu |
| Siriwan, Sirithorn rice rituals and performances in Northern Thailand e-mail: ss3756@cornell.edu |
| Stevens, Casey medieval Chinese poetry, specifically that of the Tang; cultural history, literary reception, and ontological frameworks created through poetry e-mail: cs2435@cornell.edu |
| Yamashita, Tsuguta Japanese post-imperial impact on Indonesia e-mail: ty355@cornell.edu |
| Yoon, Nari cultural history of modern Korea, especially the construction of modern subjectivity during the Park Chung Hee era (1961-1979) e-mail: ny64@cornell.edu |
| Zhang, Yumeng Chinese literature in Tang China e-mail: yz2694@cornell.edu |