M.A. Field Faculty

East Asia

Nick Admussen
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Contemporary Chinese literature, poetry and prose poetry
e-mail: na347@cornell.edu

 
Daniel Boucher
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
East Asian religions; Buddhism
e-mail: djb38@cornell.edu
 
Andrew Campana
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Japanese literature and media, game studies and disability studies
e-mail: ac2794@cornell.edu
 
Allen Carlson
Associate Professor, Government
International relations, Asian security, Chinese foreign policy, Chinese politics
e-mail: arc26@cornell.edu
 
Mara Yue Du
Assistant Professor, History
History of modern China (17th century - present) particularly law, gender and state-building
e-mail: yue.du@cornell.edu
 
Magnus Fiskesjo
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Chinese & SEA borderlands and indigenous peoples
e-mail: nf42@cornell.edu
 
Eli Friedman
Associate Professor, Global Labor and Work
labor, urbanization and social movements in China and the East Asian Sinosphere
e-mail: edf48@cornell.edu
 
T J Hinrichs
Associate Professor, History
History and culture of premodern China
e-mail: th289@cornell.edu
 
Shaoling Ma
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Sinophone and trans-Asian literature and media
e-mail: sm2863@cornell.edu
 

Robin McNeal
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Chinese history, language, & literature
e-mail: rm253@cornell.edu
 

Drisana Misra
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Japanese archipelago and its transregional connections with the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
e-mail: drisana.misra@cornell.edu
 

Victor Nee
Professor, Sociology
Sociology - China
e-mail: vgn1@cornell.edu

 
An-Yi Pan
Associate Professor, History of Art
Chinese art history
e-mail: ap76@cornell.edu
 
Kristin Roebuck
Assistant Professor, History
Modern Japanese history, history of the body, medicine and law, race and sexuality, Japanese international relations
e-mail: kar79@cornell.edu
 

Suyoung Son
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Literary and cultural history of early modern China (1500-1900)
e-mail: ss994@cornell.edu

 
Peidong Sun
Associate Professor, History
memory and the social history of the Cultural Revolution in China
e-mail: ps786@cornell.edu
 
 
John Whitman
Professor, Linguistics
Japanese & Korean linguistics
e-mail: jbw2@cornell.edu
 
Ivanna Sang Een Yi
Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Korean literature and culture, Korean traditional music and performance
e-mail: isy4@cornell.edu
 
John Zinda
Assistant Professor, Global Development
environmental protection and development efforts in rural China, focused on southwest
China, especially Yunnan
e-mail: jaz65@cornell.edu
 
 

South Asia

Anne Blackburn
Professor, Asian Studies
South Asian religions; Buddhism in Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia; Pali and Sinhalese literature; religion, colonialism and nationalism; South Asian Islam.
e-mail: amb242@cornell.edu
 
Iftikhar Dadi
Associate Professor, History of Art, Archaeology and Visual Studies
Modern art and intellectual history of South Asia; popular visual cultures of South Asia
e-mail: mid1@cornell.edu
 
Durba Ghosh
Professor, History
Modern South Asian, gender, colonialism
e-mail: dg256@cornell.edu
 

Karim-Aly Kassam
Associate Professor, Natural Resources
Bio-cultural diversity, indigenous cultures & change, climate change & it's impacts, community economic development, gender analysis,and human ecology
e-mail: ksk28@cornell.edu

Neema Kudva
Associate Professor, City & Regional Planning
Institutional structures for equitable planning and development in South Asia
e-mail: nk78@cornell.edu

Sarosh Kuruvilla
Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
Economic development and industrial relations
e-mail: sck4@cornell.edu

Larry McCrea
Professor, Asian Studies
Sanskrit, South Asian religious and intellectual history
e-mail: ljm223@cornell.edu

 

Viranjini Munasinghe
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Anthropology
e-mail: vpm1@cornell.edu
 
Lucinda Ramberg
Associate Professor, Anthropology / Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Religious conversion in the context of the revival of Buddhism in South India
e-mail: ler35@cornell.edu
 
 
 

Southeast Asia

Christine Balance
Associate Professor, Performing & Media Arts
Performance, cinema and music in the Philippines
e-mail: cbalance@cornell.edu
 
Victoria Beard
Professor, City and Regional Planning
Urban poverty and community-based planning in Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular
e-mail: vab57@cornell.edu
 
Thak Chaloemtiarana
Professor (Retired), Asian Studies
Thai politics; Thai literature; Southeast Asia area studies
e-mail: tc17@cornell.edu
 
Abigail Cohn
Professor, Linguistics
Southeast Asian linguistics
e-mail: acc4@cornell.edu
 
Magnus Fiskesjo
Associate Professor, Anthropology
Chinese & SEA borderlands and indigenous peoples
e-mail: nf42@cornell.edu
 
Chiara Formichi
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
History of Islam in Southeast Asia; contemporary expressions of Islam in Southeast Asia
e-mail: cf398@cornell.edu
 
Arnika Fuhrmann
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Southeast Asian literature, religion, film and gender studies
e-mail: aif32@cornell.edu
 
Jenny Goldstein
Assistant Professor, Global Government
Environmental conservation and development; data infrastructure and land governance; global food and agriculture systems; financialization of land; role of scientific knowledge in climate change politics
e-mail: goldstein@cornell.edu
 
Sarosh Kuruvilla
Professor, Industrial and Labor Relations
Economic development and industrial relations
e-mail: sck4@cornell.edu
 
Tamara Loos
Professor, History
Southeast Asian history
e-mail: tl14@cornell.edu
 
Shaoling Ma
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Sinophone and trans-Asian literature and media
e-mail: sm2863@cornell.edu
 
Kaja McGowan
Associate Professor, History of Art
Gender studies, colonialism, landscape, and the human body and material culture (Indonesia)
e-mail: kmm22@cornell.edu
 
Christopher Miller
Senior Lecturer, Music; Director of the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble
Contemporary art music in Indonesia
e-mail: cjm299@cornell.edu
 
Juno Salazar ParreƱas
Assistant Professor, Science & Technology Studies; Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Human-animal relations, environmental issues, and efforts to institutionalize justice (Malaysia, Thailand)
e-mail: parrenas@cornell.edu
 
Thomas Pepinsky
Professor, Government
Southeast Asian politics, comparative politics, international political economy, authoritarianism, Islam
e-mail: tp253@cornell.edu
 
Eric Tagliacozzo
Professor, History
Modern Southeast Asia
e-mail: et54@cornell.edu
 

Marina Welker
Associate Professor, Anthropology
International development, NGOs, political economy of Southeast Asia
e-mail: maw82@cornell.edu

 
Andrew Willford
Professor, Anthropology
Southeast Asian anthropology
e-mail: acw24@cornell.edu
 
Lindy Williams
Professor, Development Sociology
Rural sociology - social change and gender relations
e-mail: lbw2@cornell.edu
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