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Asian Studies Major, Arushi Kende arrived at Cornell with a deep interest in how societies can nurture and encourage a sense of deep community and care for one another. In a time when social discourse seems course and uncaring, Arushi stuck to her vision that there are different models that can be emphasized and fostered.
A Cornell University student writes about her experiences with the Milstein Program, which equips students to connect technology with policy, ethics, and global dynamics. The program includes an eight-week summer session at Cornell Tech in New York City.
An academic obituary for Professor Dan Gold (1947 - 2026) written by his colleague Professor Anne Blackburn. Daniel Gold, Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies at Cornell University, brought remarkable intellectual and personal strengths to academic work. His many years of contributions in South Asia studies and religious studies encompassed a multifaceted career of academic writing, documentary film making, and translation.
The College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Cornell Levinson Program in China and Asia-Pacific Studies – and a new faculty director for the program — at an April 24 symposium on the Ithaca campus.
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries. At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
Sr. Lecturer Naomi Larson (Japanese) appears on Language Resource Center podcast Speaking of Language.
Daniel Gold, a professor of Asian studies emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died on Feb. 16 in Ithaca. He was 78.
“Expanding Verse: Japanese Poetry at the Edge of Media" is study of work by poets who push the genre in unexpected directions.
Joshua Kam, doctoral candidate in Asian studies, was quoted in Time Magazine on the cultural significance of national cuisines. Time Magazine, 11/21/25 “Food often came before countries. The dishes that we share often moved with people who were moving about before there were borders, before there were passports.”
In "Domestic Nationalism," Chiara Formichi argues that during the 1920s to 1950s, Indonesian women’s domestic activities contributed to nation-building as a political project.
The Einaudi Center welcomes the Southwest Asia and North Africa Program and four new program directors this fall.
Fangfang Li, Asian Studies
Ten students who participated in this summer's Nexus Scholars Program share their stories..
Projects spanned topics from Confederate cemeteries to Korean textiles.
The showcase was the final exam for students in Cornell’s game design courses
Among those being recognized for exceptional teaching and mentorship this year are faculty members Begüm Adalet, Claudia Verhoeven, and Marcelo Aguiar.
McKenna Norton is an Asian studies major & a Robert S. Harrison College Scholar.
The event celebrates April as National Poetry Month.
Jingya Guo, a doctoral candidate in history, studies how historical actors contested and reconfigured the demarcation between pathology and health for female bodies in China.
During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places, according to a Cornell researcher.
Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
Voters in more than 60 countries are heading to the polls to elect new leaders in this record-breaking “super election” year. In many of those countries, democracy itself is on the ballot.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences.
Scholar Daniel Bass comments on this week's presidential election in Sri Lanka, the first since a 2022 economic meltdown that forced the resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
Cornell’s graduate students may be based in Ithaca, but every summer they make discoveries in unique study sites around the globe. Asian literature, religion and culture Ph.D. student Yuanxue Jing did research at the Youyan Archives in Beijing.
Peter John Loewen says he's excited to support faculty in their research, meet students and showcase the value of a liberal arts education.
The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.
Cornell scholars are developing a collection of games, both digital and analog, in the Cornell Library, and connecting that to teaching across disciplines and courses.
At its May 24 meeting, the Cornell Board of Trustees elected seven new trustees to four-year terms. The board also reelected a trustee from the field of labor.
Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.
Among the faculty members being recognized this year for exceptional teaching and mentorship are Liliana Colanzi, Durba Ghosh, and Nick Admussen.
Recently the faculty director of the Humanities Scholars Program, Ghosh brings to the Society scholarly background in the history of British colonialism on the Indian subcontinent; academic focuses on gender and sexuality and South Asia; and broad experience with interdisciplinary collaborations.
Jocelyn Tripoli is an Asian studies major.
The College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) has awarded five New Frontier Grants to cutting edge projects in science, social science and the humanities led by A&S faculty.
Three members of the A&S Class of 2024 share wisdom for incoming students about taking advantage of all of Cornell's resources.
“Any poem, any language” is the theme of the Language Resource Center’s second annual celebration of National Poetry Month, April 17
Alejandro Marin Vidal, ’06, will talk about AI and game creation, industry layoffs and other topics during his talk April 8 at 5 p.m. in Milstein Auditorium in Milstein Hall.
Asian Studies alum Anna Esaki-Smith ’83, who struggled with what to do after graduation is author of 'Make College Your Superpower: It’s Not Where You Go, It’s What You Know'
The grants provide funding for students in unpaid or low-paying summer experiences to offset the cost of taking on those positions.
Situated at the intersection of media and politics, Shiqi Lin's research explores how critical media culture can push open new spaces for social participation and how new forms of media can bring people together, particularly at times of crisis and radical change.
Mitter’s talk will re-examine the classic question, “Did the communists win or the nationalists lose the Chinese civil war?”
A series of four lectures — two in the spring and two in the fall of 2024 — will focus on “Unmasking the CCP: History, Politics, and Society in Post-1949 China."
The College hosted a new pre-graduation reception in the Groos Family Atrium of Klarman Hall for December graduates and their families.
Professor Law routinely works and travels with her very diverse classes. Her article, “An Everyday Miracle at Cornell” describes the way her students embraced one another in a difficult time. https://theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/communication/an-everyday-miracle-at-cornell/
Mei was one of the most important Chinese historical linguists of the 20th century.
The first woman to win a consecutive Southeast Asian Writers Award, Veeraporn Nitiprapha will discuss her newest novel, “Memories of the Memories of the Black Rose Cat,” on Oct. 5.
A new “Religions on the Move” lecture series kicks off Sept. 28 with "'Make the Sound the Creator Is Waiting for Us to Make': Native American Anti-Nuclear Activism."
Our 34 new faculty will enrich the College of Arts & Sciences with creative ideas in a vast array of topics.