Asian Studies (Graduate Field)
Field Description
Overview
This program is designed for students who did not major in Asian studies as undergraduates or who want more work in language and area studies before entering the professional, business, or Ph.D. fields. One to two years of study is required, depending on language proficiency. The M.A. program in the field in Asian studies is described at greater length on the M.A. in Asian Studies website. The field offers three concentrations, and each student will choose one: East Asian studies, South Asian studies, or Southeast Asian studies. Students are, however, welcome to work between these geographical boundaries as they attain mastery of the language(s) and culture(s) of one.
Data and Statistics
Degree Programs
Concentrations by Subject
Asian Studies
- East Asian studies
- South Asian studies
- Southeast Asian studies
Faculty
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: contemporary Chinese literature, especially poetry and prose poetry, Chinese poetry translation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Performance, cinema and music in the Philippines
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: ethnicity, citizenship, labor and diaspora among Tamil tea plantation workers in Sri Lanka and India
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: urban poverty and community-based planning in Southeast Asia and Indonesia in particular
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: South Asian religions; Buddhism in Sri Lanka; Sinhalese literature; nationalism and religious conflict; South Asian Islam
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: history of Indian religions; Indian Buddhism; early Chinese Buddhism; Chinese translations of Buddhist texts; Central Asian Buddhism
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Japanese literature and media, game studies and disability studies
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Chinese foreign policy; international relations; Chinese politics; Asian security
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian linguistics; Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Indonesian languages, particularly Indonesian, Sudanese, Madurese, Buginese; French
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: modern art and intellectual history of south Asia, popular visual cultures of south Asia
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: history of modern China (17th century - present), particularly law, gender and state-building
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies; Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: China/Southeast Asia borderlands; indigenous peoples; East and Southeast Asia archaeology; Neolithic and Bronze Age China
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: history of Islam in southeast Asia, contemporary expressions of Islam in southeast Asia, religion and state, west Asia-southeast Asia connections
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: labor, urbanization, and social movements in China and the East Asian Sinosphere
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Southeast Asian literature, film and gender studies with particular expertise on Thailand
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: women and gender in South Asia; modern history of South Asia; historiography and postcolonial of South Asia
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Environmental conservation and development in the tropics; intersections of data infrastructure and land governance; global food and agriculture systems; the financialization of land, and the role of scientific knowledge in climate change politics; Indonesia; Southeast Asia
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: history and culture of pre-modern China; popular culture of modern China in historical perspective
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Modern Korea and China, comparative an cultural history, 19th and 20th century Sino-Korean relationships, Chinese perception of Chosõn Korea, Korean writing about Sun Yat-sen
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: bio-cultural diversity; indigenous cultures and change; climate change and its impacts; community economic development; gender analysis; human ecology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Asian and Asian American literary studies, with a focus on Korea, Japan, and their diasporas
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: small cities and their regions, and on institutional structures for equitable planning and development in South Asia
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: South Asia; economic development and industrial relations
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Japanese religions
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture, with a particular interest in the relationship between art and urbanism
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Southeast Asian history
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies; Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Sinophone and trans-Asian literature and media
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: Sanskrit; South Asia religious and intellectual history, with particular interests in poetics and aesthetics; South Asia knowledge systems in the medieval and early modern periods
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Indonesia; gender studies; colonialism; landscape
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: ancient and modern Chinese history; modern Japanese history; Chinese literary sources
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: contemporary art music in Indonesia, or "musik kontemporer," and in particular the cultural dynamics through which it gained its distinctive profile, encompassing both the Western- oriented and traditionally-based dynamics through which it gained its distinctive profile, encompassing both the Western-oriented and traditionally-based
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Japanese archipelago and its transregional connections with the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: South Asia; anthropology
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: sociology - China
Campus: Ithaca
Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies; South Asian studies
Research Interests: Manjusri cult and representations of the Bodhisattva in China
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: human-animal relations in Malaysia and Thailand; environmental studies; feminist studies; commercial volunteerism; aging animals and aging people in Southeast Asia.
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Southeast Asian politics; comparative politics; international political economy; authoritarianism; Islam
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: religious conversion in the context of the revival of Buddhism in South India
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian linguistics; East Asian studies
- Research Interests: modern Japanese history, history of the body, medicine and law, race and sexuality, Japanese international relations
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: cultural history of early modern china (1500-1900)
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: memory and the social history of the Cultural Revolution in China
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: Southeast Asian studies and culture
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Chinese literature; Chinese poetry; Chinese translation
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: South Asian studies
- Research Interests: corporations and capitalism; internal development; global networks; non-governmental organizations; political economy; social theory; business history of Southeast Asia
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian linguistics; East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Japanese and Korean linguistics
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: Southeast Asian studies
- Research Interests: sociocultural anthropology; ethnicity; globalization; Hinduism
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: Korean literature and culture, Korean traditional music and performance
- Campus: Ithaca
- Concentrations: Asian Studies: East Asian studies
- Research Interests: environmental protection and development efforts in rural China, focused on southwest China, especially Yunnan