Faculty
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Abhishek Amar
Director, Associate Professor of Asian Studies
Expertisearchaeological history of South Asian religions, especially Buddhist and Hindu traditions; research in themes of inter-religious dynamics, syncretism and religious transformation; colonialism and reconfigurations of sacred centers; and religion and water management in the Buddhist and Hindu traditions -
Anurag Advani
Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
ExpertiseSouth Asian history, Sufism, Persian and Urdu Literature, History of Medicine, early modern Islam, Histories of Madness -
Alexsia Chan
Associate Professor of GovernmentExpertiseComparative politics; authoritarian politics; political economy of development; Chinese politics -
Corbett Costello
Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
ExpertiseSouth Asian languages and literature, religion, Jainism, textual studies, poetics, Sanskrit, classical and modern Hindi, manuscript culture, art history -
Junqing (Jessie) Jia
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
ExpertiseEast Asian Languages and Literatures, Chinese language pedagogy, psychology of language learning -
Masaaki Kamiya
Associate Professor of Japanese, Director of Linguistics
Expertisesyntax, semantics, language acquisition, pragmatic and Japanese linguistics -
Arathi Menon
Assistant Professor of Art History
ExpertiseSouth Asian art; visual culture of Indian Ocean trade; churches, mosques, synagogues, and temples in Kerala; syncretism; religious iconography; artistic agency; digital art history -
Kyoko Omori
Associate Professor of Japanese
Expertisemodern Japanese literature, especially modernism and youth magazine culture; early 20th-century media, especially cinema and radio; and censorship and the Occupation Era, 1945-52 -
Julie Starr
Chair, Associate Professor of Anthropology
ExpertiseChina, East Asia, cultural anthropology; bodies, gender, race; food, urban ethnography, consumer culture, comparative ethnography, and history of anthropology -
Lisa Trivedi
Christian A. Johnson Excellence in Teaching Professor of History
Expertisecultural and social history of modern South Asia, specializing in the history of nationalism, colonialism, and women
Contact
Department Name
Asian Studies Program
Contact Name
Abhishek Amar, Program Director
Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323
Clinton, NY 13323
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