Asian American Studies

Field Description

The Asian American Studies Program at Cornell offers a minor field in graduate studies. The minor invites any Cornell graduate student interested in Asian American studies to craft a program of interdisciplinary study. Faculty expertise spans multiple fields, including anthropology, history, literature, performing & media arts, labor relations, law, human development, psychology, and language, enabling students to develop a graduate minor that meets their specific interests.

Contact Information

Website: https://as.cornell.edu/american-studies-major
Email: american_studies@cornell.edu
Phone: 607 255-0097

402 Morrill Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-0000

Subject and Degrees

Concentrations by Subject

Asian American Studies

• Asian American Studies

Faculty

Nicholas Admussen

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
• Research Interests: His teaching centers on Chinese literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His research applies close reading, translation, techniques from sociology, and literary theory in an attempt to read and understand contemporary poetry, and by extension to invent and refine methods of interpretation through which people separated by linguistic or political distance can come to understand one another.

Christine Bacareza Balance

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies

Derek S Chang

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies

Juliana Hu Pegues

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies

Adhy Kim

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
• Research Interests: transnational Asian American studies; comparative empire studies; environmental humanities; speculative fiction

Viranjini P Munasinghe

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies

Tejasvi Nagaraja

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
• Research Interests: Asian American studies

Qi Wang

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies

Ivanna Sang Een Yi

• Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
• Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
• Research Interests: Asian American Studies