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  • Abhishek Amar

    Director, Associate Professor of Asian Studies
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    Expertise
    archaeological 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
  • Alexsia Chan

    Associate Professor of Government
    Expertise
    Comparative politics; authoritarian politics; political economy of development; Chinese politics
  • Sabrina Datoo

    Visiting Assistant Professor of History
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    Expertise
    intellectual and cultural history of modern South Asia; history of medicine; Islam in South Asia
  • Christopher Elford

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
    Expertise
    literature of early and medieval China; manuscript and print culture of premodern China and Central Asia; the materiality of reading and writing, particularly in pre-print literary cultures
  • Usman Hamid

    Assistant Professor of Asian Studies
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    Expertise
    History of Islam in South Asia, specializing in Sultanate and Mughal India; Muslim devotional traditions, material culture, and gender and sexuality; history of pre-modern Iran and Persian culture
  • Junqing (Jessie) Jia

    Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures (Chinese)
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    Expertise
    Chinese language pedagogy, with emphasis on development of language learning motivation; research-based curriculum design and material development; gamification in foreign language learning
  • Masaaki Kamiya

    Associate Professor of Japanese, Director of Linguistics
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    Expertise
    syntax, semantics, language acquisition, pragmatic and Japanese linguistics
  • Arathi Menon

    Assistant Professor of Art History
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    Expertise
    South 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
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    Expertise
    modern 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

    Assistant Professor of Anthropology
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    Expertise
    China, East Asia, cultural anthropology; bodies, gender, race; food, urban ethnography, consumer culture, comparative ethnography, and history of anthropology

Contact

Department Name

Asian Studies Program

Contact Name

Thomas Wilson, Program Director

Office Location
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323

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