Faculty
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Abhishek Amar
Director, Associate Professor of Asian StudiesExpertisearchaeological 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 GovernmentExpertiseComparative politics; authoritarian politics; political economy of development; Chinese politics -
Sabrina Datoo
Visiting Assistant Professor of HistoryExpertiseintellectual and cultural history of modern South Asia; history of medicine; Islam in South Asia -
Christopher Elford
Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian StudiesExpertiseliterature 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 StudiesExpertiseHistory 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)ExpertiseEast Asian Languages and Literatures, Chinese language pedagogy, psychology of language learning -
Masaaki Kamiya
Associate Professor of Japanese, Director of LinguisticsExpertisesyntax, semantics, language acquisition, pragmatic and Japanese linguistics -
Arathi Menon
Assistant Professor of Art HistoryExpertiseSouth 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 JapaneseExpertisemodern 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 AnthropologyExpertiseChina, 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
Clinton, NY 13323
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