East Asia Program
Jack (John) Zinda
Associate Professor, Global Development
John Zinda studies social and environmental change, primarily in rural China. His research and teaching examine how state policies and community practices intersect to shape livelihoods and landscapes in contexts of agricultural development programs, afforestation efforts, biodiversity conservation, tourism operations, and labor migration.
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Liren Zheng
Curator Wason East Asian Collection
Liren Zheng is the curator of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the Cornell University Library. Previously he was the curator of the Dr. Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Research and Documentation Center, Ohio University Library.
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Program
Role
- Faculty
- EAP Core Faculty
- SEAP Faculty Associate
Contact
Email: lz14@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-5759
Xin Xu
Adjunct Associate Professor, Government
XU Xin is the program manager for the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program (CAPS). His research and teaching focus on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian international relations. His areas of interest include the identity politics of the Taiwan issue, China’s grand strategy, East Asian security politics, and Olympics and international relations.
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John Whitman
Professor, Linguistics
John Whitman is a professor of linguistics in the College of Arts and Sciences. His main interest is the problem of language variation: its limits (how much specific subsystems can vary across languages) and predictors (what typological features co-occur systematically). Exploration of this general problem has led him to work on historical linguistics and language acquisition, in addition to his central interest in synchronic syntactic variation across typologically similar languages.
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Ding Xiang Warner
Professor, Asian Studies
Ding Xiang Warner's research interests include Chinese literature and literary thought from Han dynasty through the early Song, early and medieval Chinese intellectual history, and the study of textual production and text culture in premodern China.
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Qi Wang
Professor of Human Development, Psychology, and Cognitive Science
Qi Wang is professor of human development, psychology, and cognitive science at Cornell University. She is the past associate director of the Cornell East Asia Program and former department chair of human development.
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Keith Taylor
Professor Emeritus, Asian Studies
Keith Taylor became interested in Vietnam as a result of his U.S. Army service in the Vietnam War. He earned his PhD in 1976 at the University of Michigan. He subsequently taught in Japan and Singapore for several years before returning to the United States in 1987. He has visited Vietnam for research and scholarly exchange many times and lived continuously in Vietnam for two years in the early 1990s while studying and teaching.
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Role
- Faculty
- EAP Professor Emeriti
- SEAP Professor Emeriti
Contact
Email: kwt3@cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-3237
EAP Area Studies Fellowships
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As a major conduit of graduate support, EAP offers the following area studies fellowships to Cornell graduate students whose work has an East Asia focus:
- Lee Teng-hui Fellowships in World Affairs with East Asia Focus
- C. V. Starr Fellowships in East Asian Studies
- Hu Shih Fellowship in Chinese Studies
- Robert J. Smith Fellowships in Japanese and Korean Studies
- Diverse Knowledge East Asia
There is a single application for the five fellowships. You can apply for all that are pertinent to your graduate work.
The application for funding generally opens in November and closes late January of the following year. Typically, these fellowships provide a tuition arrangement with your field, stipend, and health insurance for one semester of the upcoming academic year, either for fall or spring. Exceptional candidates may be considered for an extra semester of support. These fellowships are considered external funding to your field, and students who receive an EAP fellowship should arrange for funding for the rest of the academic year with their department.
There is no citizenship restriction on any of the above-listed fellowships.
Check out our FAQ before you apply.
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Suyoung Son
Associate Professor, Asian Studies
Suyoung Son is a literary and cultural historian of early modern China (1500-1900). Her research focuses on the narrative tradition and social practice of writing and reading in the historical conditions of print culture, commercialization, and urbanization.
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Naoki Sakai
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts in Asian Studies
Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Asian studies and comparative literature and is a member of the graduate field of history at Cornell University. He has published in a number of languages in the fields of comparative literature, intellectual history, translation studies, studies of racism and nationalism, and the histories of semiotic and literary multitude—speech, writing, corporeal expressions, calligraphic regimes, and phonographic traditions. He has led the project TRACES, a multilingual series and served as its founding senior editor.