Gary Fields is the John P. Windmuller Professor of International and Comparative Labor and Professor of Economics. His work focuses on Labor Economics, Development Economics, and Public Economics. He is especially interested in the cases of Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela. Fields is the 2014 winner of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics, the top worldwide award in the field.

Pedro Erber is an Associate Professor at the School of International Liberal Arts and the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies, Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. He is also associate editor of the journal ARTMargins. He specializes in Brazilian literature, intellectual history, and visual culture.

Mara Du’s research focuses on the history of modern China (17th century to the present), particularly on law, gender, and state-building.

Stephanie Divo received her PhD in modern Chinese literature at Cornell University. She has taught Mandarin Chinese in the Department of Asian Studies since 1999. Her teaching and research interests are modern Chinese (Mandarin) language, English as a second language, modern Chinese literature, Chinese cinema, and academic writing.

Brett de Bary holds a joint appointment with the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell. Her research interests include modern Japanese fiction and film, the Japanese postmodern, comparative literary theory, translation theory and post-colonial theory, and gender and philosophy.

Cochran joined the Cornell faculty in 1973 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1986.

Zhihong Chen received her BA in German language and literature from Beijing Foreign Language College, an MA in International History from Beijing Normal University, an MA in International Studies and an M.S. Ed in college teaching concentrating on Chinese language teaching at SIU in the United States. She also has a PhD in international history from Cologne University in Germany.

Chen is currently working on a comprehensive study on Borodin’s mission in China  (1923-1927) in both English and Chinese languages.

Allen R. Carlson is an associate professor of government. He earned his PhD from Yale University’s Department of Political Science. His undergraduate degree is from Colby College.

He is a core faculty member of the East Asia Program and affiliated with the South Asia Program and Comparative Muslim Societies Program.

Andrew Campana is a scholar of modern and contemporary Japanese literature and media. His research centers on exploring the possibilities and impossibilities of expression at moments of media transition, focusing in particular on poetry, digital media, and disability.

Daniel Boucher is an associate professor of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. His research focus is Buddhist studies, particularly the early development of the cluster of Indian Buddhist movements called the Mahayana and their transmission to China in the first few centuries of the Common Era. Related interests include translation as a religious genre, with special focus on  the earliest translations of Buddhist texts into Chinese; Buddhist Middle Indo-Aryan; art historical, epigraphical, and archeological sources for the study of religion.