Maria Theresa C. Savella teaches all levels of Tagalog (Filipino). She is co-author with John Wolff and Der-Hwa Rau of Filipino Through Self-Instruction (1991, rev. 2005), a four-volume textbook that contains sufficient teaching materials for four semesters of semi-intensive Tagalog instruction from the beginning to the intermediate level. She and Wolff also compiled reading materials in a Tagalog reader for the intermediate and advanced levels.

Hannah Phan received her MA from Cornell University's professional studies program for international development in 1998.

Thomas Pepinsky is the Walter F. LaFeber Professor of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor in the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy.

Jolanda Pandin joined the Department of Asian Studies in August 2006.

Prior coming to Cornell, she taught Indonesian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of British Columbia, and in the intensive Indonesian language program of the Southeast Asian Studies Institute (SEASSI ) at the University of Oregon-Eugene and University of Wisconsin, including two years as the program coordinator.

Her academic interests are Indonesian language and life sciences communication.

Christopher Miller is a scholar and musician whose interests and activities revolve around two points of focus: experimental music, and the music of Indonesia, especially Central Javanese gamelan.

Tamara Loos is professor of history and Asian studies. Her most recent book, Bones around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur (2016), tells the story of Prince Prisdang Chumsai (1852–1935). He served as Siam’s first diplomat to Europe during the most dramatic moment of Siam’s political history, when its independence was threatened by European imperialism. Despite serving with patriotic zeal, he suffered irreparable social and political ruin based on rumors about fiscal corruption, sexual immorality, and political treason.

Sarosh Kuruvilla is Cornell University's Andrew J. Nathanson Family Professor of Industrial Relations, Asian Studies, and Public Affairs. He is also a visiting professor at the London School of Economics. He joined Cornell's faculty in 1990 after obtaining a doctorate in business administration from the University of Iowa in 1989, and after a career as a labor relations manager in India.

Yu Yu Khaing has been teaching Burmese at Cornell since 2015 and has developed a variety of teaching materials including multimedia courses. She continues to expand her offerings on the Web Audio Lab platform.

Yu Yu received her BA in English Language and Literature from Dagon University. She was trained as a foreign language teacher and earned a graduate diploma in English Language Teaching Methodology from the Yangon Institute of Education.

Ngampit Jagacinski received both her PhD and MA in Chinese Linguistics at Ohio State University. She has taught Thai language in the Department of Asian Studies since 2000. Her teaching and research interests are the language, culture, and history of the Bangkok area as well as north and northeastern regions of Thailand.    

 

Before taking on the position of curator of the John M. Echols Collection on Southeast Asia, Green worked at Northern Illinois University Libraries as curator of the Donn V. Hart Southeast Asia Collection. Prior to his time at NIU, he worked at Arizona State University Libraries as the Southeast Asia bibliographer while attending the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science.