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.