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East Asia Program

Cornell University

Faculty

Faculty are key leaders in EAP's activities. They serve in the following capacity:

  • Research and teach primarily in East Asian studies
  • Serve on EAP committees
  • Invite guest speakers or host workshops, conferences, and symposia
  • Primary investigators on sponsored projects through the EAP
  • Other collaborative academic work coordinated through EAP

EAP faculty are invited to join and appointed by the executive committee.

Ding Fei

Assistant Professor, City and Regional Planning
Ding Fei received her Ph.D. from the Department of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. 

Magnus Fiskesjö

Associate Professor, Anthropology

Magnus Fiskesjö's research concerns ethnic relations and political anthropology in China and Southeast Asia.

Eli Friedman

Associate Professor, International and Comparative Labor

Eli Friedman's primary areas of research interest are China, development, education, social movements, urbanization, and work and labor.

Arnika Fuhrmann

Associate Professor, Asian Studies

Arnika Fuhrmann is an interdisciplinary scholar of Southeast Asia, working at the intersections of the region’s aesthetic and political modernities.

Weiqing Su George

Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies

Weiqing-Su George is a native speaker of Chinese,  and has native fluency in English, advanced skills in Cantonese, and intermediate skills in Japanese. She is a member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and the Chinese Language Teachers Association.

TJ Hinrichs

Associate Professor, Premodern Chinese History

TJ Hinrichs is a historian of Song era (960-1279 c.e.) Chinese medical, political, and cultural history.

Ying Hua

Director, Cornell China Center

Hua is an associate professor in the Department of Human Centered Design, a faculty member of the graduate fields of design and environmental analysis and real estate, and the Cornell China Center(link is external)&nbsp

Sahoko Ichikawa

Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies

Sahoko Ichikawa is a senior lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences. 

Tristan Ivory

Assistant Professor, International and Comparative Labor

Tristan Ivory's research is principally concerned with sub-Saharan African geographic, social, and economic mobility. As a 2020–21 Global Public Voices fellow, he collaborated with Guilherme Kenjy Chihaya Da Silva (Umeå University, Sweden).

Hyun-ho Joo

Senior Lecturer

Hyun-ho Joo’s research and teaching interests lie in modern Korean history from a comparative East Asian perspective, the history of Sino-Korean relations, cultural interactions between China and Korea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and modern Chinese and Korean intel