The EAP community reaches across the university, with more than 50 affiliated faculty, more than 100 affiliated graduate and undergraduate students, and visiting scholars, postdocs, and staff colleagues from other institutes at Cornell and around the world.
EAP is staffed by three staff positions as well as several student workers.
An-Yi Pan researches Buddhist Art with special interest in the relation between Chinese intellectual participation in Buddhism and Buddhist painting, Buddhist architecture in relation to precepts, monastic hieratical structure, liturgical as well as spiritual spaces, and trans-continental blossom
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.
Paul Steven Sangren is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Taiwan and China. His earliest published work combines insights drawn from structuralist theory with practice-oriented critiques to illuminate Chinese ritual processes and cosmological symbols.
Alexis Shimon is the editor of the Cornell East Asia Series. They first came to Cornell in June 2019 as an acquisitions assistant and Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at Cornell University Press.
Jeongsu Shin is the LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University. As an ethnographer of Korea, Shin’s work has been shaped by interdisciplinary conversations in Environmental Studies, Asian Studies, and Science and Technology 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.
Meejeong Song has experience teaching all levels of Korean at Cornell. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition, web-based teaching material development, interactive student group project development, and technology-aided teaching methodology.