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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. 


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Visiting Scholar

Xiong Hui is a professor of comparative literature in the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Sichuan University, China.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Government

XU Xin is the program manager for the China and Asia-Pacific Studies program (CAPS). His research and teaching focus on Chinese foreign policy and East Asian international relations.

Assistant Professor, Global Labor and Work

Duanyi Yang joined the faculty of the ILR School’s Department of Labor Relations, Law, and History after completing her Ph.D. at MIT Sloan School of Management. Her research investigates how organizational policies operate within different institutional contexts.

Assistant Professor, Asian Studies

Ivanna Sang Een Yi is a scholar of Korean literature, culture, and performance. Her research focuses on the performative dimensions of living oral traditions as they interact with written literature and the environment from the late Chosŏn period to the present.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD in Performance and Media Studies

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair: Nick Salvato

Discipline: Performing and Media Arts

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD in History

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair: Tamara Loos

Discipline: History

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD in Science & Technology Studies

Anticipated Degree Year: 2031

Discipline: Science and Technology Studies

Pronouns: he/him

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2030

Discipline: Asian Studies

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Curator Wason East Asian Collection

Liren Zheng is the curator of the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at the Cornell University Library. Previously he was the curator of the Dr. Shao You-Bao Overseas Chinese Research and Documentation Center, Ohio University Library.

Graduate Student

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Committee Chair/Advisor: Nick Admussen

Discipline: Asian Studies

Primary Countries: China

Research Interests: Chinese Literature