Program Description
The program's graduate minor invites any Cornell graduate student interested in Asian American studies to craft a program of interdisciplinary study. Faculty expertise spans multiple fields, including anthropology, history, literature, performing and media arts, labor relations, Asian studies, human development, psychology, and language, enabling students to develop a graduate minor that meets their specific interests.
Graduate Minor Field Requirements
Students must complete the following requirements:
- One pro-seminar (including foundational texts and guest speakers from among AASP’s core and affiliated faculty as well as Asian American studies scholars beyond Cornell).
- One additional Asian American Studies course at the 3000, 4000, or 6000 level. Other courses not crosslisted with Asian American Studies may be eligible upon consultation with the Director of Graduate Studies.
- As per graduate school regulations, select one AASP field member to serve as a minor committee member.
- File an online application form.
- Students are not required to have completed or enrolled in all required courses before submitting the application.
Faculty
Nicholas Admussen
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
- Research Interests: His teaching centers on Chinese literature and culture in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His research applies close reading, translation, techniques from sociology, and literary theory in an attempt to read and understand contemporary poetry, and by extension to invent and refine methods of interpretation through which people separated by linguistic or political distance can come to understand one another.
Christine Bacareza Balance
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
Derek S Chang
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
Juliana Hu Pegues
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
Adhy Kim
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
- Research Interests: transnational Asian American studies; comparative empire studies; environmental humanities; speculative fiction
Viranjini P Munasinghe
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
Tejasvi Nagaraja
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
- Research Interests: Asian American studies
Qi Wang
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
Ivanna Sang Een Yi
- Campus: Ithaca - (Minor Member)
- Concentrations: Asian American Studies: Asian American Studies
- Research Interests: Asian American Studies
