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Nathan Shockey

Nathan Shockey

Program Director
Associate Professor of Japanese

Phone: 845-758-6822
E-mail: [email protected]

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Ian Buruma

Ian Buruma

Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism

Phone: 845-758-8170
E-mail: [email protected]

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Robert J. Culp

Robert J. Culp

Professor of History and Asian Studies

Phone: 845-758-7395
Email: [email protected]

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Sanjaya DeSilva

Sanjaya DeSilva

Associate Professor of Economics

Phone: 845-758-7072
E-mail: [email protected]

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Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu

Professor of Literature
Office:   Aspinwall 201
Phone: 845-758-6822

Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu is the author of Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday, 2022) and A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific (Harvard University Press, 2016). He is a staff writer at The New Yorker, having previously contributed to Artforum, Slate, the Village Voice, and The Wire (UK). He served on the editorial board of A New Literary History of America (HUP, 2009) and his scholarly work has been published in American Quarterly, Criticism, PMLA, and Genre. He currently serves on the boards of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color. Hsu previously taught at Vassar College. He was formerly a fellow at the New America Foundation and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. He publishes a zine about music and life called Suspended in Time. He is currently working on an essay collection titled Impostor Syndrome.

Sucharita Kanjilal

Sucharita Kanjilal

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Email: [email protected]
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Laura Kunreuther

Laura Kunreuther

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Phone: 845-758-7215
E-mail: [email protected]

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Soonyoung Lee

Soonyoung Lee

Visiting Assistant Professor of Korean Literature, Language, and Culture

E-mail: [email protected]
Office: Seymour 101
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Huiwen Li

Huiwen Li

Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese

Phone:  (845) 758-7600
E-mail:  [email protected]

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Nabanjan Maitra

Nabanjan Maitra

Assistant Professor of Religion

Email: [email protected]
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Phuong Ngo

Phuong Ngo

Assistant Professor of Japanese; Director, Japanese Studies Program 

Phone: (845) 758-6822
Email: [email protected]
Office: Seymour 105
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Chiara Pavone

Chiara Pavone

Assistant Professor of Japanese

E-mail: [email protected]
Office: Seymour 301

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Heeryoon Shin

Heeryoon Shin

Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
 

Phone: 845-758-7184
E-mail: [email protected]
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Richard Suchenski

Richard Suchenski

Associate Professor of Film and Electronic Arts; Director, Center for Moving Image Arts

Phone: 845-758-6482
E-mail: [email protected]

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Yuka Suzuki

Yuka Suzuki

Associate Professor of Anthropology

Phone: 845-758-7219
E-mail: [email protected]

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Dominique Townsend

Dominique Townsend

Assistant Professor of Religion; Director, Interdisciplinary Study of Religions

E-mail: [email protected]


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Jenny Xie

Jenny Xie

Assistant Professor of Written Arts

Email: [email protected]
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Shuangting Xiong 

Shuangting Xiong 

Assistant Professor of Chinese; Director, Chinese Studies Program

Phone: 845-758-6822
E-mail: [email protected]

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In Memoriam Li-Hua Ying(1956-2023)

In Memoriam Li-Hua Ying
(1956-2023)

Associate Professor of Chinese

In Memoriam Li-Hua

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