Bulletin

Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Administrative Information

Acting Program Director: Prof. Shang Wei, 418 Kent; 854-1526; ws110@columbia.edu

Program Office: 500 Kent; 854-2569

Special Service Professor
Wm. Theodore de Bary (John Mitchell Mason Professor and Provost Emeritus of the University)

Professors
Paul Anderer (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Peter J. Awn (Religion)
Richard Bulliet (History)
Pierre Cachia (Senior Scholars Program)
Myron Cohen (Anthropology)
Hamid Dabashi (Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages, and Africa Cultures)
Nicholas Dirks (Anthropology)
Carol Gluck (History)
Robert Harrist (Art History and Archaeology)
John S. Hawley (Religion, Barnard)
Robert Hymes (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Nanor Kendarian(Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages, and Africa Cultures)
George A. Saliba (Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages, and Africa Cultures)
Haruo Shirane (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Robert A. F. Thurman (Religion)
Marc Van De Mieroop (Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages, and Africa Cultures)
Gauri Viswanathan (English and Comparative Literature)
Madeleine Zelin (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Associate Professors
Charles Armstrong (History)
Aaron Fox (Music)
Rachel Fell McDermott (Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard)
David L. Moerman (Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard)
Marilyn J. Ivy (Anthropology)
John Pemberton (Anthropology)
Gregory Pflugfelder (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Wei Shang (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Tomi Suzuki (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Guobin Yang

Assistant Professors
Wiebke Denecke
Eugenia Lean (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Feng Li (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
David Lurie (East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Joseph Massad (Middle Eastern, South Asian Languages, and Africa Cultures)
Wendy Swartz (East Asian Languages and Cultures)

Adjunct Faculty
Dawn Delbanco (Art History and Archaeology)
Mary McGee (Religion)

Senior Scholars
Pei-yi Wu

This is an inter-departmental, cross-disciplinary teaching program. Through a variety of region specific courses, as well as those which are explicitly broad-gauged or comparative in nature, students are offered diverse ways to expand their knowledge of the world, of cultures and societies in addition to those explicitly treated in Columbia’s Core Curriculum. The program relies on the cooperation of several departments across the humanities and social sciences, drawing on Columbia’s great strength in international studies.

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