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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 East and Asian
   Languages and 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)
Frances Pritchett (Middle East and Asian
   Languages and Cultures)
George A. Saliba (Middle East and Asian
   Languages and Cultures)
Haruo Shirane (East Asian Languages and
   Cultures)
Robert A. F. Thurman (Religion)
Marc Van De Mieroop (Middle East and
   Asian Languages and 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 East and Asian
   Languages and 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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