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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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Lecturer, Asian Studies

Mayu Okawara Muller received her M.A. in Education, Curriculum and Instruction Major from Otterbein University, and B.A. in Liberal Arts, Global Studies in English Major from Hiroshima Jogakuin University. 

Visiting Scholar

Yoshiko Okuyama (PhD, University of Arizona) is a professor of Japanese studies in the Department of Languages at the University of Hawai’i at Hilo.

Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies

An-Yi Pan researches Buddhist Art with special interest in the relation between Chinese intellectual participation in Buddhism and Buddhist painting, Buddhist architecture in relation to precepts, monastic hieratical structure, liturgical as well as spiritual spaces, and trans-continental blossom

Associate Professor, History

Kristin Roebuck is drafting a book manuscript entitled Japan Reborn: Race and the Family of Nations after World War II.

Visiting Scholar

Rui Xin is a professor of Comparative literature and World literature in School of Literature, Nankai University, China

Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Arts in Asian Studies

Naoki Sakai teaches in the departments of Asian studies and comparative literature and is a member of the graduate field of history at Cornell University.

Emeritus, Hu Shih Distinguished Professor

Paul Steven Sangren is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Taiwan and China. His earliest published work combines insights drawn from structuralist theory with practice-oriented critiques to illuminate Chinese ritual processes and cosmological symbols.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2029

Committee Chair: Suyoung Son

Discipline: Asian Literature, Religion & Culture

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Discipline: Sociology 

Research Interests: Political Sociology, Social Change, Development, Economic Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Social Theory

Associate Professor, AAP and Director of the Master of Regional Planning Program

Linda Shi’s research concerns how to plan for urban climate adaptation in ways that improve environmental sustainability and social justice.