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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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Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy

Shanjun Li is the Kenneth L. Robinson Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. He serves as the co-director of Cornell Institute for China Economic Research (CICER).

Assistant Professor, History of Art and Visual Studies

Nancy P. Lin is Assistant Professor of History of Art and Visual Studies. She specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese art and architecture with a particular interest in the relationship between art and urbanism.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Discipline: Asian Studies

Pronouns: he/him

Senior Lecturer, Asian Studies

Rui Liu received her MA in Literary Theory in 2002 from the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Tsinghua University, and her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature in 1999 from Shaanxi Normal University in China.

GSSC Co-chair and Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2028

Committee Chair: Matthew Wilkins

Discipline: Information Science

Research Interests: Digital Humanities, Queer Chinese webnovels

Lecturer, Asian Studies

Jyun-hong Lu received his M.A. in Chinese language pedagogy from the Graduate Institute of Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University, and a B.A. in Chinese literature from National Chengchi University. 

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2031

Committee Chair: TJ Hinrichs

Discipline: History

Professor Emeritus, Economics
Tom Lyons studies China's recent economic history. He is especially interested in spatial aspects of development, including patterns of regional specialization and interregional trade, spatial disparities in output and consumption, and institutions and policies that shape the spatial structure of the economy.
Associate Professor, Asian Studies

Shaoling Ma is an interdisciplinary scholar and critical theorist of global Chinese history, literature, and media.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: PhD

Anticipated Degree Year: 2029

Committee Chair: Andrew Campana

Discipline: Asian Literature, Religion & Culture