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.
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.
Alexis Shimon is the editor of the Cornell East Asia Series. They first came to Cornell in June 2019 as an acquisitions assistant and Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at Cornell University Press.
Jeongsu Shin is the LB Korean Studies Postdoctoral Associate in the East Asia Program at Cornell University. As an ethnographer of Korea, Shin’s work has been shaped by interdisciplinary conversations in Environmental Studies, Asian Studies, and Science and Technology Studies.
Suyoung Son is a literary and cultural historian of early modern China (1500-1900). Her research focuses on the narrative tradition and social practice of writing and reading in the historical conditions of print culture, commercialization, and urbanization.
Meejeong Song has experience teaching all levels of Korean at Cornell. Her research interests include Second Language Acquisition, web-based teaching material development, interactive student group project development, and technology-aided teaching methodology.
Keith Taylor became interested in Vietnam as a result of his U.S. Army service in the Vietnam War. He earned his PhD in 1976 at the University of Michigan. He subsequently taught in Japan and Singapore for several years before returning to the United States in 1987.
Felicia Qiuyun Teng teaches intermediate and advanced Chinese language and literature. She previously served as an editor at Beijing Publishing House and as a journalist and editor for Beijing Publishing House's University Students magazine.
Sydni Tung is the Administrative Assistant in the East Asia Program. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in East Asian Studies and Political Science from Mount Holyoke College.
