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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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Associate Teaching Professor, 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

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Asian Studies

Daniel McKee's research interests include verbal-visual relations, Tokugawa period art and literature, comedy in Japanese art and literature, and kyōka and haikai poetry.

Associate Professor, Asian Studies

Robin McNeal received his PhD from the University of Washington in ancient Chinese history. His teaching at Cornell includes classical Chinese language, text studies, and history and thought of the pre-imperial and early imperial eras.

Assistant Professor

Drisana Misra is a scholar of the Japanese archipelago and its transregional connections with the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Graduate Student

Degree Pursued: MA

Anticipated Degree Year: 2027

Discipline: Asian Studies

Field: East Asian and Southeast Asian media

Frank and Rosa Rhodes Professor of Sociology

Victor Nee's current research interests in economic sociology examines the role of networks and norms in the emergence of economic institutions and organizations.