Faculty Strengths
Nerissa S. Balce researches race, racism, gender, and state violence. Her book, Body Parts of Empire: Visual Abjection, Filipino Images and the American Archive, is winner of the 2018 Best Book award in Cultural Studies from the Filipino Section of the Association for Asian American Studies.
William Chittick's work on pre-modern Islamic intellectual history and its relevance for contemporary humanistic concerns has been translated into 50+ languages.
Agnes He is recognized for her seminal work on Chinese as a heritage (home) language. The Center for Multilingual and Intercultural Communication, which she directs, is working on a large-scale project involving hundreds of students with the title "Stony Brook Stories of Language and Life".
Jiwon Hwang's research on Asian language learning and intercultural communication has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education.
Jungmin Kang's research interests include second language acquisition, heritage language learning, and Koean syntax.
Hongkyung Kim's research focuses on Confucianism and Daoism. His 6-volume book series: The Analects of Dasan: A Korean Syncretic Reading is being published by the Oxford University Press.
Sandra So Hee Chi Kim explores the intersections of race, global coloniality, ethnonationalisms, migration, and culture. She is also founder and Co-Executive Director of the Asian American Justice + Innovation Lab.
Tingda (Hannah) Li's expertise includes Chinese language teaching at all levels and training Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (TCSOL).
Sachiko Murata investigates the interrelationships between Islamic and Far Eastern thought, especially in the writings of the Huiru, “the Muslim Confucianists,” who wrote numerous tracts in Chinese from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.
Eva Nagase's research interests include Japanese culture and circulation of objects, partifularly dining utensils such as chopsticks. She also conducts research in Japanse language pedagogy. She directs study abroad programs in Japanese.
Chikako Nakamura’s interests include Japanese literature, translation studies, online language teaching, multilingualism, and the book publishing industry. She also coordinates Japanese language (JPN) courses.
Andrew Nicholson focuses on Indian philosophy and intellectual history. Among the courses that he teaches is Yoga: Theory and Praxis.
Atsuko Oyama researches new nurturing styles of fatherhood and masculinity in modern and contemporary Japan. She also conducts research in Japanse language pedagogy.
Gregory Ruf offers courses on culture, society, and history in China and is the recipient of multiple Excellence-in-Teaching awards.
Eriko Sato wrote a book on translation and 'translanguaging' (how we use multiple languages at the same time without differentiating them). She is the author of over 20 books including both research monographs and Japanese language textbooks.
Hong Snyder is an expert in teaching Chinese language and culture and has extensive experience preparing students to take the standard Chinese proficiency test (HSK).
Heejeong Sohn's research interests include modern & contemporary history of Korea, photography and visual studies, and digital humanities. She directs the Korean Language Teacher Education Program.
S.N. Sridhar investigates the impact of the spread of English in Asia. He is President of the International Association of World Englishes and Founder and Director of the best endowed Center for India Studies in the nation.
EK Tan specializes in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, Sinophone studies, the intersection of Anglophone and Sinophone literature and culture from Southeast Asia, queer Asian studies, film theory, cultural translations, postcolonial and diaspora theory.
Sthaneshwar Timalsina teaches Indian literature and philosophy and works in the fields of consciousness studies, Indian and comparative philosophy, Tantric studies, and time and creativity.
Yi Wang's work centers on the multilayered language ideologies among nation-states, stakeholders, and study abroad students in China. In collaboration with computational social scientists, she recently published a co-authored paper in Nature Humanities and Social Science Communications, focusing on Sinophobia in Chinese language communities on Twitter.
Dongmei Zeng is an expert on Chinese language teaching and author of several language learning textbooks.