WELCOME

The program in Asian and Asian American Studies supports the study of Asia and transoceanic, transnational Asian diasporas of the world with emphasis on:

• studies of Asian histories, languages, and cultures within Asia as geographically defined;
  
  
• studies of Asian diasporas, with particular focus on Asians of the Americas.
  
  The program encourages work that is interdisciplinary, comparative,
  or global in methodology and theory, as well as work that is specialized locally or regionally. The program also supports work that examines the study of "Asia" and Asian diasporas as complex nexuses of socio/geo/political regions, economies, histories, and ideas, across national and oceanic boundaries. The present membership benefits from the cross-national work and research agendas of Asianists and Asian Americanists in productive dialogue.