About our Faculty

Funding

The Asian Studies Center offers grants for research and conference travel to faculty working with Asia. Information can be found here.

Furthermore, the Asian Studies Center is pleased to provide funding and support to faculty and student organizations who offer Asia-related programming on campus. To apply for funding, please fill out the Event Request Form (here) and return to Dr. James Cook (jacook@pitt.edu) and Kathryn Fortuno (ksf37@pitt.edu).

Events with a focus on Japan Studies may be eligible to receive funding from the Japan Endowments. The steps for requesting this funding are as follows:

  1. Faculty must submit an application here and upload (a) 1-2 page proposal describing the goals of the project and a rationale for the items requested (b) Itemized budget of expected project costs including the exact time period when funds will be needed.
  2. Fill out an Events Request Form as instructed above. This enables ASC to plan better, and let you know if there are any issues that need to be dealt with far in advance.
  3. You should receive notification from the Associate Director of ASC on both your funding and your request for help with the event. Please follow up with ASC if you don’t hear back within a reasonable amount of time!
  4. Funding received from these requests should be credited as "The Japan Iron and Steel Federation and Mitsubishi endowments at the University of Pittsburgh."

Before making your request, please review the Asian Studies Center events listing here. We prefer to support programming that does not overlap with existing events.

Affiliated Faculty

Anthropology

Joseph S. Alter
Professor, Staff
Robert D. Drennan
Distinguished Professor
Gabriella Lukacs
Associate Professor
Richard Scaglion
Professor Emeritus
Andrew J. Strathern
Mellon Professor

Behavioral and Community Health Sciences

Steven Albert
Professor
Jessica Burke
Professor

Business

CB Bhattacharya
Professor
Andrew Blair
Professor Emeritus
John Camillus
Professor
Wes Chiang
Assistant Professor
Nguyen Dung
Professor Emeritus
Ahmed Elshahat
Associate Professor
Mei Feng
Professor
Priyanga Gunarathne
Assistant Professor
Mark Ma
Assistant Professor
Ravi Madhavan
Professor
Josephine Olson
Professor
Yun-Oh Whang
Assistant Professor

Classics

Edwin D. Floyd
Professor Emeritus

East Asian Languages and Literatures

Soo-Yong (Sunny) Bang
Part-time Faculty
Bei Cheng
Instructor I
William B. Crawford
Part-time Faculty
Yuko Eguchi Wright
Part-time Faculty