Asian Studies at Cornell

02/11/2026

We have moved locations while our office undergoes repairs from a burst pipe. We are now in Rockefeller 334! Stop on by and say hi!! We are still here to help answer questions!!

03/04/2025

It's Application Season!!

The department offers three different awards/funding opportunities:

1. The Tina Han Su Cooper Class of ’66 Award
2. The Department of Asian Studies Study, Research, and Service Travel Grant
3. Diversity Research Grant

Visit our website: https://asianstudies.cornell.edu/funding-and-awards for more info!

Deadline is March 28th!

Undergraduate Funding and Awards

01/23/2025

It's application season!! The Department of Asian Studies offers three different awards/funding opportunities:

1. The Tina Han Su Cooper Class of '66 Award
2. The Department of Asian Studies Study, Research, and Service Travel Grant
3. The Diversity Research Grant.

Check our website (https://asianstudies.cornell.edu/funding-and-awards) for more info!

DEADLINE: March 28th

01/17/2025

Welcome back everyone! Still need some credits? Need to change your schedule? Check out some of our new courses for Spring 2025!

New and Highlighted Courses (Spring 2025)

08/26/2024

Happy First Day Back everyone!

08/19/2024

Asian Studies Graduate Student, Yuanxue Jing!

03/21/2024

Come check us out at the A&S Major & Experimental Fair, PSB! 4:30-6!

03/15/2024

What an amazing ! It wouldn’t have been possible without your generosity. Thank you for joining us to make a difference for Cornell students!

03/13/2024

Save the date: March 14 is ! Your gifts will directly impact the students, causes, and areas of Cornell that you love. Get ready for a 24-hour celebration of Big Red Spirit!

To give to Asian Studies tomorrow go to https://givingday.cornell.edu/campaigns/cu-asian-studies

02/28/2024

02/28/2024

"As the architect of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, video game director Hideo Kojima is synonymous with the “stealth game” genre, where tension and excitement is created from players avoiding enemies rather than confronting them. Through the franchise, Kojima also helped to bridge the gap between video games and other forms of media. In this talk, Bryan Hikari Hartzheim draws from his recently published book to explain the core tenets of Kojima’s game design."
About the speaker: Bryan Hikari Hartzheim is Associate Professor of New Media at Waseda University in Tokyo. He teaches and researches on game studies, media industries, and Japanese popular culture in the School of International Liberal Studies and Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies. He is the author of Hideo Kojima: Progressive Game Design from Metal Gear to Death Stranding (2023) and co-editor of The Franchise Era: Managing Media in the Digital Economy (2019).
Please, consult also the event page on the Cornell events calendar: https://events.cornell.edu/event/lecture_brian_hikari_harzheimm
The event will be on March 11th at 4:45pm in Goldwin Smith Hall 64 (Kaufmann Auditorium)

Bryan Hikari Hartzheim, Waseda University. As the architect of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, video game director Hideo Kojima is synonymous with the “stealth game” genre, where tension and excitement is created from players avoiding enemies rather than confronting them. Through the franchise, ...