About Global Asia Program
The Global Asia Program, sponsored by the Luce Foundation and New York University, brings together scholars, educators, artists, students, and activists to explore the many forms of mobility that shape form Asian spaces from ancient times to the present.
Our Research Projects produce online resources for teaching and research on the mobile connectivity of human environments traveling through Asia and around the world.
Centers for the study of Global Asia at New York University, in New York, Abu Dhabi, and Shanghai, organize and sponsor research to advance the study of Asia as an unbounded space of mobility, connectivity, and territorial transformation, from ancient times to the present.
We work in and across all regions of Area Studies, in a wide range of disciplines. We study technology, economics, migration, travel, tourism, language, literature, art, religion, politics, ecology, climate, health, medicine, ideas, material cultures, and more.
People
NYU Global Asia Administration
David Ludden
David Ludden is the Emeritus Founding Director of the Center for Global Asia in New York and Professor of Political Economy and Globalization in the NYU Department of History. His work focuses broadly on histories of empire, capitalism, globalization, and agrarian environments.
Tansen Sen
Tansen Sen is a Professor of History and Director of the Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai. He specializes in Asian history and religions and has special scholarly interests in India-China interactions, Indian Ocean trade, Buddhism, and Silk Road archeology.
Mark Swislocki
Mark Swislocki is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Global Asia Initiative, NYU-Abu Dhabi. He specializes in the history of China. His research focuses on the environmental history of southwest China, and the history of nutrition, critical animal studies, and the environment.
Project Leaders
Ismail Fajrie Alatas
Ismail Fajrie Alatas (Assistant Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies) is leading our project on The Mobility of Relgion
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer
Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer (Assistant Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic) is a member of the leadership team for the Early Modern Empires project.
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan
Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan is Associate Professor at NYU. He is Afro-Asia Program director.
Masha Kirasirova
Masha Kirasirova (Assistant Professor of History) at NYU Abu Dhabi is part of the “Global Radical Asia” project.
Heather Ruth Lee
Heather Ruth Lee is Undergraduate Coordinator of Humanities and Assistant Professor of History, NYU Shanghai; Global Network Assistant Professor, NYU; and leader of the New York Global Asia City Project.
Tatiana Linkhoeva
Tatiana Linkhoeva (Assistant Professor of History) is leading a project on “Global Radical Asia,” which will yield a team taught course in Spring 2023 (with Heather Ruth Lee at NYU-Shanghai and Masha Kirasirova (Assistant Professor of History) at NYU Abu Dhabi.
Susanah Romney
Susanah Romney (Associate Professor of History) is a member of the leadership team for the Early Modern Empires project.
Rashmi Devi Sawhney
Rashmi Devi Sawhney is Associate Program Head of Film and New Media and Associate Arts Professor of Film and New Media. She is a Afro-Asia Program director.
Shobana Shankar
Shobana Shankar, Professor of History, Stony Brook University.
Dina M. Siddiqi
Dina M. Siddiqi (Clinical Associate Professor of Liberal Studies) is the leader of our project on Globalizing Nation-Space, focusing on Bangladesh.
Jiun Tan
Jiun Tan is a writer and researcher based in the Netherlands. A graduate of the NYU Abu Dhabi History program, she is interested in migration history and storytelling. Find out more at www.tzyjiun.com
Yijun Wang
Yijun Wang (Assistant Professor of History) is a member of the leadership team for the Early Modern Empires project.
Cassie Washington
Research Interests: Pre-1945 anti-fascist campaigns in British West Africa, Interwar West African Intellectual History, Black Internationalisms, Italian colonialism in East Africa, Decolonizing Fascist Studies.