Support Asian Studies

The Asian Studies Department provides a solid foundation in language and cultural studies for students interested both in pursuing a career within the rapidly developing marketplace that is Asia as well as those who wish to go on to graduate studies in Asia-related topics. The Department offers courses in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi-Urdu, and Sanskrit languages as well as topics in the study of China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
 
Faculty publications have garnered awards as diverse as the American Academy of Religion’s Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion for Robert Ford Campany’s Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China (Univ. of Hawai’i Press, 2009), and the Association for Asian Studies CIAC Levenson Book Prize for Ruth Rogaski’s Hygenic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China (Univ. of California Press, 2004).
 
Your donation to the Asian Studies Department supports our program in a variety of ways including bringing renowned scholars and speakers from throughout the world to Vanderbilt and providing funds for research and travel for faculty and students.

How to give

Alumni and friends’ participation is vital to the success of the Asian Studies Department. Your involvement and financial support are critical to the continuing success of the College and are indispensable to giving our students great tools for future achievement.

Your support can make a significant difference to the Asian Studies Department. Click here to give to make your contribution. If you choose to give using the online form, please be sure to type "Asian Studies Department" in the Special Comments section.