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Advisory Council

The Asian Studies Center Advisory Council is a collective of faculty representatives from Michigan State University, each faculty member on the council is from a certain designation including East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, College of Arts and Letters, College of Social Science, Central, West, and North Asia, and a College other than CAL or CSS. Membership on the council requires faculty involvement in research, teaching, and outreach related to Asia and Asian languages.


2025 - 2026 Advisory Council Members

Eddie Boucher

Representative Designation: South Asia
Title: Associate Director
Department: Center for Integrative Studies in Social Science
College: Social Science
Email: bouche50(at)msu.edu

Jiquan Chen

Representative Designation: Central, West, and North Asia
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Geography, Environment, and Spatial Sciences
College: Social Science
Email: jqchen(at)msu.edu

Peter De Costa

Representative Designation: Southeast Asia
Title: Professor
Department: Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures (LiLaC)
College: Arts & Letters
Email: pdecosta(at)msu.edu

Amanda Flaim

Representative Designation: Colleges other than CSS/CAL
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Sociology
College: Social Science
Email: flaim(at)msu.edu

David Humphrey

Representative Designation: College of Arts and Letters
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Linguistics, Languages, and Cultures
College: Arts and Letters
Email: dhumphre(at)msu.edu

Kyunghee Lee

Representative Designation: East Asia
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Social Work
College: Social Science
Email: choiky(at)msu.edu

Shayan Rajani 

Representative Designation: College of Social Science
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Department of History
College: Social Science
Email: srajani(at)msu.edu 

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Leo Baldiga

Representative Designation: Graduate Students
Title: Graduate Student (Geography, Doctoral)
Email: baldigal(at)msu.edu

Aaliyah Posvech

Representative Designation: Undergraduate Students
Title: Undergraduate Student (Management, BBA)
Email: posvecha(at)msu.edu

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