List of Asianists who may be able to work with IDMA students include the following faculty:
Anthropology
- Nicole Constable, China, migration, gender
- Gabrielle Lukacs, contemporary Japanese media
East Asian Languages and Literatures
- Charles Exley, modern Japanese literature and film, media studies, digital humanities.
- HeeJin Lee, modern Korean literature
- Stephen Luft, Japanese language pedagogy and pragmatics, L2 acquisition
- Elizabeth Oyler, premodern Japanese literature, drama, performance studies
- Kun Qian, modern Chinese literature and film, media studies
- Yi Xu, SLA, Chinese, Chinese linguistics, L2 acquisition
Film and Media Studies
- JS Wu, global anime, technology of the body
History
- Raja Adal, modern Japan, writing system, aesthetics
- Ruth Mostern, premodern China
- Carla Nappi, early modern China, Manchu studies
- Peng Hai, modern China, inner Asia
- James Cook, modern Chinese history
History of Art and Architecture
- Michelle McCoy, premodern Chinese art
Linguistics
- Alan Juffs, SLA, Japanese, Chinese
Political Science
- Yaoyao Dai, Chinese politics, information manipulation
- Yuyang Pu, Chinese politics, propaganda
Religious Studies
- Clark Chilson, modern Japanese religion, medical humanities
- Cuilan Liu, Chinese religion, Tibetan Buddhism
School of Public and International Affairs
- Kay Shimizu, contemporary Japanese and Chinese political economy