Asia, the largest continent and home to the largest number of people, witnessed some of our world’s earliest civilizations, flourishing from western Asia to the Indo-Gangetic and North China plains. Today, the continent is experiencing remarkable cultural, technological, and economic transformations. We are truly living in the “Asian Century!” Asian Studies in the Department of International and Global Studies dives into the continent’s past, present, and future through the interdisciplinary study of political-economy, cultures and religions, communication and media, gender and sexuality, migration, development, and environmental change in South, Southeast, and East Asia. Our faculty are scholars from diverse disciplines such as communication studies, geography, education, and history.