Associate Professor, Department of History Director of the Center for Asian Studies (CAS) Timothy Yang is an associate professor in the Department of History. He teaches a broad range of courses in East Asian history. His research interests include the history of science and medicine, the history of business and capitalism, colonial and postcolonial studies, and environmental studies. He is the author of the prize-winning, A Medicated Empire: The Pharmaceutical Industry and Modern Japan (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2021).