A substantial number of professors, librarians, and others at SJSU teach courses, perform services, or conduct research in areas requiring a certain level of Asian Studies expertise. Many were raised in Asia or have overseas experience. Their expertise contributes to teaching, service, and research in a wide variety of disciplines, as the following list indicates. In this list, all surnames are given last, even for those in whose native language this would not be the case.

• Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Hospitality, Recreation & Tourism Management (India)
• Karin Brown, Philosophy (Asia)
• Gong Chen, Kinesiology (China)
• Balance Chow, English & Comparative Literature (China)
• Peter Chua, Sociology (Southeast Asia)
• Howard Combs, Marketing (Southeast Asia)
• Michael Conniff, Global Studies Institute
• Noam Cook, Philosophy (Japan)
• Hien Duc Do, Social Sciences (Vietnam)
• Jan English-Lueck, Anthropology (China)
• Ge Gao, Communications Studies (China)
• Kyung Mo Han, Kinesiology (Korea)
• Cobie Harris, Political Science (East Asia)
• Thom Huebner, Linguistics and Language Development (Japan, Thailand)
• Seiichiro Inaba, World Languages and Literatures (Japan)
• William Y. Jiang, Organization & Management (China)
• Christian Jochim, Comparative Religious Studies (China, Taiwan)
• Hahn Koo, Linguistic and Language Development (Korea)
• Revathi Krishnaswami, English and Comparative Literature (Asia)
• Shishir Mathur, Urban and Regional Planning (India)
• Toby Matoush, King Library (Japan)
• Ken Montojo, Political Science (Southeast Asia)
• Bo Mou, Philosophy (China)
• Manjari Ohala, Linguistics and Language Development
• Sak Onkvisit, Marketing (Southeast Asia)
• Taeho Park, Organization and Management (Korea)
• Chanh Cong Phan, Comparative Religious Studies (Vietnam, East Asia)
• Shantanu Phukan, Comparative Religious Studies (South Asia)
• Xiaohong Quan, Organization & Management (China)
• Mahesh N. Rajan, Marketing (Asia)
• E. Bruce Reynolds, History (East and Southeast Asia)
• Jennifer Rycenga, Comparative Religious Studies (India)
• Karthika Sasikumar, Political Science (India)
• Diana Stover, Journalism & Mass Communications (China)
• Anand Vaidya, Philosophy (India)
• Yasue Yanai (Kodama), World Languages & Literature (Japan)
• Yao Yao, World Languages and Literatures (China)
• Tsu-Hong Yen, Hospitality, Recreation & Tourism Management (China & Taiwan)
• Jing Zhang, Marketing (China)