Area Studies Fields
Fields are defined differently from university to university, and from department to department, but common area-studies fields include:
- African studies
- North African studies
- Egyptology
- North African studies
- North & Latin American studies
- American studies (in the United States this has traditionally referred primarily to North America and especially the U.S.)
- American Studies in Britain
- African American studies
- Appalachian studies
- Asian American studies
- Canadian studies
- Quebec studies
- Native American studies
- Latin American studies
- Chicano studies
- American studies (in the United States this has traditionally referred primarily to North America and especially the U.S.)
- Asian studies
- Central Asian studies
- Middle Eastern studies (or Near Eastern studies)
- Assyriology
- Caucasology
- Georgian studies
- Iranian studies
- Islamic studies
- Judaic studies
- East Asian studies
- Sinology (Chinese studies)
- Taiwanese studies
- Japanology (Japanese studies)
- Ainu studies (Ainu people)
- Ryukyuan studies (Ryukyuan people)
- Koreanology (Korean studies)
- Mongolian studies
- Tibetan studies
- Uyghur studies
- Sinology (Chinese studies)
- South Asian studies
- Indology (Indian studies)
- Dravidology
- Indology (Indian studies)
- Southeast Asian studies
- Burma studies
- Indonesian studies
- Javanology
- Khmer studies
- Lao studies
- Philippine studies
- Thai studies
- Vietnamese studies
- European studies
- Austrian studies
- Baltic studies
- Byzantine studies
- Classical studies
- Dutch studies
- German studies
- Hispanism
- Romance studies
- Scandinavian studies
- Slavic studies
- Russian studies
- United Kingdom studies
- Anglo-Saxons studies
- Celtic studies (includes Irish, Scottish & Welsh studies)
- Pacific studies
- Australian studies
- New Zealand studies
Due to an increasing interest in studying translocal, transregional, transnational and transcontinental phenomena, a Potsdam based research network has recently coined the term "TransArea Studies" (POINTS - Potsdam International Network for TransArea Studies).
Other interdisciplinary research fields such as women's studies (also known as gender studies), and ethnic studies (including African American studies, Asian American studies, Latino/a studies, and Native American studies) are not part of area studies but are sometimes included in discussion along with it.
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