Area Studies List

This is a article contains a list of area studies. Area studies are interdisciplinary fields of research which focus upon specific geographical locations and peoples. While area studies stretch across a range of topics, I am including it here on my website to focus on history. More specifically, to focus on the history of these studies. This list is subject to being updated.

Articles which contain a list of people who have studied a particular study may sometimes be found by clicking the number they are after. The century or centuries included after a study represent when that study was founded/developed. Dates are based either on a recognized “founder” of a study or the earliest names on the list of scholars for a study.

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African studies

1 – North African Studies

1.1 – Berberology (Berber studies) – 19th-20th century

1.2 – Egyptology – 19th century

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Asian studies

1 – Central Asian

1.1 – Mongolian studies – 19th century

1.2 – Tibetology (Tibetan studies) – 18th-19th centuries

2 – Middle Eastern studies (Near Eastern studies)

2.1 – Assyriology – 19th century

2.2- Caucasology – 19th-20th centuries?

2.2.1 – Chechen studies

2.2.2 – Dagestan studies

2.2.3 – Ossetian studies

2.2.4 – Abkhaz studies

2.2.5 – Armenology (Armenian studies)

2.2.6 – Georgian studies

2.3 – Iranian studies – 18th-19th centuries

2.3.1 – Persian studies

2.3.2 – Kurdology (Kurdish studies)

2.4 – Islamic studies

2.5 – Judaic studies

2.6 – Turkish studies

2.6.1 – Seljuk studies

2.6.2 – Ottoman studies

3 – East Asian studies

3.1 – Sinology (Chinese studies)

3.1.1 – Hakka studies

3.1.2 – Teochew studies

3.1.3 – Hong Kong studies

3.1.4 – Macau studies

3.1.5 – Taiwan studies

3.2 – Japanology (Japanese studies)

3.2.1 – Ainu studies (Ainu people)

3.2.2 – Ryukyuan studies (Ryukyuan people)

3.3 – Koreanology (Korean studies)

3.4 – Manchurology

3.5 – Mongolian studies – 19th century

3.6 – Tibetology – 18th-19th centuries

3.7 – Uyghur studies

3.8 – Yi studies

3.9 – Zhuang studies

3.10 – Miao studies

4 – South Asian studies

4.1 – Indology (Indian studies) – 18th-19th centuries

4.1.1 – Dravidology

4.1.2 – Bengali studies

4.2 – Pakistanology

4.2.1 – Sindhology

4.3 – Tibetology – 18th-19th centuries

5 – Southeast Asian studies

5.1 – Burma studies

5.2 – Indonesian studies

5.2.1 – Javanology

5.3 – Khmer studies

5.4 – Lao studies

5.5 – Philippine studies

5.6 – Thai studies

5.7 – Vietnamese studies

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European Studies

1 – Austrian studies

2 – Baltic studies

3 – Basque studies

4 – Byzantine studies – mainly 19th century, some developments in the 16th-17th centuries

5 – Classical studies – 15th-16th centuries

6 – Dutch studies

7 – Finnish studies

8 – French studies

8.1 – Breton studies

9 – German studies

10 – Hispanism

11 – Irish studies

12 – Italian studies

13 – Romance studies

13.1 – Catalan studies

14 – Scandinavian studies – 18th-19th centuries

15 – Slavic studies (Slavistics) – 18th-19th centuries

15.1 – Russian studies – 19th-20th centuries

15.2 – Ukrainian studies

15.3 – Belarusian studies

15.4 – Czech studies

15.5 – Polish studies

15.6 – Bosnian studies

15.7 – Bulgarian studies

15.8 – Croatian studies

15.9 – Serbian studies

16 – United Kingdom studies

16.1 – Anglo-Saxon studies

16.2 – Celtic studies (Celtology)

16.3 – Cornish studies

16.4 – Welsh studies

16.5 – Scottish studies

16.6 – Manx studies

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North & Latin American Studies

1 – American Studies

1.1 – American Studies in Britain

1.2 – African American Studies

1.3 – Appalachian Studies

1.4 – Asian American Studies

1.5 – Canadian Studies

1.6 – Québec Studies

1.7 – Native American Studies – 20th century?

1.8 – Eskimology – 20th century

2 – Latin American Studies

2.1 – Chicano Studies

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Pacific studies

1 – Australian Studies

2 – New Zealand Studies

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Some not mentioned above

1 – Coptology – 19th century

2 – Hittitology – 19th century

3 – Semitology – 19th century

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References:

[1] – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_studies

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