At Stanford, Ph.D. degrees in the East Asian field are awarded by the individual departments. The departments which offer an East Asian concentration are:

Anthropological Sciences
Art History
Asian Languages
Comparative Literature
Cultural and Social Anthropology (CASA)
Economics
History
Linguistics
Political Science
Religious Studies
Sociology

It is also possible to specialize in East Asia within some of the doctoral programs of the professional Schools of Law, Education, and Business.