MA Students

Buddhist studies; Buddhism and its reception in East Asia; Chinese poetry; philosophy and literature

Contemporary Japanese society; Japanese culture; Japanese popular culture; Japanese film and fiction; modern Japan politics; Japan in international relations; education; sports; gender inequality

Political economy of development; State-business relations in East Asia; China's financial system and local government debt; Political methodology.

Chinese political economy; East Asian technology trade; US-China relations, Civil Society and Social Movements in East Asia

Indigenous language reclamation; Ryukyuan language education; language ideology in Japan; linguistic minorities in Japan; Ryukyu/Uchinaanchu diasporic studies

Contemporary Japanese culture; Modern Japanese literature; Linguistics; Technology in Japan; Japanese international relations and policy

Japanese culture, Japan in international relations, Japanese Empire, transnational history of East Asia, contemporary Japanese soft power relations, defining "other", ethnicity, race, and identity in contemporary Japan, nationalism, colonialism and imperialism in East Asia.

Contemporary Japanese society; Changing ideologies and configurations of Japanese families; Gender dynamics; Child development; East Asian religions

Contemporary East Asian film, media, literature, culture, gender, modernization, and politics

China-Taiwan Relations; CCP Governance; US and China Strategic Competition

International politics in East Asia; History of China, Korea, and Japan; US-China relations

Contemporary Chinese politics; Chinese political economy

History of technology, science fiction, technology and culture, industrialization, modernity

Modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film, gender, women's writing, world literature, translation

Everyday lives of women in late imperial China; garden culture in China

East Asian historiography and film culture; science fiction and the state; U.S.-China relations; transformations in U.S.-East Asian alliances; international relations and security

Science fiction and East Asian socio-technical imaginaries, postcolonial Korean literature, posthumanism, labor, digital media and culture

Art and cultural history of the Korean Peninsula; postcolonial and postwar Korea; impact of war on Korean art; art as cultural diplomacy; art in foreign policy; national division; politics of memory; modern and contemporary Korean society

Korean educational public policy, contemporary Korean history, North/South Korean cultural diaspora, US-Korea relations

Japanese literature; comparative literature; ecocriticism

Korean American literary history; Cultural Analytics

Foreign labor policy and immigration issues in Japan. Working culture and development in Japan

Climate change and sustainability in East Asia; food and water security; international relations, policy, and security; women's economic empowerment; startups and technology; cross-strait relations; nationalism and legitimacy.

Chinese politics, nationalism, public opinion, US-China relations.

Health and society in East Asia; Social determinants of health; Life course approach; Health care access and technology.

Chinese pre-modern and modern romance literature; Chinese ecocriticism; representation of rural China in modern media

Great Power Competition; Indo-Pacific Regional Security

Gender Equity; Global Asian Rights; Sustainability in East Asia; Silver Economy; Space and Perception: Architecture and Urban Planning; Digital Humanities and Art; Mental Health Challenges

Gender in Japanese politics; feminist movements in East Asia; Sino-Japanese relations; Japanese culture; international relations in East Asia; Chinese international politics

modern Chinese women's history; social movements before and during the Cultural Revolution; sociopolitical theatre; Chinese folk performances; aging and elder care for Chinese seniors in the US and China

Medieval Japanese Buddhism; Japanese Buddhist art; Sino-Japanese relations; tea ceremony; gender perceptions in medieval and early modern Japan; early modern Japanese society; Japanese woodblock prints

Modern and contemporary Japanese culture and literature focused on postcolonial, transnational, and gender theories

The Korea-U.S.-Japan Triangle, U.S.-China Relations, Relations between Countries during the Korean War, Wartime Memories in East Asia

U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis East Asia; China's grand strategy

Modern and contemporary Korean society, visual-material culture, digital media; objecthood and historical memory

Japanese History & Culture; US - Japan Relations; Article 9 Reformation; ASEAN+3; Emerging Power Conflicts in the Indo-Pacific

Comparative study of Japan and South Korea’s soft power strategy; shift from traditional public diplomacy to new public diplomacy in Japan; nation branding, nationalism, and identity

Contemporary Chinese politics; social and economic conditions in China before the Cultural Revolution

Tibetan-Mongol Buddhist Art; Chinese Buddhism; East Asian Religious Art

Gendered states, cultural construction of gender in Korea, new institutionalism

US Foreign Policy in East Asia; Korea-US Alliance; Korea-US-Japan Trilateral Cooperation; Inter Korean Relations; North Korea’s Domestic and Foreign Policy

East Asian popular culture and media; race and ethnic issues, especially colorism and anti-black racism; cultural appropriation; Japan-Korea relations; nationalism in popular culture

Chinese art, cultural, and intellectual history

Chinese foreign policy; authoritarian politics; state-society relations; civil society and the internet; technology and governance; East Asian feminisms; Canada-China relations; contemporary Chinese diaspora

Organizations and state-business relations in contemporary China; Chinese political economy and urban-rural development

Sociology of organization; Decentralized autonomous organizations in East Asia; Social structure and transformation of China; Institutional studies of the dynamics of "party-state" and society in contemporary China

Digital humanities; Linguistics, particularly sociolinguistics and cognitive linguistics; International relations; Korean Wave and cultural economy; Political economy; Computational social sciences; Gender Studies; Comparative literature

Chinese art and religion; Buddhist visual culture; particularly the role of art in religion and society and the relationship between religious texts/doctrine and visual representations