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

U.S.–ROK relations; WWII memory and wartime narratives; North Korean nuclear security

Analyzing how assistive technologies in Korea serve as cultural mirrors

Sensory anthropology；the anthropology of religion with a focus on Taoism；the society and culture of contemporary China

US-China-Taiwan Relations, Security in the Indo-Pacific Region

U.S.-South Korea Relationship; International Relations of East Asia

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

US-Japan Military Relations; Indo-Pacific Transnational Relations; Contemporary Japanese Security and Society

Contemporary Japanese culture&society; Education; Linguistics; Second language acquisition; Cross-cultural communication

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

Japanese culture; Japanese popular culture; Japanese food culture; Modern Japanese literature; Japanese sociology; Linguistics; East Asian psychology; Digital media studies; Gender inequality;

U.S.-China relations, East-Asian regional politics, Japanese diplomacy

U.S.-China relations; Chinese politics; rural development in China; political economy of U.S.-China trade and investment.

Comparative Study of the Foreign Economic Policies of East Asian Countries

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

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

US and China Strategic Competition; Cross-Strait Relations and Taiwan Policy; PLA Modernization and Military Strategy

Korean American literary history; Cultural Analytics

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.

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

North Korean Studies; North Korean Media Culture; Japanese Contemporary Culture; Japanese-Korean Relations

US-China strategic competition, Chinese political economy, U.S.-China technological rivalry, Taiwan's geopolitical strategies in the global economy

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

Contemporary Korean society; soft power in Korea; adoption in East Asia; literature; impacts of East Asian popular culture globally; tourism and its impacts

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

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

U.S.-China relations; PRC views on security and global order; internal/external security nexus; contemporary Chinese bureaucratic and mobilizational politics; China's emerging role as a global security provider

Early modern East Asia; Social and cultural history; History of Sino-Korean relations; Frontier history; Ethnic and national identity

Chinese and Japanese modern and contemporary Literature; gender and sexuality in East Asia; Japanese tea practice; Japan-China relations

Early State Formation; East Asian Archaeology; Neolithic–Bronze Age Transition; Settlements and Sociopolitical Complexity; Power, Polities, and Boundaries; Interaction and Exchange; Paleography; Early Ritual; Craft Production

Emerging technology policy; US-China strategic competition; innovation ecosystems in China and Japan; international relations and security; history of science and technology

Premodern Chinese Art and Literature; Print Culture; Painting and Printed Books; Word-Image Relationships

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

Contemporary Chinese society; urban space and communication in the digital era; institutional logics in educational and cultural events of a global city; social media practices and the mediated reality.

Middle-period Chinese history, Sensory history, Material culture history

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

Political Sociology; Political Economy; Comparative-Historical Methods; (Post-) Revolutionary and Reform-Era China

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