MA Students
Fedelle Austria
Postcolonial studies; migration studies; international relations; identity politics
Sasha Chanko
Zen Buddhism and Japanese nationalism; transnational and transcultural religious development; Japanese-US relations
Liyan Chen
Causal relation between government acts and cultural background in East Asia; comparative studies between China and Japan
Yan Cheng Chu
Cultural-economic history of China in the early modern period; East Asian regional security; Chinese military history
Grayson Dinovitz
Evolving gender roles throughout Chinese history, specifically focusing on how embedded beliefs surrounding women still influence policies, socio-cultural norms, and the status of women in modern China; international relations and policies
Zoe Gioja
Korea in the colonial period; gender history; contacts with Christian missionaries in Korea and East Asia; history and memory
Haley Gordon
Contemporary Korean popular culture; representations of societal issues and historical events in modern cinema, music, and literature; Korean historical memory, especially of the Japanese colonial era
Nancy Hamilton
Premodern Japanese language and literature; classical Japanese poetry, linked verse, and poetic tales; poetic allusion in art and traditional practices
Alice Siqi Han
The nexus of China's economy, politics, and technology; the rise of China's tech industry
Charlie Huo
Online social movements; youth political participation; social media; online communities; state and corporate involvement in media content moderation; contemporary Chinese culture
Yingyue Kang
Development of Cold War-era Japanese state and society and how the legacy of this development continues to shape contemporary Sino-Japanese and East Asian regional dynamics
Wei Ren Daryn Koh
Role of history in China's transition into the 21st century; China-Southeast Asia Relations; Chinese Foreign Policy
Abigail Lai
Modern, East Asian youth, the East Asian scholar-official, and the history of oration
Fenghua Li
Interconnectedness of East Asian language, culture, religion, and art; application of East Asian philosophy to modern and global contexts; Buddhism and Buddhist art in East Asia; culture and perspective
Yingzhi Lu
Japanese post-war literature, Japanese nationalism, Japanese sub-culture, Japanese post-war society
Sai Ma
Spatiality in modern Chinese literature; Modern Chinese history; Japanese literary modernism; Digital humanities
Sijia Mao
Social Stratification in Contemporary China; Media and Society; Comparative Gender Studies in East Asia; LGBT Studies
Jie Min
Accountability, infrastructure and social welfare, and government-business relations in different types of political systems; repression and economic reform in authoritarian/communist regimes; historical political economy, state-building, and dynamics of ethnic identity; East Asian and Southeast Asian politics (China, Japan, and Indonesia)
Sheryl Ke En Ng
China's actions in the South China Sea, particularly how it uses both military and non-military vessels to assert its sovereignty over its proclaimed territorial waters; how China navigates the legal and political constraints set by UNCLOS and the international community to justify its actions
Wren Ponder
Medieval Chinese Buddhism and society; Impact of Buddhist funerary rituals on the ancestral cult and filial piety
Yuchen Qian
Cultural modernization of Japan and China, and the (re-)construction of ethnic identities and aesthetics; Contemporary Chinese (sub)culture; Transcultural communication between East and West in art and visual culture
Victoria Rahbar
The print culture history of shoujo manga magazines in Japan and North America. How East Asia Libraries in North America catalog, develop, and preserve manga collections. Art History; Fan Studies; History of the Book; Library and Information Science; Manga Studies
Jingxuan Shou
Fostering mutual understanding and avoiding conflict between the US, China, and Russia. The history of the three bilateral relationships: China and the US, Russia and the US, and China and Russia
Yuze Sui
Local governance in China, state-society relations in China, Central-local relations in China, and accountability in Authoritarian regimes
Lily Amelia Susman
Culture and society in modern and contemporary China; East Asian transnational cultural history; Women and Gender Studies; Modernity, nationalism, and revolution
Shunya Tamaki
Comparative study of the open innovation management system between the US and Japan; the impact of flow of people, talent and technology in organizations.
Yawen Tan
’85 New Wave Movement; Art and politics in and after Mao’s China; Modern and contemporary Chinese art
Mari Uchima
Security in Northeast Asia, US-Japan alliance and Okinawa, Futenma relocation issue, Political leadership
Benjamin Villar
Zainichi Koreans, a Korean minority residing in Japan, and focus on identity studies, how they struggle with that identity, and how they manifest through social media outlets and the struggles they face online and in daily life from others/Japanese society.
Xiaoyong Wang
Digital humanities; Cultural Studies of Modern China with the interdisciplinary tools of visual analysis and media; Modern Buddhism in the making and its relations with Chinese society
Xinyi Wang
Economic history of modern China; Income inequality in China (the urban-rural divide); East Asian Buddhist art.
Anqi Xu
Contemporary Chinese and global art; international trade with a Chinese and digital focus; the emergence of artificial culture on digital channels; health industry (fitness and nutrition); Interdisciplinary methodology
Fengyi Xu
Economic and geopolitical competition between China and Japan focused on high-speed railway diplomacy in East Asia; International political economy in East Asia; Chinese foreign policy
Tiffany Ellen Yang
The political symbolisation of female heads of state in East Asia, especially South Korea and Taiwan; the role of media in political symbol-making; symbolic disputes
Alyssa Yee
China's economic, political and security objectives in the Central and South Pacific, especially in connection with the Belt and Road initiative
Xun Yuan
Filial piety in Chinese culture; persistence and challenges to the practice of filial piety in contemporary Chinese societies; attitudes to aging and expectations for filial piety in China
Wanqian Zhang
International Relations; U.S.- Japan Relations; Sino-Japanese Relations; Korea in the colonial period; Japanese intellectual history; Pacific Rim economics
Li Zhao
Gender, kinship and family in late imperial China; translated novels and their influences on genre development
Shirley (Xuehan) Zhao
Modern Chinese history, historical and contemporary Sino-Japanese relations, history and memory
Zhiyun Zhao
Comparative literature, focusing on the comparison of Chinese and American literature; environmental and medical humanities; theatre studies
Tingyu Zheng
Comparative literature and culture on topics related to 20th century China, where huge political and social transformation as well as unspeakable havoc have taken place (the “Great Leap Forward,” the “Cultural Revolution,” and other catastrophic social engineering); how literature as an agency of collective memory plays a role, not only in preserving but in actively constructing these cultural traumas as well as mending them, and how it continues to be of critical importance to contemporary Chinese society, which is also witnessing waves of metamorphosis and the rise of nationalism and populism
