MA Students

U.S.-R.O.K. Relations During the Cold War; U.S. Policy Toward the Korean Peninsula; Inter-Korean Relations

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

Healthcare in China; environmental public policy in China; global public health; health policy

Concepts and self-understanding of identity amongst East Asian immigrants to the United States; formation of early immigrant diaspora communities

Economic strategy; Semiconductor supply chains; Chinese political economy; Comparative political and economic thought

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

Chinese economy; the movement of global supply chains

Comparative studies between Korea and Japan; cultural diplomacy; digital media; visual arts; contemporary political relations

International reception of ink art under the influence of China’s post-1970s pursuit of soft power; cultural diplomacy; ink art as a philosophy, practice, and phenomenon; political impetus and leverage behind cultural activities in China

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

Modern Japanese history; transnational history of China and Japan; historical and contemporary Sino-Japanese relations, especially Mongolian-Japanese relations; wartime memories in East Asia

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.

Venture capital; Macro social theory; Transformation of contemporary China's social, political, and economic landscape; Interrelation between capital market and modern state building

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

Different choices modern Chinese intellectuals made and their respective outcomes in the early period of People's Republic of China

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

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

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

Japanese literature; comparative literature; ecocriticism

Social, cultural and intellectual history of Early Modern China; Ethnicity and identity in the so-called "China proper" during late imperial period and their relations to late imperial Chinese politics in both central and local level; Local history of Huabei (North China); Minority literature in China; Imperial Studies

Inequality and discrimination against “others” as a result of hypernationalism or nativism in South Korea; the effects of damunhwa (multiculturalism); postcolonial traumas; Korean diaspora; gender studies

Chinese financial markets; Party-state capitalism in China; US-China relations; China-South Korea relations; Geopolitical and economic implication of new cold war between US and China; Chinese housing market

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.

Chinese art history, literature, and visual culture

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

East Asian cross-regional trauma studies; Digital humanities; Contemporary film, literature, and social media studies; Comparative studies between Korea and China; Corpus studies and Knowledge Graphs; Sustainability in East Asia

U.S.-R.O.K. Relations; U.S. military; Neocolonialism; Political Theory; U.S. Foreign Policy; South Korean Public Opinion; Korean Politics

Chinese documentaries and reality television; depictions of rural life in popular media; China's entertainment industry

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

China; Chinese political thought; Japan-China relation

Correlation of foreign policy and cultural interactions in East Asia

Chinese political economy;  East Asian technology trade;  Chinese economy and financial system

U.S. foreign policy vis-a-vis East Asia

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

History of Buddhism and Shinto in Japan; religions in East Asia; history of the Japanese Empire; nationalism and colonialism in East Asia; US-China relations; Sino-Japanese relations

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

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

Chinese bureaucracy and government administrative systems; Chinese organizations and their institutional changes

China, Japan, United States; politics and foreign policy; international security; alliance politics

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

Authoritarian politics; Alliance politics; Cold War history of East Asia; Chinese politics and foreign policy

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

Research historical and contemporary relationships between China and the Arab World, and the implications of the Diligent Work-Frugal Study Movement (留法勤工儉學運動), which brought Chinese leaders to France.

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

National infrastructure in post-pandemic China; urban studies; East Asian religions

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