MA Students

Contemporary Chinese history, cross-strait relations, Taiwanese politics, security dynamics in East Asia

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

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

Indo-Pacific Regional Security; Gray-Zone Competition; Security and Emerging Technologies

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

U.S.-South Korea relationship; Security and trade in the Indo-Pacific; Inter-Korean Relations; Korean Nationalism; Colonial and post-colonial Korea; Cultural exchange between South Korea and the U.S.

Comparative Study of the Foreign Economic Policies of East Asian Countries

visual and material culture of the Korean peninsula; art of the Chosŏn dynasty (1392-1910); modern Korean art; (re)imagined dynastic art in contemporary contexts

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-Korea relations, US-China competition, Sino-Korean relations, applied/tech ethics & policy, international security, international law, and nuclear tensions in the Korean peninsula

memory, culture, womanhood, capitalism, and narrative voice within contemporary Japanese feminist literature; Japanese-to-English translation and localization.

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

Korean American literary history; Cultural Analytics

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

Japanese anthropology, queer and feminist anthropology, gender, colonialism, transnationalism, multispecies anthropology, feminist science and technology studies

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

Japonisme and cultural exchange between Japan and the West; Kimono and Japanese textile culture; Museum interpretation

International relations and security in the Indo-Pacific and Japan’s national security policy

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

Late imperial China; Kinship practices; Social history; Family history; Women's history

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

U.S.–China strategic competition in emerging technologies, Digital culture and youth technology adoption in contemporary China, Sociology of the body and digital well-being, Socio-technical systems and AI governance, East Asian innovation ecosystems

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

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

Modern Chinese history, Second Sino-Japanese War, Hong Kong, historical memory and how it is created and transmitted through different media

U.S.–China strategic relations, Chinese foreign policy, and U.S. policy toward China, with particular attention to diplomacy, international security, and strategic narratives. Chinese cultural diplomacy, international communication, and China’s engagement with global governance

Late Imperial China and the Republican era; Chinese medicine; Gender and sexuality; Material culture

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

Chinese and Japanese theater: Peking Opera, Kunqu, Kabuki; modern Chinese performance studies; cross-cultural comparative studies on China and Japan

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

Non-institutional care practices in contemporary China; medical and social anthropology; the co-production of care; religion, healing, and everyday life in East Asia

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

Political economy of technology competition; US-China AI and semiconductor rivalry; industrial policy and state-market relations in China; weaponized interdependence and economic statecraft; international AI governance