MA Students

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

- China
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

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

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

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

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

- Japan
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.

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

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

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

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


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


- China
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

- Korea
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

- China
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

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

- East Asia
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.



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

- East Asia
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

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

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

- Japan
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

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

- East Asia
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 economy; East Asian technology trade; Chinese economy and financial system


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

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

- Japan
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

- East Asia
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

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


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

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

- Japan
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


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

- China
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

- East Asia
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.

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

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

- China
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