MA Students
Rose Adams
North Korean affairs, media/propaganda in authoritarian regimes; effects of media and culture on inter-Asian relations
Fedelle Austria
Internationalization of business, evolution of the healthcare landscape in South Korea and East Asia at large
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
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
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
Abigail Lai
Modern, East Asian youth, the East Asian scholar-official, and the history of oration
Xingchen Lan
Political Economy; Authoritarian Politics; Distributive Politics; Chinese and East Asian Politics; Applied Game Theory and Quantitative Methods
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
Cole McFaul
US-China relations; Chinese engagement in Africa; the objectives and impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative
Josephine O'Neil
Dynastic calligraphy and painting and its influence on contemporary ink art; cross-cultural influence between the arts of China and Japan; decorative arts from the Tang, Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties; Edo period screens; modern and contemporary Japanese photography
Wren Ponder
Medieval Chinese Buddhism and society; Impact of Buddhist funerary rituals on the ancestral cult and filial piety
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
Machi Saito
Contemporary relations and foreign policies of East Asian nations; Interrelationship between the United States, Japan and China; US foreign policy toward East Asia; Chinese history, politics and foreign policy
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
Alek Sigley
Foreigners in North Korea, focusing on foreign students and their experiences of everyday life and social control; anthropology; cultural studies
Hong Song
Chinese migration and diaspora; women and gender history; identity formation; transnational history
Josh Stelwagen
Contemporary history and politics; foreign policy, especially China’s role in global governance; international security; national identity and cross-cultural negotiation in authoritarian regimes
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.
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.
Xinyi Wang
Economic history of modern China; Income inequality in China (the urban-rural divide); East Asian Buddhist art.
Alyssa Yee
China's economic, political and security objectives in the Central and South Pacific, especially in connection with the Belt and Road initiative
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
