Harvard Asia-related Centers (2023-2024 Affiliates)

2023-2024 AFFILIATES ASIA-RELATED CENTERS

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Asia Center Welcome Message

Dear colleagues, friends, students, and visitors,

Welcome to the Harvard University Asia Center and the new 2023-2024 academic year! The Asia Center looks forward to a vibrant year of programming and events related to all facets of East, South, and Southeast Asia from past to present. We hope you have had a restorative and productive summer. This summer, which saw the world opening again and travel to Asia resuming, felt rather different than the preceding three years when the ability to travel to Asia was curtailed. I personally spent all of May teaching in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and June and July in Japan serving as the Director of the Harvard Summer School program in Kyoto. It was a pleasure to once again see students have their eyes opened to the wonders of encountering a new culture for the first time. During my time in Japan, I was able to meet with many friends and supporters of the Asia Center. One of the highlights of the summer was participating—along with Professors Christina L. Davis (Director, Program on US-Japan Relations) and Kosuke Imai (Government, Statistics)—in a panel discussion on “Asian Studies: Past, Present, and Future” as part of the 1st Ezra Vogel Memorial Forum at Aichi University, where much of Ezra Vogel’s library is now housed.

The Asia Center remains committed to facilitating the cross-cultural study of Asia at Harvard University. Our programs foster research and bring people together to discuss the interconnected histories of the region and

significant issues facing Asia today. Given that many challenging issues are not limited to a single country or region, but transcend borders, the Asia Center’s acknowledgement of the need to carry out research across Asia is all the more important, timely, and necessary. Thanks to the exceptional Asia Center staff, the Center remains a leader in the study of Asia in transnational, transregional, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

This year we have an active line up of presentations in a variety of seminars, including, for example, the Science and Technology Seminars, Southeast Asia Lecture Series, Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series, Thai Studies Seminar Series, and the Philippines Lecture Series. You can view many of these programs on our website. The Asia Center has been able to welcome scholars to our community through our Visiting Scholars, Fellows, and Associates program. As part of its mission to promote intra- and inter-Asian research, we also continue our Asia Center Graduate Student Associates (GSA) program, and look forward to welcoming a new cohort of GSAs. The GSA program includes a student colloquium that meets biweekly and affords the associates an opportunity to receive feedback on their ongoing research from peers in a variety of disciplines. The Asia Center Publications Program—with its new director, Kristen Wanner, and two new editors, Qin Higley and Daniel Lee—remains exceptionally active

James Robson

Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Harvard College Professor

in publishing outstanding award-winning monographs. We are also delighted to introduce Rachelle Walsh as the new Director of Finance and Administration at the Asia Center.

Last spring, the Asia Center—working closely with the Department of South Asian Studies and its Chair, Professor Parimal Patil—received permission to hire three new Preceptors to teach Southeast Asian languages (Filipino Languages, Indonesian, and Thai). Searches were conducted during the summer. We are pleased to announce the hire of Lady Aileen Orsal as the new Preceptor in Filipino Languages (Tagalog), which is the first time in Harvard’s history that this language will be offered, and Sakti Suryani as the new Preceptor in Indonesian. Please join us in welcoming them to the Harvard community and encourage students to enroll in their Fall term language courses. The search for the Preceptor in Thai is still in progress. These hires—along with last year’s hiring of Hoa Le to teach Vietnamese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations—mark a significant step forward in advancing the Southeast Asia Initiative at the Asia Center and we would like to thank all our colleagues who assisted with the searches that made these hires possible.

This Fall, the Asia Center will be welcoming its second Writer in Residence, Norman Erikson Pasaribu, a Toba Batak poet writing in Indonesian. Their poetry collection Sergius Mencari Bacchus won the first prize of Jakarta Arts Council’s Poetry Manuscript Competition. Its English translation by Tiffany Tsao won a PEN Translates Award and was a finalist of NSW Premier Translation Prize in 2021. Their collection of short stories Happy Stories, Mostly (tr. Tiffany Tsao) won the UK’s Republic of Consciousness Prize and was longlisted in the International Booker Prize in 2022. Please stay tuned for more information regarding readings, workshops, and panels featuring Norman Erikson Pasaribu this fall.

The Asia Center continues to have close collaborative relationships with other Harvard institutes focused on Asia, including the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies; the Korea Institute; the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute; the Weatherhead Center’s Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, the Rajawali Foundation Institute, and the HarvardYenching Institute. The Asia Center also benefits greatly from our collaborative

“The Asia Center remains committed to facilitating the crosscultural study of Asia at Harvard University. Our programs foster research and bring people together to discuss the interconnected histories of the region and significant issues facing Asia today.”

relationships with centers, institutes, programs, and faculty members from across Harvard’s graduate and professional schools. Indeed, this Fall the Asia Center and the Center for African Studies will host a two-day symposium (Oct. 12th-13th) “Asia-Africa Relations: Its Status and Possible Trajectories.” Additionally, the Asia Center is working closely with the Department of Urban Planning and Design at the Graduate School of Design to offer a new option studio this fall. The studio will focus on improving living conditions in refugee camps and will take the students to Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh.

To better understand the mission and accomplishments of the Asia Center please visit the Asia Center website, where you will find links to all our programming and other resources for staying informed of the Asia Center’s

activities and opportunities. You can subscribe to the weekly Asia Bulletin, the Asia Center This Week newsletter, and the Southeast Asia Spotlight via the homepage of our website, asiacenter.harvard.edu. Please stay connected with us and we hope that we will see you soon at one of our upcoming events.

We wish everyone a fulfilling 2023-2024.

With all best wishes,

James Robson

Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Harvard College Professor

ASIA CENTER

Generating and sharing knowledge about Asia in transnational and transregional perspective. Fostering teaching, collaboration, and innovation across and beyond cultural and disciplinary boundaries.

Fellows

BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM

Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors

Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Peace

DocumentingIndigenousHistoriesofAsia: CheitharolKumbabaandPuyasIndigenous ManuscriptsofManipurNation

TAKAYUKI SUGIMOTO

Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Senior Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, WCFIA, Harvard University

Japan’sDefenseStrategyinResponsetoNew SecurityThreats

DAPENG WANG

Fellow, Peking University

TheDeterminantsofInnovationSustainability in Local Governments

Visiting Scholars

JIHON KIM

Chief, Division of International Cooperation Programme, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Adjunct Professor, World Heritage Studies, Konkuk University; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University

ControversialUNESCOHeritage

InscriptionsandHeritageDiplomacy AmongEastAsianCountries

YAENA KWON

Freelance Journalist and Public Broadcaster, WDR, Cologne; ZDF, Düsseldorf

Asia and Russia’sWar on Ukraine

SEONG-HYON LEE

Independent Scholar

ExploringtheDriversofDomestic NuclearWeaponAdvocacyinSouthKorea anditsGeopoliticalImplications

JULIE MIAO

Associate Professor in Property and Economic Development, University of Melbourne

StateInc.andAsianDiasporasin KnowledgeSpaces

Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi

IntellectualBiographyofThree Generations of the Kosambis

RAMAKRISHNA RAMASWAMY

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Associates

NASIM ZEHRA AKHLAQUE

TV Presenter, Channel 24; Visiting Faculty, National University of Sciences & Technology

CaseStudiesofSecurityChallengesinAsia

SUDHIR ANAND

Professor of Economics, University of Oxford & London School of Economics

Health,Well-being,andJustice

THOMAS ANDREWS

UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar; Senior Robina Human Rights Fellow, Schell International Human Rights Center, Yale University Law School

SoutheastAsiawithFocusonMyanmar

AURÉLIEN BELLUCCI

Post-doctoral Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences

PoliticalTheaterinChina,India, andEurope

JOHN BUCHANAN

Researcher, Tallinn University, Estonia

Drugs,ConflictandStateFormation

MARIA ADELE CARRAI

Assistant Professor in Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai

Global China

LINCOLN CHEN

President Emeritus, China Medical Board

Global Health

JOSHUA EHRLICH

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Macau

EastIndiaCompany,South/SoutheastAsia

DEBORAH DEL GAIS

Independent Scholar

PortentousHorses:Contextualizingand InterpretingLiGonglin’sFiveHorses

Handscroll

PHILIP GANT

Research Director, Regulatory Ecosystems Group, New York

RegulatoryDevelopmentinEastAsiaand

EmergingRegulatoryDynamicsinAPAC

CHUN SHENG GOH

Program Officer, International Renewable Energy Agency

SustainableDevelopmentinBorneo

HAIJING HAO

Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, Bentley University

TechnologyUsageandDigitalResilience in the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Post PandemicinChinaandThailandby ElderlyIndividuals

RUI HUA

Assistant Professor of History, Boston University

TheNatureofLaws:AnEcologicalHistory

ofImperialLawmakinginaNortheastAsian Borderland,1862-1976

STEFAN HÜBNER

Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore

OceanicHistoryofAsia

RUBANA HUQ

Vice-chancellor, Asian University for Women

EmpowermentofWomeninSouthAsia

MYUNG-KOO KANG

Associate Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York

ComparisonofInstitutionalTemplatesin EastAsia:Korea,Japan,andChina

RAPHAËLLE KHAN

Assistant Professor, The City College of New York

TheRoleoftheIndianDiasporainShaping InternationalRelationsinthe20thCentury

DOREEN LEE

Acting Director of the Asia and the World Program; Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University

Urban Politics,SoutheastAsia,and CriticalTheory

BÖRJE LJUNGGREN

Former Swedish Ambassador to China and Vietnam; Senior Associate, Swedish Institute of International Affairs

China-Domesticpolitics,Global Geopolitics,Vietnam

ADHIRA MANGALAGIRI

Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London

ComparativeLiterature,China,India

HARUTOSHI MATSUTANI

Professor in Faculty of Economics; Director of the International Center for Chinese Studies, Aichi University

The Social Cost ofAutomobiles and Urban EnvironmentPoliciesinAsia:AComparative StudyonChinaandJapan

GEOFFREY MCDONALD

Senior Advisor for the Asia-Pacific Division, International Republican Institute

Democracy,Rights,andConflictinSouth Asia/Bangladesh

MANJARI CHATERJEE MILLER

Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations

India,China,SouthAsia,andRisingpowers

NORMAN PASARIBU

Writer

Poetry,FictionandNon-fiction

JUTATHORN PRAVATTIYAGUL

Consultant, United Nations

TransgenderPrisonerinThailand

AJMAL QURESHI

Independent Scholar

Pakistan: Seven Decades of Democratic Misgovernance

KARL RUPING

Senior Managing Partner, incTANK Ventures

InnovationandIntellectualPropertyRights in Japan’sEmergingVentureStartupCommunity

SOUMODIP SARKAR

Full Professor, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

TechnologyAffordancesandEcosystems

(China’sTaoBao);FrugalInnovation;AIfor

Inclusive Innovation

VEDA VAIDYANATHAN

Fung Global Fellow, Princeton University; Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi

DocumentingIndianandChineseSub-national Actors inAfrica

MENGXIAO WANG

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California

BuddhismandTheatricalityinEarly Modern China

CHUNYING YUE

Research Associate, Peking University

Social Media Matters:ANovel Platform for Civic EngagementinAsia

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Graduate Student Associates

DANIEL BORENGASSER

Ph.D. candidate in Japanese Art History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations

FirmLobbyingWithinandBeyondBorders

BRIANA BRIGHTLY

Ph.D. candidate in Buddhist Studies, Committee on the Study of Religion

LobbyingbyChineseandJapaneseIndustrialAssociations

CHUN WING (JASON) CHAN

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History

GlobalizationofFeministLegalThought: AKoreanCase oftheFightAgainstSexualViolence

SUDARSHANA CHANDA

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History

ExaminingtheFutureTrajectoryoftheUS-ASEAN EconomicRelationship

YU SHAN (MARK) CHEN

Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian Languages, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

ShuchenTsultrimRinchenonBecomingtheEditorofthe Tibetan Buddhist Canon

JEONGHUN CHOI

Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian Languages, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

ThresholdsofHistory:SinophoneModernityand ContemporaryScienceFiction

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KANGNI HUANG

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

SoutheastAsianAmerican Buddhist Communities in Lowell,MA:AnEvolvingLandscape

MERLE KARTSCHER

Ph.D. Student, Department of History

InstitutionalArrangementsfor“SmartCities”Formation

FRANCIS NEWMAN

Ph.D. student, the Department of History of Science

HistoriesofScience,Medicine,andTechnologyinEastAsia; Material Culture; Science and Colonialism;Time andTemporality;WeatherandDisease

LARA NORGAARD

Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Literature

MemoryStudies;LatinAmericanandIndonesianCultural Exchange;HistoryoftheNon-AlignedMovement;Brazilian, Argentinian,andIndonesianLiteratures;Translation;PostDictatorshipLiteratures

HWEI RU ONG

Ph.D. candidate in Religion/Philosophy, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

LegalHistory;PoliticalPhilosophy;EarlyChina;InnerAsia; SilkRoadStudies;Paleography;andHistoricalLinguistics

JEWEL PEREYA

Ph.D. candidate, American Studies Program

MegacityGovernanceinEastAsia:UnevenDevelopment andInstitutionalDesign

AKHIL THOMAS

Ph.D. candidate in South Asian Religion, Committee on the Study of Religion

TheManagementofKnowledgeCirculationandthe DevelopmentofChineseInfluenceinCambodia

SHAN WU

Ph.D. candidate, Buddhist Studies, Committee on the Study of Religion

Archeoastronomy,LinguisticsandPoetics,Historyof Science,HistoryofReligion,Art History

AISAJIANG YOUSHE

Ph.D. student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Intellectual Connections Between CentralAsian and Chinese-speakingMuslimsintheearlymodernperiod

SHAHARYAR ZIA

Ph.D. candidate, Histories and Cultures of Muslim Societies, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Intercultural Encounters in the Built Environment in HongKongandJakarta

FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University brings together a global community of worldleading academics and practitioners to advance scholarship in all fields of China Studies.

Visiting Scholar

YAJUN BAO

Sanya University Institute of Urban Governance

Urbangovernance,XinjiangStudies

TAYLOR FRAVEL

Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science; Director of Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

China’sForeignandSecurityPolicies; US-China Relations

YUHUA GUO

Professor, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University

RuralSociologyinChina;Oral History

CLARA WING-CHUNG HO

Professor; Head of Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University

Women,Children,andEldersinImperialChina

Visiting Scholar

LUCY HORNBY

Journalist

China’sPoliticalLeaders;StateEconomy; InternationalCapital

CHI-YU LIN

Ph.D., National Taiwan University

TaiwanLiteratureandCinema,Contemporary Media,andLiteraryTheories

HUI QIN

Professor of History, Emeritus, Tsinghua University

China’sRuralEconomicsandHistory, China and the“New ColdWar”

MIWA SHIMADA

Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Keio University

EnvironmentalHistory,FrontierHistory, HistoryofDamConstruction,Historyof TechnologicalExchange

JIANHAI YANG

Associate Professor, Beijing Technology and Business University

Rural Endowment Insurance; Social SecurityinSongDynasty

YUAN (NOAH) ZHANG

Assistant Professor, China Women’s University

Sinology,GenderandMedia, Cultural Studies

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Visiting Scholar Practitioner

Visiting Fellow of Practice

PO-CHANG (PAUL) HUANG

Research Fellow; Independent Journalist, Taiwanese Public Opinion Foundation

Taiwan Politics,Cross-Strait Relations, SecurityStudies

SHUJUN LI

Ethnic Studies,Modern China,Economic DevelopmentandSociety

XIAOMING XU

Chairman, Wuhan Century Investment Management

ComparativeEconomics,Historiesof DevelopingCountries

WANGZHI (BRENDAN) LI

CEO, Hacheers Investment Co., Ltd

China-U.S.Relations,Modern China’s ConstitutionalChallenge

QUAN (TONY) LIU

Chairman and Founder, Beijing United Information Technology Co., Ltd.

Entrepreneurship,BusinessCooperation, U.S.-China Relations

MITCHELL PRESNICK

Founder, Super 8 Hotels China

U.S.-China Relations and BilateralTrade

Hou Family (Predoctoral) Fellow in Taiwan Studies

ANATOL KLASS

Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Berkeley

ComparativeStateBuilding,Historyof Taiwan,ForeignPolicy,ColdWarHistory

Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies

SHINYI HSIEH

Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco

HistoryofScienceandMedicine,Critical Global Health,Postcolonial Feminism, Taiwan,U.S.in theWorld

Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies

JULIA FAMULARO

Ph.D., Georgetown University

Taiwan;Tibet;EastTurkestan;HongKong; Humanrights

An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow

BO AN

Ph.D., Yale University

HistoryofTechnology,PRChistory,Media studies,ScienceandTechnologyStudies

CHAI YEE LEOW

Ph.D., Peking University

EarlyBuddhistArtofIndia,China,and CentralAsia;HistoryofBuddhism; RelationshipBetweenTextandImage in Buddhism

SHUAI LI

Associate Professor of Archaeology, Sichuan University

TibetArchaeology,HanandTangDynasty Archaeology,Qinghai-TibetPlateau CulturalExchanges

YI REN

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

ModernChineseHistory,RuralChina,State Propaganda,PopularCultureinMaoist China,DisabilityStudies

Center Associate

PAUL COHEN

Professor of History, Emeritus, Wellesley College

ChineseHistory,FocusingMainlyonthe PeriodfromtheNineteenthCenturyto the Present

JOSEPH FEWSMITH

Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University

ComparativePolitics,ChineseDomesticand International Politics

STEVEN GOLDSTEIN

Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College

ChineseDomesticandForeignPolicy, Mainland China-Taiwan Relations,and U.S.Taiwan Relations

ROBERT ROSS

Professor of Political Science, Boston College

ChineseSecurityPolicyandDefensePolicy, EastAsianSecurity,andU.S.-ChinaRelations

KAIYUAN WANG

Executive Director, University Forum

TheoriesoftheStateandComparative StudyofStateGovernance

ROBERT WELLER

Professor of Anthropology, Boston University

ChinaandTaiwaninComparative Perspective

ELLEN WIDMER

Mayling Song Professor of Chinese Studies, Wellesley College

TraditionalChineseFiction,Historyof ChineseWomen’sWriting,Historyofthe BookinChina,andMissionariestoEastAsia

Graduate Student Associates

JINGYUN DAI

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology

Culture;ClassandGenderInequalities; HigherEducation;Intersectionality, Mixed Methods

AUSTIN JORDAN

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government

PoliticalEconomy,ContemporaryChinese History,ForeignPolicy

SHIJUNG KIM

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature

Franco-Chinese and Korean-Chinese EncountersinTwentieth-CenturyArtsand Letters,Politics ofAesthetics

XIN SU

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology (Archaeology Program)

BronzeAgeinChina,Human-Land Relationship,LithicandPotteryProduction, PetrographyandXRF,Statisticsin

Archaeology

SHAN WU

Ph.D. candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion

Archeoastronomy,LinguisticsandPoetics, HistoryofScience,HistoryofReligion, ArtHistory

YUNYAO ZHAI

Ph.D. candidate, Department of South Asian Studies

TibetanBuddhisminYuan,Ming,and EarlyQingChina;HistoryofCultural Interaction inAsia

AMY ZHANG

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

PremodernSiniticPoetry,Manuscript Culture,SocialNetworks,LiteraryCriticism

Desmond and Whitney

Shum Fellow

CHENGYU FU

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government

PoliticalEconomyofCorruption,Political EconomyofDevelopment,Contemporary Chinese Politics

YULU TANG

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics

DevelopmentEconomics,UrbanEconomics, Social Networks,InternationalTrade

LINGXIAN (SEAN) WU

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics

Macroeconomics,Finance,Behavioral Economics,IndustrialOrganization

Non-resident Associates in Research

HENG DU

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Chinese, Wellesley College

ChineseHistoryandLiterature.BookHistory andManuscriptStudiesFocusingonEarly China(Before220CE)

JIE (JEANNE) HUANG

Associate Professor, The University of Sydney Law School

Law,IncludingClassicalConflictofLaws; Cross-BorderDisputeResolution;Data Protection in Investment andTrade with China

YASHENG HUANG

Epoch Foundation Professor of Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management

ChinaEconomicPolicyandPerformance; FoodSecurity;U.S.-ChinaRelations

JUYU (SCARLETT) JANG

Professor Emerita, Williams College

ChineseArtHistory,IncludingChinese PaintingHistoryandPrintCultureinLate ImperialChina

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Non-resident Associates in Research

FUSHENG LUO

Instructor of History, Phillips Exeter Academy

HistoryofLateImperialandModern China,EastAsia,WorldHistory,Empires and Colonialism

ADRIEN STOLOFF

Assistant Teaching Professor, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

ChineseReligiousBeliefsandPractices fromtheLateWarringStatesPeriod (ca.475–221BCE)totheWesternHan Dynasty(202BCE-9CE)

SAUL WILSON

Assistant Professor, Ashoka University, Delhi MunicipalPoliticsinChina.UrbanPlanning andUrbanDevelopmentinChina

MIN YE

Professor of International Relations, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies

Politics and International Political EconomyFocusingonChina. GlobalizationandDevelopment, IncludingtheRoleofChineseDiaspora, andForeignDirectInvestment.China’s BeltandRoadInitiative,Development, ForeignPolicy

ZHU ZHANG

Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Fairfield University

State-Business Relations in Communist andPost-CommunistRegimes,With a Focus on Chinese Politics and China’s Private Sector.Role of Private CompaniesEspeciallyTechnology Giants in US-China Relations

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Visiting Scholars Program

This program offers faculty members in the humanities and social sciences at HYI partner institutions the opportunity to undertake 10 months of independent research at Harvard University.

HARVARDYENCHING INSTITUTE

The Harvard-Yenching Institute is an independent foundation providing a range of support for research, training, libraries, and publications in the humanities and social sciences with special attention to Asian Studies.

YESHES VODGSAL ATSHOGS

Distinguished Professor of Linguistics; Director of the Sino-Tibetan Language Research Center, Nankai University, China

LanguageContactandMixedLanguages; the HistoricalRelationshipBetweenTibetan,Chinese,and NeighboringLanguages;TibetanLanguageResearch, ParticularlyProsodicPhonology

KASIRA CHEEPPENSOOK

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Science, Department of International Relations, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

SecurityCommunityinSoutheastAsiathrough a Postcolonial Lens

CHIANG CHIH-HUA

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

TracingtheProcessesofForgettingandRemembering oftheAncestralPotsintheContemporaryIndigenous PaiwanCommunityandHowThatCanInspire ArchaeologiststoReflectontheEntanglements BetweenMaterialObjects,Memory,andSocial RelationsThroughTime

HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE

Visiting Scholars Program

YAN FEI

Associate Professor of Sociology, Tsinghua University

Factions in Formation: Grassroots Conflict and Collaboration in China’s Cultural Revolution

OTA HIROSHI

Professor, Center for General Education, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

ChangingStrategies,Practices,and ConceptsoftheInternationalization ofHigherEducationintheU.S.inthe Post-COVIDEraandDrawImplicationsfor Universities in EastAsia

LIU HSIN-NING

Associate Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica

UtilizingExcavatedLegaland

Administrative Documents from the QinandHanDynastiestoExaminethe InterplayBetweenLawandSociety

KANOKRAT LERTCHOOSAKUL

Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand

Social Movements inThailand and Other Countries in SoutheastAsia

TANG MINGJUN

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, School of Philosophy, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

ChineseBuddhistLogic,IndianBuddhist EpistemologyandLogic,ClassicalIndian Philosophy,andRelatedPhilosophical Problems

SEOL PAEHWAN

Associate Professor, Department of History, Chonnam National University, Korea

Mongol-YuanEmpireinSocial,Economic, andCulturalFields;MongolLaw,Peopleon Boundaries,DailyLife,MaterialandSocial Networks

LIU QING

Zijiang Distinguished Professor, East China

Normal University

IntellectualHistory,PoliticalPhilosophy, andWorld Politics

Visiting Scholars Program

MA RAN

Associate Professor, International Program of “Japan-in-Asia” Cultural Studies (JACS) and Screen Studies (Eizogaku), Nagoya University, Japan

An Intersection of Inter-Asia Studies, Transnational Film and Screen Cultures, and Film Festival Studies

WEI RAN

Associate Professor, Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Hispanic-FilipinoLiteratureBetweenSpanish ColonizationandU.S.Occupation

NARIHARA SATOSHI

Associate Professor of Information Law, Faculty of Law, Kyushu University

ComparativeStudyoftheIntegrated Governance of Real andVirtualWorlds

ZHAO SHUYANG

Associate Professor of School of Liberal Arts, Nanjing University

CirculationofTangPoetryfromthe PerspectiveofBookHistory

HAO TIANHU

Qiushi Distinguished Professor; Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Zhejiang University, China

Shakespeare,YenchingUniversity,andthe RiseofHuaju

IIYAMA TOMOYASU

Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University

Acculturation,SocialTransition,and theEmergenceofNewAncestryin

Historical China

SOPHIE LING-CHIA WEI

Associate Professor, Department of Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jesuits’and Protestant Missionaries’ Translations of Chinese Classics

LIU WEIMO

Assistant Researcher, Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

ComparativeStudyofCosmologiesin Ancient Greece and China

Visiting Scholars Program

YAN WENJIE

Professor of Political Communication, Beijing Normal University

TheInterplayBetweenMediaand Individuals’Communicative Behaviors

intheProcessBroadlyConstruedas Public Deliberation

XIAO XIAOYAN

Professor, College of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Xiamen University, China

InterpretinginBoththeSignedandSpoken Modes,SignLinguisticsandDeafStudies

KIM YOUN-MI

Associate Professor of Asian Art History, Ewha Womans University

ArchitectureofVirtuality:Pagodasofthe LiaoEmpire(907-1125)

JUNG JI YOUNG

Professor of Women’s Studies, Ewha Womans University, Korea; Director of the Asian Center for Women’s Studies (ACWS) and the Editor of AsianJournalofWomen’sStudies(AJWS)

RemoldingProcessof“Righteousness(義)” and How It IntertwinedWith Gender Politics andtheConceptof“Nation(國)”inLate

Chosǒn Korea

DONG YU

Professor, Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, China

DevelopmentofSocialComplexitiesand GenderArchaeology,especiallyinthe NeolithicandBronzeAgeofChina

HOU ZHE

Assistant Professor, Institute of China Studies, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences

Labor Education in Mao’s China:A PoliticalAnalysis

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WU HELIN

Associate Research Fellow, India Study Center of Central China Normal University, China

TheRoleofEastIndiaCompanyinthe Interactions between British Missionaries in ChinaandIndia:ACaseStudyofMarshman and Morrison

Indian Studies in China Training Program

This program, facilitated by the participation of nine partner institutions in China, seeks to foster a cross-national network of scholars by bringing to the Harvard-Yenching Institute scholars of Indian Studies in China.

CAO YIFAN

Ph.D. candidate in Art Theory, Sichuan University

ComparativeStudiesinArtTheoryandArt History,WithaCurrentFocusontheWritingof IndianArtHistory

CHEN YILAN

Ph.D. candidate, School of Foreign Languages, Peking University

Indian-TibetanCulturalExchanges,Especially the Transmission of Sanskrit Lexicons inTibet and ItsSignificantInfluenceonTibetanLanguage and Literature

BC Ricci Institute–HYI Joint Fellowship Program

This fellowship, conducted jointly with the Boston College Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History, brings faculty to Boston for a six-month period of research.

Scholars will consult extensively both the Ricci Institute and the Harvard-Yenching Library collections.collections.

SONG GANG

Associate Professor in Chinese History, University of Hong Kong

Chinese-WesternCulturalEncountersinHistory

LI JI

Associate Professor of History, University of Hong Kong

TheIntricateRelationshipBetweenReligion, Christianity,LocalSociety,andtheMakingof Modern China in a Global Context

CHEN TUO

Assistant Professor, Faculty of History, Nankai University

19th-CenturyReceptionandReinterpretationof OldWesternLearningFromtheLateMingand EarlyQingPeriods

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Regional Studies – East Asia A.M. Fellowship Program

This multi-year full fellowship covers the two-year master’s degree in Harvard’s Regional StudiesEast Asia (RSEA) program.

LEE JIYEON

M.A. Student, Regional Studies East Asia Program, Harvard University

IntricateDynamicsofCloseRelationships inJapanandKorea,AnalyzingHowSocial, Economic,andHistoricalContexts,Along WithTechnologicalShifts,ShapeThese Relationships

LI CHENYAN

M.A. Student, Regional Studies East Asia Program, Harvard University

MedievalChineseHistoryandBuddhism; Pre-IslamicCentralAsiaandMulti-Lingual

Documents

YU JINGYI (JACQUELINE)

M.A. Student, Regional Studies East Asia Program, Harvard University

Classical Chinese and Sino-Vietnamese Poetry,andParticularlytheLinkages BetweenLiteratureandHistory

TAN WEI LIN

M.A. Student, Regional Studies East Asia Program, Harvard University

ModernJapaneseLiterature,Filmand Media,WithanEmphasisontheWartime and Postwar Periods; Continuities Between MediaTheory,QueerTheory,Cybernetics, andtheHistoryofInterwarGlobalFascism

JUN HAN NA (HANNAH)

M.A. Student, Regional Studies East Asia Program, Harvard University

EastAsianRegionalSecurity,Inter-Korean Relations,and Gender Studies

NUS-HYI Joint Doctoral Fellowship Program

This program allows for candidates to pursue a Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, with 10 months of dissertation research at Harvard University.

Coordinate Research Program

TINNAPHOP SINSOMBOONTHONG

Ph.D. Student in Sociology, National University of Singapore

Postcolonial/MulticulturalQueerness, Non-MainstreamFeminisms,Sociologyof Development,HumanRightsIssues,and Social Movement andActivism inAsia, EspeciallyThailand,andSingapore

The Coordinate Research Program provides Harvard faculty with a chance to invite faculty members to join them in collaborative research projects in established Asian Studies. While joint research is the primary focus, collaboration may also include coorganizing conferences and workshops.

ZHOU YI

Professor of Sociology, Fudan University’s School of Social Development and Public Policy; Co-director, Yale–Fudan Center for Cultural Sociology

CulturalSociology,SocialStratificationand Mobility,theStudyofGrassrootsSocietyin China,andQualitativeMethods

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KOREA INSTITUTE

The Korea Institute is devoted solely to the support and development of Korean Studies at Harvard, as the central hub for Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars in the field, and visitors to join together as a community for the study of Korea.

Postdoctoral Fellows

JEEHYUN CHOI

Ph.D. English, University of California, Berkeley

Korea Foundation-Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow

KoreanDiasporicLiteratureintheU.S.andthe HistoryofKoreanDiasporicAnti-Imperialism

SOLMI CHUNG

Ph.D. Korean Language and Literature, Seoul National University

Fulbright Affiliated Postdoctoral Fellow

KoreanTraditionalFantasy

YOUNGEUN KOO

Ph.D. Korean Studies, University of Tübingen

SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences

ChildWelfare;InternationalAdoption

Associate in Research

CHRISTINA KLEIN

Professor, English Department, Boston College

TheConversationBetweenContemporary Cultural Production and the Postwar Period

JONGHYUN LEE

Professor of Social Work, Bridgewater State University

MigrationHistoryofKoreansinManchukuo

JORDAN SIEGEL

Professor of Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

DeterminantsofCorruptioninSouthKorea

YOON SUN YANG

Associate Professor of Korean and Comparative Literature, Department of World Languages & Literatures, Boston University

Korean Literature,Gender Studies,Medicine andLiterature,TranspacificStudies

Graduate Student Associates

KWAN WOO HAHN

Ph.D. candidate, History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations

PoliticalandSocialHistoryofModernKorea

SUJIN ELISA HAN

Ph.D. candidate, History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations

SocialHistoryofSouthKoreainthe Post-1945 Period

LAKSHMI MITTAL AND FAMILY SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE

A university-wide research institute at Harvard that engages faculty members, students, and in region institutions through interdisciplinary programs to disseminate knowledge, build capacity, inform policy, and engage with issues that are shaping South Asia today.

Ragunathan Fellow

ANU K. ANTONY

Subjectivity,Women’sReligiousLifeandLabour, EverydayReligiosity,andPost-SecularDiscourses intheContextofIndianChristianity

PRADEEP CHOUDHURY

Assistant Professor of Economics, Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University

TheInterplayBetweenEducationandDevelopment UsingLargeHouseholdandInstitutionalDataSetsin DevelopingEconomies;TheChangingRelationship BetweenEducationandInequalityinIndia

Bajaj Fellow

Graduate Student Associate

SARTHAK AGARWAL

Ph.D. student of Population Health Sciences, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

FoodSecurityandNutrition

RONAK JAIN

Ph.D. student in Economics

EconomicDevelopmentand

Behavioral Economics

HANSONG LI

Department of Government

ComparativeInterstateJustice,Vedic,and SanskritSocialThought

VAISHNAVI PATIL

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture

DepictionsofMothersandMother-Child RelationshipsinSouthAsianReligions; TransmissionofIdeasandImageryin ReligiousArtandtheImpactUpon

ReligiousBelief

AKHIL THOMAS

Ph.D. student, Committee on the Study of Religion

SouthIndianCultureandReligionasThey Pertain to the Interaction ofThomasine ChristiansandthePortugueseinthe17th and 18th Centuries

TYLER RICHARD

Ph.D. candidate in South Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

AnalyzingQuestionsofBeauty,Identity, Language,andPerceptioninSouth Asian Literature

PARIROO RATTAN

Ph.D. student in Public Policy Program, Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Science, Technology and Society

TheImpactofDigitizationontheData Economy,EconomicSubjectivity, andCitizenship

KARTIK SRIVASTAVA

Ph.D. candidate, Kennedy School

Development,Labor,andPoliticalEconomy inaVarietyofCircumstances

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Graduate Student Associates

GAURI JAIN

Ph.D. student, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

TheUseofAIinPublicHealth,Specifically in Maternal and Child Health in India

HILTON SIMMET

Ph.D. candidate, Kennedy School

TheRelationshipBetweenPoliticalTheory andPublicPolicy,WithaParticularFocus on theWelfare State

PALAK GUPTA

MDes candidates of Architecture in Urban Design, Harvard GSD

CommunitiesVulnerable Both to Climate ChangeandUrbanization

PRIYA SARMA

M.S. candidate, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

HealthSystemReformandStrengthening in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

PRIYANKA SETHY

Ph.D. student in Government and Political Science

PoliticalEngagement,SocialDecline,and IdentityofSouthAsianDiasporasinthe US and the UK

SHAHARYAR ZIA

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Arabo-IslamicIntellectualHistory in Hindustan Between the 17th and 19th Centuries

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PROGRAM ON U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS, WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Program on US Japan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs promotes social science research on Japan from comparative, global, and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Postdoctoral Fellows

KENYA AMANO

Ph.D. Political Science, University of Washington

PoliticalEconomyofDemocraticGovernanceand EconomicPolicyinJapan

MATTHEW BRUMMER

Assistant Professor, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies; Ph.D. International Relations, University of Tokyo

Binding,Wedging,andHedginginJapaneseScience andTechnologyPolicy

SAYUMI MIYANO

Ph.D. Political Science, Princeton University

ThePoliticalEconomyofInformationinInternational OrganizationsandInternationalBusiness

Visiting Scholars

TAKESHI HIEDA

Professor, Graduate School of Law, Osaka Metropolitan University

TheTransformationofPartySystems andWelfare StatesunderEconomicStructuralChanges

DAISAKU HIGASHI

Professor, Sophia University

U.S.-JapanCooperationtoAddress GlobalChallenges:ArmedConflicts,Global Warming,andPandemics

ASEI ITO

Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

BeyondNegativeSentiment:Perception of JapaneseBusinesspersonsTowardChina

JEMMA KIM

Professor, School of Global Japanese Studies, Meiji University

AssessingtheTrade-SecurityNexus:AStudy ofJapan-SouthKoreaTradePolicyandIts ImplicationsforEastAsianGovernance

MASAKO SUGINOHARA

Professor, Faculty of Global and Intercultural Studies, Ferris University

EconomicPolicymakingandthePerception oftheChinaThreatintheU.S.andJapan

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Associates

KENTO HARA

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Japan-US-ROKTrilateralCooperationin anEraofUS-ChinaCompetition

SATOSHI ITO

Aoyama Shachu Corporation

MultilateralSecurityInstitutionsand Deterrence in EastAsia

TSUYOSHI KAWASE

Professor, Sophia University

EconomicSecurityandtheMultilateralTrade Regime:CaseStudiesofSemiconductorand DecarbonationTechnologies

SAYAKA KUME

Ministry of Finance

ResolvingTradeDisputes:Lessonsfrom U.S.-JapanNegotiations

JI MIAO

Associate Professor & Senior Research

Fellow, Institute of Asian Studies, Center for China-Japan-Korea Trilateral Cooperation, China Foreign Affairs University

U.S.-China-JapanTriangularRelationsinan EraofGreatPowerCompetition

TAKAYUKI SUGIMOTO

Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Senior Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center

Japan’sDefenseStrategyinResponseto NewSecurityThreats

HIROKI TAYA

National Police Agency

TheStateofandCountermeasuresAgainst ViolentExtremisminEuropeandtheU.S.

TOMOHIRO UEDA

Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting, LLC.

SocialInnovationThroughU.S.-Japan Collaboration

RYUTA UEDA

Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry

The State and Market Failures in the U.S. andJapan

EDWIN O. REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES

The Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University’s mission is to advance teaching and research on Japan, to promote a wide-ranging exchange of ideas on social, cultural, economic, and political issues, to stimulate scholarly and public interest about Japan and U.S.-Japan relations, and to strengthen ties between Harvard University and Japan and between Japan and the United States.

Visiting Scholars

MARTIN FACKLER

Journalist and Independent Scholar

March 11 and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

AKINOBU MATSUMOTO

Waseda University

AComparativeStudyofRadioDocumentariesinEast AsiaduringtheUSMilitaryOccupation

HITOMI YOSHIO

Waseda University

WomenWritersinModernJapan

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES

Postdoctoral Fellows

CAITLIN CASIELLO

Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Literatures & Film and Media Studies, Yale University 2023

SexonScreeninJapaneseCinema

1950s-1990s

MICHELLE HAUK

Ph.D. in Japanese History, Columbia University 2023

DwellingwithWater:TokyoWaterworks andtheRemakingoftheUrbanHome, 1890–1990

MATTHEW KELLER

Ph.D. in Religion, University of Southern California 2022

TheAppealoftheFox:TheCultofInariand

PremodernJapan

DANIEL SAID MONTEIRO

Ph.D. in East Asian Humanities, Université Paris Cité 2023

Monitored Connections:Transnational NagasakiandtheCirculationof HybridizedCosmologiesinEarlyModern Japan(1630–1720)

Graduate Student Associates

DANIEL BORENGASSER

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian

Languages and Civilizations

HalloftheLotusKing:Sculptureand MultiplicityinEarlyMedievalJapan

JEONGHUN CHOI

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian

Languages and Civilizations

TheRiseofCommercialPublishing in Modern Britain,America and East AsiaandItsImpactontheIntellectual TransformationsinJapanandKoreaDuring theNineteenthandtheTwentiethCentury

JESUS SOLIS

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History

BlackMarketEmpire:ShadowNetworks, IllicitGoods,andDrugTraffickingin

PostwarJapan

Graduate Student Associates

HELEN SWIFT

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Wisdom,Impression,Sentiment:Academy, Self,and Nation in the Oeuvre of Kuroda Seiki,1880-1900

JONATHAN THUMAS

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

PlacesApart:BuddhistHermitagein MedievalJapan

James Robson

Victor and William Fung Director,

Harvard University Asia Center

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University

Harvard College Professor

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“It was a pleasure to once again see students have their eyes opened to the wonders of encountering a new culture for the first time.”

Dissertation Completion Fellows

DANIEL BORENGASSER

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

HalloftheLotusKing:Sculptureand MultiplicityinEarlyMedievalJapan

HOLLY HUMMER

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology WomenWithout Children: Cultural PerspectivesonaDemographicPhenomenon

JUHEE KANG

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

FromNumberstoPersonhood:Psychological TestinginTwentieth-centuryJapan

SARA KANG

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History

OperationRelax:EmpiresofSexinJapan and theAsia-Pacific

LINGLING MA

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Creative Life -Aesthetic Evolution and JapaneseModernism

YUXIN QIN

Ph.D. candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion

PractitionersinAction:ThePowerofLay BuddhistsinContemporaryJapan

JESUS SOLIS

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History

BlackMarketEmpire:ShadowNetworks, IllicitGoods,andDrugTraffickingin PostwarJapan

HELEN SWIFT

Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Wisdom,Impression,Sentiment:Academy, Self,and Nation in the Oeuvre of Kuroda Seiki,1880-1900

Dissertation Completion Fellows

JONATHAN THUMAS

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian

Languages and Civilizations

PlacesApart:BuddhistHermitagein

MedievalJapan

CATHERINE TSAI

Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian

Languages and Civilizations

DevelopmentattheEndsofEmpire:

MigrationsandtheMakingoftheSouthern Ryukyus,1900s-1970s

BOTAGOZ USSEN

Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature

Red Feminisms:Transnational Perspectives&HybridIdentities

James

Victor and William Fung Director, Harvard University Asia Center

James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Harvard College Professor

Robson

“Given that many challenging issues are not limited to a single country or region, but transcend borders, the Asia Center’s acknowledgement of the need to carry out research across Asia is all the more important, timely, and necessary.”

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