HARVARD UNIVERSITY
ASIA-RELATED CENTERS 2021-2022 A F F I L I A T E S
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Asia Center Welcome Message Dear colleagues, friends, students and visitors, Welcome to the Harvard University Asia Center! We hope you have had a restorative summer. We are excited that the new academic year has seen the return of faculty and students to campus for in-person learning, even as we continue to face the ongoing challenges of the pandemic. The Asia Center is 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 and necessary. Thanks to the exceptional Asia Center staff, the center remains a strong and vibrant leader in the study of Asia in transnational, transregional, and interdisciplinary perspectives. As we moved from the summer into the fall, some of the early optimism about finally being able
to emerge from the global pandemic waned as the new realities of the Delta variant took hold. This year, we are faced with a variety of challenges of supporting research as we adapt to this ever-changing situation. At present, all our substantial programming remains virtual, but we are hopeful about transitioning to some in-person events as circumstances allow. 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, Borders in Modern Asia Seminar Series, Author Conversations Series, and our ongoing Online Art Exhibits. 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 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, which includes a student colloquium that meets bi-weekly 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 has been exceptionally busy and continues to publish outstanding award-winning monographs. Continues on next page
Asia Center Welcome Message
Sadly, the end of 2020 came with news of the untimely passing of our founding director, colleague, and friend, Professor Ezra Vogel. Planning is currently underway for an event in the Spring of 2022 to honor the many contributions that Professor Vogel made to the study of Asia and celebrate his role as the founder of the Asia Center. The Asia Center continues to have close collaborative relationships with other Harvard Asiarelated institutes focused on a single country or region in 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, and the Harvard-Yenching Institute. This Fall the Asia Center is pleased to be working with the Fairbank Center, Reischauer Institute, Korea Institute, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Mittal Institute, and Program on US-Japan Relations to organize and co-sponsor this year’s Association of Asian Studies New England Regional Conference on December 5, 2021. The Asia Center also benefits greatly from our collaborative relationships with centers, institutes, programs, and faculty members from across Harvard’s graduate and professional schools. 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 and the Asia Center This Week newsletter via the homepage. We hope that we will see you soon at one of our upcoming events. We wish everyone a productive 2021-2022. 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
Fellows ANWAR, ANU Associate in Research, Fairbank Center, Harvard University
Bridging the Infrastructure Deficit in South Asia: The Role of BRI and FOIP
ASIA CENTER Generating and sharing knowledge about Asia in transnational and transregional perspective. Fostering teaching,
AUNG, THIRI SHWESIN Principal Researcher, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Environmental Rights, Human Rights, Environmental Economics, Environmental Modelling, Natural Resource Governance
collaboration, and innovation across and beyond cultural and disciplinary boundaries.
CLAVÉ, ELSA Assistant Professor, University of Hamburg
Travelling memory: The 1965-1966 Mass Massacre in the Literary Production of Indonesian Exiles in Asia
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ASIA CENTER Fellows
IKEDA, TOKUHIRO (Joint Appointment with the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, WCIA)
Visiting Scholar
Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories LTD.; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force
Maritime Security in East Asia
VARTAVARIAN, MESROB Independent Scholar
LEE, DOREEN
US Security Partnerships in the Asia-Pacific, 1945-1989
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Northeastern University
Cultures of Mobility and Finance in Urban Indonesia
SHERNUK, KYLE Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, Queens Mary University of London
Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film
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ASIA CENTER
Associates AKHLAQUE, NASIM ZEHRA
BUCHANAN, JOHN
Author/Columnist; National Security Expert; Senior Anchor/Analyst, Channel 24, Pakistan
Research Fellow, School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia
Kashmir Conflict & Pakistan’s Policy: Past, Present and Future; The Global Impact of the Afghan War: 1979 to the Present
ANAND, SUDHIR Emeritus Professor & Visiting Professor, University of Oxford & London School of Economics
Health Justice and COVID-19 in Asia
Strongmen in Southeast Asia: Opium, Coercion and Local State Formation
CARRAI, MARIA ADELE Professor, New York University, Shanghai
The History of Infrastructures in China from the Late Qing Period to Present
ANDREWS, THOMAS 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
CHEN, LINCOLN President, China Medical Board
Health in China/Asia
Southeast Asia with Focus on Myanmar
BANERJEE, MOU
EHRLICH, JOSHUA
Assistant Professor, Department of History, UW-Madison
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Macau
Religion and Politics, India
South Asia, East India Company
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ASIA CENTER
Associates
GAO, XIAOFEI
KANG, MYUNG-KOO
Assistant Professor, University of Colorado
Associate Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Seaweed Modernity and Maritime Manchuria
The Historical Origins of the San Francisco System in the 1950s
RAPHAËLLE KHAN GOH, CHUN SHENG Research Fellow, Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development, Sunway University
Sustainable Development
HAO, HAIJING Associate Professor, Department of Computer Information Systems, Bentley University
Associate Research Fellow, Institut de Recherche Stratégique de l’École Militaire, Institute for Strategic Research of the French Defence Ministry (IRSEM) Paris, France
The Role of the Indian Diaspora in Shaping International Relations in the 20th Century
LJUNGGREN, KARL BÖRJE Swedish Institute of International Affairs
China, Vietnam, and Contemporary Asia
Use of Technology to Assist Essential Daily Life and Health Management by Retired Elderly in Asia
HUEBNER, STEFAN
MANGALAGIRI, ADHIRA
Senior Research Fellow, National University of Singapore
Lecturer, Department of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary University of London
Japan and Ocean Industrialization
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Comparative Literature
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ASIA CENTER
NAYUDU, SWAPNA KONA
QURESHI, AJMAL
Associate, National University of Singapore
Former Resident Representative, United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
India & the Cold War
China’s Food Security; Governance and Democracy in Bangladesh and Pakistan
NGUYEN, DUY LAP
RUPING, KARL
Associate Professor, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, University of Houston
Senior Managing Partner, incTANK Ventures
Materialism and Anti-Imperialism
Intellectual Property Rights, University Innovation and Venture Capital in Asia’s Emerging Innovation Ecosystems
PRAVATTIYAGUL, JUTATHORN
SARKAR, SOUMODIP
Lecturer, Copenhagen University
Professor, University of Évora, Portugal
Transgender Prisoners in Thailand
Innovations from the East; Rural Entrepreneurial Ecosystem from China
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Trần Đức Thảo: Phenomenology,
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Associates
ASIA CENTER
Graduate Student Associates BELLUCCI, AURÉLIEN
LI, YIHAO
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
D.Des. Candidate, Graduate School of Design
East and South Asian Performing Arts; Reconfigurations of Literary Traditions Between Europe and Asia; Different Conceptions of A “Democratic Literature”
Urban Planning and Infrastructure Finance
CHANDA, SUDARSHANA
PARK, JIWON Master of Urban Planning, Graduate School of Design
China-India Transnational History in the 20th Century
Climate Mitigation/Adaptation Planning, Anti-gentrification Movement/Policy, and Alternative Financing Model of Urban Development Projects
CHANG, AMY
PEREYRA, JEWEL
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies Program
Art and Architecture of the Global Spanish Empire
Afro-Filipina Aesthetics: Transnational Sound Cultures and Dance Performances
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, Harvard University
DZIEDZIC, PETER Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion
WU, SHAN
Comparative Studies, Literary Studies and the Arts
Ph.D. Candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion
Indo-Tibetan and Ancient Chinese Belief Systems
EVANS, JAMES Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History
ZHANG, JINGYI
Modern China and Taiwan and the Global History of the Cold War
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Music
HAI, PENG
Indie Opera, Transmediality, Voice Studies, and Media Archaeology
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Film History and Cultural Studies
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Postdoctoral Fellows An Wang Postdoctoral Fellow
FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES To advance scholarship in all fields of China Studies at Harvard.
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellowships support junior scholars in any discipline. Postdoctoral fellows are chosen through a competitive selection process. They spend one year at the Fairbank Center working on either a book manuscript or articles. In addition, they deliver research presentations to the Fairbank Center community.
HUANG, CLAUDIA California State University, Long Beach
Aging; Kinship and Intergenerational Dynamics; Gender; State-Society Relations
XU, YUSI AVEVA University of Southern California
Gender Politics, Health Communication, Structural Violence, Digital Justice, Netnography
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FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Postdoctoral Fellows
Hou Family Fellows in Taiwan Studies The Hou Family Fellowship for Taiwan Studies annually sponsors scholars as visiting fellows at the Fairbank Center to pursue Taiwan-related research.
JEON, JAEWOONG University of Chicago
History of Capitalism
LIN, HUSAN-YU University of Virginia
Social Media, Political Communication, Foreign Policy
NACHMAN, LEV Social Movements, Party Politics, and Political Participation in Taiwan and Hong Kong
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University of California, Irvine
FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Visiting Scholars BRADEN, PETER
HORNBY, LUCY
University of California, San Diego
Independent Scholar
Environmental History; Economic Development
Political Leaders; State Economy; International Capital; Foreign Policy
CHENG, Y-YANG
HUANG, POYAO
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, San Diego
Linguistics; Discourse-Functional Linguistics; Linguistic Typology; Formosan Languages; Taiwan Mandarin
Science and Technology Studies; Medical Anthropology; Media Studies
CUI, YUMING Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen
Chinese Economy; Labor Market; International Governance Reform
JIN, HAI Fudan University
Chinese Buddhism with a Focus on Buddhist Education and Globalization
FENG, XIAOTONG
KENZHEAKHMET, NURLAN
Communication University of China
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Social History; International Relations; Public Opinion; Historical Anthropology
Archaeology; Historical Maps; Sinology; Central Asia
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FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Visiting Scholars
ULUDAG, BERNA KIRKULAK
LIN, LEI
Dokuz Eylül University
Duke Kunshan University
Chinese Economy; Financial Development; U.S.-China Trade
History of Late Imperial/Early Modern China; State-Building of China Under the Qing Empire
LEE, SEONG-HYON
LIN, YI-TANG
Sejong Institute
Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Geneva
Contemporary China-South Korea Relations
International Organizations; Public Health; Agricultural Studies
LI, QINGCHENG
LUO, KEVIN
Sichuan Normal University
Tsinghua University
U.S.-China relations; U.S.-Taiwan Relations; War History; Diplomatic Policy
State Building, Authoritarian Regimes & Democratization, Conflict and Security
LIAO, YI-FANG Academia Sinica
Intellectual History of East Asia
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PRATTE, ANNE-SOPHIE University of Montreal
Chinese Borderland Studies; Qing Mongolian Cartography; Late Imperial China
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Visiting Scholars
SHIH, TSUNGJEN
WANG, BINGXUE
National Chengchi University
Communication University of Zhejiang
Taiwan Studies; Public Opinion; Social Media
Cultural Memory; Gender Studies; Cross-Media Narrative
STRANGE, AUSTIN
WU, MAOSONG
University of Hong Kong
Keio University
Chinese Foreign Policy; International Relations; International Political Economy; Development
Modernization; Democracy; The Rights Protection Movement
SUHER, DYLAN
YANG, HUA
University of Hong Kong
Shandong University
Modern Literature; Cinema and Media Studies; Popular Culture
American China Studies
TSEN, CHIN-PO (BOB) Thanlwin Legal
Southeast Asian Studies; Burma Studies
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YEO, YUKYUNG Kyung Hee University
China’s Economic Coercion and Its Impacts on the Regional Order in East Asia
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FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Graduate Student Associates Graduate Student Associates are advanced doctoral students at Harvard who research China and are affiliated with the Center during one year of their dissertation research and writing.
OH, JOO-HYEON Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ming-Qing History; Pre-Modern Chinese Literature
CHEN, FANGDAI
ZHANG, GUANCHI
Department of Comparative Literature
Harvard Law School
Chinese-Language Literature; Avant-Garde
Law; Urban Studies; History; Political Economy
HUANG, DINGRU
ZHANG, YIRAN
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Harvard Law School
Care Work; Informality; Labor Migration
Modern Chinese LIterature; Media Studies; Environmental Humanities
HUANG, KANGNI
ZHAO, SHANNI
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Department of Anthropology
Chinese Literature
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Anthropology; Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
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FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Shum Fellows The Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship supports Harvard graduate students undertaking social science research projects in China.
ZHAO, ZELDA HANYU Department of Government
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Authoritarianism; Chinese Politics; Bureaucracy and Governance
FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
Non-Resident Associates in Research HARTMAN, CHARLES
SHERNUK, KYLE
University at Albany, State University of New York
Queen Mary University of London
Political History and Historiography of the Chinese Song Dynasty; Middle Period Chinese Political Culture
IRELAND, DARYL Boston University
Late Qing and Republic Era in Chinese History; Protestant Missions and Indigenous Chinese Christian Movements
LI, HAIHONG
Chinese Literature; Comparative Literature, Sinophone Studies; Ethnicity and Gender
ZHANG, QIN Independent Scholar
Architects; Chinese Cities; Chinese Architectural Education
Note: For complete list of Fairbank Center affiliates, visit: https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/people/associates-list/
Independent Scholar
Anti-Asian/Chinese Violence
MARINO, RICHARD Chinese Economy; U.S.-China Trade War; The Economics of the Belt and Road Initiative
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Independent Scholar
Visiting Scholars Faculty members in the humanities and social sciences at HYI partner institutions undertake 10 months of independent research at Harvard University.
HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE The Harvard-Yenching Institute
ASANO, TOYOMI Professor, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University
Normalizing Process of Bilateral Relations Between Post-War Japan and South Korea: Focusing on Edwin Reischauer’s Role in the Development of the Allied Reparation Policies for Dismantling Japanese Empire and Building a Region
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.
BABA, NORIHISA Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo
Buddhist Strategies of Legitimation: Buddhaghosa, the Mahāvihāra, and the Struggle for Supremacy in Medieval Sri Lanka
DAVID, CHENG CHANG (HYI-Radcliffe Institute Joint Fellowship recipient) Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Between Worlds: China’s WWII Interpreters and Their Divergent Fates in China, Taiwan, and the United States
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
Visiting Scholars
HE, ZHAOHUI
NAKAMURU, NAOFUMI
Professor, Institute for Advanced Confucian Studies, Shandong University
Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Woodblock Printing from the Perspective of Global History
The First Globalization and the Development of Japan’s Railways: Focusing on the US-East Asian Locomotive Trade, 1869-1930
KENG, CHING Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Chengchi University
From “One Mind at One Moment” to “Multiple Minds at One Moment”: Buddhist Philosophy of Consciousness and Beyond
LIAO, CANCAN Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Wuhan University
Confucianism and Western Learning in Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties in China: A view from a Perspective of Cultural Exchange
LIU, WENJIN Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, East China Normal University
Confronting Evil: Individual Responsibility and Spiritual Transcendence from Jewish and Chinese Perspectives
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NAKANISHI, TATSUYA Associate Professor, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
Reforging “Chinese” Islam in the Nineteenth Century: Hui Muslims’ Responses to Global Islamic Trends
WANG, CHIH-MING Associate Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica
Rearticulations: Trajectories of Foreign Literature Studies in Taiwan
WANG, JUNYANG Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Shandong University
Maintaining Social Stability to Ensure Regime Stability: The Historical Transition of China’s Security Apparatus Evidenced from Central Documents
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Visiting Scholars
WANG, SHU-LI
YANG, MENGMENG
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Assistant Professor, Institute of Linguistics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Archaeological Practice, Heritage Discourse and Place Making in China
XIONG, WENBIN Professor, Center for Tibetan Studies & Department of Archaeology, Sichuan University
A Study of Buddhist Art Monuments in Western Tibet during the 10th – 13th Centuries
The Syntax of Zhi and Er in Old Chinese
ZHENG, LU Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University
Transformation and Upgrading of China’s Manufacturing Sectors: The Divergent Paths of Jinjiang’s and Putian’s Shoe Industry
YANG, LICHAO Associate Professor, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University WANG, KANG
Reflecting on Children’s Experience Ph.D. Candidate, Department of of Poverty in Beijing Philosophy, Peking University Impure Land, Pure Land and Nirvana: The New Destinations of Chinese People in the Northern and Southern Dynasties
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
HYI TRAINING PROGRAMS HYI Training Programs bring together a small group of promising young Asian scholars in particular fields of the humanities and social sciences.
BUDDHISM AND ETHNICITY IN THE PERIOD OF THE SIXTEEN KINGDOMS AND NORTHERN DYNASTIES
CONTEMPORARY CHALLENGES TO DEVELOPMENT IN UPLAND REGIONS OF VIETNAM: IMPACT ON ETHNIC MINORITY PEOPLES TRAINING PROGRAM VISTING FELLOW
BUI, VIET THANH Researcher, University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh City
A Visual Anthropology of French Photographic Construction of Vietnam’s Central Highlands (1840-1945)
TRAINING PROGRAM VISITING FELLOW LINGUISTIC AND SEMIOTIC ANTHROPOLOGY TRAINING PROGRAM VISITING FELLOWS AND VISITING SCHOLARS:
WANG, KANG
ASAI, YUICHI
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Philosophy, Peking University
Senior Assistant Professor, Institute of Engineering, Division of Language and Culture Studies, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Impure Land, Pure Land and Nirvana: The New Destinations of Chinese People in the Northern and Southern Dynasties
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Fijian Song Making Practice as Reported Speech of “Sacred/Evil” Words and Its Relationship with the Contemporary Theological Context of Christianity
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Led by Professor Nicholas Harkness, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University
HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
HYI TRAINING PROGRAMS
CHRISTIAN, ALBERT GO
SUN, RUI
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Queerly Spaced: The Semiotic Landscape of the Metro Manila Pride March
Living a Perishable Life in Accelerationist China: Flowers, Time, and Aesthetics
INOUCHI, AYUMI Ph.D. Candidate, International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba
Bonding Through Speech Play Among Youth in a Globalizing Japan: Focusing on the Usage of Korean, Japanese, and Emojis as Translocal Communication Resources
TSUCHIDA, MADOKO Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cultural Anthropology, The University of Tokyo
Poetics of the Bodies: Sign Language, Dance, and Playfulness in a “Deaf Village”
XUE, CHEN CHARISMA, K. LEPCHA Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Sikkim University
Kanchenjunga as Witness: Semiotics of Buddhist Paraphernalia in Sikkim
Associate Professor, School of Foreign Languages, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Clothing of Everyday Life Culture in China: Approaches of Semiotics
LIU, YIN
ZHAO, XINGZHI
Ph.D. Candidate, School of English, University of Hong Kong
Associate Professor, Department of English, Sichuan University
Communication Inequality: A study of Voices of and About Chinese Migrant Workers
Gift Giving in China: A Social Semiotic Analysis
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
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NUS-HYI JOINT DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM Candidates pursue a Ph.D. at the National University of Singapore, with one year of dissertation research at Harvard University.
CHINESE STUDIES IN INDIA PROGRAM This joint doctoral fellowship program with the Institute for Chinese Studies in Delhi aims to encourage Chinese studies in India.
SHANKY, CHANDRA Research Scholar, Centre for Chinese and Southeast Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
CHU, DUY LY Ph.D. Candidate, Comparative Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore, and Lecturer, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Social Sciences and Humanities – Ho Chi Minh City
Hydropower Dams and Nation-Building in Postcolonial Asia: A Case Study of Da-Nhim Hydroelectric Power Dam in South Vietnam from a Comparative Perspective
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Socio-Political and Cultural Factors in the Making of Chinese Science Fiction Writer Liu Cixin: Understanding the Three Body Problem
MD, YASIN Ph.D. Candidate, Jawaharlal Nehru University
China in United Nations: Domestic Debates and Participation of Chinae
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
INDIAN STUDIES IN CHINA PROGRAM This program seeks to foster a cross-national network of scholars by bringing to HYI students of South Asian Studies in China.
CHEN, LIANGDONG Ph.D. Candidate, School of Arts and Communication, Beijing Normal University
Research on the Secularization of Bollywood Cinema
COORDINATE RESEARCH SCHOLAR PROGRAM This program provides Harvard faculty with a chance to invite faculty members to join them in collaborative research projects in established Asian Studies.
MA, MIN Professor and Director, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Central China Normal University
History of A Female Medical Missionary in Chengdu——A Case Study About Dr. Marian Manly and Her Works
DUAN, BIN Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, East China Normal University
The Normalization of Sino-India Relations, 1970-1990
WANG, XUAN Ph.D. Candidate, Department of South Asian Studies, Peking University
The Finite Description and Infinite Perfection: The Metaphors Related to Bodhisattva in The Kāśyapa-Parivarta
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ASSOCIATE PROGRAM This program allows past HYI affiliates to return to Harvard, with their own funding, to conduct new or additional research in their respective fields.
JIA, WENJUAN Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Shanghai University
The Material Basis of China’s Authoritarian Resilience——Socialism Social Contract, Practical Community and the Survival of a Chinese State-Owned Enterprise During Dramatic Social Change (1949-2019)
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
LIBRARY RESEARCH GRANT This grant allows scholars who have identified a specific collection of Asian-language materials available in the Harvard-Yenching Library to apply for research support to use these materials.
TRAN, THI PHUONG HAO Institute of History, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences
Traveling for Wisdom vs Traveling for Pleasure- Tourist Interests of the “New Literati” in the Context of Institutionalized Tourism in Colonial Vietnam
REGIONAL STUDIES – EAST ASIA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM This fellowship covers the two-year master’s degree in Harvard’s RSEA program.
LIN, TIENWEN
NG, QI SIANG
History
International Relations
WANG, YUHAO (FINN) Chinese Politics
LIU, MENGQIU
QIN, SI (CELINE)
WU, CHENG-TING
Comparative and World Literature
Sociology
Chinese Literature
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HARVARD-YENCHING INSTITUTE
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Global Korean Diasporas Postdoctoral Fellow IM, BO KYUNG BLENDA Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
KOREA INSTITUTE Devoted solely to the support and development of Korean Studies at Harvard, as the central hub for
Transpacific Belonging: Race, Music, and Faith in Seoul
Korea Foundation-Korea Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard faculty, students, leading scholars in the field, and visitors to join together as a community for the study of Korea.
KIM, YOOLIM Ph.D., University of Oxford
Conceptual Structure in the Korean Mental Lexicon: Exploring the Contributions of Hanja
SBS Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow in the Social Sciences MARTIN, BRIDGET Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
Land Power: Real Estate and the US Military in South Korea
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KOREA INSTITUTE
Visiting Scholar
Associate in Research JEON, SEUNG-HEE Lecturer, Slavic & Eastern Languages and Literatures Department, Boston College
Trauma and History in Modern Korean Autobiographical Narratives
CHO, SOOKJA Associate Professor, Korean and Comparative Literature, Arizona State University
LEE, JONGHYUN
Historical and Literary Narratives About the Silla Official and Scholar, Ch’oe Ch’iwon
Associate Professor of Social Work, Bridgewater State University
Migration History of Koreans in Manchukuo
SIEGEL, JORDAN
YOON, YOUNG-KWAN Kim Koo Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Professor of International Relations, Seoul National University; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea
Michael R. and Mary Kay Hallman Fellow; Associate Professor of Corporate Strategy, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Study of Corruption
Contemporary East Asian Relations
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Raghunathan Family Fellow
LAKSHMI MITTAL AND FAMILY SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE
SUBRAMANIAN, VIDYA Digital Citizenry in India
A university-wide research institute at Harvard that engages faculty members, students, and
Visiting Artist Fellow
in region institutions through interdisciplinary programs to
DHUNGANA, BUNA
disseminate knowledge, build
Gender and Photography
capacity, inform policy, and engage with issues that are shaping South Asia today. JAIN, PRAGATI Personal Conflict in Visual Media
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Associate
PROGRAM ON U.S.JAPAN RELATIONS, WEATHERHEAD CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Enables scholars and outstanding professionals from government,
AI, KOICHI Embassy of Japan, Washington, D.C.
The Resilience of U.S.-Japan Bilateral Relations: An Analysis of the American Public Opinion and Perceptions
AZUMA, KEITA Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan
National Decision-Making and Collective Intelligence: The U.S. Strategic Response to Gray-Zone Challenges in the Age of Global Power Shifts
business, finance, journalism, NGOs, and other fields to come together
FURUYA, MASAHIKO
at Harvard, conduct independent
Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan
research, and participate in an
Political Aspects of International Coordination and Procurement of Defense Equipment
ongoing dialogue with Harvard faculty members, students, and others from the greater Cambridge-
IKEDA, TOKUHIRO
Boston community.
(Joint Appointment with the Harvard University Asia Center) Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories LTD; Former Vice Admiral, Japan Maritime Self Defense Force
Maritime Security in East Asia
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PROGRAM ON U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS
Associate
IOKIBE, CHINAMI
STARR, KATHARINE
Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Government of Japan
Former Consulting Producer for NHK World Japan; Former Senior Producer for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s The House
KIJIMA, SHINICHI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan
Atomic Anniversaries: Media, Memory, and Covering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in a Post-Hibakusha World
TAKASHIMA, YOSUKE Asahi Shimbun, Japan
Support Systems and Networks for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME)
Causes of the Rise of Populism and Its Impact on U.S.-Japan Relations
SAKANOUE, KEISUKE
WATANABE, HIROKAZU
National Police Agency, Government of Japan
Cabinet Secretariat, Government of Japan
Legal Systems for Autonomous Driving in the United States
Retaliatory Trade Measures for National Security Exception in the WTO System
MITSUOKA, NOBUHIRO
YAMANAKA, YUKI
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), Japan
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Government of Japan
Assessing U.S. Living Lab Initiatives for Sustainability and Their Potential Application in Japan
Competition Policy for Electric Power Companies: A Comparative Analysis
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Labor Market Mobility and Human Capital Formation in the Digital Transformation Era
PROGRAM ON U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS
Postdoctoral Fellow
Academic Associate HARADA, MASATAKA Associate Professor, Fukuoka University
The Long-Term Consequences of the Destruction of Local Communities, Using the Case of the Firebombing of Tokyo During WWII
CHEUNG, GABRIELLE
IOKIBE, KAORU
Ph.D., Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Southern California
Professor, The University of Tokyo
Resilience in the Liberal International Order: Japan’s Role in Promoting Global Economic Cooperation
Treaty Management: Comparison between Meiji Amity and Commerce Treaties and Postwar Japan-U.S. Security Treaty
KURIZAKI, SHUHEI Associate Professor, Waseda University
The Pacifist’s Predicament: Japan’s Postwar National Security Strategy
HAMZAWI, JORDAN Ph.D., Department of Political Science, University of California, Davis
One Party to Rule Them All? The Return of Party Competition Failure in Japan
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MIAO, JI Associate Professor, Senior Research Fellow, China Foreign Affairs University
Evolving U.S-China-Japan Trilateral Relations and Emerging Regional and World Order: A Relational IR Perspective
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PROGRAM PROGRAM ON U.S.-JAPAN ON U.S.-JAPAN RELATIONS RELATIONS
Policy Innovations Fellow
Academic Associate
MIYACHI, TOMOKA
NAKAI, AKI
Professor, Takushoku University
Ph.D., Department of Political Science, Boston University
A Comparison of “Fairness” in Insurance Underwriting in Japan and the U.S.
Why and How Is Japan Responding to the Emerging Technologies, Especially Artificial Intelligence?
UCHIYAMA, AKIHIKO Professor, Chiba University
The Purpose of the Corporation and Value Creation in the U.S. and Japan
VEKASI, KRISTIN Associate Professor, University of Maine
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The Politics of Supply Chain Resiliency in the Indo-Pacific
Postdoctoral Fellows
EDWIN O. REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES To advance teaching and research
DAHL, SHAYNE Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Toronto
Mountains of Time: Sacred Mountains and Historical Consciousness in Japan
HIRAKI, SHIORI Ph.D. History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS University of London
Onari: Art, Ritual and Power in Early Modern Japan
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
JUUL, KARA Ph.D. Oriental Studies, Sociology, University of Oxford
Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead? Teachers’ Perceptions of the Gender Gaps in Mathematics in Japan
LI, YOUJIA
relations, and to strengthen ties
Ph.D. Modern Japanese History, Northwestern University
between Harvard University and
The Muscle-Powered Empire: Organic Transport in Japan and Its Colonies, 1850 – 1930
Japan and between Japan and the United States.
PAN, KEYAO (KYLE) Ph.D. Modern Japanese History, University of Chicago
Beyond Postwar, Beyond Nation: ‘Human Rights’ and the ‘History Problem’ in Modern Japan and Asia
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REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES
Japan Digital Fellow LIM, JUGEUN (JUNE) M.I. Human-Centered Data Science, University of Toronto
Gendered Voices in Popular Music: A DataDriven Analysis of Japanese Popular Song Lyrics (1968-2021)
Harvard College Fellow BENNETT, STEFFANI Ph.D. History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
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The Other Shore: Sesshūū Tōyō (1420-1506) and the Sino-Japanese Cultural Sphere in the Fifteenth Century
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REISCHAUER INSTITUTE OF JAPANESE STUDIES
Dissertation Completion Fellow
Graduate Student Associates
RUEGG, JONAS
LEFEBVRE, JESSE
Ph.D. Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Studies-Religion/Philosophy, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japans Pacific
Visiting Scholars SATO, KEIICHI
RUEGG, JONAS Ph.D. Candidate in History and East Asian Studies-EALC-HEA, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Professor, School of Network and Information, Senshu University
Disaster Response History in Japan
TAGA, FUTOSHI Professor of Educational Sociology, Kansai University
Paternity Leave in Japan
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