Asia Center Welcome Message
To the community of Harvard’s Asia-related centers,
I hope you had a wonderful summer and are enjoying the start of the new semester.
I’m very glad you are part of this interdisciplinary community. Please also join me in thanking the staff across Harvard’s Asiarelated centers for their work in supporting it.
This booklet brings together profiles of affiliates from the various centers. Its purpose is to help you get to know one another, identify shared interests, and make collaboration across schools and disciplines easier.
Our welcome event has the same goal: to bring together affiliates, staff, and faculty from across the centers for conversation and networking, and to strengthen a shared community of scholars of Asia at Harvard.
I very much look forward to meeting you this year. I hope you will join the Asia Center’s social events, talks, seminars, and conferences throughout the year.
All my best, Michael Puett
Victor and William Fung Foundation Director, Harvard Asia Center
Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Anthropology
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.
Visiting Scholars
EUNBIN CHUNG
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah
Comparative Analysis of Immigration Attitudes in South Korea and Japan: Exploring Motivated Numeracy and Misperception; Nationalist Globalization and the Korean Wave: South Korea’s Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-China Geopolitics
WEN-QING NGOEI
Faculty Associate Professor of History; Associate Dean (Partnerships & Engagement), Singapore Management University
Southeast Asia-U.S. Relations From the Mid-Twentieth Century to Contemporary Times
XIAO AN WU
University Chair Professor & Founding Dean, Research Institute of Global Chinese and Area Studies, Huaqiao University
The Making of Global China and Chinese Diaspora
Fellows
NASIM ZEHRA AKHLAQUE
Senior Analyst & Anchor, Channel 24, Pakistan
Pakistan’s China Connection; Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy
THOMAS ANDREWS
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar; Director, Southeast Asia Human Rights Project, Harvard Asia Center Southeast Asia Initiative
Human Rights in Southeast Asia
MATTHEW BUGHER
Research Director and Legal Counsel, Southeast Asia Human Rights Project, Harvard Asia Center Southeast Asia Initiative
Documentation of Human Rights Violations in Southeast Asia, Including Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar and Civil and Political Rights Violations Throughout the Region
KUNIHARU KAKIHARA
(Joint Appointment in the Program on USJapan Relations at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs)
Principal Research Director, National Security Institute, Fujitsu Defense & National Security, Ltd.
Theories of Victory Studies in China, Japan and Taiwan
MUHAMMAD SUHAIL BIN
MOHAMED YAZID
Independent Scholar
Pan-Islamic Worldmaking: Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Founding Years of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (Oic), 1969-73
JACOB DANIEL SIMS
Expert, Transnational Crime, U.S. Institute of Peace
Transnational Cybercrime in Southeast Asia: Drivers, Barriers, and Policy Responses
Associates
KAMAL AHMAD
Founder, Asian University for Women
Economic and Social Development in Asia
ABUL QUASEM AL-AMIN
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo; Managing Director, Centre for Asian Climate and Environmental Policy Studies, Ontario, Canada
The Carbon Emission Baseline for The Supply Chain of Pangasius Aquaculture: Inclusive Decarbonization in Vietnam’s Aquatic Farming and Processing Sectors
SUDHIR ANAND
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford & London School of Economics
Health Justice in South and South-East Asia
AURELIEN BELLUCCI
Postdoctoral Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Theater and Gentrification/People’s Theaters
MARIA ADELE CARRAI
Assistant Professor of Global China Studies, NYU Shanghai
China and Its Diaspora
CHUNMEI DU
Associate Professor, Department of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Mission of Justice: American Occupation, Japanese War Crime Trials, and Postwar China
JOSHUA EHRLICH
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Macau
South Asia; Indian Ocean World
PHILIP GANT
Director, APAC Policy & Partnerships, Global Blockchain Business Council; Research Director, Regulatory Ecosystems Group, New York
Regulatory Mapping and Development in APAC, With a Focus on Southeast Asia
HAIJING HAO
Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, Bentley University
How the Retired Elderly Use Technology to Assist Daily Life and Chronic Health Management in Thailand and China
RUI HUA
Assistant Professor of History, Boston University
Peasants Versus Empires: Transnational Legal Sedimentation in Manchuria, 1881-1951; The Deep Entanglement: Geology and Law in Northeast Asia, 1.95 Ga - 1976 AD
RUBANA HUQ
Vice-chancellor, Asian University for Women
WomenEmpowermentinReady-made Garment Sector and Education
MYUNG-KOO KANG
Associate Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York
Fiscal Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic Across Asia
RAPHAËLLE KHAN
Jerome S. Levy Postdoctoral Fellow, City University of New York
The Role of the Indian Diaspora in Shaping International Relations in the 20th Century
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
Contested Heritage and Politics in East Asia
MARIE KWON
Ph.D. Double Degree Student, International Relations and Political Theory, École Normale Supérieure and University of Liège
Navigating the Indo-Pacific: Geopolitical Genealogies, Epistemic Infrastructures, and the Production of Regional Space in Indonesian and South Korean Elite Perspectives
Associates
SEONG-HYON LEE
Senior Fellow, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations
Nuclear Advocacy in South Korea and the U.S.Korea Alliance
KAN LIN
Adjunct Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
ReligionandStateGovernance
GEOFFREY MACDONALD
International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Democracy and Party Politics in South Asia
HARUTOSHI MATSUTANI
Professor in Faculty of Economics; Director of the International Center for Chinese Studies, Aichi University
The Social Costs of Automobiles and Environment Policies in Asia: A Comparative Study on China and Japan
ANAÏS MATTEZ
Consultant, UNESCO
Restitution of Cultural Property: How International Law Shapes Sovereignty in East and Southeast Asia
SHOKO MEKATA
Representative for North America of the Mañjuśrī Mahāyāna Buddhist Association (Hiroshima, Japan)
Tibetan History, Culture and Language
MANJARI CHATERJEE MILLER
Professor of International Relations, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto
Great and Rising Powers, Power Transitions, India, China
DAVID THANG MOE
Affiliate Scholar, Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies
Beyond Buddhist Nationalism: The Politics of Interreligious and Decentralized Resistance After the Coup
BINALAKSHMI NEPRAM
Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Peace
Indigenous Peoples of Asia, their Constitution and Peace Making: Case of Manipur and the Indo-Burma Border Biodiversity Region
RAMAKRISHNA RAMASWAMY
Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur
Dharmanand, Manik and Damodar Kosambi: Early South Asians at Harvard (1910-1933)
KARL RUPING
Senior Managing Partner, incTANK Ventures
The Role of Technology Policy Development, Academic Innovation and Intellectual Propriety Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region
SOUMODIP SARKAR
Full Professor, Department of Management, University of Évora, Portugal
Resource Constrained Entrepreneurship in Asia
BRUNO S. SERGI
Instructor, Harvard Extension School; Full Professor at the University of Messina, Italy
Asian Economic Development
EKO BENNY SUBIANTO
Researcher, Episteme Research and Consulting; Program Consultant, Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Public Policy Program
Indonesia’s Politics and Policy in a Time of Democratic Regression
KELZANG T. TASHI
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies, American Council of Learned Societies
Sacred Confluence: Syncretic Art, Symbols, and Ritual Music in Bhutanese Religiosity
PAUL JAKOV SMITH
Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Haverford College
The Politics of War in Song China
VILASHINI SOMIAH
Senior Lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme, Universiti Malaya
Reimagining Coastal Indigeneity: Contemporary Maritime Lifeworld and Cosmological Resilience in the Mangroves of Sabah, Borneo
CHANPISEY UNG
Civil Servant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia
ASEAN and Conflict Management: A Case of Myanmar 2021 to 2024
VEDA VAIDYANATHAN
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Examining Indian and Chinese Engagement with Countries in Africa
MENGXIAO WANG
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China
VENERABLE YIFA
Founder & Chair, Woodenfish Project
Buddhism in Asia and Africa & Interaction of Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism
CHUNYING YUE
Research Associate, Peking University
SocialMediaandCivicEngagement:A ComparativeStudyoftheUnitedStates, Taiwan,andMainlandChina
Graduate Student Associates
ROBIN ALBRECHT
Architechture
Small Scale, Large Impact: Small-Scale Buildings as Catalysts of Public Life in Hong Kong
JEONGHUN CHOI
EALC
Formation of Historical Knowledge and Ignorance in Meiji Japan
GANGSIM EOM
Anthropology
Korean Company Towns and Inter-generational Changes in Postcolonial Indonesia
NAOMI FASTOVSKY
Study of Religion
The Global Grassroots: Yiguandao Proselytization in South Africa
JAEYON JEON
Comparative Literature
Simone de Beauvoir, Kurahashi Yumiko, and Pak Wan-so: Above Today’s Korea-Japan Feminist Solidarity
LARA NORGAARD
Comparative Literature
Cold War Connective Memory: Transnational Representations of Anti-Communism
MICHAEL NORTON
History of Art and Architecture
The Cosmic Body: Buddhist Cosmography and Visual Soteriology in Medieval China
HWEI RU ONG
EALC
Living Out Law: Legal Culture at the Inner Asian Frontier of Early China
LINH HO UYEN (CAMELLIA) PHAM
Comparative Literature
Between Beijing and Hanoi: Hu Feng, Tran Dan, and the Aesthetics of Cultural Dissent
AKHIL THOMAS
Study of Religion
Christian Poems in Hindu Tunes: A study of the Literary Works of Ernst Hanxleden SJ (1681-1732)
ISA YOUSHE
IAAS
Intellectual and Social History of Late Imperial China; Trans-Imperial Mobility; Islamic Networks Across Inner Asia
YUNYAO ZHAI
South Asian Studies
The Veiled Protector: A Study of Mahakala in Faith, Power, and Presence Within Buddhist Traditions
FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University brings together a global community of world-leading academics and practitioners to advance scholarship in all fields of China Studies.
Visiting Scholars
HOK YIN CHAN
Professor and Associate Head, Department of Chinese and History, City University of Hong Kong
Modern Chinese Intellectual History, Hong Kong History
LONG (ALEX) CHEN
Associate Professor, China Agricultural University
China’s Digital Economy and Platform Work, Organization and Management, Meaning of Work, Work Skill; Sociological Research Methods
ANDREW S. ERICKSON
Professor, US Naval War College
China Defense and Foreign Policy; China Maritime and Aerospace Technology; China Energy, Resources, and Geostrategy; Sino-American Relations and Contemporary Policy Issues
RUI GUO
Visiting Scholar, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School
Corporate Law; Financial Regulation; Disability Rights; Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
MIMI PI
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Capital Normal University of China
Confucian Classical Studies, Modern Chinese Philosophy
Visiting Fellows of Practice
BOWEN SUN
Lecturer, Department of Environmental Design, Shanghai Business School
Chinese Architectural History, Regional History, Society, Folkways, and Religions
HO LUN TOMMY TSE
Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, The University of Amsterdam
China-Africa Fashion Power; Cultural Industries, Creative Labor Studies, Platform Economy, Consumer Culture, Sociology of Fashion
LINGANG ZHOU
Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Affairs, East China Normal University
Chinese Constitution; Early Modern Western Political Thought
YIXIAO ZHOU
Associate Professor in Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University
International Economic Developments and Policies, the Economics of Innovation and Structural Change, and the Chinese Economy in Global Context
CHEN TSO (WESLEY) CHU
Co-Founder and Secretary General, International AI and Law Research Foundation; Research Fellow, Rajawali Foundation for Asia, HKS
AI Regulation and Policy; Data Governance; Global Supply Chain Compliance; U.S.-China Competition
YUNLI LOU
Founder and Managing Partner, Milestone Capital Partners Limited
Entrepreneurship in China, Energy, Healthcare, Electric Vehicles, and Education
An Wang Postdoctoral Fellows
LINZHOU (JACK) XING
Ph.D. in History and Sociology of Technology and Science, Georgia Institute of Technology
Technology and Society in China; Digital Infrastructure, Technology and Work, Innovation Policy, the Platform Economy; Sociotechnical Development of Autonomous Vehicles
YUXING (YOLANDA) ZHANG
Ph.D. in Information Studies, University of Toronto
AI Development and Industrial Restructuring in China’s Agrifood Networks, Digital Media, Media Theory, the Political Economy of Platforms and Platform Culture, Environmental and Multispecies Anthropology
Wang Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies
WENDY WAN-TING WANG
Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley
Modern Chinese Literature and Media Cultures, Japanese Imperial Literature and Cultures, Film and Media Histories and Theories, Indigenous Studies, Environmental Humanities, Taiwan Studies
Center Associates
JOSEPH FEWSMITH
Professor of International Relations and Political Science, Boston University
Comparative Politics, Chinese Domestic and International Politics, Elite Politics of The Contemporary Period
ROBERT ROSS
Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Chinese Security Policy and Defense Policy, East Asian Security, and U.S.-China Relations
KAIYUAN WANG
Executive Director, University Forum
Theories of the State and Comparative Study of State Governance
ROBERT WELLER
Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
China and Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, Ethnography, Religion
ELLEN WIDMER
Mayling Soong Professor Emerita of Chinese Studies and Professor Emerita of East Asian Studies, Wellesley College
Traditional Chinese Fiction, History of Chinese Women’s Writing, History of the Book in China, and Missionaries to East Asia
Desmond & Whitney Shum Fellows
HANNING LUO
Dominant-Party Regimes, Contemporary China, State-Society Relations
XIAORUI ZHOU
20th Century China, Second Sino-Japanese War/WWII in China, Social History, Gender History, and Social Mobility
Graduate Student Associates
CHRISTOPHER (CHRIS) LI
U.S.-China Relations, Chinese Elite Politics, Chinese Foreign Policy, Taiwan and CrossStrait Relations, Emerging Technology, China’s Biotechnology Sector
MINGXUE (MEI) NAN
Media and Technology and Literature in Modern and Contemporary East Asia, Media Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Nuclear Criticism, Post-Colonial and Decolonial Theory, Sinophone and Transpacific Studies
FRANCIS NEWMAN
History of Science, History of Medicine, Environmental History, Qing History, History of Ethnicity, Taiwan History
YEDONG SH-CHEN
Media Technology, History of Computing, Chinese Film and Media Culture in the 20th and 21st Centuries
WEI-AN TSAI
Law and Technology, National Security, Media and Society, Comparative Free Speech Principles, Theories of Democracy
WENFEI WANG
Premodern Chinese Literature, Intellectual History, History of Science, Transmission of Western Learning in Early Modern China
YI ZHANG
Premodern Chinese Literature, Visual and Material Culture, Media Studies, History of Finance
HARVARDYENCHING INSTITUTE
Visiting Scholars
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.
CHEUNSUMON DHAMANITAYAKUL
Chulalongkorn University
Film and Literature
YANNAN DING
FudanUniversity
Historical Geography; History of Cartography
GERI JIEBU
Minzu University of China
Tibetan Studies; Linguistics
SEO HE IM
Hanyang University
Literature
I-KAI JENG
National Taiwan University
Philosophy; Literature
KAKINUMA YOHEI
Waseda University
History of Early and Medieval China; Economic History
Visiting Scholars
RUBY YUEN SHAN LAI
Lingnan University
Sociology
LE THI THU HANG
Vietnam Academy of Social Science
History
ZONG-RONG LEE
Academia Sinica
Sociology
WANLIN LI
Peking University
Literature; Adaptation Studies
MA XINRONG
Sun Yat-Sen University
Political Science; Political Anthropology
PARK HYUN-GWI
Kyung Hee University
Anthropology
PRAKIRATI SATASUT
Thammasat University
Anthropology; Buddhist Studies; Southeast Asian Studies
WANG HAIYAN University of Macau
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies;
Media; Journalism
WANG JUNQI
Renmin University of China
Indian Buddhism
KUAN-CHI WANG
Academia Sinica
Geography; Agrarian Change; GIS & Digital Humanities
RUIHENG WANG
Nanjing University
History
YUK JOOWON
Kyungpook National University
Sociology
RICCI Institute-HYI Joint Fellowship
Program Scholars
LI LEI
Nankai University
Cultural History
Chinese Studies in India Program Scholars
RAJ GUPTA
Jawaharlal Nehru University/ Peking University
Chinese Politics
MA NAN
Jinan University
Religious Studies
Indian
Studies in China Program Scholar
XIE CHAO
Fudan University
Indian Politics; Hindu Nationalism; Foreign Policy
NISHANT DILIP SHARMA
O.P. Jindal Global University/ Fudan University
China Studies; Political Sociology
New Frontiers of Research on Institutions of China Training Program
LIU QING
Sichuan University
Sociology; Anthropology
Science, Technology, and Society in Asia Training Program
GAI YIJUN
University of Hong Kong
Science, Technology, and Society; Political Ecology
ZHANG JINJIN (KIMIE)
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Japanese Studies; Anthropology
Coordinate Research Program Scholars
HEJUNG JEONGSOO LEE
Joong-Ang Sangha University
Sanskrit JIAN ZHANG
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Late Imperial Chinese History (1368-1912); Military History in Inner Asia 1449-1885); History of Sino-Russian Relationship (1643-1858)
Associate Program Scholars
DENG FEI
Fudan University
Art History
YE JING
University of International Business and Economics
Political Science; Political Science, University of International Business and Economics
Indian Studies in China Training Program
Regional Studies – East Asia A. M. Fellowship Program
YUTAO CHEN
Harvard University
History
MINGXUAN LIU
Harvard University
Political Economy; Comparative Politics
SONG MEITONG
Harvard University
Archaeology
KOREA INSTITUTE
Graduate Student Associates
MIN JI CHOI
Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature, Harvard University
“Shamanistic Thinking” in South Korea During Authoritarianism and Its Legacies; Examining the Relationship Between Korean Shamanistic Rituals and Political Resistance
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.
SHAE (CHAE LIN) KIM
Ph.D. candidate in EALC-Korean Literature, Harvard University
Political Uses of Languages, Scripts, and Literatures: With Special Focus on Literary Sinitic Script Usage in Modern and Premodern Korea
YU XIE
Ph.D. candidate in History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Legal History of Pre-Modern Korea
Korea Foundation-Korea Institute
Postdoctoral Fellow
CHAEYOUNG LEE
Ph.D. in Musicology/Ethnomusicology, Boston University, 2025
South and North Korean Music
Kim Koo Visiting Professor of Korean Studies
MARK E. CAPRIO
Professor Emeritus Rikkyo University (Tokyo, Japan)
Korean History
Visiting Scholars
YOON JOO HWANG
Associate Professor of Music, University of Central Florida
Gagok (Art Songs) and Sung Genres Surrounding Gagok
SUN MI PARK
Chief Research Fellow, Institute of Premodern History of Korea, Department of Korea-China Relations, Northeast Asia History Foundation
Comparative Cultural History: Key Concepts for Understanding Early Korean History
Syed Babar Ali Fellow
MITTAL AND FAMILY
SOUTH ASIA INSTITUTE
The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University (The Mittal Institute) connects Harvard and South Asia. With over two billion people facing shared challenges and opportunities, South Asia offers unique opportunities for interdisciplinary research, capacity building, and informing policy across a wide range of fields. The Institute works with faculty members, students, and in-region institutions and experts to advance and deepen the understanding of critical issues shaping South Asia and its global impact.
FATIMA FAYYAZ
Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Creative Arts, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan
Comparative Study of Āshūrā Poetry in Urdu and Persian
Mittal Family Climate Fellow
SACHIN KUMAR
Assistant Professor, Cluster Innovation Centre, University of Delhi; Executive Officer, University of Delhi Foundation
AI for Social Good: AI/ML & Urban Computing for Climate-Resilient, Sustainable Cities with Responsible Governance
Raghunathan Fellow
TRESA ABRAHAM
Teaching Fellow, SVKM’s Narsee Monjee, Institute of Management Studies
Cultural History of Taxidermy in India
Jamnalal Kaniram Bajaj Fellow
ROSE SEBASTIAN
Assistant Professor in English, Bharata Mata College, Kerala, India
Science Museums in Post-Independence India
Graduate Student Associate
RIMSHI AGRAWAL
MAUD Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Democratize Spatial Knowledge and Enable Just Urban Futures Across Data-Scarce Environments in the Global South
SARTHAK AGARWAL
Ph.D. student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Food Security, Nutrition, and Policies and Laws Governing Them
ANANDITA AYESHA
M. Arch. Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cities Shaped by Conflict: Examining the Embedded Social Codes in Their Urban Form
SURBHI BHARADWAJ
MBA and MPA Student, Harvard Business School; Harvard Kennedy School
Technology, Economic Development, and Climate Adaptation in South Asia
PRIYANKA CHAHAL
MMS Student, Harvard Medical School
Preventing Drug Resistant Tuberculosis by Applying the Social Ecological Model to Explore the Social, Cultural, and Structural Factors Influencing Treatment Acceptance and Completion
MALVIKA DWIVEDI
MDes Publics Student, Harvard Graduat School of Design
Broadening the Understanding of What Design in the Global South Means
NIGEL GRAY
Ph.D. student, Harvard Graduate School of Education
How Parental Expectations, Gendered Norms, and Cultural Values Shape Sri Lankan Adolescents’ Educational and Career Decisions
JASMIN HIGO
Ph.D. Student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Harvard School of Public Health; Doctoral Fellow, Harvard Environmental Economics Program
How Shocks, Including Environmental Shocks, Affect Health Outcomes, and Livelihoods
MITUL IYENGAR
MDE Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Advancing Equitable Systems in South Asia Through the Integration of Technology, Data, and Design Thinking
MADHAVI JHA
Ph.D. Student, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Development Economics and Public Finance
Graduate Student Associates
NIKHIL KUMAR
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Harvard Kennedy School
Development Economics, Labor Economics, and Political Economy
PHUSATHI LIYANARACHCHI
MTS Student, Harvard Divinity School
Grief, Mourning, Psychoanalysis, and Gender— Especially Pertaining to Folk or Pre-Modern Literature as Well as Ritual Practice in South Asian Contexts
AMEENA QURESHI
MDE Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design; School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Mapping Social Systems to Scale Innovative Solutions
NITIN RANJAN
MPP Student, Harvard Kennedy School; Indian Revenue Service, Government of India
How the Absence of Caste-Disaggregated Data
Perpetuates Structural Invisibility and Erodes
Democratic Equity
SRI SATHVIK RAYALA
MTS Student, Harvard Divinity School
The Religious Traditions and Histories of Medieval and Early Modern India
LAUREN RICE
Ph.D. candidate, Havard Business School
How Market Structure and Technology Influence Healthcare Provider Behavior and Patient Outcomes in India
KARTIK SRIVASTAVA
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Kennedy School
Studying the Role of Segmentation in Labor Markets and in Firm Networks in India; How the Delivery of Public Services in Rural Areas Can Be Improved with the Use of Technology-Aided Accountability Mechanisms
ATIYAB SULTAN
MPA-ID Student, Harvard Kennedy School
Gender, Migration and the Bureaucracy
SAVALEE TIKLE
MAUD Student, Harvard Graduate School of Design
Urban Innovations and Design Paradigms
SETON UHLHORN
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Work of Late Eighteenth-Century Poet-Grammarian Insha Allah Khan Insha and the Poetics of Rozmurrah
SHAHARYAR ZIA
Ph.D. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
The Tradition of Arabo-Islamic Intellectual History in the Persianate Hindustan
Photo courtesy of Bovaeva Louiza
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
COLIN P. MORESHEAD
Mediating Power: How Hybrid Media Disrupts Elite Messaging in Japan
BRIAN FRITZ ROGERS
History of Commuting and Public Transport in Modern Tokyo
TOSHIAKI YOSHIDA
Japan Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Nuclear Power Plant Program, Disaster and Recovery
Visiting Scholars
TAIJI FURUSAWA
Professor, University of Tokyo
International Finance and Trade, Secular Stagnation, Global Value Chains
MAYUMI ITAYAMA
Associate Professor, Kokushikan University
U.S.-Japan Defense Cooperation Before the 1978 Guidelines for Defense Cooperation: A Reassessment
TOMOKO TAKAHASHI
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
InternationalRelations,InternationalOrganizations, InternationalInstitutions,China,Japan,SoutheastAsia, Global South
Associates
KUNIHARU KAKIHARA
Joint Appointment in the Harvard Asia Center
Principal Research Director, National Security Institute, Fujitsu Defense & National Security, Ltd.
Theories of Victory and the U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry
MAYU KANNARI
Judge, Chiba District Court, Japan
Collaboration Among Lay and Professional Judges: Lessons from the U.S. for Japan
TOSHIKI KITA
Principal Deputy Director, Ministry (METI), Japan
GoalsandImplementationofIndustrialPolicy: JapaninComparativePerspective
NOBUKAZU NAKAZAWA
Managing Director, Development Bank of Japan Inc.
Information Disclosure of Human Capital and Its Impact on Corporate Valuation
YUTAKA YAMAGUCHI
Senior Manager/News Anchor, TV Asahi Corporation
Energy Security, Job Creation, and Community Revitalization in the U.S.
Postdoctoral Fellows
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 wideranging 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.
FREDERICK FEILDEN
University of Cambridge, 2025
Early Modern Japanese Literature
DEANNA NARDY
ColumbiaUniversity,2025
Japanese Literature and Media
DUNCAN REEHL
Boston University, 2024
Ethnomusicology
QINAOYAN ROSENBERG
University of California, Los Angeles, 2025
Sociology
AOI SAITO
Northwestern University, 2025
Modern Japanese History
Visiting Scholar
JOANNA LINZER
Assistant Professor, History Department, College of the Holy Cross
Japan’s Iron Industry Between 1600 and 1965
Graduate Student Associates
MARK (YU-SHAN) CHEN
Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
ZACKARY KAPLAN
A.M. candidate, Committee on Regional Studies - East Asia
FINN KIRKPATRICK
A.M. candidate, Committee on Regional Studies - East Asia
MARI KISHI
Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Photo credit: Inside front cover and pages 7, 8, 14, 17, 20, 21, 24–26, and 33 by Joseph Foo ’26, taken in the summer of 2025 in Japan, Singapore, South Korea, and China. © 2025 Joseph Foo. Used with permission.
Photo credit: Cover, inside back cover, and pages 2, 10, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 30, 32, and 34–36 by Tenzin Ngodup, taken in the summers of 2023 and 2025 in India and Nepal. © 2023, 2025 Tenzin Ngodup. Used with permission.
