Current CEAS M.A. Students

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Name	Regional Focus	Area of Interest
An, Jianghong	China	Sociocultural and linguistic anthropology, media and cultural studies, STS, semiotics
Ashforth, Thomas	Japan	Sociocultural ethos of Japan towards Nuclear weapons and energy; Modern Japanese history; International Relations of Japan with East Asia and the West; Japanese politics
Biddlecombe, Cee Cee	East Asia	Modern East Asian culture and creative industries; influence of East Asian literature on the West; urban policy and development
Bruess, Alexander	Japan	Tokugawa Japan, modern Japanese history, East Asian Buddhism, relationship between Buddhist thought and Japanese society
Buie, Courtney	China	Urban development and planning; Chinese land reform; Energy and sustainability in China; East Asian geopolitics; U.S.- China relations
Case, Sarah	China	Education policy and reform in China; education of women; health education; child language acquisition
Chen, Lixun	China	Chinese diaspora and Sino-US relations; economic and political reforms of the Greater-China Area
Chichibu, Katsuhiro	China	Chinese diplomacy, Sino-US relations
Chiong, Joyce Si Hui	East Asia	East Asian regionalism and international relations; East Asian history, religions, philosophies and sociopolitical developments
Cohen, David Dakota	China	State-society relations in non-democratic societies, and especially the bases of stability in contemporary China
Derman Harris, Jon	China	Chinese contemporary art, political pop art, industrial design, technology entrepreneurship and business, Chinese foreign policy
Fan, Yaqian	China	Sino-Japan relations; new media and its social implications in East Asia; mass culture; the Internet and its empowerment in China; digital divide; machine translation
Gao, Yichen	Korea China	The Korean Peninsula politics, East Asian economy especially Chinese and Korean economy, U.S.- China-Korea relations
Guo, Jiawen (Daris)	China	authoritarianism and democratization; China's economic and political reform
Huang, Xiaoyi	China	Comparative Literature; Cultural Studies; Cross-cultural Communication; Translation Studies; Modern and Classic Chinese Literature
Ide, Samuel	China	Sino-Central Asian relations particularly in terms of trade and security, East Asian geopolitics, Asian regional trade integration, Great Power politics
Jiang, Yuhui	China	East Asian history and culture; Chinese literature and aesthetics; social and political theory; intellectual discourses on emotions, temporality, and spatiality
Jiang, Yuxi	China	The history and development of education policy in China; interaction between economic growth and human capital investment; role of education and microfinance programs in the economic development of rural areas in East Asia
Joo, Eun Hye	East Asia	International Relations among East Asian countries, US-Chinese relations
Kim, Dong youn	Korea	Korean Unification, Korea-US-China-Japan Relationship
Kim, Seung Yeol	Korea China	Legal and strategic review of mutual defense treaties of the United States in East Asia; Analysis of arms & arms control agreements of the U.S. and its policy on disposition of weapons in East Asia; Strategies in U.S.-ROK-China trilateral relations
Krost, Stacy	China	Modern Chinese literature and media; public reaction to Chinese literature and media; implications of public reaction for China's political process; intersection of politics and media
Lam, Jason	China	US-China Relations, Security Issues in the Pacific Region, Cross-Strait Relations between Mainland China and Taiwan, Cultural Identity, the 1944 "Dixie Mission" and lessons that can be learned from it
Le, Lin	China	State-society relations in China; China's political economy; the rise of China and international politics; the Tibet issue; nationalism
Lee, Jun-Youb (JY)	Korea	Asian & Asian American intellectural history and Korean business history
Lee, Michael Minyoung	Korea	Foreign relations among the East Asian countries, with emphasis on how they relate to the U.S.'s own interests
Li, Zhoujia	China	China's image in the global media; cross-cultural communication; public awareness of cultural inheritance; gender ideology in Chinese culture; modern Chinese drama
Li, Lu	China	Cross-cultural communication and business model localization; new media and innovation and their effects on China-U.S. economies and business relations
Limon, Daniel	China	China's start-up ecosystem; business strategy in China; US-China relations and great power rivalry; social order in Chinese society; East Asian territorial disputes
Lu, Yingdan	China	Media, technology and Chinese society; Contemporary Chinese politics; Public deliberation and Chinese policy; Media coverage in East Asia
Luo, Mian	China	Political and economic reforms; market transition in the information age; social uprisings; modern Chinese history
McGurk, Stewart	China	Modern Chinese history and cultural anthropology; race and identity; China-ASEAN relations; multilateral security cooperation in Asia-Pacific
Meixsel, Pearly	Japan	Japanese Business Practices, Globalization Strategies & Entrepreneurship Infrastructure; Japanese Economic Policies & Relations with US/East Asia; Modern Japanese History
Meng, Tianlin	China Japan	Chinese & Japanese art history; Political functions of artworks during dynastic China & Japan; History of Japanese Kanshi
Pratt, Walter	China	Post WWII Japan, Sino-US Relations, PRC-ASEAN Relations, Overseas Chinese Communities in SE Asia, Cross Taiwan Strait Relations
Rath, Allison	China	Modern and traditional Chinese history, Asian art history, women's history, cultural anthropology, alternative political systems
Seeley, Mengxi (Margaret)	East Asia	China-North Korea economic relations and developmental engagement; food security and nutrition in North Korea and rural China
Song, Yanchen	China	International Relations in East Asia, China's foreign policy and its determinants, Chinese political economy, cyberspace and its impact on elite-mass relations in China
Sun, Lihuang (Rachel)	Japan	Japanese art history, Japanese popular culture, Production and distribution of art and culture in Japan, Japanese environmental literature
Sun, Jodie Murong	Japan	Nihonjinron, cultural identity, role of education in shaping national identity, nationalism in East Asia
Suo, Feiya	East Asia	East Asian international relations; U.S.- China- Korea relations; Political system and political transformation of China and Korea; Political culture of Korea
Tabi, Olivier	China	Economic development ; Political economy ; Business & entrepreneurship
Tan, Adelbert Ying Lip	China	Chinese foreign policy; East Asian political economy; technology and internet in China
Tan, Erin Ying	East Asia China	East Asian culture and media evolution; international relations; East Asian history and its influence on regional dynamics; Chinese business culture
Tang, Hesong	China	US and China Relationship; US foreign policy in East Asia
Tapia, Susan Del Carmen	Korea	US Diplomacy, Korea- South/North Relations, Japanese immigrant populations, women's issues
Tian, Ziyao	China	Chinese studies; urban sociology; contemporary Chinese history; family, gender and life course; cultural anthropology; Danwei system
Tian, Yuan	China	Modern Chinese history and politics, political movements, revolution and people's motivation in social movements in modern China, with specific focuses on the Cultural Revolutions, Red Guards and the students and intellectuals in the May 4th Movement
Wilcut, Lisa	Japan	Japanese religion, particularly Shinto, Zen and the Mikkyo schools of Buddhism; Japanese literature and intellectural history; Japanese classical poetry; Japanese traditional culture in contemporary practice
Wong, Daniel Bruce	China	Organizational behavior; economic transition and financial system; the Internet and computers in Chinese society; human-computer interaction
Wu, Yifei	China	Sociocultural anthropology; Body politics, ideology, and power in China; The symbolics of the body; Media and panopticon; Comparative literature
Xing, Yina	East Asia	Economic Integration of East Asia; Trilateral relation of China, Japan and Korea; US's Foreign Policy in East Asia
Yang, Liu	China	Cultural resources preservation; cultural identity and ethnography
Yang, Jier	China Japan	Feminism/Women's issues in China and Japan, cultural exchange in modern East Asia, Modern Chinese and Japanese literature and media
Ye, Liyi	China	Poverty and Inequality in Asia; U.S.- East Asia Relations; Financial Reform and Economic transition in China
Yin, Le	China	Chinese economic transformation, Chinese private equity and venture capital market, Chinese entrepreneurship
Yoo, Seungmin	China	International relations, regional security issues, Chinese politics and foreign policy, China-North Korea relations, US foreign policy in East Asia
Yoshinaga, Megumi	East Asia	Sino-Japanese relations: (i) the history and politics of territorial disputes between China and Japan; (ii) how the politics of memory (of WWII) affects this dispute; (iii) how historical memory affects the public sphere and constrains political actors
Zhu, Shien	China Japan	Comparative economic policies; the comparison between Chinese organizational structures and the Japanese Keiretsu system; multi-cultural communication and media studies; transnational corporations in East Asia