#  Graduate Alumni Placement List 

 



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Some EALC alumni are willing to speak to undergraduates about their research or career field. An asterisk (\*) next to a name means the alum is open to being contacted by **undergraduate EAS concentrators, prospective concentrators, and recent graduates of the EAS concentration.** To request contact information, e-mail [naia\_poyer@fas.harvard.edu](mailto:naia_poyer@fas.harvard.edu). Out of respect for the privacy and busy schedules of alumni, contact information will only be given to querents in the aforementioned three categories.

Sort**Name**AdvisorDissertation**Placement****May 2025 Graduates**

Chimenti, Patrick

[Tomiko Yoda](/people/tomiko-yoda)

Grasping for the Periphery: Ethnographic Imaginaries and Media Ecologies of Place in Late High-Growth Era Japan

Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota

Lang, Chao

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott "Mark C. Elliott")

From Integration to Isolation: Xinjiang Cotton and Commercial Networks (1759-1890)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences

Tsai, Catherine

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Marginal Development: Japan, Taiwan, and the Tropicalization of the Yaeyama Islands, 1880s to 1970s

CEAS Postdoctoral Fellow Yale

Woolsey, Jeremy

[Tomiko Yoda](/people/tomiko-yoda)

Process as Truth: On the Career of Tahara Sōichirō and a Culture of Mass Media Critique in 1970s-2000s Japan

*No information available yet*

**November 2024 Graduates**

Kang, Juhee

[Shigehisa Kuriyama](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/shigehisa-kuriyama)

When Tests Began: Psychological Testing in 20th Century Japan 

Development Assistant, MIT

Teng, Tim Shao-Hung

[Jie Li](https://ealc.fas.harvard.edu/people/jie-li)

Earthbound Mediation: Geological Entanglements in Sinophone Extractive Zones

Assistant Professor of Sinophone film and media, Chinese University of Hong Kong

**May 2024 Graduates**

Borengasser, Daniel

[Melissa McCormick](/people/melissa-mccormick)

Hall of the Lotus King: Sculpture and Multiplicity in Early Medieval Japan

Associate Lecturer, Department of Art, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Huang, Kangni

[Wai-yee li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Toward a Poetics of Writing: Representing Literary Creation in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

Post-doctoral fellow, University of Southern California

Ma, Lingling

[Karen Thornber](https://complit.fas.harvard.edu/people/thornber-karen/)

The Pattern of Life—Discourses of Life in Literature, Art, and Design of Modern Japan from 1911 to 1941

Professor at The New School

Mao, Yuan-heng

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Jiangxi Literati and Interregional Networks in Thirteenth- to Fifteenth-Century China

Post-doctoral fellow, International Institute of Social History

Thumas, Jonathan

[Ryuichi Abe](/people/ryuichi-abe)

Places Apart: Buddhist Reclusion in Medieval Japan

Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies, Digital Tokugawa Lab, MacMillan Center, Yale University

**March 2024 Graduates**

Nguyễn, Vinh Quốc

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

From Dynasty to Nation: A Historiography of the Dueling Portraits of Nguyễn Huệ and Nguyễn Ánh

Adjunct Lecturer in Vietnamese, Columbia University

**November 2023 Graduates**

Bramao-Ramos, Sarah

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

A Nomadic Empire of Letters: The History of Manchu Language Books in Qing China (1644-1911)

Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Bates College

Kim, Yusung

[Tomiko Yoda](/people/tomiko-yoda)

Cold War Futurity on Display: New Techno-Environment Staged in South Korea and Japan through Models and Miniatures

Visiting Scholar, Seoul National University Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies

Morse, Canaan

[Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Reading with the Ear: Oral Narrative Dynamics as Textual Rhetoric in Ming Vernacular Short Fiction

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Virginia

Oh, Joo-hyeon

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Seeing the World Through Things: Explaining the Natural World in 16-18th Century China

Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Minnesota

**May 2023 Graduates**

Chen, Jannis Jizhou

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

The Literature of Things: Ecologies, Disasters, and the Sinophone Worlds

Assistant Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong

LeFebvre, Jesse

[James Robson](/people/james-robson)

The Antifragile Hasedera Kannon: Restoration, Revitalization, and Karma in Medieval Japan

Assistant Professor of Japanese, National University of Singapore

Peng, Hai

[Jie Li](/people/jie-li)

Habitus of the Minor: the Visuality of non-Han Peoples in Modern China (1930s-2010s)

Assistant Professor in History, University of Pittsburgh

Wang, Huanruo

[Jie Li](/people/jie-li)

Pan Documentary and the Ecologies of Reality Production in Contemporary China

Assistant Professor, Department of Media and Communications, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou

Yang, Sungik

Carter Eckert

Korea's Fascist Moment: Liberation, War, and the Ideology of South Korean Authoritarianism, 1945–1979

Assistant Professor of History, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

**November 2022 Graduates**

Cai, Wenjiao

[Sun Joo Kim](/people/sun-joo-kim "Sun Joo Kim")

Coping with the Cold: Nature and State on Chosŏn Korea’s Northern Frontier

Visiting Research Affiliate, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgetown University

**May 2022 Graduates**

Huang, Dingru

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Between Animal and Machine: Ecologizing Modernisms in Wartime China, 1931-1945

Rumsey Family Junior Professor in the Humanities and the Arts, Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences, International Literary and Cultural Studies

Mirsalis, Dana

[Helen Hardacre](/people/helen-hardacre)

Gendering the Shinto Priesthood in Postwar Japan

Assistant Professor, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon

Nazzicone, Joelle

[Tomiko Yoda](/people/tomiko-yoda "Tomiko Yoda")

Schooling Artlessness: New Media and Children's Arts Education in 20th Century Japan

Lecturer, Kyoritsu Women's University

Rüegg, Jonas

[David Howell](/people/david-howell)

The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State and Environment in the Making of Japan's Pacific

Senior Research and Teaching Assistant, The University of Zurich, Switzerland

Toscano, Dominic

[Xiaofei Tian](/people/xiaofei-tian)

Eighth-Century Anthologies and the Creation of High Tang Poetry

Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Zhao, Mengdie

[Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Shades of Justice: Debating Law and Legal Culture in Early Modern China

Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow of Global China Studies, New York University Shanghai

**March 2022 Graduates**

Frost, Adam

[William Kirby](/people/william-kirby)

Speculation and Profiteering: The Entrepreneurial Transformation of Socialist China

Postdoctoral Fellow, Copenhagen Business School

Wing-Lun, Joel

[Michael Szonyi](/people/michael-szonyi)

Negotiating Empire on China's Miao Frontier, 1597-1919

Lecturer in History and Asian Studies, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

**November 2021 Graduates**

Tan, Jessica Li Wen

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

*Sinophone Circuits: Chinese-Language Cultural Production, Southeast Asia, and the Cold War*

Assistant Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Tung, Yung-Chang

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Overcoming Trivialities: Gossiping, Note-Taking, and the Problem of Information in Thirteenth-century China

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

**May 2021 Graduates**

Brazelton-Braxton, Mycah

[Melissa McCormick](/people/melissa-mccormick)

*Avant-Garde Realism in Japan, 1929-1941*

Assistant Professor, Art History, Indiana University Bloomington

Cross, Julia

[Ryuichi Abe](/people/ryuichi-abe)

*Relic Theft and Sacred Space in Medieval Japan: Enshrinements of the Buddha’s Body a Study of Texts and Objects*

Assistant Professor, Waseda Insitute of Advanced Studies, Waseda University

Dong, Yuting

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

*Building Japan’s Empire: Local Practice and Colonial Expertise in Northeast China, 1905–1953*

Assistant Professor of East Asian History and the College, University of Chicago

Hua, Rui

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

*Peasants Versus Empires: Transnational Civil Justice and National Legal Decolonization in Manchuria, 1881-1951*

Assistant Professor of History, Boston University

Lee, Anna Jungeun

Carter Eckert

*Resistant Consumerism: The Politics of Consumption in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee Period (1961-1979)*

Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Reynolds, Graeme

[Sun Joo Kim](/people/sun-joo-kim)

*The Histories of Koryŏ: Their Production, Circulation, and Reception from the Chosŏn Dynasty to the Present*

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

Tu, Hang

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

*Revolution Remains: Literature, Thought, and the Politics of Emotion in Reform China*

Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore

**November 2020 Graduates**

Bae, Keung Yoon (Becky)*

[Alexander Zahlten](/people/alexander-zahlten)

A Hall of Mirrors: Film Regulation and Industrial Strategy in Colonial Korea, under Empire and its Aftermath

Assistant Professor of Korean Studies, School of Modern Languages, Georgia Institute of Technology

Du, Feiran

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Poetry as Epistemology: The Naive Poet Yang Wanli (1127-1206) in the Age of Learning

Expert in Confucianism, Database of Religious History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Fitzgerald, Devin

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

The Ming Open Archive and the Global Reading of Early Modern China

Curator of Rare Books and the History of Printing, UCLA Library, Special Collections

Gant, Philip

[Sun Joo Kim](/people/sun-joo-kim)

Taking Refuge in the Law: Monastic Litigation and a New History of Buddhism in Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910)

Executive Director, APAC Policy and Partnerships, Global Blockchain Business Council; Harvard University Asia Center Associate

Suher, Dylan*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Getting Electrocuted: Media and the Author in Postsocialist China

Contributing Editor, *Asymptote* Journal

**May 2020 Graduates**

Hui, Ming Tak Ted

[Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Writing Empire: Culture, Politics, and the Representation Of Cultural Others in the Mongol-Yuan Dynasty

Associate Professor of Classical Chinese and Medieval China, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford

Kang, Hyeok Hweon

[Sun Joo Kim](/people/sun-joo-kim)

Crafting Knowledge: Artisan, Officer, and the Culture of Making in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1592–1910

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Washington University in St. Louis

Li, Xiaoxuan*

[Xiaofei Tian](/people/xiaofei-tian)

The Fallible Body in Early Medieval China

*No information available*

Liu, Jingyu*

[James Robson](/people/james-robson)

The Unimpeded Passage: The Making of Universal Salvation Rites and Buddho-Daoist Interactions in Medieval China

Research Associate at Harvard Business School

Mai, Huijun

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Thinking Things: Mediated Materiality in Song (760-1279) Literary Culture

Assistant Professor of Medieval Chinese Studies, UCLA

Shernuk, Kyle*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Becoming Ethnic and Chinese: Sinophone Transculturation at the Millennial Turn

Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Georgetown University

**November 2019 Graduates**

Tsuda, Taro* 

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Sato Eisaku and the Establishment of Single-party Rule in Postwar Japan

Assistant Professor, Meiji University

**May 2019 Graduates**

Bernard, Peter

[Tomiko Yoda](/people/tomiko-yoda)

Rural Japanese Gothic: The Topography of Horror in Modern Japanese Literature

Associate Professor, Keio University

Ghadimi, Amin

[David Howell](/people/david-howell)

Disorder and the Japanese Revolution, 1871-1877

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Department of Language and Culture, Osaka University

Glasnovich, Ryan

[David Howell](/people/david-howell)

Return to the Sword: Martial Identity and the Modern Transformation of the Japanese Police

*No Information available*

Monaghan, Kate

[Xiaofei Tian](/people/xiaofei-tian)

Self-Representation in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry: The Literary Selves of Ruan Ji, Tao Yuanming, Xie Lingyun, and Bao Zhao

Poet

Swanson, Eric*

[Ryuichi Abe](/people/ryuichi-abe)

The Restoration of Peace Through the Pacification of Vengeful Spirits: Jien (1155-1225) and the Construction of Buddhist Orthodoxy

Assistant Professor of Theological Studies, Loyola Marymount University

Tu, Feng-en

[Shigehisa Kuriyama](/people/shigehisa-kuriyama)

Japan's Empire of Scents: Commerce, Science, and the Modern Senses of Health and Cleanliness

Editor in Chief, Lingking Publishing Company 聯經出版 in Taipei,

Founder and CEO, StoryStudio.tw



Van Swet, Floris 

[David Howell](/people/david-howell)

Finding a Place: Ronin Identity in the Tokugawa Period

Research Fellow, Northumbria University, Newcastle

**November 2018 Graduates**

Hamm, Matthew

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

Ways of Being: Philosophical Theory and Practice in Early China

Legislative Documents Analyst, British Columbia Public Service

**May 2018 Graduates**

Brewster, Ernest (Billy)

[James Robson](/people/james-robson)

The Yoga of Dying: Xuanzang on the Nature of Death

Postdoctoral Researcher in Chinese Buddhist Philosophy, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA), Austrian Academy of Sciences

Campana, Andrew*

[Tomiko Yoda](/people/tomiko-yoda)

Poetry across Media in 20th Century Japan

Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University

Chamness, Graham

[Xiaofei Tian](/people/xiaofei-tian)

The Literary Formation of Cultural Communities in Mid-Third-through Early-Fifth-Century China

Senior Content Manager, Paulson Institute Think Tank

Du, Heng

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

The Author's Two Bodies: Paratext in Early Chinese Textual Culture

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Chinese, Wellesley College

Kim, Hanung*

[Leonard van der Kuijp](/people/leonard-van-der-kuijp)

Rennaisance Man from Amdo: The Life and Scholarship of Eighteenth-Century Amdo Scholar Sum pa mkhan po Ye shes dpal 'byor (1704-1788)

Associate Professor, Korea University, Department of History

Kou, Lu*

[Xiaofei Tian](/people/xiaofei-tian)

Courtly Exchange and the Rhetoric of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Liu, Chen

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Lasting Ephemera: The Culture of Marginalia in Mid-Song Dynasty China (1050-1200)

Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore

Porter, David*

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

Ethnic and Status Identity in Qing China: The Hanjun Eight Banners

Faculty Lecturer in History, McGill University

Yi, Ivanna Sang Een

[David McCann](/people/david-mccann)

Continuing Orality and the Environment in Korean Literature: Writing as a Mode of Oral Performance in the Twentieth Century to the Present

Assistant Professor of Korea Studies, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University

Ying, Lei

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Shadows of Karma: Buddhism, Literature, and the Modern Chinese Revolution

Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College

**November 2017 Graduates**

Cho, Yaejin

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

Governing Modernity and Everyday Life in Colonial Korea

Foreign Attorney, Kim & Chang Law Firm, Korea

Foster, Christopher*

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

Study of the *Cang Jie pian*: Past and Present

Librarian, Library of Congress

Lee, John

[Sun Joo Kim](/people/sun-joo-kim)

Protect the Pines, Punish the People: Forests and the State of Pre-Industrial Korea, 918-1897

Assistant Professor of East Asian History, Durham University

**May 2017 Graduates**

Cervone, Einor Keinan

[Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Waterscapes: Aquatic Theater and Other Floating Pleasures in Late Imperial Jiangnan

Associate Curator of Asian Art, Denver Art Museum

Cho, Ilsoo David*

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

Discourses of Nation: Tensions in Early Modern Korea-Japan Relations

Post-doctoral Fellow, Brandeis University Department of History

Kim, Nuri

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

History, Myth, and the Making of an Ancient Religion in Early Twentieth-Century Korea

University Assistant Professor in Korean Studies, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge

Sun, Xiaosu

[Wilt Idema](/people/wilt-l-idema)

Performing the Bodhisattva Guanyin: Drama, Ritual and Narrative

Associate Professor, International College for Chinese Studies, Nanjing Normal University

Vedal, Nathan

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Scholarly Culture in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

Yoshie, Hirokazu*

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Quotidian Monarchy: The Portrait of the Emperor in Everyday Life in Japan, 1889-1948

Associate Professor, Soka University

Zhang, Chen

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Learning to Write Naturally: The Problem of Southern Song Poetry in the Late Twelfth Century

Assistant Professor, Baptist University, Hong Kong

**November 2016** 

Chun, Tarryn*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Stage Technology in Modern China: The Media of Revolution and Resistance

Assistant Professor of Theatre, Department of Film, Television, and Theater/Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Notre Dame, Faculty Fellow at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies

Jin, Huan

[Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

When Heaven Collapsed: Writing the Taiping Civil War (1851-1864)

Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong

Wakamatsu, Yurika

[Melissa McCormick](/people/melissa-mccormick)

Painting in Between: Gender and Modernity in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)

Assistant Professor, Art and Art History Department, Occidental College

**May 2016**

Bender, Lucas

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Du Fu: Poet Historian, Poet Sage

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures and Humanities, Yale University

Chen, Jingling*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

An Acropolis in China: The Appropriation of Ancient Greek Tradition in Modern Chinese Literature

Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Hsiung, Hansun*

[Shigehisa Kuriyama](/people/shigehisa-kuriyama)

Republic of Letters, Empire of Textbooks: Globalizing Western Knowledge, 1790-1895

Assistant Professor, Durham University; Director of Studies, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University

Ingram, Shea

[Ryuichi Abé](/people/ryuichi-abe)

Rebuilding Nara’s Tōdaiji on the Foundations of the Chinese Pure Land: a Campaign for Buddhist Social Development

Intelligence Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency, Indo-Pacific Command, Dept. of Defense, Honolulu, Hawai'i

Kwon, Peter

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

The Anatomy of Chaju Kukpang: Military-Civilian Convergence in the Development of the South Korean Defense Industry under Park Chung Hee, 1968-1979

Assistant Professor, Korean Studies Department, State University of New York, Albany

Loh, Shi Lin

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Irradiated Trajectories: Medical Radiology in Modern Japan

Assistant Professor, History Department, University of Singapore 

Schluessel, Eric

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933

Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University; Director of Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Tang, Qiaomei*

[Xiaofei Tian](/people/xiaofei-tian)

Divorce and the Divorced Woman in Early Medieval China (First Through Sixth Century)

Assistant Professor, Grinnell College

**November 2015**

Saunders, Rachel*

[Melissa McCormick](/people/melissa-mccormick)

Xuanzang’s Journey to the East: Picto-textual Efficacy in the Genjō Sanzō emaki

Assistant Professor, Princeton University

Wang, Xiaoxuan

[Michael Szonyi](/people/michael-szonyi)

Saving Deities for the Community: Religion and the Transformation of Associational Life in Southern Zhejiang, 1949-2014

Visiting Assistant Professor, Centre for Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

**May 2015**

Bushelle, Ethan*

[Ryuichi Abé](/people/ryuichi-abe)

The Joy of the Dharma: Esoteric Buddhism and the Early Medieval Transformation of Japanese Literature

Professor, Department of Global Humanities and Religions, Western Washington University

Fox, Ariel

[Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Southern Capital: Staging Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou

Assistant Professor of Chinese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, University of Chicago

Keliher, Macabe

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

The Manchu Transformation of Li: Ritual, Politics, and Law in the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690

Associate Professor of History, Southern Methodist University, Dedman College of Humanities & Sciences

Miller, Ian*

[Michael Szonyi](/people/michael-szonyi)

Roots and Branches: Woodland Institutions in South China, 800-1600

Associate Professor, St. John's University

O'Reilly, Sean*

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Re-viewing the Past: The Uses of History in the Cinema of Japan, 1925-1945"

Associate Professor, Faculty of International Liberal Arts, Japan Studies Center, Akita International University (Kokusai Kyoyo Daigaku)

Tan, Wayne

[Shigehisa Kuriyama](/people/shigehisa-kuriyama)

The Careers of the Blind in Tokugawa Japan, 1603-1886

Associate Professor of History, Hope College

**March 2015**

Köhle, Natalie

*In Memoriam*



[Leonard van der Kuijp](/people/leonard-van-der-kuijp)

Phlegm (tan 痰): Toward a History of Humors in Early Chinese Medicine

Former Assistant Professor, Department of History, Hong Kong Baptist University

Luo, Yinan

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Ideas in Practrice: The Political Economy of Chinese State Intervention during the New Policies Period (1068-1085)

Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, and the Institute of Contemporary China Studies, Tsinghua University

**November 2014**

Choi, Jung Ja

[David McCann](/people/david-mccann)

Writing Herself: Resistance, Rebellion, and revolution in Korean Women's Lyric Poetry, 1925-2012

*No information available*

Hashimoto, Satoru*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Afterlives of the Culture: Engaging with the Trans-East Asian Cultural Tradition in Modern Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese Literatures, 1880s-1940s

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Thought and Literature, Johns Hopkins University

Kroher, Martin

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

“With Malice Toward None” to “A House Divided”: The Impact of Changing Perceptions of Ritual and Sincerity on Elite Social Cohesion and Political Culture in Northern Song China, 1027–1067. 

Research Fellow, International College for Humanities Research, Germany

Li, Ren-Yuan

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

Making Texts in Chinese Villages: Textual Production in Rural China During the Ming-Qing Period

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

Yoo, Jungmin

[David McCann](/people/david-mccann)

Materiality and Writing: Circulation of Texts, Reading and Reception, and Production of Literature in Late 18th-century Korea

Assistant Professor, Institute of Humanities, Yonsei University, Republic of Korea

**May 2014**

Arch, Jakobina

[Shigehisa Kuriyama](/people/shigehisa-kuriyama)

Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan, 1600-1900

Associate Professor, History Department, Whitman College

Cha, Javier*

[Sun Joo Kim](/people/sun-joo-kim)

The Civilizing Project in Medieval Korea: Neo-Classicism, Nativism, and Figurations of Power

Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, College of Liberal Studies, Seoul National University

Seow, Victor

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

Carbon Technocracy: East Asian Energy Regimes and the Industrial Modern, 1900-1957

Assistant Professor, History of Science Department, Harvard University

Shuster, David  
(formerly known as  
Dmitry Mironenko)*

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

A Jester with Chameleon Faces: Laughter and Comedy in North Korea, 1953-1969

Academic Coach, InGenius Prep

Wei, Yang

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Popular Opinion and Public Reasoning: Intellectual Changes and Intuitional Innovations in Late Ming China (1580s-1640s) 

Associate Professor, History Department, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Yum, Jennifer

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

In Sickness and Health: Americans and Psychiatry in Korea, 1950-1962

*No information available.*

Zhao, Yingzhi

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen); [Wai-yee Li](/people/wai-yee-li)

Realm of Shadows and Dreams: Theatrical and Fiction in Early Qing Literature

Research Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection

**March 2014**

Levey, Benjamin

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

Jungar Refugees and the Making of Empire on Qing China's Kazakh Frontier, 1759-1773

Co-founder and President, Sinica Education consulting company

Oidtmann, Max*

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

Between Patron and Priest: Amdo Tibet under Qiqn Rule 1791-1911

Faculty Member, Institute for Sinology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

**November 2013**

Skerratt, Brian*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Form and Transformation in Modern Chinese Poetry and Politics

Associate Professor of Chinese, Department of Classical and Oriental Studies, CUNY Hunter College

**May 2013**

Qian, Ying*

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Visionary Realities: Documentary Cinema in Socialist China

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

**November 2012**

Colbeck, Craig

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

From the Brothel, to the body: the Relocation of Male Sexuality in Japan's Prostitution Debate, 1870-1920

Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, Lewis and Clark University

Rodekohr, Andrew

[David Wang](/people/david-wang)

Conjuring the Masses: The Figure of the Crowd in Modern Chinese Literature and Visual Culture

Associate Professor of Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Wake Forest University

Schlesinger, Jonathan

[Mark Elliott](/people/mark-c-elliott)

The Qing Invention of Nature:Environment and Identity in Northeast China and Mongolia 1750-1850

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Indiana Bloomington

Vihan, Jan (Honza)

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

Language, Likeness, and the Han Phenomenon of Convergence

Faculty Member, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

Williams, Kristin

[Adam Kern](https://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/adam-l-kern)

Visualizing the Child: Japanese Children’s Literature in the Age of Woodblock Print, 1678-1888

Head of Japanese Section, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK 

Zhao, Hui

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

Rethinking Constitutionalism in the Late 19th and Early 20th Century China

*No information available.*

**May 2012**

Hedberg, William*

[Wilt Idema](/people/wilt-l-idema)

Locating China in Time and Space: Engagement with Chinese Vernacular Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Japan

Associate Professor of Japanese, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University

Matsutani, Motokazu

[Carter Eckert](/people/carter-eckert)

Church over Nation: Christian Missionaries and Korean Christians in Colonial Korea

Professor of Korean Culture, Tohoku Gakuin University, Sendai, Japan; Visiting Associate Professor of Modern History of Korea and Japan, University of British Columbia

Service, Jonathan

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Orchestrating Modernity, Singing the Self: Theories of Music in Meiji and Taisho Japan

Research Associate, Japan Research Center, SOAS University of London

**November 2011**

Bauer, Mikaël

[Ryuichi Abé](/people/ryuichi-abe)

The Power of Ritual: An Integrated History of Medieval Kofukuji

Assistant Professor of Japanese Religions; Chair, B.A. Committee 2018-21; McGill University School of Religious Studies

Leung, Vincent

[Michael Puett](/people/michael-puett)

The Politics of the Past in Early China

Associate Professor/Head of History Department, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

Sibau, Maria Franca

[Wilt Idema](/people/wilt-l-idema)

Reading for the Moral: Exemplarity and Heroism in Xingshi Yan (1632) and the "Fiction of Moral Duty"

Associate Professor of Chinese, Emory University

**May 2011**

de Fremery, Peter Wayne

[David McCann](/people/david-mccann)

How Poetry Mattered in 1920s Korea

Associate Professor, Sogang University, Associate Professor, Director of Korea Text Initiative at Cambridge Institute for the Study of Korea

Doran, Rebecca

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Insatiable Women and Transgressive Authority: Constructions of Gender and Power in Early Tang China

Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Miami

Fleming, William

[Adam Kern](https://alc.wisc.edu/about/faculty/adam-l-kern)

The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Chūryō and the Development of Late Edo Fiction

Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UC Santa Barbara

Hu, Qiulei

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Gender and Voice in Early Modern Chinese Poetry

Adjunct Professor, Hunter College (CUNY)

Ing, Michael

Weiming Tu

The Dysfunction of Ritual in Early Confucianism

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies, University of Indiana

Inouye, Melissa

Henrietta Harrison

Miraculous Mundane: The True Jesus Church and Chinese Christianity in the Twentieth Century

Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Auckland

**March 2011**

von Loë, Stefano

[Andrew Gordon](/people/andrew-gordon)

Nakano Seigō and the Politics of Democracy, Empire, Facism in Prewar and Wartime Japan

General Manager, Denso Wave Europe

**May 2010**

Leighton, Christopher

[William Kirby](/people/william-kirby)

Making Capitalism Red: Cadres, Capitalists, and Culture in China 1949-1958

Associate Professor of History, MIT

Moser, Jeffrey

[Peter Bol](/people/peter-k-bol)

Recasting Antiquity: Ancient Bronzes and Ritual Hermeneutics in the Song Dynasty

Assistant Professor/Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University

Smilack, Jascha

[Stephen Owen](/people/stephen-owen)

Peach Blossom Spring and Allusion in Chinese Poetry

Director of Courses, HarvardX

Zhang, Lawrence Lok Cheung

Philip Kuhn 

Power for a Price: Office Purchase, Elite Families and Status Maintenance in Qing China

Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology