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Julie Yau Lee Chan
Ph.D. Student in Chinese Literature
Julie Yau Lee Chan is a student of early modern Chinese literature. Her research interests revolve around theatre, performance, and media studies. Prior to joining Harvard, she received her B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from the Chinese...
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Mark Yu-Shan Chen
Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/Japan
Mark Yu-Shan Chen received his BA in History and BS in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, and his MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on the history of chemistry in Edo, Meiji, and...
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Yufan Chen
Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature
Yufan Chen works on modern and contemporary Chinese-language literature, poststructuralist literary theory, and feminist and queer theory. His current research centers on the intersection of violence, literary form, and the politics and ethics of reading...
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Kay Chen
Ph.D. Candidate in Religion
Kay (Ke) Chen’s research revolves around Buddhist monasticisms in middle-period East Asia. Her work explores how, during the formative period when Buddhist monastic rules first arrived in East Asia, these regulations and local monastic practices shaped...
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Menglan Chen
Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Film & Media Studies
Menglan Chen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. Her research examines modern and contemporary imaging technologies and techniques at the intersection of artistic, technical, and epistemic practices. Her...
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Axl Cheng
Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/China
Axl Cheng works on Muslims and Islam in late imperial China, with a focus on how law, economy, and empire shaped communal identities under Qing rule. She joins the HEAL program in Fall 2025. She holds a BA from New York University in Middle Eastern and...
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Crystal Cheng
Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese Literature
Crystal Cheng's research revolves around early modern Japanese theater, literature, and visual culture, with a particular focus on the portrayal of murders and suicides of female characters. Her work aims to explore how the trope of selfless, sacrificial...
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Jeonghun Choi
Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/Japan
Jeonghun Choi’s research themes center around intellectual history and book history of Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Particularly, he studies how popular writers and commercial publishing houses in Japan duplicated, pirated, and...
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Charlotte Ciavarella
Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/Japan
Charlotte is a PhD student in History and EALC, focusing on the social and environmental history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Japan. Her dissertation project looks at the development of capitalism in Japan from the perspective of the nomadic...
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Kassandra Diaz
Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese Literature
Kassandra Diaz received her BA in Cognitive Neuroscience and Japanese Language & Culture, and her MA in Japanese from Washington University in St. Louis, where she focused on novelist Enchi Fumiko and her rebranding of folkloric tales of demonic women, or...
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Benjamin Gallant
Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese History
Benjamin Gallant is a PhD candidate in Chinese History specializing in early Chinese intellectual history. His dissertation project examines how people used and debated the past from the Western Zhou to the Eastern Han as the emergence of legalist...
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