Graduate Students

Mayako Liu

mayakoliu@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student in HEAL/Japan/Korea

Mayako’s primary interest is understanding the modes and patterns of colonial and post-colonial interactions across Japan and Korea. In her master’s thesis, she explored some of these complex formations under imperial war mobilization in Korea, i.e. late...

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Emily Lopez

emilylopez@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese Literature

Emily Lopez studies contemporary Japanese literature from the 1960s to the 1980s, focusing on representations of activism, violence, and resistance. She earned her B.A. in Japanese from the University of California, Davis, in 2020, followed by an M.A. in...

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Queenie Luo

queenieluo@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Religion

Queenie Luo graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in Religion and Physics in 2018, completed her M.T.S in Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 2020, and her M.S degree in Data Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of...

Rachel McVeigh

rachelmcveigh@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student in Chinese Literature

Rachel McVeigh comes to Harvard with a B.A. in Chinese from Oxford and a Master’s in pre-modern Chinese literature from Peking University, where she wrote her thesis on “Form and Change in the Elegiac Poetry of Early Medieval China”. She works on the...

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Hwei Ru Ong

hweiru_ong@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Religion/Philosophy

Hwei Ru Ong received his MPhil in Buddhist Studies from the University of Oxford, where he worked on a critical edition of medieval Chinese Buddhist texts about Indian royalty. He is interested in reading commentarial literature (presently, that of the...

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Suiyun Pan

suiyunpan@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature

Suiyun Pan received his BA degree with Highest Honors in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he wrote his senior thesis on femmes fatales in both Chinese and Greek literary traditions. He also holds an MA...

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Seongun Park

seongunpark@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese History

Seongun Park studies the political, intellectual, and environmental history of late imperial China. His current research examines the political, epistemic, and cultural frameworks that shaped disaster discourse in China from the sixteenth to the...

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Ziyu Qiu

ziyuqiu@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student in HEAL/China

Ziyu Qiu works on the social history, material culture history, and STS of late imperial China. She is particularly interested in how material objects influenced people's lives at various levels within the context of the Qing Empire, as well as the...

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Alina Scotti

ascotti@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Arts/Film/Cultural Studies

Alina Scotti is a PhD Candidate in East Asian Arts, Film, and Cultural Studies, where she specializes in the history of media, technology, and visual culture in modern China. Her dissertation examines changes in visual and textual modes of representation...

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Kaiyi (Cathy) Shen

kaiyishen@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature

Cathy Shen is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) of premodern Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University. She specializes in literature of the Middle Period (Six Dynasties and Tang) and is interested in poetic emotion, affect theory, genre...

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Ami Tanahashi

amitanahashi@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student in Japanese Literature

Ami Tanahashi studies contemporary Japanese literature, focusing on portrayals of girlhood and feminine adolescent identity. She received her B.A. from Soka University of America in 2017 and recently received her M.A. from the University of Washington in...

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Aaron Throness

aaronthroness@g.harvard.edu