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Joshua Linkous
Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/Japan
Joshua Linkous is a PhD student in History and East Asian Languages, focusing on the economic, environmental, and social history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Japan. His primary region of interest is northern Tohoku (Aomori, Iwate, Akita). For his...
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Mayako Liu
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
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
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...
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Rachel McVeigh
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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