Affiliates

 

Visiting Scholars

Eunbin Chung 
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center  
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah
Comparative Analysis of Immigration Attitudes in South Korea and Japan: Exploring Motivated Numeracy and Misperception; Nationalist Globalization and the Korean Wave: South Korea’s Cultural Diplomacy in U.S.-China Geopolitics

Andrew S. Erickson
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center  
Professor of Strategy, China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College
The Intersection of Indo-Pacific Security Policy

Zhiyou Han
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center  
Associate Research Fellow & Conservation Specialist, Department of Conservation Standards of Cultural Heritage, Palace Museum, Beijing 
Study on Non-Destructive Detection of Handmade Paper in East Asia

Fellows

Kuniharu Kakihara
Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center  
Principal Research Director, National Security Institute, Fujitsu Defense & National Security, Ltd.
Theories of Victory Studies in China, Japan and Taiwan

Jacob Daniel Sims
Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Expert, Transnational Crime, U.S. Institute of Peace
Transnational Cybercrime in Southeast Asia: Drivers, Barriers, and Policy Responses

Richard Yarrow
Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Independent Scholar
Southeast Asia Economic Policymaking

Postdoctoral Fellows

Muhammad Suhail Bin Mohamed Yazid
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Independent Scholar
Pan-Islamic Worldmaking: Tunku Abdul Rahman and the Founding Years of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (Oic), 1969-73

Haoyi Su
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Independent Scholar
State Formation, State-Building, and Regime Development in Southeast Asia

Associates

Kamal Ahmad 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center  
Founder, Asian University for Women
Economic and Social Development in Asia

Abul Quasem Al-Amin
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center  
Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Management, University of Waterloo; Managing Director, Centre for Asian Climate and Environmental Policy Studies, Ontario, Canada
The Carbon Emission Baseline for The Supply Chain of Pangasius Aquaculture: Inclusive Decarbonization in Vietnam’s Aquatic Farming and Processing Sectors

Sudhir Anand   
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford & London School of Economics
Health Justice in South and South-East Asia 

Fritz Bartel
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Associate Professor of International Affairs, The Bush School of Government & Public Service, Texas A&M University
The Age of Transitions: A Global History of the Late 20th Century

Aurelien Bellucci
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Postdoctoral Fellow, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Theater and Gentrification/People’s Theaters

Maria Adele Carrai 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Associate Professor, University of Oxford
China and Its Diaspora

Sayantika Chakraborty
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Center, Syracuse University

Phrae Chittiphalangsri
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Associate Professor; Chairperson, MA in Translation, Chulalongkorn University
Thai Anglophone Literature

Chunmei Du
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Associate Professor, Department of History, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Mission of Justice: American Occupation, Japanese War Crime Trials, and Postwar China

Joshua Ehrlich 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Macau
South Asia; Indian Ocean World

Philip Gant 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Director, APAC Policy & Partnerships, Global Blockchain Business Council; Research Director, Regulatory Ecosystems Group, New York
Regulatory Mapping and Development in APAC, With a Focus on Southeast Asia

Haijing Hao 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Associate Professor, Computer Information Systems, Bentley University
How the Retired Elderly Use Technology to Assist Daily Life and Chronic Health Management in Thailand and China

Rui Hua 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Assistant Professor of History, Boston University 
Peasants Versus Empires: Transnational Legal Sedimentation in Manchuria, 1881-1951; The Deep Entanglement: Geology and Law in Northeast Asia, 1.95 Ga - 1976 AD

Myung-Koo Kang 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Associate Professor, Baruch College, City University of New York 
Fiscal Policy Responses to the Covid-19 Pandemic Across Asia

Jihon Kim 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Former Visiting Scholar 
Chief, Division of International Cooperation Programme, Korean National Commission for UNESCO; Adjunct Professor, World Heritage Studies, Konkuk University; Research Fellow, Institute of International Studies, Seoul National University 
Contested Heritage and Politics in East Asia

Elisabeth Kramer
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Australia 
Tobacco Politics and Policy Making in Indonesia

Marie Kwon
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center  
Ph.D. Double Degree Student, International Relations and Political Theory
École Normale Supérieure and University of Liège
Navigating the Indo-Pacific: Geopolitical Genealogies, Epistemic Infrastructures, and the Production of Regional Space in Indonesian and South Korean Elite Perspectives

Seong-Hyon Lee 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center  
Senior Fellow, George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations
Nuclear Advocacy in South Korea and the U.S.-Korea Alliance

Geoffrey Macdonald
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
International Affairs Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
Democracy and Party Politics in South Asia

Harutoshi Matsutani  
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Professor in Faculty of Economics; Director of the International Center for Chinese Studies, Aichi University
The Social Costs of Automobiles and Environment Policies in Asia: A Comparative Study on China and Japan

Anaïs Mattez
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Consultant, UNESCO 
Restitution of Cultural Property: How International Law Shapes Sovereignty in East and Southeast Asia

Shoko Mekata
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Representative for North America of the Mañjuśrī Mahāyāna Buddhist Association (Hiroshima, Japan)
Tibetan History, Culture and Language

Manjari Chaterjee Miller 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations
Great and Rising Powers, Power Transitions, India, China

David Thang Moe
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Affiliate Scholar, Yale Council on Southeast Asia Studies; Visiting Scholar, Columbia University; Research Affiliate, MIT Center for International Studies
Beyond Buddhist Nationalism: The Politics of Interreligious and Decentralized Resistance After the Coup

Binalakshmi Nepram 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Founder-Director, Manipur Women Gun Survivors Network & Global Alliance of Indigenous Peoples, Gender Justice, and Peace
Indigenous Peoples of Asia, their Constitution and Peace Making: Case of Manipur and the Indo-Burma Border Biodiversity Region

Tien Dung Nguyen
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Fellow, Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative
The Mother’s Ritual: Đạo Mẫu and the Future of Ritual Healing in a Fragile World

Ramakrishna Ramaswamy  
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Honorary Professor at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Berhampur 
Dharmanand, Manik and Damodar Kosambi: Early South Asians at Harvard (1910-1933)

Bruno S. Sergi
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Instructor, Harvard Extension School; Full Professor at the University of Messina, Italy
Asian Economic Development

Paul Jakov Smith
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Haverford College
The Politics of War in Song China

Eko Benny Subianto
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Researcher, Episteme Research and Consulting
Program Consultant, Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Public Policy Program
Indonesia’s Politics and Policy in a Time of Democratic Regression

Chanpisey Ung
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Civil Servant, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Cambodia
ASEAN and Conflict Management: A Case of Myanmar 2021 to 2024

Mengxiao Wang 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Buddhism and Theater in Early Modern China

Venerable Yifa
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Founder & Chair, Woodenfish Project
Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism

Chunying Yue 
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center 
Research Associate, Peking University 
Social Media and Civic Engagement: A Comparative Study of the United States, Taiwan, and Mainland China

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