Past Asia Center Graduate Student Associates
2017-2018
Becky Bae
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Relations between film industries in East Asia during the Japanese empire
Ernest Billings Brewster
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The Yoga of Dying: Consciousness and Mortality in Tang Yogacara Buddhism
Zhe Geng
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
Medical humanities and transnational exchange between Sinophone, Anglophone, and Japanese literature.
Ramon Lorenzo Guinto
Doctor of Public Health Candidate, T.H. Chan School of Public Health
ASEAN Integration: Implications for Regional Health Governance
John Hayashi
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Conquest by the Plough: Public Works in Japanese Taiwan, 1918-1960
Hyeok Hweon Kang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Technologies of violence and their impact on society
Sara Kang
M.A. Candidate, Regional Studies—East Asia
Daughters of Aggressors, Sisters of Victims: Transnational Feminism & the American Occupation of Japan & Korea
Neelam Khoja
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
The Politics of Power in 18th century Punjab: Space, Culture, and Identity
Hanung Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Cultural history of northeastern Tibet in late pre-modern times
Shijung Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
Translating the Translatio of East Asian Modernity
Veronika Kusumaryati
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Alert and Transmission: Networks of Power and Contemporary Political Mobilization in West Papua
Neeti Nayak
M.A. Candidate, Department of Urban Planning & Design, Graduate School of Design
Mapping Informality: Laying the groundwork for Systems, Network & Geo-spatial Analysis of Informal market entities
Melany Sun-Min Park
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Planning
Decolonizing Architectural Knowledge: Korea between Japan and the West, 1945-1978
Kyle Shernuk
Ph.D. Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The figure of the minority in literature and culture in the greater Sinophone community, with a current focus on the impact of multiculturalism on ethnic minority populations
Justin D. Stern
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
Interplay of industrialization, institutional development and spatial morphology in major cities in East and Southeast Asia
Feng-en Tu
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Japan’s colonialism in Taiwan and the making of the modern fragrance industry
2016-2017
Becky Bae
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Relations between film industries in East Asia during the Japanese empire
Mou Banerjee
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Questions of Faith: Christianity, Conversion and the Ideological Origins of Political Theology in Colonial India, 1813-1907
Sarah Kennedy Bates
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
History and anthropology of global political economy, with a particular emphasis on Southeast Asia
Yuting Dong
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
Social history of urban planning in Japan’s empire in Manchuria
Huan Gao
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government
Development of civil society organizations in the aftermath of natural disasters
Hyeok Hweon Kang
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Technologies of violence and their impact on society
Lei Lin
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
The Limits of Empire: The Sino-Nepalese War and Qing Imperialism, 1788–1850
Andrew Ong
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Political economy and political culture of Wa Special Region 2 in Shan State, Burma, and the cross-boundary movement of people and things in this autonomous region on the Burma-China border
Kyle Shernuk
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
The figure of the minority in literature and culture in the greater Sinophone community, with a current focus on the impact of multiculturalism on ethnic minority populations
Justin D. Stern
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning
Interplay of industrialization, institutional development and spatial morphology in major cities in East and Southeast Asia
Feng-en Tu
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Japan’s colonialism in Taiwan and the making of the modern fragrance industry
Miya Qiong Xie
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature
The Literary Territorialization of Manchuria: Spatial Imagination and Modern Identities in China and East Asia