Visiting Scholars, Fellows, Associates

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

Wen-Qing Ngoei
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center
Faculty Associate Professor of History; Associate Dean (Partnerships & Engagement), Singapore Management University
Southeast Asia-U.S. Relations From the Mid-Twentieth Century to Contemporary Times

Xiao An Wu
Visiting Scholar, Harvard University Asia Center
University Chair Professor & Founding Dean, Research Institute of Global Chinese and Area Studies, Huaqiao University
The Making of Global China and Chinese Diaspora

Fellows

Nasim Zehra Akhlaque
Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
Senior Analyst & Anchor, Channel 24, Pakistan
Pakistan’s China Connection; Pakistan’s Kashmir Policy

Thomas Andrews
Fellow, Harvard University Asia Center
UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar; Director, Southeast Asia Human Rights Project, Harvard Asia Center Southeast Asia Initiative
Human Rights in Southeast Asia

Matthew Bugher
Research Director and Legal Counsel, Southeast Asia Human Rights Project, Harvard Asia Center Southeast Asia Initiative
Documentation of Human Rights Violations in Southeast Asia, Including Atrocity Crimes in Myanmar and Civil and Political Rights Violations Throughout the Region

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

Muhammad Suhail Bin Mohamed Yazid
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

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

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
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford & London School of Economics
Health Justice in South and South-East Asia

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
Assistant Professor of Global China Studies at NYU Shanghai
China and Its Diaspora

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

Rubana Huq
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Vice-chancellor, Asian University for Women
Women Empowerment in Ready-made Garment Sector and Education

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

Raphaëlle Khan
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Jerome S. Levy Postdoctoral Fellow, City University of New York
The Role of the Indian Diaspora in Shaping International Relations in the 20th Century

Jihon Kim
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
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

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

Kan Lin
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Adjunct Research Scholar, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Religion and State Governance

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
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

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)

Karl Ruping
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Senior Managing Partner, incTANK Ventures
The Role of Technology Policy Development, Academic Innovation and Intellectual Propriety Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region

Soumodip Sarkar
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Full Professor, Department of Management, University of Évora, Portugal
Resource Constrained Entrepreneurship in Asia

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

Vilashini Somiah
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Senior Lecturer at the Gender Studies Programme, Universiti Malaya
Reimagining Coastal Indigeneity: Contemporary Maritime Lifeworld and Cosmological Resilience in the Mangroves of Sabah, Borneo

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

Kelzang T. Tashi
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Early Career Research Fellow in Buddhist Studies, American Council of Learned Societies
Sacred Confluence: Syncretic Art, Symbols, and Ritual Music in Bhutanese Religiosity

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

Veda Vaidyanathan
Associate, Harvard University Asia Center
Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Chinese Studies, New Delhi
Examining Indian and Chinese Engagement with Countries in Africa

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

Visiting Scholars, Fellows, Associates