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