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CURRENT CEAS M.A. STUDENTS

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Name	Regional Focus	Area of Interest
Abbott, Laura	CHINA, JAPAN	Islam in East Asia, ethnic and religious minorities in China, Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-Japan relations
Arnett, Samuel	CHINA, JAPAN	international relations, trade, and economics; modern history of East Asia; regional impacts of U.S. foreign policy
Au Yeung, Mandy	CHINA	foreign and domestic politics; interplay between state and society; education; social welfare
Becker, Eva	JAPAN	representation, identity, and agency of the subaltern; literature; intellectual history; indigenity; gender; resistance discourse
Boochever, Owen	CHINA	development economics, international trade and finance, business and investment law
Brazelton-Braxton, Mycah	JAPAN	modern and contemporary Japanese art and visual culture; the history and cultural legacy of Japan's modernization and fascist era; artistic and cultural exchange between Japan and the United States
Bush, Michael	CHINA	Chinese consumer behavior; culture-specific social psychology; contemporary society & emerging sub-cultures; behavioral economics; incentive structures
Cardillo III, Richard	JAPAN	Japan’s interaction with the West during the Late Edo-Meiji Period; US-Japan relations;Japan’s soft power
Cheong, Herng Jer	CHINA, JAPAN	contemporary politics and public policy; Japan - China relations and East Asian integration
Cho, Mu-Jung	CHINA	political change in China; role of cultural factors in institutional shifts; East Asian perspectives on democracy; Chinese social movement; China’s impact on international relations
Chung, Meeyung	JAPAN, KOREA	Japan’s modernization and colonization of Korea; cultural and artistic exchange in modern East Asia
Faraguna, Carla	JAPAN	US-Japan relations; East Asian relations; Japanese industry; environmental and legal issues in the Sea of Japan and Pacific Ocean; aquaculture
Hackney, Laura	CHINA	US-China relations, development economics, gender relations
Hafeez, Sanaa	JAPAN	US-Japan Alliance; Asia-Pacific Security Studies; US Basing Politics; US Grand Strategy
He, Yingqiao	CHINA	China’s economic transformation, especially in the financial, real estate and wireless industries
Hick, Peter	CHINA	ethnic politics in the Reform and Opening period; Sino-American relations; intellectual history; dissent, stability and revolution.
Li, Youjia	CHINA, JAPAN	modern history of Japan and China; Chinese foreign policy and domestic politics; East Asian culture studies and education
Li, Meng	CHINA, JAPAN	Chinese history, East Asian art history, US-China relations, literature
Lim, Weiyang	CHINA	national and regional political consciousness within China and its foreign policy implications; socio- political identity in contemporary film and prose; domestic politics in China; civil-military relations; China-Southeast Asia relations
Liu, Ruiying	CHINA, JAPAN	bilateral and trilateral relations among China, Japan and the US; multilateral diplomacy; foreign policy analysis; modern political and social thought; critical theory; transcultural communication and interpretation; psychoanalytic literature and creative
Lu, Rui	JAPAN	Japanese management in overseas market; Japanese human resource policy and talent development; East Asian industrial development
Lu, Chuxu	CHINA, JAPAN	modern and contemporary Chinese literature, cinema, transnational politics and culture, intellectual history, aesthetics; modern Japanese literature, films and culture
Min, Yan	CHINA	comparative studies on health policies in East Asian Countries
Murphy, Maureen	JAPAN	modern and contemporary Japanese literature, especially women's literature.
Njemanze, Ikenna	CHINA	foreign relations of China; China and international organizations, Sino-US relations, domestic interest groups, Chinese legal system and legal reforms
Oh, Youna	CHINA	U.S-China relations; China’s foreign policies; development aid policies; and China-South Korea relations
Ren, Hua	CHINA	business management and strategy; financial operations in China; preservation and promotion of cultural heritage; fine art trade
Ro, Michael	JAPAN, KOREA	Japan - South Korea relations; modern Japanese history; contemporary Asia
Rubinstein, Carl	CHINA	Chinese foreign investment in Africa/Aid policy to Africa; China's natural water resources
Song, Chen	CHINA, EAST ASIA	Chinese organizations and managements; Chinese social stratification and social mobility; Chinese and Japanese business firms and industries; East Asian relations; East Asian literature.
Tsay, Brian	CHINA, TAIWAN	cross-strait relations and effects on domestic politics
Turner, Richard	JAPAN	intersections between sexual minorities and ethnic minorities in Japan; cultural norms and normativity; social structures; conceptions of identity
Vasquez, Anthony	CHINA	contemporary education and society; social, economic, and educational integration of visually impaired people; Chinese news organizations; the global diffusion of Chinese culture
Velasco, Wilson	JAPAN	Japanese linguistics (mainly on pragmatism and differences between conveying messages in Japanese vs. other languages), Japanese art (city screens, Eitoku, Chinese-style paintings), modern Japanese politics.
Voigt, Jr., Robert	CHINA, TAIWAN	contemporary Chinese-language literature; Chinese natural language processing; applications of computational linguistics to digital humanities research; translation theory and the transcultural circulation of creative works
Wu, Lanna	CHINA, JAPAN	cultural industry; modern literature and films; iinternational communication and media studies
Yan, Feifei	CHINA	modern and contemporary Chinese literature and culture; popular culture and film studies; trauma and memory studies; folklore.
Youn, Youngdon	KOREA	South-North Korea relations; US-Korea relations; US foreign policy towards Korea
Zhang, Beidi	CHINA, JAPAN	Japan-China relations; emerging news media in East Asia; rhetoric and nationalism in mainstream news media.
Zhao, Tan	CHINA	Chinese political economy and legal system
Zhao, Yu	CHINA, EAST ASIA	intellectual history; modern Chinese worldview; concepts of race and ethnicity in international relations; ideational and economic interactions between China and other East Asian countries
Zheng, Yiwen	CHINA, JAPAN	ancient Chinese and Japanese literature; Chinese art history
Zhong, Chen (Leo)	EAST ASIA	international relations, particularly U.S.-East Asia relations; international economics; modern Japanese society