VISITING SCHOLARS & FELLOWS
The Center for East Asian Studies hosts a small number of visiting scholars each year who reside in the area and conduct research in consultation with a Stanford
faculty member. Normally in residence for one academic year, scholars work independently on their own research projects while participating at CEAS events and in the
intellectual life at Stanford. For more information about applying to become a CEAS Visiting Scholar,
click here. Please note that to become a visiting scholar, you must find a Stanford faculty member to sponsor your visiting scholar status prior to applying at CEAS.
In addition to the scholars listed here, more visiting scholars and visiting fellows who research on East Asia may be found in the following departments, centers, or programs:
Shorenstein-Asia Pacific Research Center
Korean Studies Program
John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships Program
| Name Title / Sponsor Contact |
Home Institution | Research interests | |
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Ming Chan Visiting Scholar, CEAS mingkchan2009@gmail.com |
University of Hong Kong | The holder of a Ph.D. in East Asian history from Stanford University, Ming Chan is a former member of the Department of History at the University of Hong Kong, where he was twice voted “best teacher” by the Student's Union. He is the author or editor of ten books, including Crisis and Transformation in China's Hong Kong (2002), The Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration with China (1997), and Precarious Balance: Hong Kong between China and Britain: 1842—1992 (1994). |
| Paul Festa Postdoctoral Fellow, EALC pfesta@stanford.edu |
Ph.D. Cornell University | Paul Festa is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, where he will teach a course winter quarter on “Popular Culture and Casino Capitalism in China.” He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University, with a dissertation on “Manly Vice and Virtù: State Specters, Secular Rituals, and Public Culture in Taiwan.” He taught at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong University before coming to Stanford in January, 2009. | |
| Maya M. Hara Visiting Scholar, CEAS shinrihara@gmail.com |
Independent Scholar | Maya Hara works as a freelance translator specializing in early Japanese art. In addition to her background on early Japanese art, her research interests at Stanford will also focus on Buddhism - particularly the Pure Land sect in Japan and its founder, Honen. | |
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Minku Kim Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Languages and Cultures minkukim@stanford.edu |
UCLA | Minku Kim is the 2010-2012 Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in the Buddhist arts of medieval China. At Stanford, he will teach a course in Korean art and archaeology and one on the culture of Buddhist image worship in medieval China. Kim earned his B.A. and M.A. from the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University, and his Ph.D. in Art History at UCLA. His primary research concerns Buddhist images and ritual architecture of Six Dynasties (220-589 CE) China, focusing on historical issues on which inscriptions can provide significant new information. |
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Janice E. Stockard Visiting Scholar, CEAS jestockard@earthlink.net |
Ph.D. Stanford University | Janice Stockard is the author of Daughters of the Canton Delta: Marriage Patterns and Economic Strategies in South China, 1860-1930 (Stanford University Press, 1989) and Marriage in Culture: Practice and Meaning Across Diverse Societies (Harcourt College Publishers, 2001). Dr. Stockard is currently working on two new manuscripts - the first focuses on a minor silk road that led to the early development of the industry in New England in one; and the other examines the effects of globalization, cultural change, inequalities, and identities of Han and non-Han peoples of China. |
| Helen Young Visiting Scholar, CEAS hybj@stanford.edu |
Independent Scholar | Helen Young is author of Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (University of Illinois Press, 2001). She continues to pursue research, writing, and lecturing on the experience of women in modern Chinese history. |