Hometown: Shenzhen, China
Previous education: Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po), Politics and Government
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Personal interest: Playing and composing music, reading, writing, traveling
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Previous Education: New York University; International Relations, East Asian Studies
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic and Research Interests: US-China relations, strategic competitions in East Asia, regional cooperative mechanisms
Career Interests: Government institutions, think tank, consulting
Thesis Title: The “Iron Curtain” Descends in the Semiconductor Industry: Intensifying Technology Competition between the United States and China Between 2017-2022
Hometown: Beijing, China
Undergraduate School of Study: University of Pennsylvania
Undergraduate Major: Visual Studies
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: Strategic Compliance, Fluid Morality: The Making of a Clinical Labor Market in Post-Socialist PRC
Hometown: Yokohama, Japan
Previous Education: Sophia University, Law
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Hometown: Nanchong, China
Previous Education: Sichuan University, Law and Finance
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Shanghai
Research Interests: Legal History, Chinese Legal System, "The Dual State" theory
Region of Specialization: China
Previous Education: Tsinghua University, Sociology
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Previous education: New York University; Media, Culture, and Communications
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Parachute generation, third culture kids, mixed cultural upbringing
Thesis title: Chinese Parachute Kids in America: Understanding How the Parachute Experience Affects First Generation (Im)migrants in Young Adulthood
Hometown: Beijing, China
Previous Education: UCSD; History and Clinical Psychology
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Sacramento, California/Beijing, China
Research Interests: International Law, Constitutional Law, Modern Political Thought, Great Power Competition & Grand Strategy
Region of Specialization: China
Hometown: New York City, NY
Previous education: London School of Economics, Political Science and International Relations
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Intersection of domestic and foreign policy, modern Chinese history, international relations of Southeast Asia
Thesis title: Discursive Battle in Singaporean Queer Politics
Hometown: Tampa, FL
Previous Education: BA in Visual Art, Columbia University
Specialization in MARSEA: Korea
Academic Interests: Contemporary East Asian Art, Techno-Orientalism, Modern Asia Pacific History
Personal Interests: Experimental and (very) conceptual Art
Thesis Title: Chang Hyŏkchu and the New Women: Korean Women During Colonial Korea and Their Presence in Samgoksŏn
Hometown: Plymouth, Michigan and Shanghai, China
Undergraduate School of Study: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate Major: History, Japanese Minor
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: Challenging "Tailor-Made": Uncovering Women’s Contributions to the Creation of Qipao
Hometown: Chicago, IL
Previous Education: Loyola University Chicago, Global Studies
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Academic and Research Interests: Modern Japanese history; family dynamics and gender inequality in JapanSpecialization in MARSEA: China
Previous Education: Columbia College
Hometown: Singapore
Previous education: Cambridge University, History
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Personal interests: Spending as much time as I can thinking about and being near the sun, sand and the sea
Thesis Title: Managed Contestation and Complex Interdependencies: How China-Singapore Relations have evolved in the post-Lee Kuan Yew Years
Hometown: Augusta, Georgia
Previous Education: Northeastern University, Major in Asian Studies - Minors in Chinese, Economics, and History
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic Interests: Chinese foreign policy and trade policy, particularly regarding the Central Asian region/Post-Soviet Republics; multipolar and multilateral organizations; geopolitics.
Personal Interests: Food of all cuisines, fitness, music, contemporary popular culture, and community organizing!
Thesis Title: Blueprint for Catastrophe? Assessing the Efficacy of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan
Hometown: Denver, Colorado
Previous Education: Columbia University; East Asian Studies
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Seoul, South KoreaPrevious Education: New York University, Politics and East Asian Studies
Specialization in MARSEA: Korea
Academic Interests: US-Korea relations, East Asian geopolitics, security policy
Personal Interests: Playing with my cat Mumu
Thesis Title: The US-ROK Alliance: A Strategic Case for OPCON Transfer
Hometown: Hacienda Heights, California, USA
Undergraduate School of Study: Vassar College
Undergraduate Major: Asian Studies, Chinese
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: The Search for Redress: Wartime Forced Labor Compensation and the Politics of Law in East Asia
Hometown: Naperville, IL
Previous Education: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, major in Accounting and a minor in EALC
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic Interests: China's social economics, culture, and language.
Personal Interests: Reading, watching movies, visiting museums (especially art museums), drawing, and dance.
Hometown: Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Previous education: Sarah Lawrence College, Pre-modern Chinese History and Philosophy
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Thesis title: China as Rentier State: the Political and Economic Impact of Land Financing in China
Hometown: Shanghai, China; Chicago, Illinois
Previous education: University College London, History
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Social and cultural history of modern China from below, individual-society and state-society dynamics, cultural politics and the construction of historical memory, "public spheres" and public consciousness
Thesis title: With Prussian Blue and Magnetite: From Adulteration to Transnational Innovation in Chinese Tea Production, c. 1800–1940
Hometown: Seoul & Vancouver
Previous Education: Tufts University, Majors in International Relations East Asia and Japanese Language
Specialization in MARSEA: Korea
Academic Interests: Modern East Asian History, International Relations of East Asia, security/geopolitic studies of the Korean Peninsula
Personal Interests: Japanese Literature, Korean films, New England Patriots
Thesis Title: Reinterpreting “Minjok kaejoron”: How Yi Kwangsu’s Vision of National Reconstruction Embodied Confucian Principles
Hometown: Tokyo
Research Interests: Sociology, Minority Studies, Social Psychology
Region of Specialization: Japan
Hometown: Singapore
Undergraduate School of Study: Yale-NUS College
Undergraduate Major: Law
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: The Chinese in Indonesia: Political Pariahs No More?
Hometown: West Hartford, Connecticut
Previous education: Bates College, Chinese
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Personal Interests: History, sports, and music
Thesis Title: Sharing the Future of China: Nationalism and The Belt and Road in the 21st Century
Region of Specialization: China
Hometown: Singapore
Previous education: University of Cambridge, Social Anthropology and Politics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Thesis title: Crossing National Frames: Emigration From Reform-Era China to Singapore
Hometown: Guiyang, China
Previous education: Peking University, International Politics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Thesis title: Social Capital and the Integration of College Graduates from Rural Areas in Urban China
Hometown: Singapore
Undergraduate School of Study: King's College London
Undergraduate Major: Law
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: Disputed Islands and the Waves of Nationalism: Understanding how Nationalism and Political Legitimacy Affects China’s Strategy in Dealing with its Island Disputes
Hometown: Washington, DC
Previous education: Columbia College
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Fashion & luxury business relations between China and Europe
Hometown: Singapore
Previous education: Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford; History and Politics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Global Early Modernity, and its continued parallels and connections to Contemporary International Affairs
Hometown: Singapore
Undergraduate School of Study: University College London
Undergraduate Major: Philosophy
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: China’s Ball Game – A Discourse Analysis of Chinese Media Reports on Table Tennis
Hometown: Beijing, China and North Carolina
Previous education: UNC-Chapel Hill, History and Economics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic interests: Mixed sociological methods, gender/women, collective resistance, social stratification, migration, Chinese society
Hometown: Hong Kong, China
Undergraduate School of Study: King’s College London, UK
Undergraduate Major: Law
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: Hong Kong and China: Express Railway to Integration
Hometown: Wuhan, China
Previous Education: Vanderbilt University; History and Economics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic and Research Interests: Gender studies in modern China/modern Chinese literature, modern Chinese history and politics
Hometown: Busan, Korea
Previous education: Georgetown University; International Business and Regional Studies
Specialization in MARSEA: Korea and China
Research interests: the relationship between economic prosperity and nationalism in Korea and China
Thesis title: Exploring the Decline of K-beauty in China: An Analysis of Amore Pacific & LG Household & Health Care
Hometown: Tokyo, Japan
Previous education: Keio University, Political Science
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Thesis: Development of American Interest in Japanese Ceramics since the Late Nineteenth Century
Hometown: Penang, Malaysia and Singapore
Undergraduate School of Study: Columbia University
Undergraduate Major: History
MARSEA Specialization: China/British Malaya
Thesis Title: In Queer Straits: Sexuality, Medicine, and Orientalism in British Malaya, 1875-1947
Hometown: Huntington, NY
Previous education: Pennsylvania State University, BA in History (with Honors), BA in Asian Studies and BS in International Studies, minor in Japanese
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Academic interests: Occupation-era and post-war Japan
Personal interests: movies, music, museums, and travel
Thesis title: Protesting Futenma: Okinawa's Fourth Wave of Protests (2013-2021)
Hometown: Singapore
Previous Education: University of Oxford, Jurisprudence
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic and Research Interests: Legal institutions, Chinese law, Belt and Road, Confucianism
Career Interests: Public Service
Thesis title: China before Xi in 2008: The story of Supreme People’s Court Justice Huang Songyou as an Account of China’s Backslide from the Rule of Law
Hometown: Hangzhou, China
Undergraduate School of Study: Fudan University, China
Undergraduate Major: English
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: Discipline and Incite: Ideological and Political Education in Chinese Universities
Hometown: Long Island, New York
Previous education: Georgetown University, Sociology
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Family in modern China
Thesis title: Migrating Chinese Grandparents Providing Child Care for Their Grandchildren
Hometown: Hong Kong
Previous Education: University of Chicago, History
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Beijing, China
Hometown: Weston, Massachusetts
Previous education: Harvard University, Neuroscience
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Personal interest: I'm trained in mental health first aid!
Hometown: Beijing, China
Previous Education: Peking University; International Politics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic and Research Interests: Chinese political attitudes, Chinese nationalism, and Chinese foreign policy
Career Interests: Academics
Previous Education: University of Georgia, Economics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Yokohama, Japan
Previous education: The University of Tokyo, International Relations
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Chinese politics and foreign policy
Regions of Specialization: Korea, China
Hometown: Sichuan, China
Previous Education: Brown University, majoring in International Relations
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic Interests: Sino-Tibet relations; Tibetan Buddhism
Personal Interests: Street dance & horseback riding
Thesis Title: The Revival of Tibetan Buddhism in Contemporary Chengdu (1980-2020)
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Previous Education: Smith College (BA in Government and East Asian Studies)
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Academic Interests: New media in Japan and Korea, transnational projects
Personal Interests: Films
Thesis Tile: The Third Korean Wave (Hallyu): YouTube, Instagram, and K-culture in Japan and the World
Hometown: Katy, TX
Previous Education: Texas A&M University College Station
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Thesis Title: Held Hostage: Japan's Lawmakers and the Self Defense Force
Regional Focus: China
Previous Institution: Renmin University of China
Thesis Title: Rural Women and Socialist Laws: The 1950 Marriage Law and Its Implementation Campaigns in 1950s Shaanxi
Hometown: Shanghai, China
Previous Education: University of British Columbia, Political Science
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Toronto, Canada
Previous Education: Williams College with a double major in Economics and Chinese
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic and Research Interests: Chinese Foreign Policy, The Chinese Economy, Chinese Financial Markets,
International Finance
Career Interests: International FinanceHometown: Portland, Oregon
Previous Education: U.S. Air Force Academy, Foreign Area Studies
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Hometown: Beijing. China
Previous Education: Haverford College, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Hometown: Zhanjiang (Guangdong), China
Previous education: The George Washington University, International Affairs and Economics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic interests: China’s soft power strategy, public diplomacy, and their impact on its foreign policy
Personal interests: Pilates, baking, and watching Chinese spy movies!
Hometown: Seoul, South Korea
Previous education: Swarthmore College, Asian Studies and Political Science
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan and Korea
Hometown: New York City
Undergraduate School of Study: University of Tokyo
Undergraduate Major: East Asian Studies
MARSEA Specialization: Japan
Thesis Title: Immortalizing, Isolating, and Rejecting: Circles and War Memory in 1950s Japan
Hometown: Zigong, China
Previous Education: Kings College London; Politics
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic and Research Interests: People's Congress system through the lens of policy analysis, e.g. the policymaking process of a bill on environmental protection at the local level; human rights diplomacy, more specifically to deconstruct Western supremacy on the issue of human rights
Career Interests: Work in the consultancy/think tank industry and eventually open one by myself to facilitate communications between China and the world
Hometown: Beijing, China
Previous Education: Peking University
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Academic Interests: Economics and Politics
Personal Interests: Playing soccer and video games
Thesis Title: Why did land sale and debt result in accumulating financial and fiscal risk since 2000 in China? The role of “unfunded mandate” of local governments
Hometown: Canterbury, England
Previous education: Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Chinese Studies with Japanese
Specialization in MARSEA: China
Research interests: Modern Chinese political history, and the intellectual history of Modern China
Thesis title: A Moment of Truce: Rereading the Tanggu Agreement
Hometown: New Jersey
Previous Education: Oberlin College & Conservatory, Associated Kyoto Program, and Yonsei University; East Asian Studies, History, and Cello Performance
Specialization in MARSEA: Japan
Academic and Research Interests: Education about societal roles and future challenges
Research Interests: US-Sino-Russian relations, the war in Ukraine, political economy in China, Korean Peninsula relations
Previous Education: Fudan University
Regions of Specialization: China
Hometown: Stamford, CT
Research Interests: US national security, Chinese international politics, Indo-pacific maritime security, and AUKUS
Region of Specialization: China
Hometown: Te Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington), Aotearoa, New Zealand.
Undergraduate School of Study: Victoria University of Wellington
Undergraduate Major: Chinese, Asian Studies and International Relations
MARSEA Specialization: China
Thesis Title: The Aftermath: Transitional Justice in China’s Hunan Province Following the Cultural Revolution
Hometown: Oak Park, Illinois, USA
Undergraduate School of Study: University of Illinois: Chicago
Undergraduate Major: Political Science
MARSEA Specialization: Japan and Korea
Thesis Title: Raising a Problem: The Sendai Flag-Raising Incident and Shifting Perceptions of the "Korean Problem" in Early Occupied Japan (1945-1949)
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