Zachary Adamz
PhD Student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: B.S. Geography, Brigham Young University; M.A. Geography, University of Kansas
Interests: Diaspora and homeland theory, geographies of nationalism and transnationalism, processes and consequences of territorialization, ethnicity and belonging, Central Eurasian and East Asian studies, particularly late pre-modern and modern Korean history, culture, and society
Justin Ben-Hain
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Vallabhite Vartas, Old Rajasthani Literature, Community formation, circulation of texts and ideas
Michelle Chen
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, film and culture; Sinophone studies
Ki "Cora" Chow
Master's student, Asian Studies
Interests: Modern Chinese and Japanese literature, women literature, and aesthetics
Mung Ting Chung
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: M.phil in Chinese Language and Literature Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Interests: Hong Kong literature, Taiwan literature, Chinese Diaspora studies and Cultural Cold War.
Casimiro Crawford
Master's student in Asian Studies
Interests: Post-war recovery of Japan, exploring the various elements at play and comparing the Japanese experience to other emerging countries.
Daniel Dillon
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
ddillon154@utexas.edu |
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Education: B.A. Anthropology, Asian Religions and Cultures; M.A. Religious Studies, Western Kentucky University
Interests: Globalization, Mobility, the Tamil Ethnoscape, Religious & Ethnic Violence, Modernity, Gender & Sexuality (especially Masculinity), Visual Ethnography, Contemporary Sri Lanka
Xuefeng Feng
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Socialist aesthetics and its practices, literary theories in 20th century China, Chinese Marxism and its culture policies.
Hunter Gallacher
Master's student, Asian Studies
Interests: Sikhism and the Sikh Empire, modern Hindi, and water conservation and rights issues in South Asia
Nina Gat
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Literatures of India; Beginnings of modern Hindi literature; Classical Indian aesthetics; & Indian modernity
Charlotte Giles
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Indo-Islamic culture and history, Urdu literature, labor, home-based production and the textile industry
Andrea Gutierrez
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Sanskrit, Prakrits, Tamil, foodways, dietary manuals, and food prescriptions of South Asia, animal studies and animal speech, Hindu traditions, Buddhist traditions, yogic traditions
Michael Jones
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Interaction of religion and agriculture in ancient India, especially in the Sanskrit corpus.
Namrata Kanchan
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Premodern Deccan literary cultures; translation culture, Indo-Persian literary culture.
Grace Kim
Master's student, Asian Studies
Interests: Women's rights in East Asia, International relations among United States and East Asia, and East Asian sociology.
Jean Kim
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Communications Geographies, media and place-making in East Asia, place in media, rapid modernization of East Asia
Michael Kuehl
PhD Student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Contemporary Japanese literature, Translation, Literary analysis, Trauma studies, Psychoanalytic theory, Gender studies, Mourning and Suicide.
Katie Lazarowicz
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Indian Folk art (Madhubani Painting, Mithila Art), Material Culture & Visual Studies, Development & Labor, Bihar, Hindi, Economics & Economic History 19th Century - present, Contemporary Indian Art, Religious and Spiritual Traditions of India, Jesuits in India.
Jia "Juliana" Liu
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, mass media and cultural institution.
Lisa Longenecker
Graduate student
Interests: Globalization of Korean media, mental health & suicide rates in South Korea, Korean political opposition movements in the 20th/21st centuries, lasting effects of the Japanese colonization of East Asia, the assimilation process of North Korean refugees, Netizen/Anti-fan culture in South Korea, socioeconomic inequality in South Korea, and the educational atmosphere of East Asia.
Kathleen Longwaters
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: South Asian Medical Traditions, Sanskrit Language and Literature, Intellectual history of Islam, Urdu Poetry and Literature, Buddhist writings in Gandhari
Jeffery McElroy
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Literary and cultural studies, with an emphasis on modern Chinese cinema, globalization, and post-colonial studies.
Tú-Uyên Nguyen
Master's student, Asian Studies
Interests: Human Sacrifice, self-immolation, transmission, translation, and interpretation of religious texts/practices across countries and time periods, how language affects daily life, identity, and our sense of community.
Kathryn North
Master's student in Asian Studies
Interests: Second-language acquisition and identity in India, gender roles and women's issues in South Asia, South Asian history and culture.
Joshua Orme
Master's student in Asian Studies (Global Policy)
Interests: Formation of South Asian nation-states, 20th century and contemporary geo-politics/international relations, modern socio-political issues, modern and pre-modern history, study of Hindi-Urdu and linguistic influence on nationalism/identity
Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Hindi cinema, gender studies, queer theory, affect theory, censorship
Yunfei Shang
Master's student in Asian Studies
Interests: Cultural and social communication and transmission within pre-modern North-East Asian area, particularly between Tokugawa Japan and late Ming China.
Aaron Sherraden
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Hindi, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Epic Literature of India and associated performance traditions.
Mu-Min Shih
PhD candidate in Asian Cultures & Languages
leoforlion@gmail.com |
512-550-1776
Interests: Female prose and essay writing in Taiwan, Taiwanese writing system movement.
Siddharth Sridhar
Master's student in Asian Studies
Interests: The social and intellectual history of Tamil South India in the early modern and colonial periods as well as the social history of trade and migration in the Indian Ocean World.
David St John
PhD student in Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: South Asian Religions: Primarily in Jainism, Secondarily in Buddhism, Hinduism and Sikhism. American Religions: Primarily Quakerism. Within these traditions I focus on the history of the formation of ethics, lay ethics, mendicant-lay interactions, lived experience of the laity in ascetic based traditions.
Shu-Wen Tang
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Contemporary Sinophone literature, film, and culture
John Taylor
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Classical Sanskrit literature, esp. the Mahabharata, ritual theory, gender & body theory, Indo-European linguistics.
Gregory Wright
Master's student in Asian Studies
Interests: Class and caste in modern Japan; atomic bomb survivors and politics; race and identity in Japan and East Asia.
