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
Emily Beissner
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: BA Philosophy and Malayalam, The University of Texas at Austin
Justin Ben-Hain
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Vallabhite Vartas, Old Rajasthani Literature, Community formation, circulation of texts and ideas
Cicely Bonnin
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: MA, Linguistics, The University of Queensland
Jacob Burger
Master's student, Asian Studies
Education: BA in Modern Chinese Language, Clemson University
Interests: Contemporary Taiwanese society and politics, with an emphasis on Cross-Strait Relations, identity formation, and class.
Michelle Chen
PhD student, 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, 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, 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, Asian Cultures & Languages
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Education: BA Anthropology, Asian Religions and Cultures; MA 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 student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Socialist aesthetics and its practices, literary theories in 20th century China, Chinese Marxism and its culture policies.
Michael Fiden
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: MA in Religious Studies, University of South Florida.
Nina Gat
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Literatures of India; Beginnings of modern Hindi literature; Classical Indian aesthetics; & Indian modernity
Charlotte Giles
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Indo-Islamic culture and history, Urdu literature, labor, home-based production and the textile industry
Andrea Gutierrez
PhD student, 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
Namrata Kanchan
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Premodern Deccan literary cultures; translation culture, Indo-Persian literary culture.
Jean Kim
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Gender and Nation, Reproductive policies, Assisted Reproductive Technologies(ARTs), infertility/subfertility, low fertility in South Korea, everyday life, time geography
Michael Kuehl
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Contemporary Japanese literature, Translation, Literary analysis, Trauma studies, Psychoanalytic theory, Gender studies, Mourning and Suicide.
Katie Lazarowicz
PhD student, 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
Master's student, Asian Studies
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.
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.
Zeltzyn Rubi Sanchez Lozoya
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Hindi cinema, gender studies, queer theory, affect theory, censorship
Yunfei Shang
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: East Asia film history, archives and industry, film production under authoritarian states, Hollywood's dissemination in East Asian and its aftermath.
Aaron Sherraden
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Hindi, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Epic Literature of India and associated performance traditions.
David St. John
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Education: MA in Religious Studies, Florida International University
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.
Ming-Huei Wang
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Modern Chinese and Taiwan literature
