Zachary Adamz
PhD Candidate, 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, tourism, ethnicity and belonging, Central Eurasian, Soviet, and East Asian (particularly 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 History, with an emphasis on Cross-Strait Relations, identity formation, class, and left-wing political and social movements.
Katharine Chandler
Graduate student
Education: BA in Philosophy, Religious Studies, History, and Great Books, East Carolina University
Michelle Chen
PhD student, Asian Cultures & Languages
Interests: Modern Chinese literature, film and culture; Sinophone studies
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, Gender & Sexuality (especially Masculinity), the Tamil Ethnoscape, Religious & Ethnic Violence, Modernity, 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.
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.
