CEAS Executive Committee

 

Lina Chhun, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies 

Lina Chhun is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies and is affiliated with the Center for East Asian Studies at UT Austin. Lina studies historical violence, war, and militarism, with a focus on questions of racial disposability in the context of the U.S. Cold War in Southeast Asia and is currently completing her first book manuscript tentatively entitled, Walking with the Ghost: On Feminist Methodologies and Cambodian American Histories of Violence.

Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor, Department of History

Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history and Asian American Studies at UT Austin.  Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000); The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015); and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016). She co-edited the anthology with Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (UIP 2019).  She is currently one of five co-editors for the Cambridge History of Global Migrations.  Please visit her most recent project, which provides curriculum for K-12 classrooms, “Teach Immigration History,” at immigrationhistory.org.

Patricia L. Maclachlan, Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies

Patricia L. Maclachlan received her PhD in comparative politics from Columbia University and is now Professor of Government and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at UT Austin. A student of interest group politics and political-economic reform in Japan, her publications include Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism (Columbia University Press, 2002) and The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010 (Harvard University East Asia Center, 2011). She is also the author, with Kay Shimizu, of Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture, which

Mikiya Koyagi, Assistant Professor,  Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Mikiya Koyagi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research explores mobility, space, and identity in modern Iranian and inter-Asian history. His first book, Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway (Stanford University Press, 2021), received the 2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award and Honorable Mention from the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Book Award. He is currently working on a new book project on Japanese encounters with the Islamic Middle East since the late nineteenth century.

Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Government

Xiaobo Lü is an associate professor at the Department of Government, the University of Texas at Austin. His research centers on distributive politics of fiscal policies in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. He is currently working on several research projects that focus on party building and fiscal extraction. Dr. Lü has published in numerous leading academic journals, such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies. Dr. Lü received Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011.

Alice McCoy-Bae, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Studies

Alice McCoy-Bae is Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Department of Asian Studies at UT Austin, teaching Korean from lower to upper division language courses.  McCoy-Bae is interested in pedagogical approaches using online technologies to promote a collaborative learning environment and to help students develop interpersonal and intercultural competence extending beyond the brick-n-mortar space.  She is an active member of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) learning group and a passionate learner and participant of the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Juneteenth Project group at Asian Studies.  She is currently working on the Global Virtual Exchange Grant Project in collaboration with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) for an upper-division course, KOR320K (Third-Year Korean 1). She has also founded and facilitated Korean Film Club and Korean Leveled Reading Club and is hoping to continue to offer our students to experience Korean cultural diversities beyond language learning experience.  

 

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and an affiliate of both the Strauss Center and Clements Center for National Security.  Her research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics and foreign policy. Her work on China and North Korea has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets; she has also previously testified to Congress on security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Her first book,Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge, 2016) received the 2017 Best Book Award from both the International Studies Association and the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association.From 2015-2020, she was assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor's from Stanford University. 

Lina Chhun, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies 

Lina Chhun is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies and is affiliated with the Center for East Asian Studies at UT Austin. Lina studies historical violence, war, and militarism, with a focus on questions of racial disposability in the context of the U.S. Cold War in Southeast Asia and is currently completing her first book manuscript tentatively entitled, Walking with the Ghost: On Feminist Methodologies and Cambodian American Histories of Violence.

Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor, Department of History

Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history and Asian American Studies at UT Austin.  Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000); The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015); and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016). She co-edited the anthology with Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (UIP 2019).  She is currently one of five co-editors for the Cambridge History of Global Migrations.  Please visit her most recent project, which provides curriculum for K-12 classrooms, “Teach Immigration History,” at immigrationhistory.org.

Patricia L. Maclachlan, Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies

Patricia L. Maclachlan received her PhD in comparative politics from Columbia University and is now Professor of Government and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at UT Austin. A student of interest group politics and political-economic reform in Japan, her publications include Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism (Columbia University Press, 2002) and The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010 (Harvard University East Asia Center, 2011). She is also the author, with Kay Shimizu, of Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture, which is forthcoming in March 2022 from Cornell University Press. Dr. Maclachlan currently serves on the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), and the American Advisory Council of the Japan Foundation.

Youjeong Oh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

Youjeong Oh is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place (Cornell, 2018). Her research explores urbanism, development and dispossession, social movement, and media, tourism, and place in East Asia. Dr. Oh’s teaching covers broader issues of compressed modernity, state-society relations, (neo)colonialism, developmentalism, neoliberalism in East and Southeast Asia. Her current research is about (over)development, dispossession, and desires in Jeju, South Korea. 

Midori Tanaka, Language Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies

Midori Tanaka is a Japanese language lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies who teaches both lower and upper division language courses. In addition to electives focused on advanced kanji practice, she taught Business Japanese for many years andcontributed to the Japanese section of Cultural Interviews of International Business Executives, a series of interviews with Japanese executives on negotiating in Japanese organized by the Center for Global Business, Texas McCombs. In recent years, she has created a number of extracurricular clubs and workshops for our students to enrich their learning experience, including a bimoji (beautiful lettering) club and Japanese-Language Placement Test (JLPT) study groups.

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Brian Hurley, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies 

Brian Hurley is assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies with research and teaching interests in modern Japanese literature and cultural history.  His book Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022) was named an honorable mention in the Modern Language Association’s Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Book Prize for East Asian Studies. It was also honored as a finalist for the Modern Japan History Association Book Prize. His recent scholarship has appeared in Comparative Literature Studies, The Journal of Asian Studies, positions: asia critique, and The Global Sixties.

Grace MyHyun Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Grace MyHyun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. She also serves as both a core faculty member of the Center for Asian American Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Asian Studies. Her research focuses on literacy, language, cultural diversity, new media, and digitally mediated learning within a global context. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of California, Berkeley, she was a high school English teacher in the United States for seven years and worked on curriculum design and teacher professional development with Stanford University's Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education for five years.    

Jeehyun Lim, Associate Professor, Department of English

Jeehyun Lim is Associate Professor of English at UT Austin with affiliations in Asian American Studies and East Asian Studies. Her research interests include Asian American literature and culture, twentieth and twenty-first century U.S ethnic literatures, comparative studies of race and ethnicity, transnationalism, bi/multi-lingualism in literature and literary translation. Her first book, Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital (2017), explores bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latinx writers in the context of the social debates on bilingualism in the second half of the twentieth century. She is currently working on the cultural memory of the Korean War in US literature and culture with an eye to how the “forgotten war” actually indexes shifts in twentieth-century warfare of wide-ranging and lasting effects. 

Yongfeng Liu, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Studies

Yongfeng Liu is an Assistant Professor of Instruction in the Department of Asian Studies at UT Austin, teaching Chinese from lower to upper division language courses. Yongfeng is passionate about fostering an interactive learning environment, utilizing a variety of multimedia resources and innovative teaching methods to enhance student engagement and understanding. In addition to her teaching, she serves as the advisor for the Chinese Corner, a program designed to support students in their Chinese learning.  Moreover, she serves as the course evaluator for the study abroad program, ensuring students receive the right credits after learning Chinese abroad. Her research interests focus on character learning for native English speakers and oral performance evaluation, contributing to more effective teaching methodologies. 

Luke Waring, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies

Luke Waring is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian Studies. His main area of research is the literature and cultural history of early China (ca. 1250–220 CE), with particular interests in philology, manuscript studies, material culture, epigraphy, poetry, and aesthetics. He has published widely on a range of topics and sources, including  ritual manuscripts, visual culture, gender, libraries, and the relationship between music and classical learning. His first book, Writing and Materiality in an Early Chinese Kingdom, is forthcoming in the Tang Center Series published by Columbia University Press. It is a study of the different kinds of writing on silk, wood, and bamboo excavated from three second-century BCE tombs at a site in south-central China called Mawangdui.

Patricia Maclachlan, Professor, Department of Government

Patricia L. Maclachlan received her PhD in comparative politics from Columbia University and is now Professor of Government and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at UT Austin. A student of interest group politics and political-economic reform in Japan, her publications include Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism (Columbia University Press, 2002) andThe People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010 (Harvard University East Asia Center, 2011). She is also the author, with Kay Shimizu, of Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture (Cornell University Press, 2022). Dr. Maclachlan was a member of the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), the U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation, and the American Advisory Committee of the Japan Foundation.

Yi Shan, East Asian Studies Librarian (Ex-officio)

Yi Shan is the East Asian Studies Librarian at the University of Texas Libraries. He manages and develops UTL’s Chinese, Japanese, and Korean collections and supports the research and teaching on topics related to East Asia. He is also trained as a historian of early modern and modern China, and his current book manuscript examines the history of historical information in eighteenth and nineteenth-century China. He has also written on the cultural and political history of Chinese libraries in the twentieth century. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brian Hurley, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies 

Brian Hurley is a scholar of modern Japanese literature with interests in close reading, intellectual history, and economics.  His first book, Confluence and Conflict: Reading Transwar Japanese Literature and Thought (Harvard University Asia Center, 2022), explores the literary dimensions of intellectual history, and the intellectual side of literary aesthetics, in twentieth-century Japanese texts.  He is currently working on his second book project, which examines the nexus of aesthetics and economics in postwar and contemporary Japanese literature.  His scholarship has appeared in The Journal of Japanese Studies, Representations, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics, The Review of Japanese Culture and Society, and the Japanese-language journal of literary criticism Bungaku.  In the Department of Asian Studies, he offers a range of humanities courses that link aspects of Japanese literature and cultural history to global contexts.

Grace MyHyun Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Curriculum and Instruction

Grace MyHyun Kim is an associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin. She also serves as both a core faculty member of the Center for Asian American Studies and a faculty affiliate of the Department of Asian Studies. Her research focuses on literacy, language, cultural diversity, new media, and digitally mediated learning within a global context. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in 2017 from the University of California, Berkeley, she was a high school English teacher in the United States for seven years and worked on curriculum design and teacher professional development with Stanford University's Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education for five years.    

Jeehyun Lim, Associate Professor, Department of English

Jeehyun Lim is Associate Professor of English at UT Austin with affiliations in Asian American Studies and East Asian Studies. Her research interests include Asian American literature and culture, twentieth and twenty-first century U.S ethnic literatures, comparative studies of race and ethnicity, transnationalism, bi/multi-lingualism in literature and literary translation. Her first book, Bilingual Brokers: Race, Literature, and Language as Human Capital (2017), explores bilingual personhood in Asian American and Latinx writers in the context of the social debates on bilingualism in the second half of the twentieth century. She is currently working on the cultural memory of the Korean War in US literature and culture with an eye to how the “forgotten war” actually indexes shifts in twentieth-century warfare of wide-ranging and lasting effects. 

Mikiya Koyagi, Assistant Professor,  Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Mikiya Koyagi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research explores mobility, space, and identity in modern Iranian and inter-Asian history. His first book, Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway (Stanford University Press, 2021), received the 2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award and Honorable Mention from the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Book Award. He is currently working on a new book project on Japanese encounters with the Islamic Middle East since the late nineteenth century.

Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Government

Xiaobo Lü is an associate professor at the Department of Government, the University of Texas at Austin. His research centers on distributive politics of fiscal policies in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. He is currently working on several research projects that focus on party building and fiscal extraction. Dr. Lü has published in numerous leading academic journals, such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies. Dr. Lü received Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011.

Alice McCoy-Bae, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Studies

Alice McCoy-Bae is Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Department of Asian Studies at UT Austin, teaching Korean from lower to upper division language courses.  McCoy-Bae is interested in pedagogical approaches using online technologies to promote a collaborative learning environment and to help students develop interpersonal and intercultural competence extending beyond the brick-n-mortar space.  She is an active member of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) learning group and a passionate learner and participant of the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Juneteenth Project group at Asian Studies.  She is currently working on the Global Virtual Exchange Grant Project in collaboration with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) for an upper-division course, KOR320K (Third-Year Korean 1). She has also founded and facilitated Korean Film Club and Korean Leveled Reading Club and is hoping to continue to offer our students to experience Korean cultural diversities beyond language learning experience.  

Lina Chhun, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies 

Lina Chhun is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies and is affiliated with the Center for East Asian Studies at UT Austin. Lina studies historical violence, war, and militarism, with a focus on questions of racial disposability in the context of the U.S. Cold War in Southeast Asia and is currently completing her first book manuscript tentatively entitled, Walking with the Ghost: On Feminist Methodologies and Cambodian American Histories of Violence.

Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor, Department of History

Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history and Asian American Studies at UT Austin.  Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000); The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015); and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016). She co-edited the anthology with Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (UIP 2019).  She is currently one of five co-editors for the Cambridge History of Global Migrations.  Please visit her most recent project, which provides curriculum for K-12 classrooms, “Teach Immigration History,” at immigrationhistory.org.

Patricia L. Maclachlan, Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies

Patricia L. Maclachlan received her PhD in comparative politics from Columbia University and is now Professor of Government and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at UT Austin. A student of interest group politics and political-economic reform in Japan, her publications include Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism (Columbia University Press, 2002) and The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010 (Harvard University East Asia Center, 2011). She is also the author, with Kay Shimizu, of Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture, which is forthcoming in March 2022 from Cornell University Press. Dr. Maclachlan currently serves on the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), and the American Advisory Council of the Japan Foundation.

Mikiya Koyagi, Assistant Professor,  Department of Middle Eastern Studies

Mikiya Koyagi is Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. His research explores mobility, space, and identity in modern Iranian and inter-Asian history. His first book, Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway (Stanford University Press, 2021), received the 2022 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award and Honorable Mention from the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Book Award. He is currently working on a new book project on Japanese encounters with the Islamic Middle East since the late nineteenth century.

Xiaobo Lü, Associate Professor, Department of Government

Xiaobo Lü is an associate professor at the Department of Government, the University of Texas at Austin. His research centers on distributive politics of fiscal policies in authoritarian regimes, with a focus on China. He is currently working on several research projects that focus on party building and fiscal extraction. Dr. Lü has published in numerous leading academic journals, such as American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and Comparative Political Studies. Dr. Lü received Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University in 2011.

Alice McCoy-Bae, Assistant Professor of Instruction, Department of Asian Studies

Alice McCoy-Bae is Assistant Professor of Instruction at the Department of Asian Studies at UT Austin, teaching Korean from lower to upper division language courses.  McCoy-Bae is interested in pedagogical approaches using online technologies to promote a collaborative learning environment and to help students develop interpersonal and intercultural competence extending beyond the brick-n-mortar space.  She is an active member of Less Commonly Taught Languages (LCTLs) learning group and a passionate learner and participant of the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Juneteenth Project group at Asian Studies.  She is currently working on the Global Virtual Exchange Grant Project in collaboration with KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) for an upper-division course, KOR320K (Third-Year Korean 1). She has also founded and facilitated Korean Film Club and Korean Leveled Reading Club and is hoping to continue to offer our students to experience Korean cultural diversities beyond language learning experience.  

Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, LBJ School of Public Affairs

Sheena Chestnut Greitens is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, and an affiliate of both the Strauss Center and Clements Center for National Security.  Her research focuses on American national security, East Asia, and authoritarian politics and foreign policy. Her work on China and North Korea has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes in English, Chinese, and Korean, and in major media outlets; she has also previously testified to Congress on security issues in the Indo-Pacific. Her first book,Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence (Cambridge, 2016) received the 2017 Best Book Award from both the International Studies Association and the Comparative Democratization section of the American Political Science Association.From 2015-2020, she was assistant professor of political science at the University of Missouri. She holds a doctorate from Harvard University; an M.Phil from Oxford University, where she studied as a Marshall Scholar; and a bachelor's from Stanford University. 

Lina Chhun, Assistant Professor, Department of American Studies 

Lina Chhun is an Assistant Professor of American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies and is affiliated with the Center for East Asian Studies at UT Austin. Lina studies historical violence, war, and militarism, with a focus on questions of racial disposability in the context of the U.S. Cold War in Southeast Asia and is currently completing her first book manuscript tentatively entitled, Walking with the Ghost: On Feminist Methodologies and Cambodian American Histories of Violence.

Madeline Y. Hsu, Professor, Department of History

Madeline Y. Hsu is professor of history and Asian American Studies at UT Austin.  Her books include Dreaming of Gold, Dreaming of Home: Transnationalism and Migration between the United States and South China, 1882-1943 (Stanford University Press, 2000); The Good Immigrants: How the Yellow Peril Became the Model Minority (Princeton University Press, 2015); and Asian American History: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2016). She co-edited the anthology with Maddalena Marinari and Maria Cristina Garcia, A Nation of Immigrants Reconsidered: U.S. Society in an Age of Restriction, 1924-1965 (UIP 2019).  She is currently one of five co-editors for the Cambridge History of Global Migrations.  Please visit her most recent project, which provides curriculum for K-12 classrooms, “Teach Immigration History,” at immigrationhistory.org.

Patricia L. Maclachlan, Professor of Government and Asian Studies; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies

Patricia L. Maclachlan received her PhD in comparative politics from Columbia University and is now Professor of Government and the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Professor of Japanese Studies at UT Austin. A student of interest group politics and political-economic reform in Japan, her publications include Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan: The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism (Columbia University Press, 2002) and The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871-2010 (Harvard University East Asia Center, 2011). She is also the author, with Kay Shimizu, of Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture, which is forthcoming in March 2022 from Cornell University Press. Dr. Maclachlan currently serves on the U.S.-Japan Friendship Commission, the U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON), and the American Advisory Council of the Japan Foundation.

Youjeong Oh, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Studies

Youjeong Oh is Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Geography and the Environment at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Pop City: Korean Popular Culture and the Selling of Place (Cornell, 2018). Her research explores urbanism, development and dispossession, social movement, and media, tourism, and place in East Asia. Dr. Oh’s teaching covers broader issues of compressed modernity, state-society relations, (neo)colonialism, developmentalism, neoliberalism in East and Southeast Asia. Her current research is about (over)development, dispossession, and desires in Jeju, South Korea. 

Midori Tanaka, Language Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies

Midori Tanaka is a Japanese language lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies who teaches both lower and upper division language courses. In addition to electives focused on advanced kanji practice, she taught Business Japanese for many years andcontributed to the Japanese section of Cultural Interviews of International Business Executives, a series of interviews with Japanese executives on negotiating in Japanese organized by the Center for Global Business, Texas McCombs. In recent years, she has created a number of extracurricular clubs and workshops for our students to enrich their learning experience, including a bimoji (beautiful lettering) club and Japanese-Language Placement Test (JLPT) study groups.

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