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Margarita Abe Estevez

Margarita Estévez-Abe

Associate Professor, Political Science Department

O’Hanley Faculty Scholar

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

Ph.D., Government Department, Harvard University, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Political economy, Japan, gender
Gareth Fisher

Gareth Fisher

Associate Professor by Courtesy Appointment, Anthropology Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Research Affiliate, South Asia Center

Associate Professor, Religion, College of Arts & Sciences

Ph.D. University of Virginia, 2006

Areas of Expertise

Buddhism, religion in contemporary China, religion and cultural change, globalization, post-socialism
Dimitar Gueorguiev

Dimitar Gueorguiev

Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Political Science Department

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, 2014

Areas of Expertise

Comparative political economy, authoritarian institutions, governance, survey methods
Eunjung Kim

Eunjung Kim

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Associate Professor Women's and Gender Studies, College of Arts and Sciences

Minju Kim

Minju Kim

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Research Affiliate, East Asia Program

Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 2021

Areas of Expertise

International political economy, bureaucratic politics, international trade, formal theory
Norman Kutcher
(Pronouns: He, Him)

Norman Kutcher

Professor, History Department

Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Ph.D., Chinese History, Yale University, 1991

Areas of Expertise

Cultural, social, and political history of late imperial China
Yingyi Ma

Yingyi Ma

Professor, Sociology Department

Director, Asian/Asian American Studies

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Nonresident Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Program at Brookings

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, 2007

Areas of Expertise

Education, migration, Asian/Asian American studies
Kenji Oda

Kenji Oda

Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Assistant Teaching Professor, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Japanese language and culture
Oh, David

David Oh

Advisory Board Member and Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Associate Professor, Newhouse School of Public Communications

Areas of Expertise

Asian American representations in popular and digital culture; Asian American identities and media; othering in Korean media culture; and transnational and diasporic reception of Korea popular culture
Mary Szto

Mary Szto

Research Affiliate, East Asia Program

Teaching Professor, Syracuse University College of Law

Areas of Expertise

Chinese-American property ownership, anti-corruption law, real estate, Chinese law and rituals
Darwin Han-Lin Tsen

Darwin Han-Lin Tsen

Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Assistant Teaching Professor of Chinese and Chinese Coordinator, Languages, Literatures, & Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

Chinese literature, film, and culture; upper-level Chinese language courses
Michiko Ueda

Michiko Ueda-Ballmer

Associate Professor, Public Administration and International Affairs Department

Senior Research Associate, Center for Policy Research

Research Affiliate, Center for Policy Design and Governance

Faculty Affiliate, Aging Studies Institute

Research Affiliate, East Asia Program

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006

Areas of Expertise

Social determinants of health, suicide prevention, mental health policy, public health, computational social science
Serena Wang

Serena Wang

Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Assistant Teaching Professor, Art and Music Histories, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

contemporary Chinese music, global musicology, and music and diaspora.
Chengzhi Yin

Chengzhi Yin

Assistant Professor, Political Science Department

Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Ph.D., Boston College, 2022

Areas of Expertise

Chinese foreign policy, international relations research methods.
Seungmin Yun

Seungmin Yun

Senior Research Associate, East Asia Program

Associate Teaching Professor of ESOL and Korean Program Coordinator, Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics, College of Arts & Sciences

Areas of Expertise

ESOL, intercultural pragmatics, code-switching, and language socialization of bilingual children 
East Asia Program
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