Council on East Asian Studies
Visiting Professors, Visiting Fellows
Congrong He
Visiting Fellow
Research Interest: Collaborative work between Yale University and Tsinghua University on the origin, mechanism and modern-day significance of architectural regionality and religious architecture in Jincheng, Shanxi Province, including the exploration of religious life in traditional villages and architectural and cultural preservation methodology.
Waka Hirokawa
Visiting Research Scholar
Research Interest: “Rethinking the Relationship between Poverty, Social Status and Disease in Modern Japan’s Regional Communities”
Timon Screech
Visiting Research Scholar
Research Interest: “The Cargo of the ‘New Year’s Gift’: Art and the East India Company 1599-1617”
Post Doctoral Associates and Lecturers
Kazumi Hasegawa
Post-Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Research: Colonial relations between the Japanese and the Ainu from the Meiji to the shōwa period in relation to the construction of modern Japanese identity.
Teaching: Discourse of Civilization in Meiji Japan (Spring 2015)
Seunghan Paek
Post-Doctoral Associate and Lecturer
Research Interest: contemporary architecture and urbanism in Asia, exploring how mega-scale urban and architectural projects undertaken by international corporations and governments in Asia are mobilized to construct new kinds of public space, in which urban identities are produced through the entanglement of indigenous local cultures, design ideas proposed by foreign architects, and multiple scales of architectural intervention and mediation.
Teaching: Seoul: Spaces of the Everyday (Fall 2014)
Jonathan Schlesinger
Post Doc Associate and Lecturer
Research Interest: The nexus of empire, environment, and market that defined Qing China in 1750-1850, when unprecedented commercial expansion and a rush for natural resources transformed the ecology of China and its borderlands.
Teaching: History and China’s Environment (Fall 2014)
Bin Xu
Post-Doctoral Fellow and Lecturer
Research Interest: Collective memory of historical events in contemporary Chinese history and China’s “educated youth” (zhiqing) generation.
Teaching: Collective Memories in East Asia and Beyond(Spring 2015)