MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale
Council on East Asian Studies

2013-2014 Visiting Faculty & Scholars

Inter-Asia Postdoctoral Associate

Chika Watanabe holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Cornell University, where she researched Japanese aid ideologies, practices of “making persons” (hitozukuri), and the indistinction between the religious and the secular in a Japanese NGO and its projects in Burma/Myanmar. Tacking back and forth between aid work and academia, she has worked with Japanese and Burmese NGOs, and holds a Master’s Degree in Refugee Studies from Oxford University. Based on her fieldwork experiences across Japan and Burma/Myanmar, her work at Yale included advancing Inter-Asian perspectives and teaching an undergraduate seminar titled “Humanitarianism Across Asia.” While keeping an eye on Burma/Myanmar, her next major project will examine aid practices in the aftermath of the March 2011 disasters in Japan.

Rice Family Foundation Visiting Fellow

Se-Woong Koo received his Ph.D. from the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University in 2011. He taught at the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh from January 2011 to June 2012, and spent the 2012-2013 academic year as a Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de Recherches sur la Corée, a division of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. He is currently working on a book project, which concerns contemporary Korean society and politics.  In the Fall of 2013, Koo taught “Korean Art and Culture” with Youn-mi Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of the History of Art.  He also taught a course entitled “Religion and National Identity in Modern Korea” in Spring 2014.

Visiting Faculty in East Asian Studies and Political Science

Jeremy Wallace (Ph.D., Stanford University, 2009), Assistant Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University, studies the politics of non-democracies, particularly China, as well as urbanization, development, and redistribution. He is working on a book manuscript, Cities and Stability: Urbanization, Migration, and Authoritarian Resilience in China, examining how cities represent serious threats to autocratic regimes and how the Chinese Communist Party has managed its urbanization to maintain its rule.  Teaching at Yale as a Visiting Faculty in East Asian Studies and Political Science from 2012-2014, he taught “Contemporary Nondemocratic Regimes” in the Fall of 2013, and “Politics of China,” which covered the last thirty years of Chinese political history, in the Spring of 2013 and 2014.

Visiting Fellows in East Asian Studies

Kiyoshi Jinno is an Associate Professor of Japanese legal history at Musashino Gakuin Univeristy in Saitama, Japan. He is also teaching at his alma mater, Keio University. His research interests include the examination of donations to temples and shrines during the medieval period, and the history of ideas of jurists and legislators in the modern period.

Paul Spooner, CFA, has been a financial specialist in the field of commercial banking for over twenty-five years, operating throughout the United States and Asia, including with the institutions of Barclays Bank in New York City, ABN Amro Bank in Singapore, and Deloitte Touche in Beijing.  He holds a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from the University of Hong Kong, an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Yale University, and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Michigan.  His academic work has focused on the development of Macau in the 20th Century, with Macau’s Revista de Cultura, among others, publishing a number of his articles.  In 2009-2010, he taught International Trade at Jinan University in Guangzhou, and from 2010 to 2012, the history of Macau, East Asian and Portugal at Universities in Macau and Hong Kong.   He is presently teaching Global Strategic Management & Finance at the University of St. Joseph’s in Macau, and is undertaking a series of projects for the Macau University of Science & Technology (MUST) related to Macau’s relationships with Brazil.

Visiting Fellow with The Todai-Yale Initiative

Takeshi Fukaya was a visiting fellow at Yale with The Todai-Yale Initiative from the Graduate School for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo, as well as a postdoctoral research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).  At Yale, he studied political science, comparative political economy, and Japanese politics with a focus on regulatory politics, including the causes and consequences of cartel stability in Japan from a comparative perspective. Before coming to Yale, Fukaya studied public administration and policy studies, finishing his dissertation on deregulation in Japan.

Visiting Korean Lector

Junghwa Lee received an Ed.M. in Education of the Korean Language as a Foreign Language from Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, Korea in 2004.  She has since been teaching Korean language, culture, and current affairs at the Korean Language Education Center of Sogang University, also in Seoul.  Lee was a Visiting Korean Lector in the Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures at Yale, teaching both Elementary and Intermediate level Korean during the 2013-2014 academic year. Her appointment was generously supported by a Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University Title VI Grant from the United States Department of Education.

Yale World Fellows

Daniel Shin oversees global venture capital and a private equity investment program on behalf of Korea Telecom. In addition, he is a founding member and managing director of KingsBay Capital, a Korea-U.S. cross-border venture capital firm with offices in Seoul and San Francisco. He has published several books and is a frequent speaker on subjects related to innovation and tech entrepreneurship. He came to Yale in the Fall of 2013 as both a Yale World Fellow and CEAS Affiliate.

Xingzui Wang is Vice President of the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation, one of the oldest and largest NGOs in China, and one of the few working outside the country. He oversees expansion of the Foundation’s international impact. Wang also sits on the board of the China Foundation Center, an organization promoting transparency, unity, and partnerships among Chinese foundations.  He came to Yale in  the Fall of 2013 as Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. S. Ng Yale World Fellow and CEAS Affiliate.