Class of 2016
Anne Ewbank graduated with a degree in Chinese Studies from Los Angeles’ Occidental College in 2013. Afterwards she worked for a foreign exchange program in China before embarking on a Fulbright teaching assistantship in Jinmen, Taiwan. At Yale, Anne focused on China and environmental history.
Liling Huang is a Singapore citizen. She received a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature and a second-major B.A. in International Politics and Global Affairs from Peking University in July 2015. At Yale, she took classes in history, politics, literature and archaeology, and was a Teaching Fellow for a history course taught by Professor Denise Ho. After graduation, Liling will work for Singapore’s Ministry of Education, first as a high-school teacher, then as a policy planner.
Gi Eun Lee received a B.S. in Film and Television from Boston University in 2013. During her undergraduate years, Gi Eun interned at several media production companies such as Seoul Broadcasting System and Paper Gun Films in Hollywood, and after graduating from college, she worked at Mnet TV in Korea as an assistant director of 4 Show. At Yale, Gi Eun specialized in East Asian cultural trends and cultural discrepancies expressed in media. Gi Eun plans to work at a broadcasting network company in Korea after graduation.
Kankan Meng received her first degree in English Language and Literature from Nanjing University in 2015. As an undergraduate, she interned at media outlets such as the New York Times. At Yale, Kankan specialized in visual issues, art and literature. After graduation she plans to continue her education with a focus on human computer interaction design.
George Remisovsky received his Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from Trinity College, University of Toronto. He then spent three years in China as a Shanghai Government Scholar at Fudan University and working at a local television station. At Yale, he researched the legal history of Colonial Taiwan and took courses in Chinese and Japanese history. After graduation, George will head to Yokohama for the summer as a Light Fellow, pursuing Japanese language study before he joins Yale’s doctoral program in History in the fall.
Celine Wang received her B.A. magna cum laude in Political Science and Public Policy from the University of Notre Dame in 2015. As an undergraduate, Celine interned with several organizations, including a human rights NGO in Pretoria, South Africa, where she worked as a research intern while conducting her independent research. At Yale, she focused her studies on Chinese contentious politics, human rights, and the issues of ethnic minorities. After graduation Celine plans to pursue a doctoral degree in Political Science.
Hikaru Yamagishi was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She received her B.A. in Government and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from Dartmouth College in 2012. After college, she worked on a fixed income trading floor at a Japanese bank in New York City, facilitating investment transactions for Japanese institutions and global central banks. In the M.A. program, she has focused her studies in East Asian history and politics, and topics in Political Science. Hikaru plans to stay at Yale after graduation, starting next year as a Ph.D. student in the Political Science department.
Alisha Zou received a B.A. in Asian Studies and Policy Studies from Rice University in 2015. During her undergraduate years, she interned at J.P. Morgan, Warburg Pincus, and the Houston Asian American Archive Project. It was her enthusiasm for archiving and learning about Asian American oral histories that brought her to the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, where she specialized in the intellectual origins and progression of both Asian American and Chinese feminism. After graduation, Alisha plans to enter the social work sector.