All Alumni Profiles

Tarryn Chun

RSEA AM '10

2022 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Tarryn Chun is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Film, Television, and Theatre at the University of Notre Dame, where she holds a concurrent appointment in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and is a Faculty Fellow at the Liu...

Anthony Comeau

RSEA AM '24

(he/him/his) NYU Shanghai, B.A. Political Science, 2019 China: political philosophy; law & anthropology; history of emotions; philosophy of love; aesthetics; urbanism; gender & sexuality

Claire Conceison

RSEA AM '92, PhD

2014 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Claire Conceison is Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and Professor of Theater Arts. She is a scholar, translator, and director. Her areas of research and teaching are contemporary Chinese theater, cross-cultural exchange and performance, Asian American...

Shangtong Cui

RSEA AM '23

(she/her/hers) China: Medieval Chinese Literature; Chinese Commentarial Tradition; Confucian Studies The National University of Singapore, M.A. Chinese Studies, 2021

Annika A. Culver

RSEA AM '00

2021 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Annika Culver is Associate Professor of East Asian History at Florida State University, where she specializes in Japan and Northeast Asia-related topics, as one of the world's experts on imperial Japan and Manchuria/Manchukuo (Japanese-occupied northeast...

Edward Cunningham

Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School

Director of Ash Center China Programs at HKS

Director of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at HKS

Research interests: Energy markets and governance, international economics and competitiveness, the political economy of development, and China’s integration into the world, including the rise of Chinese private wealth and philanthropy.

Evan N. Dawley

RSEA AM '98, PhD '06

Evan Dawley is Associate Professor of History at Goucher College. “RSEA fundamentally shaped my adult life. The training I received there, in language, history, and international relations led me to a Harvard-Yenching Fellowship at Fudan University and my...

Joseph Doyle

RSEA AM '17

Japan: US-Japanese relations, regional security in East Asia. Florida State University, M.A., International Affairs, 2015

Karl Eikenberry

RSEA AM '81

Alumni Advisory Board, Chair 2022-

2018 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Karl Eikenberry is a Distinguished Fellow at the Stimson Center and Johnson & Johnson Visiting Faculty Chair in Leadership at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University. His almost four decades of national service culminated as the U.S. Ambassador to...

Yiwei Fang

RSEA AM '23

(she/her/hers) China: social linguistics, grammaticalization; semiotics; Chinese cultural studies. Chinese University of Hong Kong, B.A., Translation, 2021

Davenport Farnham

RSEA AM '14

Tibet: modern history focusing predominately on the decades directly preceding 1959; and, Chinese-American relations - how the Tibetan question has affected this dynamic. Columbia University, B.A., East Asian Studies, 2010

John Fei

RSEA AM '97, PhD