All Alumni Profiles

Zackary Kaplan

(he/him) Harvard University, AM, Regional Studies East Asia, May 2026 University of Oklahoma, B.A. International and Area Studies, 2011 Japan: material and visual culture; history and evolution of craft techniques; intersection of traditional mediums and...

Georgia Kashnig

RSEA AM '19

Japan: Medieval Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist images of the afterlife, scriptural reading practices, and storytelling.Harvard University Divinity School, M.T.S., Buddist Studies, 2009

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Christopher Felix Kim

RSEA AM '17

China: Early China (Zhou), historiography, archaeology, state formation and operation Korea: Goguryeo, interregional exchange.Brown University, B.A., Assyriology; East Asian Studies, 2015.

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Myunggyo Kim

RSEA AM '17

China/ Korea: Domestic and International Migration in China and Korea from the late 19th century; Chinese and Korean Diaspora; Patterns of Social and Spatial Mobility of Ethnic Minorities in China; Minority Enclave. Yonsei University, B.A., Political...

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Michael Kim

RSEA AM '92, PhD '04

2019 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Michael Kim is Professor of Korean History at Yonsei’s Graduate School of International Studies. He has served as the Associate Vice-President for International Affairs and Associate Dean of Underwood International College at Yonsei University. Kim...

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Iacob Koch-Weser

RSEA AM '11

2014 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Iacob Koch-Weser is an Associate Director in BCG's Global Advantage practice, specialized in geopolitics, emerging markets, and trade and investment topics. Since joining BCG in 2019, Iacob has supported corporate clients on topics such as geopolitical...

Yasmine Sae Krings

RSEA AM '17

Japan: postcolonialism, gender and sexuality, race and critical theory, modern Japanese literature, abjection, violence, psychoanalysis. University of Chicago, B.A., East Asian Languages/Japanese, 2014

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Reika Y.J. Ku

RSEA AM '25

(she/her) Japan and Korea: Asia-Pacific security, inter-Korean relations, Japan-Korean peninsula relations, Extended deterrence, DPRK’s WMD program, U.S. alliances in the Asia-Pacific, Political economy of post-war South Korea and Japan University of...

Shiamin Kwa

RSEA AM '99, PhD '08

2015 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Shiamin Kwa is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Harvard University and her B.A. in English Literature from Dartmouth...

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Benjamin Landauer

RSEA AM '21

(he/him/his) China: Modern Poetry, Classical Poetry, Translation Theory and PracticeNanjing University, M.A. Modern Chinese Literature, 2019. Reed College, B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, 2017

Jessica J. Lee

RSEA AM '08

2020 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Jessica J. Lee is a Senior Congressional Advisor at the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of State. She was formerly a Senior Research Fellow on East Asia at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Lee is an expert in U.S. foreign...

Hyejoo Lee

RSEA AM '20

Korea: Film and media studies; race, gender, and the transnational in contemporary South Korean cinema and visual culture.Yonsei University, B.A. Comparative Literature & Culture, 2018