People

Alexander Zahlten

azahlten@fas.harvard.edu

Chair, Committee on Regional Studies East Asia

EALC: Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research Interests: Film and media in Japan; media ecologies in East Asia.

Ryuichi Abe

rabe@fas.harvard.edu

On leave AY2025-26

EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions

Research Interests: Buddhism and Japanese history, literature and culture.

Elli Ahn

elliahn@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Georgetown University, BSFS Culture and Politics, 2025 Korea and Japan : linguistic imperialism, postcolonial studies, historical linguistics, literary culture, translation studies

William P. Alford

alford@law.harvard.edu

Law School: Director, East Asian Legal Studies

Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law

Research interests: Chinese law and legal history; legal aspects of international trade and technology transfer.

(he/him/his) Middlebury College, A.B. Japanese Studies and Political Science, 2019.5 Japan and China: The U.S.-Japan Alliance; U.S.-China-Japan relations; U.S. foreign policy in the Far East; economic statecraft; international organizations; Japanology...

David Atherton

datherton@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Research interests: Japanese literature and culture, popular fiction and theater; literature of early modern (Edo or Tokugawa) period.

Keung Yoon Bae

RSEA AM '14, PhD '20

2021 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Keung Yoon Bae is an Assistant Professor of Korean Studies at the School of Modern Languages. Her most recent research examines the relationship between media production and the state in Korea, specifically looking at imperial regulation of colonial...

Hyemin Baeg

RSEA AM '18

China/Japan: Shanghanlun in premodern China and Japan; problem of empiricism, reductionism, causality, observability in East Asian Medicine; conceptual change of science in East Asia. Yonsei University, M.A., HPM, 2015

Hannah Baek

RSEA AM '22

(she/her/hers) Korea : South Korean film and film culture of the 1970s and 1980s; visual and media studies; gender and body; feminist, queer, postcolonial, and affect theories New York University, B.A. Individualized Study, 2017

Junyoung Baik

RSEA AM '24

(he/him/his) University of Pennsylvania, B.A. History and a Minor in Chinese, 2022 Korea: Premodern Korean history: Imjin War, wartime captivity, popular experiences of war, perceptions of Japan;Modern Korean history: cultural memory, modern Korean...

Carroll Bogert

RSEA AM '86

2018 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Carroll Bogert is President of the Marshall Project, a Pulitzer-Prize-winning nonprofit media organization that reports on the US criminal justice system. The Marshall Project seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the US criminal...