Field of study: Korea

University of Maryland, B.A.s in Japanese and Art History, 2024. 

Japan and Korea: visual culture, history of art, imperial Japan, colonial Korea

Peking University, B.A. in History and Economics, 2026 

China and Korea: environmental history; ocean history; history of energy infrastructure; modern Chinese history; animal history

University of Southern California, B.A. Political Science & Cognitive Science, 2025 

Japan and Korea: comparative politics; modern East Asian social and cultural history; development economics

University of Pennsylvania, BA 2025

Korea, Japan, China: Modern and contemporary comics. Feedback loop between published media and sociocultural climate; commercial fiction as reflections of concurrent societal phenomena; navigation methods of the comics...

Mark E. Caprio is professor emeritus at Rikkyo University in Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Japanese Assimilation Policies in Colonial Korea, 1910—1945 (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009). Additionally, he has co-edited a number of volumes...

University of Chicago, Art History B.A., 2025

China and transnational: Jiahe works on East Asian Buddhist material culture. She is interested in the in/stability and lives of religious objects, visions, social dynamics of secrecy, and embodiment. More...

University of California, Los Angeles, B.A Anthropology, 2023

Inter-University Center for Korean Studies, Sungkyunkwan University, 2024

Korea and Japan: Literary representations of marriage and its relation to the identity, sociality, and agency of women...

Georgetown University, BSFS Culture and Politics, 2025

Korea and Japan: linguistic imperialism, postcolonial studies, historical linguistics, literary culture, translation studies

Chan Yong Bu’s research focuses on the entanglements of the body, science, and technology within media culture as crucial sites for human-nonhuman relations. In particular, Chan Yong works on industrial media in South and North Korea, media spectacles in...

Areas of Research: East Asian Studies, History of Environmental Sciences, Material Culture, STS, Technology and Society.