Student

Junyoung Baik

Junyoung Baik

(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 perceptions of Japan, Korean nationalism.

Ava Bush

Ava Bush

(she/her)

Tulane University, B.A. in Asian Studies, Art History, Anthropology, and Minor in Japanese, 2023

Japan: Japanese Art and Culture, Buddhist Art, Pre-modern Japanese Painting, Ainu Art and ArchaeologyTulane University, B.A. in Asian Studies, Art History, Anthropology, and Minor in Japanese, 2023

Gunn Chaiyapatranun

Gunn Chaiyapatranun

(he/him/his)

Carnegie Mellon University, B.Arch., Minors in Architectural History and Japanese Studies, 2019

Japan: History of Premodern Japanese Architecture; Cultural, religious, and ideological exchanges between Japan and the Asian continent as expressed through architecture. History of construction technology and architectural representation.

Marissa Hauser

Marissa Hauser

(she/her/hers)

University of Texas at Austin, B.A. Linguistics with High Honors, B.A. Asian Cultures and Languages (Korean track) with High Honors, 2020

Korea: Linguistic and religious anthropology; dog whistles, interactions with indigenous religion, and sociopolitical movements of fringe evangelical groups (saibijonggyo); ‘speaking in tongues’