Students

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

Yici (Isabel) Cai

icai@fas.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Stanford University, B.A. Political Science, Honors in International Security Studies, 2025 China : security and foreign policy; crisis bargaining; authoritarian signaling

Yutao Chen

yutaochenchen@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Peking University BA. Japanese, 2025 Japan : Modern Japan, Environmental History, Politics of Memory

Anna Frankl

afrankl@fas.harvard.edu

(she/her)

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...

Hazel Genieser

hazelgenieser@college.harvard.edu

Harvard College, AB, Government May 2027 China, Taiwan, and Japan: memory studies, historical memory, memorials, nationalism, WWII.

Pauline Hamilton

paulinehamilton@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

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...

Jaxon Havens

jaxonhavens@g.harvard.edu

Yale University, BA, Anthropology; East Asian Studies Japan: Modern Japan, cultural history, consumption, bodily aesthetic

Rachel Hsu

rachelhsu@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

George Washington University, B.A. in History and International Affairs with concentration in Asia, 2024 China/Global: Social history of the Canton System, New Englander merchant networks in China, transimperial history, global and maritime history...

Yiting (Vinnie) Hua

vhua@g.harvard.edu

(she/her) Smith College, B.A in Art History and East Asian Studies, 2024 China and Japan: medieval and pre-modern art and culture, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, museum studies

Shuying Huo

shuying_huo@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Renmin University of China, BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) & minor in psychology. China: Historical political economy, Chinese political development, state building, bureaucracy, political institutions, culture, ideology, identity.

Alyssa Hurley

ahurley@g.harvard.edu

(she/her)

Trinity College, B.A. History (Environmental History), Asian Studies Minor, 2026. Japan: environmental history; animal histories; human-environment interactions; disaster and visual culture; ecological relationships; environmental change and connection in...

Sayo Ishihara

sayo_ishihara@g.harvard.edu

Hitotsubashi University, B.A. in Law (International Relations), 2024 Japan and East Asia: Multilateral Relations, Security and Foreign Policy, Japan-Southeast Asia Relations, Comparative Politics, Military strategy in Indo-Pacific region