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Mark C. Elliot

elliott3@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

Vice Provost for International Affairs

Research interests: Social, political and institutional history of China and Inner Asia

Gülnar Eziz

geziz@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Preceptor in Uyghur and Chaghatay

Research interests: Uyghur language and linguistics. Linguistic anthropology.

Yiwei Fang

RSEA AM '23

(she/her/hers) China: social linguistics, grammaticalization; semiotics; Chinese cultural studies. Chinese University of Hong Kong, B.A., Translation, 2021

Davenport Farnham

RSEA AM '14

Tibet: modern history focusing predominately on the decades directly preceding 1959; and, Chinese-American relations - how the Tibetan question has affected this dynamic. Columbia University, B.A., East Asian Studies, 2010

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John Fei

RSEA AM '97, PhD

2021 RSEA Alumni Panelist

John Fei assists with overseeing U.S. international economic and development policy in his role as International Economist at the Department of the Treasury. Prior to Treasury, Fei held a variety of positions at non-governmental organizations, working at...

Joshua Fernandez

RSEA AM '24

(he/him/his) University of Ottawa, Honours BA with Major in Arabic Language and Culture, Minor in Asian Studies, 2017 China: Citizenship and Migration Law; Domestic Mobility and Labour; Chinese Modern History and Socio-Political Development; Turkic Ethnic...

Rowan K. Flad

rflad@fas.harvard.edu

Director of Graduate Studies, RSEA

Dept. of Anthropology: John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology

Office Hours (Fall 2026): Wednesdays, 1:00- 3:00. Schedule here: https://calendly.com/rflad/15min Research interests: Chinese archaeology; emergence and persistence of complex societies in the Sichuan Basin; specialization; zoo archaeology.

Landon Fortenberry

RSEA AM '23

(he/him/his) China: Modern China, Sino-U.S. Relations, Trade, and Politics Michigan State University, B.A. Chinese, 2019; B.A. International Relations, 2019

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...

Eyck Freymann

RSEA AM '18

China: International relations and twentieth century history of East Asia; Chinese energy and environmental policyHarvard College, AB/AM

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Glen Fukushima

RSEA AM '76

Alumni Advisory Board 2022-

Glen S. Fukushima is the Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation and a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he focuses on U.S.-Asia relations. Before joining CAP in 2012, he was based in Asia for 22 years as a...

Lanna S.J. Gao

RSEA AM '25

(she/her) China and Japan: Late Qing and early Republican intellectual history; localism and transnationalism; nationalism and historiography; Sino-Japanese cultural exchange; trans-regional practice of translation; print and publication in early 20th...