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William C. Kirby

william_kirby@harvard.edu

Department of History: T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies

Harvard Business School: Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration

Director, Harvard China Fund

Research interests: modern Chinese political and economic history; history of the Republic of China and of the People’s Republic of China; Chinese foreign, economic and cultural relations. William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at...

Finn Kirkpatrick

finnkirkpatrick@g.harvard.edu

(he/him)

Brown University, A.B. in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, 2025 Japan: Premodern and Early Modern Japanese poetry and poetics; history of writing; vernacularization; critical theory; intellectual history

Tsukasa Kitahara

RSEA AM '25

(he/him) East Asia, Japan, China: East Asian security, the Japan-U.S. Alliance, Japan-China relations, foreign policy, Free and Open Indo-Pacific The University of Tokyo, MPP International Public Policy, 2020 Osaka University, BA Chinese Studies, 2018

Arthur Kleinman

kleinman@wjh.harvard.edu

Dept. of Anthropology: Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology

Harvard Medical School: Professor of Medical Anthropology in Global Health and Social Medicine

Research interests: Medical anthropology, study of illness, health care and moral experience in the social transformation of Chinese society. Global mental health; social medicine; medical humanities; social suffering; caregiving; China and Asia broadly...

Iacob Koch-Weser

RSEA AM '11

2014 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Iacob Koch-Weser is an Associate Director in BCG's Global Advantage practice, specialized in geopolitics, emerging markets, and trade and investment topics. Since joining BCG in 2019, Iacob has supported corporate clients on topics such as geopolitical...

Paulina Kolata

pkolata@fas.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Paulina Kolata is an interdisciplinary scholar of religion in Japan, specifically Buddhism, with an interest in demographic transformations, materiality, religious economies, and ecologies of religious practice. Her other research interests include food...

Daniel Koss

koss@fas.harvard.edu

Research Scholar and Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Daniel Koss studies political parties in East Asian politics. His first book, published in 2018, investigates the role of political parties under authoritarianism through the case of the Chinese Communist Party. Asking why the Chinese state is "stronger"...

Yasmine Sae Krings

RSEA AM '17

Japan: postcolonialism, gender and sexuality, race and critical theory, modern Japanese literature, abjection, violence, psychoanalysis. University of Chicago, B.A., East Asian Languages/Japanese, 2014

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Reika Y.J. Ku

RSEA AM '25

(she/her) Japan and Korea: Asia-Pacific security, inter-Korean relations, Japan-Korean peninsula relations, Extended deterrence, DPRK’s WMD program, U.S. alliances in the Asia-Pacific, Political economy of post-war South Korea and Japan University of...

Shigehisa Kuriyama

hkuriyam@fas.harvard.edu

EALC: Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History

Research Interests: comparative cultural history; history of medicine and science.

Shiamin Kwa

RSEA AM '99, PhD '08

2015 RSEA Alumni Panelist

Shiamin Kwa is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Comparative Literature at Bryn Mawr College. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Harvard University and her B.A. in English Literature from Dartmouth...

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Benjamin Landauer

RSEA AM '21

(he/him/his) China: Modern Poetry, Classical Poetry, Translation Theory and PracticeNanjing University, M.A. Modern Chinese Literature, 2019. Reed College, B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, 2017