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"...
University of Maryland, B.A.s in Japanese and Art History, 2024.
Japan and Korea: visual culture, history of art, imperial Japan, colonial Korea
Georgetown University, BSFS Culture and Politics, 2025
Korea and Japan: linguistic imperialism, postcolonial studies, historical linguistics, literary culture, translation studies
Harvard College, AB, Government May 2027
China, Taiwan, and Japan: memory studies, historical memory, memorials, nationalism, WWII.
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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
Middlebury College, B.A. Philosophy & History, 2025
China and Japan: Medieval-Premodern Chinese and Japanese intellectual and religious history, Buddhist and Daoist philosophy.
Williams College, B.A. Art History with Honors and Japanese, 2025
Japan and China: Medieval Japanese art, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, Zen painting, screen painting, museum studies
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...
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Oberlin College, B.A. East Asian Studies and Psychology, 2021
Japan and China: Religious history; visual and material culture; Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges; historical board games and cosmograms; ritual and play; everyday religion
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Harvard University, AM, Regional Studies East Asia, May 2026
Tsinghua University, B.A. in Philosophy and Minor in History of Science, 2024
China, Japan, and East Asia: History of medicine, tropical medicine, traditional medicine, public health
Yale University, BA, Anthropology; East Asian Studies
Japan: Modern Japan, cultural history, consumption, bodily aesthetic
