Graduate Students

Rachel Adler
radler@uci.edu
Political Science

Chima Anyadike-Danes
canyadik@uci.edu
Anthropology
Research interests focus on the place, and identity, making practices of the Mongolian diaspora in Los Angeles

Nicole Barnes
nbarnes@uci.edu
History
20th century China; social and cultural history of medicine during WWII;
women's and gender history

Cherish Bolton 
cherishbolton@gmail.com
History
Study the British Empire in South Asia during the 19th and 20th centuries, specifically culture and identitiy formation in pre-independence India

Colin Cahill
colin.w.cahill@gmail.com
Anthropology
Medical and cultural politics in Southeast Asia

Aleksandra (Leksa) Chmielewski
achmiele@uci.edu
Anthropology
Museum representation, history and memory, new media, consumption and class, China and the US.

Ke-Rou (Carol) Chang 
kerouc@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature

Tieniu Cheng 
pkucheng@yahoo.com
East Asian Languages & Literature
Concentration in Chinese

Eunah Cho
eunahc@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
Concentration in Korean literature, bilingual, post-colonial period, translation

Hyonhui Choe
hyonhuic@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
I will concentrate on East Asian Cultural Studies in EALL department. To be more specific, my specialized field is modern Korean literature. I am now working on the intellectual history during colonial period.

Matthew Chudnow
mchudnow@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
 

Matt Combs
mtcombs@uci.edu
History
My main research interests lie in modern East Asia, specifically imperialism and colonialism in and by Chna, Japan, and Taiwan.

Angela Dawn Covalt 
angela.covalt@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
My concentration is in Japanese. I am very interested in current events and modern history, particularly as they relate to protest and subversion against the dominant paradigm.

Maura Cunningham  
History
maura.cunningham@uci.edu
Modern China, particularly 19th-20th century; urban history; transportation and communications networks

Cheryl Deutsch 
cdeutsch@uci.edu
Anthropology
Marketing and the market, privatized spaces of consumption, street vendors and super markets, the idea of the informal economy, social movements and NGO's, gender in contemporary India

Laurie Dickmeyer
ldickmey@uci.edu
History
Although US history is my first field of sudy, I am interested in early US trade relations with China.

Risako Doi
doir@uci.edu
History
I study women in early modern Japan

Andrew Duncan
andrew.duncan@uci.edu
Sociology

Vivian Eng
veng@uci.edu
History
My interests are 20th century Chinese diaspora and transnational migration.

Elsa Fan 

fane@uci.edu
Anthropology
Elsa Fan is currently a third-year graduate student in anthropology. Her research interests focus on HIV/AIDS in China in terms of governance, citizenship and humanitarianism and the different opportunities/tensions enabled through AIDS.

Yunxiang Gao
yunxiang@uci.edu
Music
Pipa. Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology

Christina Ghanbarpour
cghanbar@uci.edu
History
Japanese village women and transitions in village life from 1890-1960

Padma Govindan
govindan@uci.edu
Anthropology
My interests and research: human trafficking and anti-trafficking efforts, the US and India, human righgs, American volunteerism, the anthropology of social movements, gender sexuality

Amy Grubb
agrubb@uci.edu
Political Science

Li Han 
hanli@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
Concentration in Chinese literature

Alexis Hickman 
hickmana@uci.edu
Planning, Policy and Design
My emphasis lies in urban development in Southeast Asian Globalizing Cities, environmental governance, resources management, community participation, sustainable tourism, and coastal management.

Tiffany Hong
tiffany.hong@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature

Kim Icreverzi 
kicrever@uci.edu
Comparative Literature
Japanese Cinema

Eun Hae Jeong 
ehjeong@uci.edu
Anthropology
Eun Hae Jeong is currently studying reproductive technologies in South Korea. She is specifically interested in the production and use of genetic knowledge in reproductive technologies, as well in the field of adoption. Her broader interests include the development of genetic science and bioethics in South Korea.

Robert (Robbie) Kett
rkett@uci.edu
Anthropology

Dan Knorr
dknorr@uci.edu
History

Wayne Lalicon
wlalicaon@uci.edu
Political Science
I would like to conduct research that will illuminate the substantial social, political, and economic transnational linkages between the Philippine diaspora and the Philippine state.  I am interested in two specific issues within political transnationalism: (i) how the state promotes and maintains labor migration ; and (ii) the social and political activity of expatriate Filipinos with respect to Philippine society and politics.  Eventually, I would like to compare the Philippine experience with other states that are heavily reliant on remittances.

Hsin-chieh Li 
hsinchil@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
Concentration in Chinese literature

Wei Li
wli3@uci.edu
Planning, Policy and Design
Environmental policy, planning, and management; pricing of public goods; economics of natural resources; pollution control and damage assessment; transportation policy and economics; sustainable development in China

Jennifer Liu 
liu3j@cmich.edu
History
Guomindang Policy on Secondary Education in China from 1937-1949 and Taiwan from 1945-1960

Ssu-Fang Liu
ssufangl@uci.edu
East Asian Languages and Literature

Ying Liu
ying.liu@uci.edu

East Asian Languages and Literature
Concentration in modern and contemporary Chinese literature and cinema

Yuan Liu 
yliu3@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
Concentration in Chinese

Colin Moore 
colinm@uci.edu
Political Science
International Relations, Korea-US relations

Graham Odell 
godell@uci.edu
Political Science
China, NE Asia, nationalism, political development, and political identity

Kazuko Osada
kosada@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
Literature and films in Manchukuo and Japanese empire, translation theory 

Christina Ree 
cree@uci.edu
Studio Arts

Karen Robinson
kjrobins@uci.edu
Sociology
Culture, Social Theory, Globalization; South Korea

Xia Shi
shix@uci.edu
History
My concentration is Modern China, particularly 19th-20th century, women's and gender history

Xiaochen (Jane) Shi 
xiaoches@uci.edu
Sociology
Interest in globalization in East Asia, particularly China.

Jinsuhk Suh
jinsuhks@uci.edu
Planning, Policy, and Design
Dissertation theme is related to environmental issues or policies in South East Asia areas

Beijie Tang 
btang@uci.edu
Political Science

Wang Chen-cheng 
chenchew@uci.edu
History
My focus is the influence of political cultures, specifically the organizational cultures on the regimes' political capacities in Modern Chinese history. And how these cultures affected the models and strategies these regimes adopted in the process of political mobilization.

Thomas Worger 
tworger@uci.edu
History
My primary field of research is 20th century China, specifically law in the 1920s and 30s.

Karen Wu
karenw1@uci.edu
Psychology and Social Behavior
I am interested in examining cultural differences in enhancement and verification processes within intimate relationships. For instance, do people prefer that their partners view them more positively than they view themselves, or do they prefer that their partners view them similarly? How might such preferences differ across culture, depending on the perceived nature of attributes?

Yidi Wu
yidiw@uci.edu
History
Concentration in 20th century China, particularly student protests and social movements in the Communist period.
 

Chuning Xie
xiec1@uci.edu
History
Interest in China as well as Japan

Leah Zani
lzani@uci.edu
Anthropology
Southeast Asia, Buddhism, the Secret War, landmines and rehabilitation technologies

Huili Zheng
huiliz@uci.edu
East Asian Languages & Literature
Concentration in Chinese