Alumni

2019-20

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Yiying Pan	Symphonic Spaces: Environment, Society, and Governance of Eastern Sichuan, 1723-1864	Global Perspectives on Society Postdoctoral Fellow , New York University-Shanghai
Pao-chen Tang	The Animist Imagination of Cinema	Lecturer (equiv. Assistant Professor) in Chinese Cultural Studies, University of Manchester
Panpan Yang	Animating Space: Toward a Poetics of Chinese Animation	Humanities Teaching Fellow, University of Chicago

2018-19

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
William Carroll	The Depths of Flatness and the Voice of Silence: Suzuki Seijun and 1960s Japanese Film Theory Tom Gunning	One-year Visiting Assistant Professor in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Indiana Bloomington,
Naixi Feng	City on Edge: Inhabiting Literary Beijing on the Eve of the Manchu Conquest	Shuimu Scholar, Postdoctoral Fellow at School of Humanities, Tsinghua University
Aliz Horvath	The Dai Nihonshi Phenomenon: Confucianism, Collaboration, and Tradition in Early Modern Japanese History Writing (1657-1906) James Ketelaar
David Krolikoski	Lyrical Translation: The Creation of Modern Poetic Language in Korea	Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Nicholas Lambrecht	New Arrivals: Returnee Identity and the Memory of Repatriation in Japanese Literature	Assistant Professor of Global Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Letters, Osaka University
David Lebovitz	Historical Poetry, Poetical History, and the Roots of Commentary: Rui Liangfu and the Formation of Early Chinese Texts Edward Shaughnessy	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Jao Tsung-I Academy of Sinology, Hong Kong Baptist University,
Yuqian Yan	The Ancient as Enchantment: Cinematic Representation of the Past in Republican China Tom Gunning	Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and Performance Studies, Washington University, St. Louis
Boqun Zhou	Mechanical Heart: The Lever Analogy in Early Chinese Thought	Tsinghua-Michigan Fellow, Tsinghua University

2017-18

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Daniela Licandro	Doing Self-Criticism Like a Woman: Writing Life in Socialist China Paola Iovene	Lecturer, School of Foreign Languages at Shenzhen University, China,

2016-17

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Scott Aalgaard	‘Homesick Blues’: Crisis, Critique, and Collectivity in Modern Japanese Cultural Production Michael Bourdaghs	Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University,
Thomas Kelly	Clawed Skin: The Literary Inscription of Things in Sixteenth Century China Judith Zeitlin	Junior Fellow, University of Michigan Society of Fellows 2017-2019. Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Chinese Literature, Harvard University, starting 2019.,
Hyun Hee Park	Tears in the Imperial Screen: Wartime Colonial Korean Cinema 1934–1945 Kyeong-hee Choi	Lecturer, Smith College,
Anne Rebull	Reconstructing the Repertoire from the Stage, Screen, and Page: Xiqu Reform 1937-1959 Judith Zeitlin	Postdoctoral Fellow in the Study of China at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies at the University of Michigan,
Joshua Solomon	The Stink of the Earth: Reorienting Discourses of Tsugaru, Furusato, and Place Michael Bourdaghs	English Lecturer in the Center for Liberal Arts Development and Practices, Hirosaki University,

2015-16

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Katherine Alexander	Virtues Of The Vernacular: Moral Reconstruction In Late Qing Jiangnan And The Revitalization Of Baojuan Judith Zeitlin	Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of CO Boulder,
Anne Carlton Buxton	Garden Of Roses: Nisei Women As Collaborators In Transwar Japan James Ketelaar	Director of Market Development for EF Education First, Boston,
Wei-ti Chen	Cosmopolitan Medicine Nationalized: the Making of Japanese State-Empire and Overseas Physicians in a Global World Susan Burns	Instructor in East Asian History, History Dept, Northern Arizona University,
Richard Davis	There Must Be Better Movies than These: Japanese Musicals of the Fifteen Years’ War Michael Bourdaghs	English Language Instructor in their Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Tsinghua University, Beijing,
Ji Young Kim	Overcome by the Past: Collaboration and Literature of Decolonization in 1945 -1950 Korea Kyeong-hee Choi	Assistant Professor of Modern Korean Literature, Queens College, CUNY,
Junko Yamazaki	Jidaigeki's Postwar: Visions of the Present in Japanese Period Films Michael Bourdaghs and Tom Gunning	Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA,

2014-15

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Tadashi Ishikawa	"Families Remade, Empire Reconfigured: Discourse, Law, and Colonial Taiwan in Japan, 1870s-1937." Susan Burns	Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, University of Central Florida, Orlando,
Daniel Johnson	"Interstitial Dimensionalities: Anonymity and Asynchronicity in Contemporary Media Culture." Michael Bourdaghs	Adjunct Assistant Professor, New York University,
Hyun Suk Park	"The Government Courtesan: Status, Gender, and Performance in Late Chosŏn Korea" Kyeong-hee Choi and Judith Zeitlin	Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley,
Jeffrey Tharsen	Chinese Euphonics: Phonetic Patterns, Phonorhetoric and Literary Artistry in Early Chinese Narrative Texts Edward Shaughnessy	Computational Scientist for the Digital Humanities, University of Chicago Research Computing Center,
Chunchun Ting	Reclaiming the City as Home in Postcolonial Hong Kong: Art and Politics in the Contestation of Urban Space (1997-2014) Paola Iovene and Prasenjit Duara	Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological Universitty, Singapore,

2013-14

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Max Bohnenkamp	Turning Ghosts into People: The White-Haired Girl, Revolutionary Folklorism and the Politics of Aesthetics in Modern China Paola Iovene	College Fellow in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University ,
Ernest Caldwell	Writing Chinese Laws: The form and function of statutes in Qin legal culture Edward Shaughnessy	Senior Lecturer in Laws of China and Taiwan, SOAS, University of London ,
Tomoko Seto	Spectacular Socialism: Politics and Popular Performance in Shitamachi Tokyo, 1904–18 Susan Burns	Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Asian Studies Divison, Yonsei University ,
Peng Xu	Lost Sound: Singing, Theater, and Aesthetics in Late Ming China, 1547 -1644	Assistant Professor of Theatre | Chinese Theatre at the University of Hawaii at Manoa,

2012-13

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Nicholas Albertson	Beyond Shasei, Beyond Nature: Idealism and Allusion in the Poetry of Shimazaki Tōson, Doi Bansui, and Yosano Akiko. Michael Bourdaghs	Assistant Professor of Japanese, Wake Forest University,
Jonathan Glade	Occupied Liberation: Transforming Literary Boundaries in Japan and Southern Korea Norma Field	Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies and Global Studies, Michigan State University ,
Daniel Morgan	Knowing Heaven: Astronomy, the Calendar, and the Sagecraft of Science in Early Imperial China Donald Harper	Researcher, CNRS-Université Paris Diderot ,
Camelia Nakagawara	The Garden in the Eye of the Beholder: Key Scopic-Discursive Paradigms of 'Japanese Gardens' James Ketelaar	Independent Scholar,
Adam Schwartz	Huayuanzhuang East I: A Study And Annotated Translation Of The Oracle Bone Inscriptions Edward Shaughnessy	Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chinese, Hong Kong Baptist U., and Vice Director of the Jao Tsung-i Academy of Sinology, HKBU,
George T. Sipos	The Literature of Political Conversion (Tenkō) of Japan Norma Field	Senior International Officer and Executive Director of International Studies and Programs, and Research Associate Professor, Department of Language and Cultural Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis (starting March, 2019) ,
Yi Wang	Transforming the Frontier: Land, Commerce, and Colonization in Inner Mongolia, 1700-1911 Prasenjit Duara	Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, State University of New York at Binghamton ,
Smadar Winter	Motherhood in Early China Edward Shaughnessy	Adjunct, Tel Aviv University, Israel ,

2011-12

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Anup Grewal	A Revolutionary Women's Culture: Rewriting Femininity and Women's Experience in China, 1926-1949 Prasenjit Duara	Assistant Professor in Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto Scarborough, and the Tri-Campus Graduate Department of History, University of Toronto,
Jae Yon Lee	Magazines and the Collective Rise of Literary Writers in Korea, 1919-1927	Assistant Profesor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Korea ,
John Person	Philosophizing Japan: The Genri Nippon Society and the Question of ‘Japaneseness’ James Ketelaar	Assistant Profesor, SUNY-Albany,
Kathryn Tanaka	Through the Hospital Gates: Hansen’s Disease and Modern Japanese Literature Norma Field	Lecturer, Institute of International Education, Otemae University, Osaka, Japan ,

2010-11

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Mika Endo	Pedagogical Experiments with Working Class Children in Prewar Japan Norma Field	Assistant Professor of Japanese, Bard College ,
Ethan Harkness	Cosmology and the Quotidian: Day Books in Early China Donald Harper	Associate Professor at NYU,
Fumiko Joo	"The Peony Lantern" and Fantastic Tales in Late Imperial China and Tokugawa Japan: Local History, Religion and Gender Judith Zeitlin	Lecturer, East Asian Studies Program, Johns Hopkins University,
Yuhang Li	Gendered Materialization: An Investigation of Women's Artistic and Literary Reproductions of Guanyin in Late Imperial China Judith Zeitlin and Wu Hung	Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisonsin, Madison ,
Mamiko Suzuki	From 'Cosseted Daughters' to Public Actors: Kanbunmyaku and the Transformative Role of Nakajima Shoen's (1861-1901) Speeches, Fiction, and Diaries Norma Field	Assistant Professor, Languages and Literature, University of Utah,
Tie Xiao	In the Name of the Masses: Conceptualizations and Representations of the Crowd in Early Twentieth-Century China Paola Iovene and Prasenjit Duara	Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington,
Yijiang Zhong	Gods Without Names: The Genesis of Modern Shinto in Nineteenth Century Japan James Ketelaar and Prasenjit Duara, Co-Chairs	Project Associate Professor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo ,

2009-10

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Heekyoung Cho	Literary Translation and Appropriation: Korean Intellectuals’ Reception of Nineteenth-Century Russian Prose via Japan in 1909-1927 Kyeong-hee Choi	Assistant Professor, Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington ,
Kuan-yun Huang	Warring States &lquo;Echoes&rquo; of the Past Edward Shaughnessy	Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University ,
Justin Jesty	Arts of Engagement: Art and Social Movements in Japan's Early Postwar Michael Raine	Assistant Professor, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Washington ,
Hyun-Ho Joo	Between Culturalism and Nationalism: Late Qing China's Representation of Chosŏn Korea Prasenjit Duara	Associate Dean and Professor, East Asian International College, Yonsei University, Korea,
Suyoung Son	Writing for Print: Zhang Chao and Literati-Publishing in Seventeenth-Century China Judith Zeitlin	Assistant Professor, Cornell University ,

2008-09

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Hyun-Jeong Lee	Reimagining the Nation in Manchuria: The Representation of Peasant Collectivity in Chinese and Korean Discourses on the Wanbaoshan Incident (1931) Xiaobing Tang	Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Culture, University of Seoul, Korea,
Yoon Sun Yang	Nation in the Backyard: Yi Injik and the Rise of New Fiction (1906-1913) Kyeong-hee Choi	Assistant Professor of Korean & Comparative Literature, Boston University,

2006-07

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Paul Fischer	The Formation of the Shi Zi Edward Shaughnessy	Assistant Professor, Western Kentucky University ,
Garret Olberding	Towards Imperial Conviction: The Use of Evidence in the Military Memorials of the Early Han Donald Harper	Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma,
Samuel Perry	Aesthetics for Justice: Proletarian Literature in Japan and Colonial Korea Norma Field	Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University,

2005-06

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Krista Van Fleit Hang	People's Literature and the Construction of New China, 1949-1966 Xiaobing Tang	Associate Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cutlures, University of South Carolina,
Eric Warner Johnson	Modern Japan and the Cultural History of Inkyo Norma Field
Chika Kinoshita	Mise-en-Scene of Desire: the Films of Mizoguchi Kenji Norma Field	Associate Professor, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Japan ,
Ling Hon Lam	Emotional In-difference: Exploring Exteriority in Late Imperial Chinese Drama and Fiction Anthony Yu	Assistant Professor, Chinese Program, University of California, Berkeley ,

2004-05

Name	Dissertation Title / Committee	Job Placement
Weihong Bao	Baptism by Fire: Spectatorship and Aesthetic Affecct in Chinese Cinema from Shanghai to Chongqing Miriam Hansen	Associate Professor, Deparment of Film and Media + Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley ,
Chisato Hota	The Construction of the Korean Community in Osaka between 1920 and 1945: A Cross-Cultural Perspective Bruce Cumings and William Sibley	Visiting Assistant Professor, The School of Liberal Studies, Waseda University,
Miho Matsugo	The War in Kawabata Yasunari's Snow Country: Aesthetics of Empire, Politics of Literature, Struggle of Women Norma Field
David Michael Sena	Reproducing Society: Lineage and Kinship in Western Zhou China Edward Shaughnessy	Preceptor in Literary Chinese, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University ,
Hongbing Zhang	Global Passions: Travel, Space, and Cultural Transformations in Modern China, 1840s-1910s Xiaobing Tang	Associate Professor of Chinese Language and Culture, Fayetteville State University,