Announcing the 2025-26 HYI Scholars and Fellows

VISITING SCHOLARS PROGRAM:
Faculty members in the humanities and social sciences at HYI partner institutions undertake 10 months of independent research at Harvard University.

Dhamanitayakul, Cheunsumon, Lecturer, Department of English, Chulalongkorn University, “From Page to Pixels: Reimagining Virginia Woolf’s Orlando as an Interactive Journey of Self-Exploration”

Ding, Yannan, Associate Professor, Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University, “Sea Charts in the History of Chinese Cartography”

Geri Jiebu, Associate Professor, School of Chinese Ethnic Minority Languages and Literatures, Minzu University of China, “Exploring Evidentiality and Ergativity in Tibetan Autobiographies”

Godart, Clinton Gerard, Professor, Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, ” Lotus of Steel: Buddhist Militarism in Modern Japan”

Im, Seo Hee, Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Hanyang University, “American Violence, World Literature”

Jeng, I-Kai, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, National Taiwan University, “Comedy and Philosophy: Rival Claims to Wisdom in Aristophanes and Plato”

Kakinuma, Yohei, Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University, “Monetary Thought in Chinese History: Observed via Questions and Answers on the Imperial Examination”

Lai, Yuen Shan, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, “Precarious Homemaking: The Intersection of Gender, Spatio-Material Culture and Housing Informality”

Le, Thi Thu Hang, Research Fellow, Vietnam Institute of Americas Studies, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, “A New World of Goods: The Making of Consumer Culture in South Vietnam, 1965-1975”

Lee, Zong-Rong, Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, “The Composition and Mobility Trajectory of Corporate Elite in Post-War Taiwan: A Kinship Approach”

Li, Wanlin, Associate Professor, Department of English, Peking University, “Transculturation through Adaptation: Towards an Interdisciplinary Model for Adaptation Studies”

Ma, Siyu, Associate Professor, Department of History, Nankai University, “Reconceptualizing the Nationalist Revolution: Emotional, International, and Digital Perspectives”

Ma, Xinrong, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Sun Yat-sen University, “Migration Control and Precariousness: Irregular Migrants From Southeast Asia To China”

Park, Hyun Gwi, Associate Professor, Humanitas College, Kyung Hee University, “Post-socialist Villages of the Other Koreans at the Crossroads of Kinship, Language and Ideology”

Satasut, Prakirati, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University, “Protecting the Sasana: On Buddhist Protectionism in Thailand”

Wang, Haiyan, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences (Department of Communication), University of Macau, “Going Public through Journalism: Professional Roles of Women Journalists in Late Qing and Republican China (1898-1949)”

Wang, Junqi, Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, “The Translation, Annotation, and Study of Dharmakīrti’s Pramāṇaviniścaya and the Construction of its Multilingual Parallel Corpus”

Wang, Kuan-Chi, Associate Research Fellow, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica, “Relocating Asian Food Regimes in the Global Era: Knowledgeable
Individuals, Agricultural R&D Programs, and the Long Twentieth Century”

Wang, Ruiheng, Associate Professor, Department of History, Nanjing University, “From Cultural Aid to Cultural Reciprocity: The U.S. Cultural Relations Program towards China and the Construction of a Transpacific Intellectual Network (1942-1947)”

Yuk, Joowon, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Kyungpook National University, “Exploring the Entanglement of Race and Religion in Korea”

BOSTON COLLEGE RICCI INSTITUTE – HYI JOINT VISITING RESEARCHER FELLOWSHIP
Faculty at Asia-based universities come for a six-month period of research, to be conducted at both institutions

Li, Lei, Associate Professor, School of Foreign Studies, Nankai University, “Missionaries and Their Ethnological Writings on South China (1860-1950)”

Ma, Nan, Postdoctoral Researcher, College of Liberal Arts, Jinan University, “Religious Syncretism and Acculturation in Asian Countries: The Mutual Influence of the Virgin Mary and Guanyin”

HYI TRAINING PROGRAMS:
HYI Training Programs bring together a small group of promising young Asian scholars in particular fields of the humanities and social sciences.

‘NEW FRONTIERS OF RESEARCH ON INSTITUTIONS OF CHINA’ TRAINING PROGRAM
This program was first held in January 2024 at the University of Hong Kong

Liu, Qing, Associate Professor, Public Administration, Sichuan University, “How Frontline Officials Intervene in Village Elections under “One-Shoulder Pole” Policy? Institutional Constraints and Embedded Autonomy”

Mikiya, Yuki, Adjunct Lecturer and Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, Graduate School of Law, Keio University, “Forward to the Past: Revival of Traditionalism in Communist China”

‘SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY (STS) IN ASIA: TACKLING SOCIO-TECHNICAL CHALLENGES FROM AN INTERDISCPLINARY PERSPECTIVE’ TRAINING PROGRAM
This program was first held in June 2024 at Tsinghua University

Gai, Yijun, Ph.D. Candidate, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, “Weaving a Green Prosperity Dream: Solar PV construction through state-society partnership in China”

Zhang, Jinjin, Ph.D. Candidate, Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, “Engineering Relationality: An Ethnographic Study of Digital Transformation for Community Sustainability in Contemporary Japan”

CHINESE STUDIES IN INDIA PROGRAM:
This joint doctoral fellowship program with the Institute for Chinese Studies in Delhi aims to encourage Chinese studies in India.

Gupta, Raj, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Sharma, Nishant, Jindal Global University

In residence at HYI partner universities in China for the 2025-26 academic year: 

Chaturvedi, Gargi, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Hitkari, Cherry, University of Delhi

Sharma, Namita, Shiv Nadar University

INDIAN STUDIES IN CHINA PROGRAM:
This program seeks to foster a cross-national network of scholars by bringing to HYI students of Indian Studies in China.

Xie, Chao, Associate Professor, Institute of International Studies, Fudan University, “How Nationalism Influences State Behavior: Hindu Nationalism and Its Evolving Influences on India’s
Domestic and Foreign Policies”

ASSOCIATE PROGRAM:
This program allows past HYI affiliates to return to Harvard, with their own funding, to conduct new or additional research in their respective fields.

Deng, Fei, Professor of Chinese Art History, National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, “Modular Design: Artistic Practices and Tomb Making in Song, Jin and Yuan China (960–1368)”

Ye, Jing, Professor, School of International Relations, University of International Business and Economics

REGIONAL STUDIES – EAST ASIA FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM:
This fellowship covers the two-year master’s degree in Harvard’s RSEA program.

Chen, Yutao

Liu, Mingxuan

Song, Meitong

COORDINATE RESEARCH SCHOLAR PROGRAM:
This program provides Harvard faculty with a chance to invite faculty members to join them in collaborative research projects in established Asian Studies.  

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HARVARD-YENCHING LIBRARY GRANT:
This grant allows scholars who have identified a specific collection of Asian-language materials uniquely available in the Harvard-Yenching Library to apply for 3-6 months of research support to use these materials.

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