We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Era of Utopian Visions, published by the University of Washington Press. The book’s author is Chuck Wooldridge, an assistant professor of history at Lehman College, the City University of New York, and an associate research scholar at the … [Read more...]
WEAI Author Q&A: Federico Marcon’s “The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan”
We are pleased to announce a new title in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series: The Knowledge of Nature and the Nature of Knowledge in Early Modern Japan, published by the University of Chicago Press. The book’s author is Federico Marcon, an Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. In his book, Professor Marcon … [Read more...]
Nicola Contessi
Nicola Contessi (PhD Laval 2012) specializes in International Relations, multilateral institutions, and Security Studies, with a regional focus on Eurasia. He previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for International Peace and Security Studies at McGill University, where he co-chaired the inaugural Summer School on Diplomacy, Defence and International Security, … [Read more...]
Jamyung Choi
INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow Modern Japanese history; higher education; class Jamyung received his doctorate in history at the University of Pennsylvania in 2014. He works on higher education and the social construction of a middle class in Japan and its empire. His dissertation, titled "Cultivating Class: Tokyo Imperial University and the Rise of a Middle Class Society … [Read more...]
Shi-Yan Chao
2013 – 2014 International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Queer theory and media, Chinese-language film, horror cinema, film histories, international film auteurs, transnational martial arts film, melodrama, and documentary film Shi-Yan Chao received his PhD in Cinema Studies … [Read more...]
