2015 – 2016 International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) Postdoctoral Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute Global history of East and Southeast Asia; internationalization and globalization Steffen Rimner received his historical training at the University of Konstanz and Yale University and holds a Ph.D. in International History … [Read more...]

  Ginger Nolan holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature, a master's degree in Architecture, and a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory. Her current work explores how design disciplines during the late 19th through 20th century instrumentalized conceptions of "savage thought" to gain access to the mind's putatively unconscious methods of semiotic production, a … [Read more...]

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...]

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...]

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...]