East Asian Studies at IU
Spotlight
Michael O'Connor
MA student in Chinese
EASC FLAS recipient Michael O'Connor doesn't mess around when it comes to studying China. After receiving his BA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Michael studied at the Mandarin Training Center at National Taiwan Normal University where he was also a part of the department's boat team for the Dragon Boat Festival. He then moved to Xi'an in the People's Republic of China where he found himself working as an editor at Huawei. In his first year at IU, he used his FLAS Scholarship to study fifth-year Chinese and Literary Chinese and was also elected the department graduate student representative for the GPSO. This year he is serving as an area studies AI for the EALC department -- an experience he finds as rewarding as it is challenging. Michael is currently interested in studying Chinese nationalism, specifically in relation to how nationalistic Chinese intellectuals may view or construct concepts of race, history, and so-called "traditional" culture alongside China's economic rise and newfound confidence in global politics.
Graduate Students
We serve as a hub of a campus-wide network of graduate students studying East Asia. There are approximately 140 students pursuing advanced degrees with a concentration on China, Japan, or Korea in more than 20 Indiana University Bloomington departments and professional schools.
- Current Students, A - I
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Evan Bracken
M.A. Student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Japanese Language Pedagogy
Jingjing Cai
Ph.D. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Yung Yung Chang
M.A. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Chinese Language Pedagogy
Kexin Chen
M.A. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Chinese Language Pedagogy
Tzu-I Chiang
Ph.D. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests:
Rui Fan
PhD. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Early Chinese Thought
Michael Ginn
M.A. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Japanese Studies
Riulin He
M.A. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Chinese Studies
Jui-Hsin Hung
M.A. student, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Research Interests: Chinese Language Pedagogy
