Meet The 2022 NATSA Team
Programming Team
Rita Jhang
President
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Field(s) of Study: Communications Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
Global Health Program, National Taiwan University -
Research Interests:
LGBTQ, family and interpersonal communication, health comm, feminism and gender studies, political comm -
Pronouns: She/她/他
Yen-Ting Hsu
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of California at San Diego -
Research Interests:
urban politics, participatory democracy, culture, public policies -
Pronouns: He/him/他
Yen-Yu Lin
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology + Political Science
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Virginia -
Research Interests:
race, gender, art, colonialism, memory -
Pronouns: She/她/他
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Yung-Ying Chang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University -
Research Interests:
consumption, nationalism, emotions, collective behavior, popular culture, media and politics -
Pronouns: She/她/他
Daniel Yo-Ling
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Anthropology + Gender Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica -
Research Interests:
ethics, race, gender, queer studies, (a)sexuality studies -
Pronouns: He/they/他
An-Ru Chu
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Performing Arts + Art Market Studies
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Research Interests:
Acting, Asian Art Market, Contemporary Art -
Pronouns: She/她/他
Yu-Chen Chuang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Planning + Anthropology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Geography and Planning, U of Toronto -
Research Interests:
settler colonialism, political ecology, vulnerability and resilience -
Pronouns: She/她/他
Mao-wei Lo
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
Stanford University School of Law -
Research Interests:
Public International Law, WTO Law, International Investment Law, Cross-Strait RelationsPronouns: He/him/他
Kang Yang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Political Science + Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University -
Research Interests:
overseas Taiwanese, student social movements, Chinese state ideology, nationalism, queer theories -
Pronouns: He/him/他
Yu-Jhen Chen
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology + Political Science + History
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Current institutional affiliation:
Sociology Program, Graduate Center, CUNY -
Research Interests:
political sociology, digital sociology, museum, contested memory, authoritarian legacy -
Pronouns: She/她/他
Wei-An Tsai
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
Harvard Law School -
Research Interests:
internet governance, communications law, constitutional law, democratic discourse, criminal law -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Wei-Jie Liao
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Public Administration (Public Budgeting and Finance)
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Current institutional affiliation:
School of Public Administration, the University of Nebraska at Omaha -
Research Interests:
Citizen participation in public budgeting, fiscal health, capital budgeting, debt management, and public policy -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Lilly Min-Chen Lee
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Security Study, Cyber Security
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Current institutional affiliation:
Law and Diplomacy, Fletcher School, Tufts University -
Research Interests:
Online information operation mechanisms, People's Liberation Army study, Surveillance technology exportation, and digital authoritarianism. -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Communications Team
Yi-Ting Chung
Communications Director (CD)
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of History, Stanford University -
Research Interests:
History of the Japanese Empire, immigration & minority studies, transnational colonialism -
Pronouns: She/她/他
Han-Yu Tsao
Communications Commissioner (CC)
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Field(s) of Study: Electrical Engineering
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Virginia
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Research Interests:
Microwave engineering, THz device development, On-wafer micromachining device development -
Pronouns: He/him/他
Mu-Tzu Wu
Communications Commissioner (CC)
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Field(s) of Study: Rhetorical Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Communication Studies, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Wake Forest University -
Research Interests:
feminist rhetoric, social justice, framing analysis, political advertising -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Local Team
June Lin
Local Director (LD)
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Field(s) of Study: Management of information system
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Current institutional affiliation:
North Asia Program Coordinator, IRI -
Research Interests:
Diaspora advocacy, closed society advocacy -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Min-San Hsieh
Local Director (LD)
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Field(s) of Study: Foreign Service
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Current institutional affiliation:
Georgetown University, MSFS -
Research Interests:
international organizations, security studies -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Administration Team
Yu-Li Wang
Secretary
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation:
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, UW–Madison -
Research Interests: Race, gender, decolonization, overseas Taiwanese, 2/28, nationalism, memory
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Pronouns: She/her/她/他