Meet The 2022 NATSA Team

Programming Team

Rita Jhang

President

Field(s) of Study: Communications Studies
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
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Yen-Ting Hsu

Program Director (PD)

Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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
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Yen-Yu Lin

Program Director (PD)

Field(s) of Study: Sociology + Political Science
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)

Field(s) of Study: Sociology
Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University
Research Interests:
consumption, nationalism, emotions, collective behavior, popular culture, media and politics
Pronouns: She/她/他
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Daniel Yo-Ling

Program Commissioner (PC)

Field(s) of Study: Anthropology + Gender Studies
Current institutional affiliation:
Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
Research Interests:
ethics, race, gender, queer studies, (a)sexuality studies
Pronouns: He/they/他
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An-Ru Chu

Program Commissioner (PC)

Field(s) of Study: Performing Arts + Art Market Studies
Research Interests:
Acting, Asian Art Market, Contemporary Art
Pronouns: She/她/他

Yu-Chen Chuang

Program Commissioner (PC)

Field(s) of Study: Planning + Anthropology
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)

Field(s) of Study: Law
Current institutional affiliation:
Stanford University School of Law
Research Interests:
Public International Law, WTO Law, International Investment Law, Cross-Strait Relations

Pronouns: He/him/他

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Kang Yang

Program Commissioner (PC)

Field(s) of Study: Political Science + Sociology
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)

Field(s) of Study: Sociology + Political Science + History
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)

Field(s) of Study: Law
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)

Field(s) of Study: Public Administration (Public Budgeting and Finance)
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
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Lilly Min-Chen Lee

Program Commissioner (PC)

Field(s) of Study: Security Study, Cyber Security
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)

Field(s) of Study: History
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)

Field(s) of Study: Electrical Engineering
Current institutional affiliation: University of Virginia
Research Interests:
Microwave engineering, THz device development, On-wafer micromachining device development
Pronouns: He/him/他
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Mu-Tzu Wu

Communications Commissioner (CC)

Field(s) of Study: Rhetorical Studies
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)

Field(s) of Study: Management of information system
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)

Field(s) of Study: Foreign Service
Current institutional affiliation:
Georgetown University, MSFS
Research Interests:
international organizations, security studies
Pronouns: She/her/hers

Administration Team

Yu-Li Wang

Secretary

Field(s) of Study: History
Current institutional affiliation:
Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center, UW–Madison
Research Interests: Race, gender, decolonization, overseas Taiwanese, 2/28, nationalism, memory
Pronouns: She/her/她/他