Meet The 2023 NATSA Team
Programming Team
Chee-Hann Wu
President
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Field(s) of Study: Drama & Theatre
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Drama, University of California, Irvine -
Research Interests:
puppetry, performance and activism, performance, ecology and technology, memory, Asian/American studies -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Yung-Ying Chang
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Rutgers University -
Research Interests:
group cultures, civic engagement, communication, nations and nationalism, global and transnational sociology -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Wei-Jie Liao
Program Director (PD)
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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, 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
Wei-An Tsai
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
Harvard Law School -
Research Interests:
Constitutional law, freedom of speech, communications law and policy, disinformaiton and internet governance -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Lilly Min-Chen Lee
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law and Diplomacy
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Current institutional affiliation:
Fletcher School, Tufts University -
Research Interests:
Computational propaganda, information operation, authoritarian diffusion and PRC influence. -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Shih-An Wang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Chicago Law School -
Research Interests:
Law of democracy, comparative constitutional law, authoritarian and democratic politics, legal history -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
I-Lin Liu
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Film and Media Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington -
Research Interests:
Film history, art cinema, useful cinema, critical theory -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Sam Robbins
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Taiwan Plus -
Research Interests:
Digital governance, digital social movements, disinformation, expertise -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Ssu-chieh Jessica Fan
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Asian Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin -
Research Interests:
Sinophone literature and film, translation and transculturation, comparative cultural studies -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Chris Chih-Hua Tseng
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine -
Research Interests:
International Political Economy, State Theory, Contentious Politics, Urban Studies, Comparative-historical Method -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Yi-Yang Cheng
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Linguistics
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara -
Research Interests:
Endangered language documentation and description; Language contact and language change; Formosan and Austronesian linguistics -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Susan Yang-Hsun Hou
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Learning Sciences & Human Development
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Washington -
Research Interests:
race, anti-racism, learning in social movements, emotion, affect theory -
Pronouns: They/them/their(s)
Cheng-Ting Wu
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: East Asian Studies & Chinese Literature
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Current institutional affiliation:
Regional Studies–East Asia, Harvard University -
Research Interests:
language reform, linguistic modernity, Sinophone studies, modern Chinese literature -
Pronouns: He/him/his
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:
Graduate Center, City University of New York -
Research Interests:
Political Sociology, cultural policy, museum, race/ethnicety, memory study, contentious politics -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Communications Team
Yu-Chen Chuang
Communications Director (CD)
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Field(s) of Study: Planning + Anthropology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto -
Research Interests:
environmental planning, climate adaptation, decolonization, political ecology -
Pronouns: She/they
Ting-Sian Liu
Communications Commissioner (CC)
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Field(s) of Study: Gender Studies & Anthropology
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Research Interests:
intersectionality, queer studies, decolonization, transformative justice -
Pronouns: She/they
Local Team
Ta-yang (Diane) Hsieh
Local Director (LD)
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Field(s) of Study: Developmental Psychology, Education
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Current institutional affiliation:
Search Institute -
Research Interests:
Positive youth development -
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