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Meet The 2023 NATSA Team

Programming Team

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Chee-Hann Wu

President

  • Field(s) of Study: Drama & Theatre

  • 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

  • Personal Website

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Yung-Ying Chang

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Rutgers University

  • Research Interests:
    group cultures, civic engagement, communication, nations and nationalism, global and transnational sociology

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Personal Website

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Wei-Jie Liao

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Public Administration (Public Budgeting and Finance)

  • 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

  • Personal Website

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Wei-An Tsai

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law

  • 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

  • Personal Website

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Lilly Min-Chen Lee

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law and Diplomacy

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Fletcher School, Tufts University

  • Research Interests:
    Computational propaganda, information operation, authoritarian diffusion and PRC influence.

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers
     

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Shih-An Wang

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law

  • 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

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I-Lin Liu

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Film and Media Studies

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Indiana University, Bloomington

  • Research Interests:
    Film history, art cinema, useful cinema, critical theory

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

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Sam Robbins

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Taiwan Plus

  • Research Interests:
    Digital governance, digital social movements, disinformation, expertise

  • Pronouns: He/him/his​

  • Personal Website

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Ssu-chieh Jessica Fan

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Asian Studies

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of Texas at Austin

  • Research Interests:
    Sinophone literature and film, translation and transculturation, comparative cultural studies

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Chris Chih-Hua Tseng

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • 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

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Yi-Yang Cheng

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Linguistics

  • 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

  • Personal Website

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Susan Yang-Hsun Hou

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Learning Sciences & Human Development

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of Washington

  • Research Interests:
    race, anti-racism, learning in social movements, emotion, affect theory

  • Pronouns: They/them/their(s)

  • Personal Website

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Cheng-Ting Wu

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: East Asian Studies & Chinese Literature

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Regional Studies–East Asia, Harvard University

  • Research Interests:
    language reform, linguistic modernity, Sinophone studies, modern Chinese literature

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

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Yu-Jhen Chen

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology, Political Science, History

  • 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

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Yu-Chen Chuang

Communications Director (CD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Planning + Anthropology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto

  • Research Interests:
    environmental planning, climate adaptation, decolonization, political ecology

  • Pronouns: She/they

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Ting-Sian Liu

Communications Commissioner (CC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Gender Studies & Anthropology

  • Research Interests:
    intersectionality, queer studies, decolonization, transformative justice 

  • Pronouns: She/they​

Local Team

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Ta-yang (Diane) Hsieh

Local Director (LD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Developmental Psychology, Education

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Search Institute

  • Research Interests:
    Positive youth development

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

  • Personal Website

Administration Team

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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

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