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Meet The 2024 NATSA Team

Programming Team

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Yung-Ying Chang

President

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Rutgers University

  • Research Interests:
    Sociology of culture, political sociology, collective behavior and social movements, and global and transnational sociology

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Personal Website

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Shih-An Wang

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of Chicago Law School

  • Research Interests:
    Law of democracy, comparative constitutional law, national security, national identity

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Personal Website

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I-Lin Liu

Program Director (PD)

  • 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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Chris Chih-Hua Tseng

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine

  • Research Interests:
    Comparative and International Political Economy, Social Policy, Contentious Politics, Urban Studies, Comparative and Historical Sociology

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

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Paul Cockrum

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Chinese Linguistics

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    The Ohio State University

  • Research Interests:
    Taiwanese Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Language Policy, Identity Construction

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Personal Website

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David Dah-Wei Yih

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of Virginia School of Law

  • Research Interests:
    International law and national security

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Personal Website

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Aaron Su

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Anthropology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Princeton University

  • Research Interests:
    Medical and environmental anthropology, STS, design, Indigenous studies

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Personal Website

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Panchen Lo

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Anthropology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of Minnesota

  • Research Interests:
    Queer and trans studies, feminist anthropology, transnational feminism

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers​

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Ying-Yi Lin

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Stanford University

  • Research Interests:
    Legal history, family law, East Asia studies

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Pei-Chen Cheng

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    SUNY Albany

  • Research Interests:
    Gender, Politics, Children and Youth

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Chao-Kai Huang

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Social Work

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Arizona State University

  • Research Interests:
    Urban American Indian family, Indigenous health & well-being, Social determinants of health, Prevention Intervention

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

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Li-Ting Chang

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Chinese Literature

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Research Interests:
    Early modern Chinese literature, print media, and popular culture

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Personal Website

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Yu-Han Huang

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: History

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    University of Toronto

  • Research Interests:
    Urban history in Cold War-era Taiwan and South Korea; building material and Technology

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

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Pei-chun Viola Hsieh

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Art History

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Binghamton University

  • Research Interests:
    Modern and contemporary art, media theories, sound studies, marxist feminism, and the history of cold war

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

Communications Team

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Ssu-Chieh Jessica Fan

Communications Director (CD)

  • 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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An-Ru Chu

Communications Commissioner (CC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Drama

  • Current institutional affiliation:​​

         University of California, Irvine​

  • Research Interests:
    Ghosts and performances, contemporary theatre, acting/experimental and avant garde

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers​

Local Team

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Wei-Jie Liao

Local Director (LD)

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

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice

  • Research Interests:
    Citizen participation in public budgeting, fiscal health, capital budgeting, debt management, and public policy

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Personal Website

Administration Team

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Yu-Li Wang 

Secretary

  • Field(s) of Study: History

  • Current institutional affiliation:
    Division of Continuing Studies, UW–Madison

  • Pronouns: She/her/她/他

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