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Meet The 2025 NATSA Team

Programming Team

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Yi-Ting Chung 鍾宜庭

President

  • Field(s) of Study: History

  • Current institutional affiliation: Stanford University

  • Research Interests: History of the Japanese Empire; Transpacific Studies, Immigration and Diaspora; Minority Studies; Gender

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Ting-Sian Liu 劉庭先

Program Director (PD)

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

  • Current institutional affiliation: London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Research Interests: Indigenous studies; Queer theory, Anti-/decolonial movement-building; the Intersection of sexuality, race and gender 

  • Pronouns: She/they/他

  • Website

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An-Ru Chu 朱安如

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Drama

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of California, Irvine

  • Research Interests: East Asian Theatre, Performance Studies, migration in performance, spectrality and performance

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Yang-Hsun Hou 侯揚洵

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Education, Indigenous Studies

  • Current institutional affiliation:University of Washington

  • Research Interests: Anti-/decolonialism, social movements, affect, Indigenous mobilities

  • Pronouns: They/them

  • Website

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Margaret Yun-Pu Tu (Nikal Kabala'an) 杜芸璞

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law, Indigenous Studies

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of Washington

  • Research Interests: Indigenous self-determination, museum decolonization

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Mei-Huan Chen 陳美寰

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Geography / Urban Studies

  • Current institutional affiliation: Penn State University

  • Research Interests: Political ecology, STS, island studies, environmental governance, more-than-human geographies

  • Pronouns: She/they

  • Website

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Shinyi Hsieh 謝新誼

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: History of Science and Medicine/Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation: National Taiwan University

  • Research Interests: Postwar transpacific, critical global public health and ethics, U.S. in the world, intersectionality, (post)colonial feminist STM Indigenous studies

  • Pronouns: She/they

  • Website

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Sam Robbins 羅翔鈞

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation: UCLA

  • Research Interests: Welfare state, medical system, politics, immigration, Asian America, East Asia 

  • Pronouns: He/him

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Paul Ueda 上田博恩

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Linguistics

  • Current institutional affiliation: Ohio State University

  • Research Interests: Taigi, Orthography, National Identity, Queer Language, Language Rights

  • Pronouns: He/him

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Geng-Hui Lin 林耕暉

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Social and Behavioral Health Sciences/ Public Health/ Nursing

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of Toronto

  • Research Interests: HIV prevention, sexual health, MSM/gay health, social network, knowledge diffusion

  • Pronouns: He/him

  • Website

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Wendy Wan-ting Wang 王琬葶

Program Commissioner (PC)

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

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of California, Berkeley

  • Research Interests: East Asian Literature and Media Culture

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Alison Chen

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Philosophy, History

  • Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, Asian American studies, Taiwanese history 

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Shu-An Tsai 蔡舒安

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Political Science
    Current institutional affiliation: UT Austin

  • Research Interests: Racial/ Ethnic politics. International Relations

  • Pronouns: She/they

  • Website

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Formosa Deppman 戴文河

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Comparative Literature

  • Current institutional affiliation: UCLA

  • Research Interests: Literary theory, satire, feminist theory, colonial multilingualism

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Communications Team

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Hsuan-I Huang 黃宣萓

Communications Commissioner (CC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Communication Arts

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Research Interests: Rhetorical studies, feminist theory, presidential discourse

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Leona Chen 陳文羿

Communications Director (CD)

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Alison Chen

Fundraising Commissioner (FC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Philosophy, History

  • Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, Asian American studies, Taiwanese history

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Yo-Ling Chen 陳有靈

Workshop Facilitator

  • Field(s) of Study: Gender Studies

  • Research Interests: Transgender studies, asexuality studies, Taiwanese history

  • Pronouns: They/them/他

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Local Team

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Kevin Tu 屠澤寬

Local Director

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I-Shin Chen 陳以馨

Local Commissioner

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Yafan Lu 盧雅凡

Local Commissioner

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Alice Wang 王齊悅

Local Commissioner

  • Field(s) of Study: Econ & Policy

  • Current institutional affiliation: UC Berkeley & Stanford University (exchange)​​

  • Research Interests: Healthcare economic policy

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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

Special thanks to Panchen Lo and Yin Hsuan Tai (Heidi).

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