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Meet The 2026 NATSA Team

Programming Team

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I-lin Liu 劉以霖

President

  • Field(s) of Study: Film and media studies

  • Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington

  • Research Interests: Non-theatrical film, film history, archival resaerch

  • Pronouns: he/him/his

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Yu-Chen Chuang 莊淯琛

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Geography

  • Current institutional affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University

  • Research Interests: critical Indigenous studies, science & technology studies, political ecology, climate governance

  • Pronouns: She/they/他

  • Website

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Li-Ting Chang 張立亭

Program Director (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Literature

  • Current institutional affiliation: UC Santa Barbara 

  • Research Interests: Late imperial and early Republican Chinese Literature, Sinophone studies, affect theory 

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Yu-Han Huang 黃昱翰

Program Direcotr (PD)

  • Field(s) of Study: History

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of Toronto

  • Research Interests: Modern East Asia, History of Technology, Urban History, Cold War, Colonialism

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

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Shih-Hao Lin 林士豪

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation: Virginia Tech

  • Research Interests: Social Stratification, Comparative Political Economy, Social Demography

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Website

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Yuan-Hsi Chao 趙元熙

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Art History

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of Kansas

  • Research Interests: Qing court art, Edo Japan painting and prints, Japanese religious heritage in Taiwan

  • Pronouns: He/Him/His

  • Website

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Shu-Hao Chang 張書豪

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation: City University of New York

  • Research Interests: International migration,  Work, Asian and Asian American

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Website

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Catherine Tsai 蔡承穎

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: History

  • Current institutional affiliation: Yale University

  • Research Interests: Japanese Empire, American Occupation, Agrarian Development, Migration

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Yueh-Cheng Tien 田悅承

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Sociology

  • Current institutional affiliation: Texas A&M University

  • Research Interests: organizational sociology, institional theory, innovation,  entrepreneurship, semiconductor inductory

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Website

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Shao-Kai Yang 楊劭楷

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Law

  • Current institutional affiliation: Minnesota University

  • Research Interests: Free speech, technology law, legal theory

  • Pronouns: He/him/his

  • Website

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Shu-Jung Yang 楊書容

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Geography

  • Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University

  • Research Interests: Transportation, democracy, postwar political economy in Taiwan

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

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Jo-Tzu Huang 黃若慈

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Geography
    Current institutional affiliation: University of Toronto

  • Research Interests: environment, political ecology, STS, multispecies ethnography, urban studies

  • Pronouns: She/they/他

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Sherry Chien 簡慧宇

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Linguistics

  • Current institutional affiliation: UC Santa Barbara 

  • Research Interests: Phonetics, speech production and perception, second language acquisition

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

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Quentin Tan

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Asian Languages and Cultures
    Current institutional affiliation: UCLA

  • Research Interests: dialect, philosophy of language, critical theory, orality, mediality

  • Pronouns: He/Him/His

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Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng 馮祥瑀

Program Commissioner (PC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Ethnomusicology
    Current institutional affiliation: UC Davis

  • Research Interests: Popular music, critical race theory, globalization

  • Pronouns: He/him

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Communications Team

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Heidi Yin-Hsuan Tai 戴尹宣

Communications Director (CD)

  • Field(s) of Study: Integrative Studies, Music   (Ethnomusicology); Critical Gender Studies

  • Current institutional affiliation: UC San Diego

  • Research Interests: Popular music, gender studies, performance studies, affect studies

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

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Jean Tzeng 曾敬純

Communications Commissioner (CC)

  • Field(s) of Study: Architecture

  • Research Interests: participatory design, community design, design of children's space

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • Website

Local Team

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Paul Ueda 上田博恩

Local Director

  • Field(s) of Study: East Asian Langs and Literature -Sociolinguistics 

  • Current institutional affiliation: Ohio State University

  • Research Interests: Taigi, Language Ideologies, Linguistic Justice, Social Meaning

  • Pronouns: He/him/他

  • Website

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Pei-Shan Hsieh 謝佩珊(西瓜)

Local Commissioner

  • Field(s) of Study: Instructional design and education technology 

  • Current institutional affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison

  • Research Interests: Women and Cycling

  • Pronouns: she/her/hers

  • Website

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Carol Chih-Ju Lin 林芝如

Local Commissioner

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

  • Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington​​

  • Research Interests: Chinese-language cinemas, film festivals, media infrastructures

  • Pronouns: She/her/hers

  • 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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