Meet The 2027 NATSA Team
Programming Team
Paul Ueda 上田博恩
President
Field(s) of Study: Sociolinguistics, East Asian Languages and Literatures
Research Interests: Taigi, Language Rights, Artificial Intelligence, Orthography
Pronouns: he/him/his
Shao-Kai Yang 楊劭楷
Program Director (PD)
Field(s) of Study: Law
Current institutional affiliation: University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Free speech, technology law, legal theory
Pronouns: He/him/his
Yuan-Hsi Chao 趙元熙
Program Director (PD)
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
Sharlene Chen 陳思妤
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Law
Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
Pronouns: She/her/hers
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
Chun-Ching Tu 凃峻清
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Sociology
Current institutional affiliation: Rutgers University
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Hew Yeh 葉成杰
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Psychology
Current institutional affiliation: UC San Diego
Research Interests: Well-Being and Quantitative Methods in Psychology
Pronouns: He/him/his
Eric Chen 陳品宇
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Second Language Studies
Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
Pronouns: He/him/his
Delaney Holton
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Art History
Current institutional affiliation: Stanford University
Pronouns: They/Them
Heidi Tai 戴尹宣
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Music Studies | Ethnomusicology | Gender Studies
Current institutional affiliation: UC San Diego
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Jenna Tang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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
Shannon Pong 彭郁璇
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Comparative Literature and Asian Studies
Current institutional affiliation: Penn State
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Emerson Yuan-Jhen Lee 李沅臻
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Linguistic Anthropology
Current institutional affiliation: Brown University
Pronouns: He/Him/His
Darren Sheng-Hsuan Chuang 莊聖玄
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Musicology
Current institutional affiliation: U of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Pronouns: He/him/his
Ti-Tai Wang 王棣台
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: Sociology
Current institutional affiliation: Arizona State University
Pronouns: He/him/his
Julian Tash 田舒立
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: History
Current institutional affiliation: University of Pennslyvania
Pronouns: He/him/his
Ina Pei-Ru Yang 楊佩如
Program Commissioner (PC)
Field(s) of Study: History
Current institutional affiliation: National Chengchi University
Research Interests: Women’s history; Cold War-era Taiwan; White Terror; oral history
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Communications Team
Annie Wei 魏安妮
Communications Director (CD)
Field(s) of Study: Music Composition
Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Local Team
Jessica Fan 范思婕
Local Director
Field(s) of Study: Asian Studies - Film and Media Studies, Literature
Current institutional affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Rebecca Lee 李寧
Local Commissioner
Field(s) of Study: Asian Studies - Literature
Current institutional affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Esther Shen 沈小琪
Local Commissioner
Field(s) of Study: Asian Studies - Literature
Current institutional affiliation: The University of Texas at Austin
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Shoichi Ueda 上田勝一
Local Commissioner
Field(s) of Study: Japanese Pedagogy
Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
Pronouns: He/him/his
Administration Team
Yu-Li Wang
Secretary
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation:
Division of Continuing Studies, UW–Madison -
Pronouns: She/her/她/他