Meet The 2026 NATSA Team
Programming Team

I-lin Liu
President
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Field(s) of Study: Film and media studies
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Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University, Bloomington
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Research Interests: Non-theatrical film, film history, archival resaerch
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Pronouns: he/him/his

Yu-Chen Chuang 莊淯琛
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Geography
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Current institutional affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
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Research Interests: critical Indigenous studies, science & technology studies, political ecology, climate governance
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Pronouns: She/they/他

Li-Ting Chang 張立亭
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Literature
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Current institutional affiliation: UC Santa Barbara
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Research Interests: Late imperial and early Republican Chinese Literature, Sinophone studies, affect theory
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Yu-Han Huang 黃昱翰
Program Direcotr (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Toronto
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Research Interests: Modern East Asia, History of Technology, Urban History, Cold War, Colonialism
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Pronouns: He/him/his

Shih-Hao Lin 林士豪
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation: Virginia Tech
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Research Interests: Social Stratification, Comparative Political Economy, Social Demography
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Pronouns: He/him/his

Pin-Hsuan Tseng 曾品璇
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Visual Art Education(minors in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies and Curriculum & Instruction)
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Current institutional affiliation: The Pennsylvania State University
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Research Interests: East Asia immigrant women, transnational feminism, tent art praxis, K-12 curriculum
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Yuan-Hsi Chao 趙元熙
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Art History
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Kansas
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Research Interests: Qing court art, Edo Japan painting and prints, Japanese religious heritage in Taiwan
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Pronouns: He/Him/His

Shu-Hao Chang 張書豪
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation: City University of New York
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Research Interests: International migration, Work, Asian and Asian American
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Pronouns: He/him/his

Catherine Tsai 蔡承穎
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation: Yale University
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Research Interests: Japanese Empire, American Occupation, Agrarian Development, Migration
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Yueh-Cheng Tien 田悅承
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation: Texas A&M University
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Research Interests: organizational sociology, institional theory, innovation, entrepreneurship, semiconductor inductory
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Pronouns: He/him/his

Shao-Kai Yang 楊劭楷
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation: Minnesota University
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Research Interests: Free speech, technology law, legal theory
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Pronouns: He/him/his

Shu-Jung Yang 楊書容
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Geography
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Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University
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Research Interests: Transportation, democracy, postwar political economy in Taiwan
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Pronouns: she/her/hers

Jo-Tzu Huang 黃若慈
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Geography
Current institutional affiliation: University of Toronto -
Research Interests: environment, political ecology, STS, multispecies ethnography, urban studies
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Pronouns: She/they/他

Sherry Chien 簡慧宇
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Linguistics
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Current institutional affiliation: UC Santa Barbara
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Research Interests: Lphonetics, speech production and perception, second language acquisition
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Quentin Tan
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Asian Languages and Cultures
Current institutional affiliation: UCLA -
Research Interests: dialect, philosophy of language, critical theory, orality, mediality
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Pronouns: He/Him/His

Mark Hsiang-Yu Feng 馮祥瑀
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Ethnomusicology
Current institutional affiliation: UC Davis -
Research Interests: Popular music, critical race theory, globalization
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Pronouns: He/him
Communications Team

Heidi Yin-Hsuan Tai 戴尹宣
Communications Director (CD)
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Field(s) of Study: Integrative Studies, Music (Ethnomusicology); Critical Gender Studies
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Current institutional affiliation: UC San Diego
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Research Interests: Popular music, gender studies, performance studies, affect studies
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

Jean Tzeng 曾敬純
Communications Commissioner (CC)
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Field(s) of Study: Architecture
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Research Interests: participatory design, community design, design of children's space
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Local Team

Paul Ueda 上田博恩
Local Director
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Field(s) of Study: East Asian Langs and Literature -Sociolinguistics
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Current institutional affiliation: Ohio State University
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Research Interests: Taigi, Language Ideologies, Linguistic Justice, Social Meaning
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Pronouns: He/him/他

Pei-Shan Hsieh 謝佩珊(西瓜)
Local Commissioner
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Field(s) of Study: Instructional design and education technology
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Kansas
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Research Interests: Women and Cycling
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Pronouns: she/her/hers

Carol Chih-Ju Lin 林芝如
Local Commissioner
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Field(s) of Study: Cinema and Media Studies
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Current institutional affiliation: Indiana University Bloomington
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Research Interests: Chinese-language cinemas, film festivals, media infrastructures
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Administration Team

Yu-Li Wang
Secretary
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation:
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Pronouns: She/her/她/他

