The NRC previously welcomed fellows for the East Asia Voices Initiative (EAVI). The EAVI Fellowship was intended to facilitate in-depth academic and public policy analysis on contemporary affairs of East Asia, and cultivate lasting scholarly impact in the form of academic and professional resources for students, teachers, and the general public. To view profiles of past EAVI fellows, please see their information below:
Mettursun Beydulla, United States
Email: bmettursun@gmail.com
Affiliation: East Asia National Resource Center at the Elliott School of International Affairs
Research Topics: Religion and Ethnicity: Identity and Community Formation in the Uyghur Muslim Community in the United States
Research Term: February 2022 – February 2023
Dr. Mettursun Beydulla specialises in Uyghur language, literature, culture, China’s policies in the “Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region”, Uyghur diasporas, and Turkish language and culture. He has presented at a variety of venues, and he authored a book, book chapters and numerous professional journal articles on a wide range of topics in English, Turkish, and Uyghur.
Dr. Beydulla is a native Uyghur. He received a BA in Chinese history from Shaanxi Normal University in Xi’an and an MA in Turkish history and a PhD in Social/Cultural Anthropology from Ankara University, Turkey. For his dissertation, he produced a foundational study of village life in Khotan, “Xinjiang”, which was later published in the Central Asian Survey. He researched and taught Uyghur at the American University in Cairo in 2006, and was a visiting scholar in Harvard in 2007 through the “Scholars at Risk” program. Between September 2008 – June 2013, he conducted research and taught Uyghur language, literature, and culture at Harvard and MIT. As an Assistant Professor, he taught at Fatih University, Istanbul from July 2013 to June 2016. While there, he started a Uyghur diaspora project. Since the fall of 2016, he has taught Uyghur and Turkish in the DC area. He was a 2020 EHLS scholar (National Security Education Follow) at Georgetown University.
Dr. Beydulla was one of the first scholars to conduct research on the Uyghur diaspora from within the Uyghur diaspora, beginning long before Uyghur migration became a “hot” topic. His recent a journal article and a book chapter on the Uyghur diaspora in Turkey and the United States were based on five years of fieldwork, including over 250 interviews in six cities. He brings a rich experience and thoughtful analysis to the Uyghur experience in the diaspora, especially in Turkey, Egypt, Europe, and the United States.
Recent Publications:
- “Struggles and Dilemmas of Uyghur Immigrants in Turkey”. In Understanding Ethnic, Religious and Cultural Minorities in Turkey, edited by Anja Zalta, Tahir Abbas, and Umut Azak. Poligrafi 26 (101/102):201-34. https://doi.org/10.35469/poligrafi.2021.279.
- “Experiences of Uyghur Migration to Turkey and the United States: Issues of Religion, Law, Society, Residence, and Citizenship.” In Migration and Islamic Ethics: Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship, edited by Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004417342_011
Silvia Menegazzi, Italy
Email: smenegazzi@luiss.it | smenegazzi@gwu.edu
Affiliation: Department of Political Science, Luiss Guido Carli University
Research Topic: China’s New Public Diplomacy: Analysis of the Role of Think Tanks and Media and Implications for the United States
Research Term: September 2021 – September 2023
Dr. Silvia Menegazzi is Adjunct Faculty at the Department of Political Science, Luiss Guido Carli University. Her research interest cuts across International Relations and Chinese Studies with a focus on Chinese foreign policy, non-governmental actors, think tanks and international organizations. She earned an MA in East Asian Studies at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and MSc in International Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a PhD in Political Theory from Luiss Guido Carli University. Dr. Menegazzi held research and teaching positions at Luiss Guido Carli, Roma Tre University, the China Foreign Affairs University, the University of Warwick. She speaks Chinese fluently and has spent long periods of time in China (Nankai University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Renmin University, East China Normal University). Dr. Menegazzi is the author of the book Rethinking Think Tanks in Contemporary China (Palgrave 2018) and co-author of the book New Regional Initiatives in China’s Foreign Policy. The Incoming Pluralism of Global Governance (Palgrave 2018 with Matteo Dian). She has also been published in a variety of publications including East Asia Forum and China Brief.
Recent Publications:
Ron Leonhardt, United States
Email: ronald.leonhardt@asurams.edu
Affiliation: Assistant Professor of History, Albany State University
Research Topic: Buddhism Confronts the Global Color Line: Cold War Cambodia and its Involvement in the Global Struggle for Racial Equality
Research Term: February 2022 – February 2023
Ron Leonhardt is an Assistant Professor of History at Albany State University and an East Asia Voices Initiative Fellow at The George Washington University. He is currently charting the lives, mobility, and politics of non-Khmer populations living in Cambodia in the post-independence decades of the 1950s and 1960s. His most recent work, “Cultivating Cotton in the Red Earth of Kampong Cham: Self-Sufficiency, Alternative Modernities, and Wartime Refugees in Cold War Cambodia, 1955-1970” was published in Asian Studies Review in 2022. As part of his research, Leonhardt also explores Cambodia’s involvement in international sports, ties to American anti-imperialists, and diplomacy with Eastern Europe during the early Cold War period.
Leonhardt received his A.A. degree from Rock Valley College in Rockford, IL and then received his B.A. in both Political Science and History from Northern Illinois University, with a focus on mainland Southeast Asia and Cold War politics. He then completed his M.A. (2016) and PhD (2020) at The George Washington University’s History Department. He has worked in the Social Sciences Department at Albany State University in Albany, Georgia since Fall 2020.
Huaying Bao, People’s Republic of China
Email: 20610570@qq.com
Affiliation: Beijing Foreign Studies University
Research Topic: What roles can Cultural Diplmoacy play on Sino-US relations under new circumstances: Ideas and Approaches
Research Term: January 2020 – August 2020
Dr. Huaying Bao is the Chief of the Division for International Exchange and Cooperation at Beijing Foreign Studies University, where she focuses on the research fields of comparative cultural studies, cultural diplomacy, and Sino-US relations. At the NRC, she will be studying cultural exchange strategies between China and the U.S. in order to improve Sino-U.S. Relations.
Dr. Bao will survey the existing cultural diplomacy of both countries since the establishment of their diplomatic relations in 1979, then propose strategies to resolve the challenges posed by ongoing trade disputes. In addition to faculty at GWU, she will be working with professors from American University to broaden the scope of her research.
Recent Publications
- The Coronavirus Epidemic: Challenge or Opportunity for US-China Relations? (The Diplomat, February 2020);
- China’s Daunting Post-Covid Challenges（The Diplomat, May,2020）
- Is Decoupling from China realistic? (CGTN, June, 2020)
- Why US-China decoupling failed (Global Times, December 2020)
Yu-Hua Chen, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Email: yu-hua.chen@anu.edu.au
Affiliation: Australian National University
Research Topic: Stuck in a Rivalry: What Should China’s Buffer States Do?
Research Term: November 2019 – January 2020
Yu-Hua Chen is a lecturer at the Australian National University (ANU). He is broadly interested in China’s security policy, international relations theory, and East Asia politics. His doctoral research investigates the role of buffer states in shaping China’s security policies towards North Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia. His doctoral research has been supported by grants from the Taiwan government, ANU, and Peking University.
Chen has been published in a variety of publications, including The National Interest, IPR Review, East Asia Forum, the Taiwan Insight, The China Policy Institute Blog, and Thinking-Taiwan.
Chiayi Chiu, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Email: eve59chiu@gmail.com
Affiliation: The Foundation for Excellent Journalism Award, Taiwan
Research Topic:What Can NCC Learn from the experiences of FCC: Dealing with Disinformation for Defending the Democracy of Taiwan.
Research Term: March 2020 – July 2021
Dr. Chiu is a Fulbright grantee, CEO of The Foundation for Excellent Journalism Award in Taiwan which awards prizes to outstanding Journalists yearly for improving outputs quality of news media, and also a board member of PTS (Public Television Service) of Taiwan, as well as a regular consultant for NCC (a counterpart of FCC in Taiwan), and Cultural Ministry.
Dr. Chiu had been a prizes-awarded journalist working for a main stream newspaper and weekly more than 10 years since 1990-2000. She joined media industry after granted master degree of sociology in Tung-Hai University with the thesis about public sphere discourses of Jürgen Habermas, before that, she graduated from history department of National Taiwan University. With cross-field trainings, she had done very well as a reporter and earned high reputation in journalism profession then invited to lead the Journalism awards foundation since 2004 till now. Her never- ending learning patient urged her to become a media-related researcher, and then, she got her PhD from Shih Hsin University with the dissertation about Taiwan’s media history after World War Two, soon after, become an adjunct assistant professor there.
She is a NGO worker, researcher and teacher, as a multi roles public intellectual, Dr. Chiu has published more than dozen formal research papers and has her voices often on op-ed pages of various main stream media in Taiwan making herself an active critic in public affairs particular on media and communication categories.
Recent Publications:
“Resolute Island in Turbulent Times: How Taiwan is Responding to the Novel Coronavirus Pandemic” (April 23, 2020)
Eun-Jung Jung, The Republic of Korea
Email: eunjung22@gwu.edu | cherrytomato0722@naver.com
Affiliation: East Asia National Resource Center
Research Topic: Gender and Media: How to use media to promote Gender Equality in East Asia, especially in Korea
Research Term: June 2019 – December 2019
Eun-Jung Jung received her B.A. in English Literature and Chinese Literature from Yonsei University in 2003. She worked as a speechwriter for the former President Myung-Bak Lee at the Cheong-Wa-Dae (Executive Office of the President of the South Korea) from October 2010 to May 2013. In addition, she worked as Deputy Director responsible for Public Relations, speechwriter for the Minister for press releases and conferences at the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family from June 2013 to January 2019. Before the government position, she worked as a journalist at Herald Corporation from December 2003. She has a strong interest in enhancing social sensitivity among the public to contribute to the reduction of social conflicts and violence.
Qingyun Li, People’s Republic of China
Email: lqy930@sass.org.cn
Affiliation: Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Research Topic: China in the Xi Jinping Era: implications on the international order, and the significance of the theory and practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics for China and its impact internationally
Research Term: September 2019 – March 2021
Qingyun Li is an Associate Research Professor of Chinese Politics at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Her Areas of Expertise are on the theory and practice of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, as well as the history of Chinese Communist Party. Her current research examines China in the Xi Jinping Era, implications on the international order, and the significance of the theory and practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics for China and its impact internationally. Dr. Qingyun Li was a visiting scholar at China Center, the University of Oxford, UK(2015-2016). She is also a nonresident scholar at the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, Elliott School of International Affairs, the George Washington University (2018-2021).
June Park, The Republic of Korea
Email: jpark12@gwu.edu
Affiliation: National Research Foundation of Korea
Guest Scholar, Data Governance & Digital Trade Hub, Elliott School
Research Topics: Trade Wars and Currency Conflict: China, South Korea and Japan’s Responses to U.S. Pressures since the Global Financial Crisis
Europe’s Challenges and Re-sponses: Between Faustian Bargains with China and U.S. Pressures since Brexit
Research Term: September 2020 – September 2022
Dr. June Park is a political economist working on trade, energy, and tech conflicts with a broader range of regional focuses not just on the U.S. and East Asia, but also Europe and the Middle East. She also conducts policy-oriented research on the two Koreas. She is currently an East Asia Voices Initiative (EAVI) Fellow of the East Asia National Resource Center at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, and a Next Generation Researcher at the National Research Foundation of Korea.
Her grand theme of research is why countries fight and how, using what. She studies why countries have different policy outcomes by analyzing governance structures – domestic institutions, leaderships, and bureaucracies that shape the policy formation process.
Giulio Pugliese, United Kingdom
Email: giulio.pugliese@kcl.ac.uk
Affiliation: King’s College London
Research Topic: Japan’s Security Activisim: Presidential Leadership, Strategy and Japan’s China Policy
Research Term: February 2020 – July 2020
Giulio Pugliese specialises in the politics, both domestic and international, of the Asia-Pacific with a focus on Japan, China and the United States. He has presented at a variety of venues, and published articles and contributing chapters concerning academic, policy-oriented and commercial themes in Italy, the U.S. and Japan. He co-authored a book, Sino-Japanese Power Politics: Might, Money and Minds (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017), also available in Korean through Myung-In Academic Publishers.
He earned a Laurea (B.A.) in Political Science and East Asian Studies at the University of Naples, “L’Orientale” (cum laude), an M.A. in International Economics and International Relations (concentrating on East Asian Studies) at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, graduating with Honors and passing the final exam with Distinction. He has completed his Ph.D. work at the University of Cambridge after extensive fieldwork in Tokyo, where Giulio was based at the National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) under the mentorship of Prof. Kitaoka Shinichi. Prior to his appointment at King’s College London he worked as an Assistant Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) at Heidelberg University’s Institute of Chinese Studies. A regular contributor to and member of the editorial board of Asia Maior, Italy’s leading academic publication on current Asian affairs. The recipient of a British Academy post-doctoral fellowship and has held visiting scholar positions at GRIPS, the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University SAIS and the University of Oxford’s School of Global and Area Studies.
Yao-Tsung SU (蘇瑤崇), Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Email: sytsung@gwu.edu
Affiliation: Providence University
Research Topic: US Policy towards Taiwan, 1941 to 1949
Research Term: June 2019 – August 2019
Yao-Tsung Su received his PhD in History from the University of Kyoto, Japan. In pursuit of acquiring knowledge in Chinese Buddhist history, he lived and studied for seven years in Kyoto. During this time, his areas of research focused mainly on the religious policy of the Tang dynasty and the interaction between China and Japan in Buddhism. Upon his return to Taiwan, he turned to study the postwar history of Taiwan. His postwar research topics focused on the history of the disposition policy towards Taiwan by the United States and China from 1941 to 1949 and the related issues regarding the 228 Incident. He is currently working on a project called Research on the Truth and the Transitional Justice of the 228 Incident by the Memorial Foundation of the 228 Incident. He also directs a project exhibition titled The 40th Anniversary of the Kaohsiung Incident by the Kaohsiung Museum.
Hung-Jen Wang, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Email: hjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Affiliation: National Cheng Kung University
Research Topic: Taiwan and the Changing Dynamics of Sino-US Relations
Research Term: August 2020 – August 2021
Hung-jen Wang is an Associate Professor of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. Hung-jen currently teaches courses such as “Methodology in Political Science,” “Asian Security,” “Chinese Foreign Policy,” “European governments and politics,” and “American government and politics”. He received PhD in International Politics from ERCCT/Political Science department at the University of Tübingen, Germany. His research interests focus mainly on Post-/Non-Western IR theory, Chinese foreign policy, and the cross-Taiwan Strait relations. Wang is the author of the book, The Rise of China and Chinese International Relations (IR) Scholarship (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), and co-author of China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (Routledge: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019). He also published the journal articles, including “Chinese IR Scholarship as a Relational Epistemology in the Study of China’s Rise”, in The China Quarterly (April 2020); “China’s Assertive Relational Strategies: Engagement, Boycotting, Reciprocation and Press,” in Issues & Studies (September 2018); and “Traditional Empire-Modern State Hybridity: Chinese Tianxia and Westphalian Anarchy”, in Global Constitutionalism, (July 2017) and so on. Hung-jen also has the chapters entitled ‘Subjective Knowledge Foundation of the Cross-Taiwan Straits International Peace Discourse,’ in Bart Dessein ed., Interpreting China as a Regional and Global Power (Palgrave 2014), and ‘How Chinese IR Scholars are Addressing Asia’s Current Power Transition,’ in David Walton and Emilian Kavalski eds., Power Transition in Asia (Routledge 2016). Hung-jen can be reached at hjwang@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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