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Rea Amit Rea Amit 2nd Rea Amit received a BA degree from Tel Aviv University, with a double major in Philosophy and Literature. He then received a Monbukagakusho... more
Michael Chan 5th Raised in North Carolina, Michael Chan earned a BA from Dartmouth and an MA from Columbia before entering the program in 2007. His primary interests... more
Cheow Thia Chan 2nd Born and raised in Singapore, Cheow Thia Chan graduated from Fudan University in 2001 with a major in contemporary Chinese literature and earned his... more
Ryan Cook Ryan Cook 6th Ryan Cook began his work at Yale in 2005 and is now pursuing interdisciplinary studies in the combined degree program between East Asian Languages... more
Josh Frydman Josh Frydman 5th After receiving his BA in East Asian Studies at Yale in 2006, Josh Frydman returned to his alma mater for graduate work in 2007. Drawn to ever... more
Cecile Lagesse Cecile Lagesse 5th Cécile Lagesse was born in Mauritius and raised in France, where she received a BA and MA in Chinese from the National Institute of Languages and... more
Ashton Lazarus 5th Ashton Lazarus received his BA from Tufts in 2005 and studied Japanese in Yokohama before entering the program in 2007.  His intellectual foray... more
Samuel Malissa 2nd Sam Malissa entered the program in 2010 after completing an MA in East Asian Studies at Yale. His research interests include the place of modern and... more
Arthur Mitchell Arthur Mitchell 7th Arthur Mitchell entered the PhD program in 2005. After earning a BA in literature from Yale with a senior thesis on the prosody of waka poetry, he... more
Jessica Moyer Jessica Moyer 4th Jessica Moyer grew up in Maine and graduated with a BA in Classics from Kenyon College.  She taught English in northwest China for two years... more
Stephen Poland 3rd Stephen Poland entered the Ph.D. program at Yale in 2009 after receiving his M.A. from the University of Washington, where his work on colonial... more
Casey Schoenberger Kevin (Casey) Schoenberger 6th Kevin (Casey) Schoenberger is a native of New Orleans.  A curiosity with sushi menus and Japanese anime was what led him to teach himself... more
Xiaofang (Flora) Shao 3rd Flora Shao received her BA in Linguistics and Literature before joining Yale in 2009. Her research interests lie in, but are not limited to, modern... more
Trong Shawn Ta 1st Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, to ethnically Chinese Cambodian immigrant parents, Shawn has always been interested in the criticism of... more
Ellen Tilton-Cantrell 6th Ellen Tilton-Cantrell spent time living in Japan as a child and studied English and Japanese at Carleton College.  She continued her studies of... more
Grace Ting Grace Ting 3rd Grace Ting joined the program in 2008 after receiving her BA from Wellesley College and spending two years in the Tokyo area, first studying... more
Takuya Tsunoda Takuya Tsunoda 4th Takuya Tsunoda joined the combined program in Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures in 2008. A native of Osaka, he earned a BA from... more
Edwin Van Bibber-Orr Edwin Van Bibber-Orr 7th Edwin Van Bibber-Orr grew up on organic dairy farms in Nova Scotia and Maine. After finishing a BA in Chinese at Middlebury College, he entered the... more
Rosa Vieira de Almeida 3rd Rosa Vieira de Almeida was born in Portugal, and grew up mostly in Macau, China. She received an MA and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and... more
Paul Vierthaler Paul Vierthaler 4th Paul Vierthaler entered the program in the fall of 2008 after completing his MA in East Asian studies at Yale. He graduated from the University of... more
Guojun Wang 3rd Guojun Wang grew up among the Yan mountains in northern China. After completing his BA and MA in Beijing Normal University, he joined the program in... more
Naoki Yamamoto 7th Before entering the program in 2005, Naoki Yamamoto received his BA and his MA from Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan. Intellectually drawn to... more
Qiangqiang Zhang 7th Qiangqiang Zhang was born and raised in China, received his BA from Qingdao University, and did several years of graduate work at Fudan University... more