Meet The 2024 NATSA Team
Programming Team
Yung-Ying Chang
President
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Rutgers University -
Research Interests:
Sociology of culture, political sociology, collective behavior and social movements, and global and transnational sociology -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Shih-An Wang
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Chicago Law School -
Research Interests:
Law of democracy, comparative constitutional law, national security, national identity -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
I-Lin Liu
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Film and Media Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
Indiana University, Bloomington -
Research Interests:
Film history, art cinema, useful cinema, critical theory -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Chris Chih-Hua Tseng
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine -
Research Interests:
Comparative and International Political Economy, Social Policy, Contentious Politics, Urban Studies, Comparative and Historical Sociology -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Paul Cockrum
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Chinese Linguistics
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Current institutional affiliation:
The Ohio State University -
Research Interests:
Taiwanese Sociolinguistics, Dialectology, Language Policy, Identity Construction -
Pronouns: He/him/his
David Dah-Wei Yih
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Virginia School of Law -
Research Interests:
International law and national security -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Aaron Su
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Anthropology
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Current institutional affiliation:
Princeton University -
Research Interests:
Medical and environmental anthropology, STS, design, Indigenous studies -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Panchen Lo
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Anthropology
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Minnesota -
Research Interests:
Queer and trans studies, feminist anthropology, transnational feminism -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Ying-Yi Lin
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law
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Current institutional affiliation:
Stanford University -
Research Interests:
Legal history, family law, East Asia studies -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Pei-Chen Cheng
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation:
SUNY Albany -
Research Interests:
Gender, Politics, Children and Youth -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Chao-Kai Huang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Social Work
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Current institutional affiliation:
Arizona State University -
Research Interests:
Urban American Indian family, Indigenous health & well-being, Social determinants of health, Prevention Intervention -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Li-Ting Chang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Chinese Literature
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of California, Santa Barbara -
Research Interests:
Early modern Chinese literature, print media, and popular culture -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Yu-Han Huang
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Toronto -
Research Interests:
Urban history in Cold War-era Taiwan and South Korea; building material and Technology -
Pronouns: He/him/his
Pei-chun Viola Hsieh
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Art History
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Current institutional affiliation:
Binghamton University -
Research Interests:
Modern and contemporary art, media theories, sound studies, marxist feminism, and the history of cold war -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Communications Team
Ssu-Chieh Jessica Fan
Communications Director (CD)
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Field(s) of Study: Asian Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of Texas at Austin -
Research Interests:
Sinophone literature and film, translation and transculturation, comparative cultural studies -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
An-Ru Chu
Communications Commissioner (CC)
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Field(s) of Study: Drama
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Current institutional affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Research Interests:
Ghosts and performances, contemporary theatre, acting/experimental and avant garde -
Pronouns: She/her/hers
Local Team
Wei-Jie Liao
Local Director (LD)
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Field(s) of Study: Public Administration (Public Budgeting and Finance)
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Current institutional affiliation:
CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice -
Research Interests:
Citizen participation in public budgeting, fiscal health, capital budgeting, debt management, and public policy -
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