Meet The 2025 NATSA Team
Programming Team
Yi-Ting Chung 鍾宜庭
President
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Field(s) of Study: History
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Current institutional affiliation: Stanford University
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Research Interests: History of the Japanese Empire; Transpacific Studies, Immigration and Diaspora; Minority Studies; Gender
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Ting-Sian Liu 劉庭先
Program Director (PD)
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Field(s) of Study: Gender Studies/ Anthropology
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Current institutional affiliation: London School of Economics and Political Science
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Research Interests: Indigenous studies; Queer theory, Anti-/decolonial movement-building; the Intersection of sexuality, race and gender
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Pronouns: She/they/他
An-Ru Chu 朱安如
Program Director (PD)
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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: East Asian Theatre, Performance Studies, migration in performance, spectrality and performance
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Yang-Hsun Hou 侯揚洵
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Education, Indigenous Studies
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Current institutional affiliation:University of Washington
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Research Interests: Anti-/decolonialism, social movements, affect, Indigenous mobilities
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Pronouns: They/them
Margaret Yun-Pu Tu (Nikal Kabala'an) 杜芸璞
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Law, Indigenous Studies
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Washington
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Research Interests: Indigenous self-determination, museum decolonization
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Mei-Huan Chen 陳美寰
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Geography / Urban Studies
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Current institutional affiliation: Penn State University
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Research Interests: Political ecology, STS, island studies, environmental governance, more-than-human geographies
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Pronouns: She/they
Shinyi Hsieh 謝新誼
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: History of Science and Medicine/Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation: National Taiwan University
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Research Interests: Postwar transpacific, critical global public health and ethics, U.S. in the world, intersectionality, (post)colonial feminist STM Indigenous studies
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Pronouns: She/they
Sam Robbins 羅翔鈞
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Sociology
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Current institutional affiliation: UCLA
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Research Interests: Welfare state, medical system, politics, immigration, Asian America, East Asia
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Pronouns: He/him
Paul Ueda 上田博恩
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Linguistics
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Current institutional affiliation: Ohio State University
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Research Interests: Taigi, Orthography, National Identity, Queer Language, Language Rights
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Pronouns: He/him
Geng-Hui Lin 林耕暉
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Social and Behavioral Health Sciences/ Public Health/ Nursing
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Toronto
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Research Interests: HIV prevention, sexual health, MSM/gay health, social network, knowledge diffusion
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Pronouns: He/him
Wendy Wan-ting Wang 王琬葶
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Literature, Film and Media, Indigenous Studies
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Current institutional affiliation: University of California, Berkeley
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Research Interests: East Asian Literature and Media Culture
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Alison Chen
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Philosophy, History
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, Asian American studies, Taiwanese history
Shu-An Tsai 蔡舒安
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Political Science
Current institutional affiliation: UT Austin -
Research Interests: Racial/ Ethnic politics. International Relations
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Pronouns: She/they
Formosa Deppman 戴文河
Program Commissioner (PC)
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Field(s) of Study: Comparative Literature
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Current institutional affiliation: UCLA
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Research Interests: Literary theory, satire, feminist theory, colonial multilingualism
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Communications Team
Hsuan-I Huang 黃宣萓
Communications Commissioner (CC)
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Field(s) of Study: Communication Arts
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Current institutional affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Research Interests: Rhetorical studies, feminist theory, presidential discourse
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Alison Chen
Fundraising Commissioner (FC)
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Field(s) of Study: Philosophy, History
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Research Interests: Philosophy of mind, history of philosophy, Asian American studies, Taiwanese history
Yo-Ling Chen 陳有靈
Workshop Facilitator
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Field(s) of Study: Gender Studies
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Research Interests: Transgender studies, asexuality studies, Taiwanese history
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Pronouns: They/them/他
Local Team
I-Shin Chen 陳以馨
Local Commissioner
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Yafan Lu 盧雅凡
Local Commissioner
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Pronouns: She/her/hers
Alice Wang 王齊悅
Local Commissioner
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Field(s) of Study: Econ & Policy
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Current institutional affiliation: UC Berkeley & Stanford University (exchange)
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Research Interests: Healthcare economic policy
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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:
Division of Continuing Studies, UW–Madison -
Pronouns: She/her/她/他
Special thanks to Panchen Lo and Yin Hsuan Tai (Heidi).