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Ph.D. Affiliates

Elijah Ash
Anthropology

Cultural/Performing Arts Ethnography
ebash@umich.edu

Christopher Blackmore
History
Global History of China, Sino-German Relations, Film 
franklch@umich.edu

Kelsi Caywood
Sociology
Gender, Immigration, Work-Family
kcaywood@umich.edu

David Chan
Asian Languages and Cultures
Chinese View of Buddhist Soteriology in the Early Medieval Period
dthchan@umich.edu

Tyler Rongxuan Chen
Political Science
Party and Electoral Politics; Applied Statistics
tylercr@umich.edu

Justin Chun-Yin Cheng
History
Transimperial, Intercolonial Relationships Between Hong Kong and Taiwan
justincy@umich.edu

Jun Fang
Political Science
Political Economy of China
junfang@umich.edu

Benjamín A. Figueroa Lackington
Comparative Literature
Comparative Philosophy of Zhu Xi and Avicenna
bfiglack@umich.edu

Wenliang Han
Anthropology
Language and Aging in Contemporary China
hanwl@umich.edu

Raymond Hsu
Asian Languages and Cultures/Anthropology
Chinese Popular Religion, Indigenous Decolonialism, Material Culture
rdhsu@umich.edu

Yee Ting Leong
History
Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia
yeetingl@umich.edu

Chengpeng Li 
Asian Languages and Cultures; Anthropology
Buddhist Studies, Ritual Texts, China-Southeast Asia Borderlands
cpengli@umich.edu

Yueling Li
History of Art
Islamic Architecture & Material Culture of Ming Qing
Yuelingl@umich.edu

Danchen Liu
Communication and Media
State-Tech-Entrepreneur Relationship
danchenl@umich.edu

Haorui Peng
Sociology
Intergenerational Mobility in Post-1978 China
haoruiii@umich.edu

Sylvan Perlmutter
History
Soviet Central Asia, Youth and Generation
sylvanp@umich.edu

Yixin (Star) Song
History of Art
Landscape Paintings
yixins@umich.edu

Junchao Tang
Sociology, Scientific Computing
Economic Inequality & Social Mobility in China
junchaot@umich.edu

Starry Yuhan Wang
Ethnomusicology
Chinese Music History and Culture, Ethnographic Documentary
starryw@umich.edu

Jie Wei
Anthropology
Aging, Memory, Gender, and the Body
jiewei@umich.edu

Cameron L. White
Asian Languages and Cultures
Film Studies, Translation Studies
clangw@umich.edu

Siwen Xiao
Political Science & Public Policy
STS; Science Education and Communication; Science Museums; Authoritarian Politics
siwen@umich.edu

Wanhan Xing
History
Premodern, Material Culture, Sensorial History
xingwx@umich.edu

Luke Xu
Political Science
Chinese Bureaucratic Structure
xiaolix@umich.edu

Elif Yildirim
Asian Languages and Cultures
Early Chinese Thought and Literature
elifyil@umich.edu

Anna Yue Yu
Environment and Sustainability
Social–Ecological Dynamics at Sanjiangyuan
yuay@umich.edu

Qingyi Zeng
Comparative Literature
Environmental Humanities, STS, Literature and Media
zengqy@umich.edu

Nian Zhan
Political Science
Political Economy of Development and Comparative Judicial Politics
nianzhan@umich.edu

Jian Zhang
History
Empire, Knowledge, and the Environment in Middle-Period China
leojianz@umich.edu

Zhen Zhang
Political Science
Comparative Political Economy in Public Goods Provision
umzhen@umich.edu

Yipeng Zhou
History
Transnational Mining Across Eurasia
yipengzh@umich.edu

Jun Zhou
Sociology
Gender, Labor, Political Economy, Science and Technology
zhouxjun@umich.edu