Resident Scholars

Beata BOCHORODYCZ, Poland

Affiliation: Professor, Adam Michkiewicz University

Research Topic: Base Politics and the Okinawa Issue in the U.S.-Japan Alliance After the Cold War

Research Term: February – March 2025

Maggie CHANG, Taiwan

Affiliation: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Taiwan

Research Topic: The Strategic Effects of China’s Overseas Lending Under the U.S.-China Trade Conflict: Implications for Southeast Asia and Taiwan’s Regional Policy

Research Term: November 2025 – December 2025

Patrick HALLZON, Sweden

Affiliation: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Uppsala University

Research Topic: Oasis Life in Eastern Turkestan: The Matrix of Culture, Language, and Landscape in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Research Term: October 2025 – December 2025

Ji Young KWON, South Korea

Affiliation: Ph.D. Candidate, American University

Research Topic: Gossiping Hegemony: The Chinese Linguistic Making of the U.S. Hegemonic Order in East Asia

Research Term: May 2025 – October 2025

Shannon Mei-Hui SHIAU, Taiwan

Affiliation: Deputy-Director General, Department of Information Services, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Research Topic: Navigating Technological Rivalry: Assessing China’s Pursuit of Self-Sufficiency, Global Interdependencies, and Taiwan’s Role

Research Term: March – April 2025

Paro TOMAR, India

Affiliation: Ph.D. Candidate, Shiv Nadar Institute of Eminence

Research Topic:Re-imagining the Desert: A Study of Mobility, Ecology, and Space Making in the Thar Desert c. Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries CE

Research Term: October 2025 – December 2025

Hugh Jung-Hsiu WU, Taiwan

Affiliation: Third Secretary, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Palau

Research Topic: Strengthening the Global Partnership Between Taiwan and the United States in the Indo-Pacific

Research Term: April – May 2025