Alumni/Alumnae
Anastasiya Bayok
Postdoctoral Researcher University of Gießen
GEAS Einstein Postdoc 2017-2020, now University of Gießen
You Kyung Byun
Research Assistant Professor, Chung An University
100,000 Won Friends: Calculating Gifts and Debts Among Dear Friends in South Korean Institutional Network (Comittee: B. Röttger-Rössler, E. Lee, Jesook Song)
Lu Chen
Catch Welfare Platform Operations Manager, Alumna March 2022 (DAAD)
The Moving Temples: A Study of Fishermen’s Religious Associations in the East Lake Tai Basin (Committee: Hansjörg Dilger, Philip Clart, Claudia Liebelt, Thomas Stodulka, Marco Freire)
Ran Cheng
Head of International Business Development Media Consulta Intl Holding
Bringing the Firm Back to the Minimum Wage Study: Wage Effect of Minimum Wage in China from an Institutional and Organisational Perspective (Committee: Gregory Jackson, Elena Meyer-Clement, Jörg Sydow, Barbara Fritz)
Steve R. Entrich
Postdoctoral research fellow, Professorship for Intergenerational Relations, Educational Research and Youth Studies, University of Innsbruck (AT)
GEAS PostDoc 2018-2019
steve.entrich[at]uibk.ac.at
Julia Gerster-Damerow
Assistant Professor IRIDES Tohoku University
Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan. Impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Radiation. (Thesis Commitee: Verena Blechinger-Talcott, Birgitt Röttger-Rössler, Urs Matthias Zachmann)
Jihye Han
GEAS Award Postdoc 2017-18
The institutionalization of the Korean higher education system with regard to lifelong learning and the support system for working adults in Korea (Committee: E.J. Lee, Andrä Wolter, H. Mosler)
Oul Han
2bytescorp, Team Lead
Measuring Frames: Discursive Institutions in Polarized Politics (Committee: Eun-Jeung Lee, Sabine Kropp, Hannes B. Mosler)
Ulv Hanssen
Soka University Associate Professor
Japan's Temporal Others: How the Past Has Shaped Japanese Postwar Security Policy (Thesis Committee: V. Blechinger-Talcott, T. Risse, L. Hagström)
Ji Young Heo
Research Professor, Inha Center for International Studies, Inha University
Contentious Narratives on National Identity of South Korea: How to Understand the Self and the Significant Others, North Korea and the United States (Committee: Eun-Jeung Lee, Günther Maihold, Gülay Caglar, Hee-Seok Park)
Madeleine Heuer
Holistic Transformational Coach & Yoga Teacher
South Korean Identities, Ideologies and the Framing of North Korean Defectors in the South Korean media
Hyuk Jung
Public Relations Department of Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Human Rights in Contention: The Discursive Politics of North Korean Human Rights
Chi Ho Kiang
Alumnus June 2024 (DAAD)
The Taste of Occupation: Food, War, and Society in Occupied North China, 1937-1945 (Committee: U.M. Zachmann, Kawashima Shin (Tokyo), Cornelia Reiher, Ines Eben von Racknitz, Anna Belogurova)
Hak-Jae Kim
Assistant Professor, Institute for Peace and Unification Studies, Seoul National University
Historical Sociology (GEAS Postdoc 2013-16)
Jieun Kim
Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Leeds
GEAS Postdoc 2015-2017
J.E.Kim[at]leeds.ac.uk
Olteun Kim
Teacher and Educator
The Policy Decision Process beyond Anti-LGBT Politics in South Korea (Committee: Eun-Jeung Lee, Gülay Caglar, Sabine Kropp, Hee-seok Park, Daniela Claus-Kim)
Paul Joscha Kohlenberg
Heinrich Böll Stiftung Referat Asien
Institutional Logics in an Authoritarian State. Why The Chinese Communist Party’s Command Mechanisms Have Remained Unaffected by Legal Reforms (Committee: T. Risse, K. Levy, E. Sandschneider)
Paul.Kohlenberg[at]BOELL.DE
Florentine Koppenborg
Postdoctoral Fellow, TUm School of Governance, TU Munich
Reforming nuclear safety administration in Japan after the Fukushima nuclear accident: A critical juncture in regulatory practices (Committee: M. Schreurs, V. Blechinger-Talcott, G.W. Noble)
florentine.koppenborg[at]hfp.tum.de
Angela Leggett
Educator
Chinese NGO monitoring of corporate environmental responsibility and firms' responses: Exploring convergent and divergent behaviours in emerging institutional terrain (Committee: G. Jackson, B. Gransow, J.Sydow)
Jingyi Li
Alumna June 2024
Aging Bodies in the Return Dilemma: Korean Chinese Labor Migration (Committee: Thomas Stodulka, Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, Hansjörg Dilger, Claudia Liebelt, Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves)
lijingyi0116[at]126.com
Eva Liias
Program Director MA Contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Tartu
Japanese responses to internationalization of higher education: actors at universities and their involvement in the contemporary reform (Committee: V. Blechinger-Talcott, J. Dierkes, K. Paadam)
eva.liias[at]ut.ee
Valeria Lotti
Conference Manager Lexxion Publisher
What women want: an analysis of cosmetic surgery and social achievements in contemporary urban China (Committee: Klaus Mühlhahn, Beate Binder, Sabrina Hbich-Sobiegalla, Vladimir Glomb, Megha Wadhwa)
https://www.lexxion.eu/en/about-us/
Silvan Meier
Strategic Account Manager DACH, Alcon, Freiburg im Breisgau
The Organisational Transformation of Media Groups in China (Committee: J. Sydow, K. Mühlhahn, K. Beck)
Lisa Melcher
Head of Department IT, Viadrina University Frankfurt (Oder)
Who plans small towns and how? Multiple orders of worth in spatial planning at the local level in Sichuan, China (Committee: Bettina Gransow, Olaf Zenker, Elena Meyer-Clement, Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, Emily Mae Gräf)
lmelcher[at]europa-uni.de
Chaline Mondwurf
Alumna 2024
The Role of Mediating Institutions for the Integration of Brazilian (Im-)Migrants in Japan (Committee: Cornelia Reiher, Stephanie Schütze,
Kei Namba
TU Berlin, postdoctoral fellow and Freelance Consultant (Water Governance)
Japan's multi-level water governance in Southeast Asia (Thesis Committee: V. Blechinger-Talcott, G. Maihold, Vincent Houben)
k.namba[at]tu-berlin.de
Elizabeth Noble
Research Fellow, Høgskolen i Østfold, Norway
Different Lenses? Women in Contemporary Japanese Photography (Committee: Matthias Zachmann, Chris Perkins, Verena Blechinger-Talcott, Cornelia Reiher, Tarik Mérida-Geber)
Emina Popović
Institute of East Asian Studies at Charles University, Prague
Comparative Politics, Chinese politics, Authoritarianism, Interest groups politics, State-society relations
Eva Seiwert
Analyst, Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS)
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and China's strategy of shaping international norms (Commitee: Elena Meyer-Clement, Eberhard Sandschneider, Tobias Berger, Verena Blechinger-Talcott, Kai Schulze)
Alfonso Sánchez Romera
Postdoctoral Researcher 2022-2023, now Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Chinese Urban Middle Class
Julia Teebken
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, LMU Munich
Vulnerability locked in. Explaining local climate adaptation deficits in China and the United States. (Comittee: Miranda Schreurs, Genia Kostka, Sven Chojnacki, Christian Lammert)
julia.teebken[at]geographie.uni-muenchen.de
Corey Wallace
Associate Professor, Faculty of Foreign Languages, Kanagawa University
Einstein Postdoc 2015-2019
Eun Hee Woo
Assistant Professor, Josai International University
Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy : Mechanisms of Party Elite Recruitment in Korea and Germany (Committee: E.-J. Lee, S. Kropp, H.B. Mosler)
Dan Wu
Postdoctoral Researcher, The Institute of International Affairs, Chinese University of Hong Kong
CENTRAL–PROVINCIAL POLITICS AND INDUSTRIAL POLICY-MAKING IN THE ELECTRIC POWER SECTOR IN CHINA (Committee: Miranda A. Schreurs, Genia Kostka, Cilja Harders, Sabine Kropp and Maria Rosaria Di Nucci)
Weijing Xing
Alumnus June 23
Internal Politics, Great Powers’ Intervention and EU-Japan Security Cooperation (Committee: Blechinger-Talcott, Habich-Sobiegalla, Heinrich, Zachmann, Wadhwha)
Kyong Yong Francis Yoon
Postdoctoral Researcher at In-EAST, University of Duisburg-Essen
High Skilled Workers as Core Human Resources in the Korean Gaming Industry(Committee: Gregory Jackson, Eun-Jeung Lee, Barbara Fritz, Jörg Sydow)
Giulia Zennaro
Project Officer National and International Projects on Sustainable Urban Regeneration, City of Venice
Change in the Institutional Field: Private Art Museums in China, 2005-2014 (Dissertation Committee: Gregory Jackson, Elena Meyer-Clement, Anja Kirsch)
Ganyi Zhang
Political and economic Analyst at GEODIS
Trust, commitment and the incomplete agreement - a comparative case study on the 1964 PRC-France normalization and the 1970 PRC-Canada normalization (Thesis Committee: Tanja Börzel, Klaus Mühlhahn)
Yi Zhu
Research Associate Heidelberg University (Echowall) 2018-
Shaping (online) public sphere in an authoritarian society? – How Chinese actors pushed the abolishment of the “reeducation through labor (Laojiao)”- system (Committee: Bettina Gransow, Carola Richter, Barbara Pfetsch, Michael Emmer, Anna Litvinenko)
Yifei Zhu
Research Fellow, ISDP Stockholm
Post-developmental state across the Taiwan Strait : an institutionalist explanation of Taiwan's liberal-oriented economic policy toward China between 1990 and 2016 (Committee:Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla, Gunter Schubert, Tanja Börzel, Tobias Berger, Binder
yzhu[at]isdp.eu
Marina Zucker Marques
Postdoctoral Resarcher, Department of Economics, SOAS
The Chinese Strategy of Renminbi Internationalization (Committee: Barbara Fritz, Laike Yang, Gregory Jackson, Theocharis Grigoriadis, Melike Döver)
John Jacobs
Researcher in Security and International Affairs, Crisis Intelligence Co.Ltd, Japan
Cooperation Across Alliance Systems to Manage a Hegemonic Ally: The Case of Japan’s Cooperation with Europe in United States-led Out-of-Area Operations (committee: V. Blechinger-Talcott, T. Risse, L.A. Viola, T. Hfmann, M. Wadhwa)
Hendrik Johannemann
Friedrich-Ebert Foundation (FES), Team Asia-Pacific
Opposing Desires. The Contentious Politics of the South Korean Anti-LGBT Movement
Bin Li
Entrepreneurialization of Ethnicity: An Ethnographic Research on Chinese Newcomer Entrepreneurs in Tokyo (Committee: B. Röttger-Rössler, C. Reiher, S. Calkins, T. Stodulka, M. Wadhwha)
Jan Niggemeier
Team Research Funding, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
The Other Labour Movement - Community Unions' Role in Japanese Labour Revitalisation
jan.niggemeier (at) uv.hu-berlin.de