Asia Experts
Shihoko Goto is program associate for Northeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where she is responsible for research, programming, and publications on Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, she spent over ten years as a journalist writing about the international political economy with an emphasis on Asian markets. As a correspondent for Dow Jones News S...
Professor of Sociology, Center for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
My field visits to rural India from 1980s onwards disturbed me a great deal. This was not just because there was grinding poverty there but also because the kind of information we had about Indian villages needed drastic revisions. Economic relationship between communities and castes were slowly becoming a thing of the past. The once landed and powerful village oligarchs, who earlier represented b...
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Hopkins P. Breazeale Professor of Journalism, Louisiana State University
Jack Hamilton’s career has traced a path through newsrooms, the corridors of government, and a university campus. Hamilton came to Louisiana State University in 1992 to head the Manship School of Mass Communication. He stepped down as dean in 2010 to become the executive vice-chancellor and provost. As a journalist, Hamilton reported for the...
Associate Professor, Departments of Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara
I hold a joint appointment in the Departments of both Anthropology and History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where I serve, also, as co-editor of a quarterly journal, The Public Historian. Similar commitments to interdisciplinary inquiry characterize the project that I am pursuing as a Wilson Center Fellow, and their roots lie in my graduate study at the University of Pennsylvani...
Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Cold War International History Studies, Department of History, East China Normal University
Robert M. Hathaway has been director of the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., since 1999. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, he served for twelve years on the professional staff of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, where he specialized in American foreign policy toward Asia.Dr. Hathaway has also been a...
Deputy Director of Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
He Fan is Deputy Director of Institute of World Economics and Politics in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). A specialist on China’s macro-economy, international finance, and international political economy, Dr. He is the author or editor of 10 books and more than 100 papers in professional economics journals. He Fan is also an advisor to many Chinese government agencies an...
Associate Professor, Sungshin Women's University
Hong Seuk Ryule is a Associate Professor of the Department of History at Sungshin Women's University in Seoul. Professor Hong holds a Ph.D. in Korean History from Seoul National University. He has also spent time as a visiting Researcher at the University of Maryland at College Park(1999-2000). He specialized in the modern history of Korea, and specifically, U.S.-ROK and inter-Korean relations...
Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Professor, Ethno-Religion Section, Social Development Institute, the Central Communist Party School, China