RIJS People
Graduate Students: L-P
Yi-Chieh LIN (Anthrpology) yclin@fas.harvard.edu
Yi-Chieh is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology. She
received a B.A. in Journalism at National Chengchi University in Taiwan and an A.M. degree in Regional Studies of East Asia at Harvard. Her undergraduate thesis focused on the influences of Japanese media on popular culture in Taiwan, and during her master's studies, she continued to work on the interrelationship between media, consumerism and tourism in East Asia. She is also interested in
the history of Chinese diaspora in Japan and elsewhere.
Phillip Yukio LIPSCY (Government) lipscy@fas.harvard.edu
Phillip is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Government. His
research investigates change in international organizations, with a
specific focus on Japan's efforts to reform institutions such as the UN
Security Council, IMF, and World Bank. His primary research interests
include international political economy, international institutions, and
Japanese political economy. He completed a B.A. in Political Science and Economics (2001) and an M.A. in International Policy Studies (2002) at Stanford University. His senior thesis investigated Japan's reaction to the Asian Financial Crisis and the political economy of international bailout operations. He has conducted research at the U.S. Treasury, RAND, the Asia/Pacific Research Center, and the Institute for International Policy Studies. Philip grew up in Tokyo ans is a native speaker of Japanese. His website can be found at: http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~lipscy/
Kathy LU (EALC) klu@fas.harvard.edu
Kathy received her B.A. from Harvard College in 2001, and her M.A. from RSEA in 2002. Her thesis was a study of the transmission of classical Japanese dance through the iemoto system. Her interests include classical poetry, Genji monogatari, and modern novelists.
Motokazu MATSUTANI (EALC) matsutan@fas.harvard.edu
Moto was born and brought up in Fukushima- city, Fukushima-ken, and he is an excellent speaker of Tohoku-ben. He obtained a B.A at International Christian University in Tokyo. While in the college, Moto spent a year at Yonsei University in Seoul as an exchange student and came to have strong interest in modern Korean history. He completed my A.M degree at University of Tokyo and came to join the EALC program here. His current research topic is the U.S. occupation policy in Japan and Korea after the WWII. Specifically, Moto is interested in the occupation policy on religion, Christianity in particular, and would like to compare how the occupation influenced the development of Christianity in post-war Korea and Japan.
Hiromu NAGAHARA (History) nagahara@fas.harvard.edu
Born and raised in the suburb of Tokyo, Hiromu graduated from Gordon College with a B.A. in History in 2003. His dissertation examines the intersection of discourses on gender, labor, and tradition in modern Japan by focusing on the female teachers of 'traditional arts' (dentō geinō).
