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APSI welcomes a select number of scholars from the Asia Pacific region to visit Duke each year.

Visiting scholars are nominated by APSI faculty members and are expected to conduct independent research and engage with faculty and students at Duke.

Once you have connected with an APSI faculty member who has approved your research proposal, please contact us to obtain more information about visa requirements and timelines.

Our current visiting scholars are:

  • Youngjin Choi, Professor, Institute of Global Affairs, Kyung Hee University | Research interests: the role of religion in political and cultural spheres in Northeast Asia and its effect on international relations between countries in the region; sociology of labor; environmental governance; education and social identity
  • Wei Mao, PhD candidate, Tsinghua University | Research interests: history of photography; photographic exhibitions; the development of photography art as a critical and institutionalized medium; curatorial practices in the U.S. and China and their impact on photographic discourse
  • Junggyong Song, Lecturer, Yonsei University | Research interests: film, literature, and television series from Korea and its diaspora; how legal discourse can translate into the emotional and ethical aspects of justice; law and literature; Asian American studies; Korean diaspora; Cold War and transnational studies; digital humanities
  • Jae-Jung Suh, Professor, Department of Politics and International Studies, International Christian University | Research interests: international relations; political history of Asia; conflict and peace-building; re-analyzing historical conflicts in Northeast Asia as the result of regional actors’ attempts to manage differences over national identities and relationships in the context of the region’s shifting power balance
  • Qianqian Zhou, Associate Professor, Institute of Modern Chinese History, Hohai University | Research interests: regional social and economic history; history of the Republic of China; contemporary Chinese history; salt administration, merchants, and shortages (1937–1945)