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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:

  • Professor Xi Chen, Research Associate Professor, School of Governance and Policy Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Research interests: resilient civil society in China, political economy, political sociology, comparative politics, historical institutionalism, social movements and contentious politics, Chinese politics
  • Dr. Suk-Jung Han, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Dong-A University | Research interests: films of prewar Japan and their influence on post-liberation Korean filmmaking; the growth of the craft beer industry in East Asia; the environmental and labor impacts of women migrating as domestic workers
  • Dr. Ryan Holmberg, Independent scholar | Research interests: Interactions between American and Japanese popular culture, the history of nuclear visual culture in Asia, and the impact US military installations have had on Japanese culture and society
  • Professor Deokhwa Hong, Associate Professor of Sociology, Chungbuk University | Research interests: environmental sociology, environmental movements, commons, degrowth energy transition, sustainability transition, climate crisis and disasters
  • Dr. Dawoon Jung, Research Fellow, Korea Institute of Public Finance | Research interests: Behavioral economics, conflicts and in-group prosocial preferences in Indonesia, impact of external shocks (e.g.: war, natural disaster) on individual prosocial preferences
  • Professor Sang Yun Seo, Assistant Professor, School of Business, Kyungnam University | Research interests: Social discrimination, population decline, social class, conspicuous consumption, low birth rates, AI and decision-making
  • Zeyi Song, PhD student, Beijing University | Research interests: the Chinese legal system; comparative lawmaking; environmental legislation; legislative process of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress; reviewing and formulating laws in a single-party legislative system
  • Professor Yukie Takeuchi, Professor of Media, Journalism, and Communication, School of Social Sciences, Doshisha University | Research interests: art history; Japanese advertising history; western art currents in Japanese advertising; prewar advertising magazines; postwar animated television commercials
  • Ran Xu, PhD candidate, Renmin University | Research interests: Environmental history, civil society and NGO studies, hydraulic history, economic history, quantitative history
  • Professor 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)