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Visiting Academics & Affiliated Researchers

Dr. Jiwon Baik

Assistant Professor, Political Science

Prof. Baik researches the politics of development, political and economic institutions, and state-business relations, with a regional focus on China and East Asia.

Professor Louis Brennan

Fellow Emeritus, Trinity Business School

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Dr. Seema Chauhan

Assistant Professor, School of Religion

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Seema K. Chauhan is the Assistant Professor of Asian Religions in the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies.

Dr. Jude Lal Fernando

Associate Professor, School of Religion

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Prof. Jude Lal Fernando is Assistant Professor in Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics in TCD

Dr. Yushu Geng

Research Fellow, History

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Dr Yushu Geng is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at Trinity College Dublin, mentored by Dr Isabella Jackson.

Dr. James Hadley

Associate Professor, Russian & Slavonic Studies

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Prof. James Hadley is Ussher Assistant Professor in Literary Translation who is affiliated with TCAS.

Dr. Rowland Anthony Imperial

Assistant Professor, Linguistics

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Prof. Imperial is based in the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences. His current research focuses on issues of material, epistemic, and affective injustices in East and Southeast Asia’s commercial English language teaching industry

Dr. Dong Jin Kim

Adjunct Professor, School of Religion

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Dr Dong Jin Kim is a Research Fellow at TCD’s Irish School of Ecumenics. Dong-Jin obtained his PhD from the University of North Korean Studies in Korea.

Dr. Motoko Akashi

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Dr Motoko Akashi is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Research Fellow. She holds a PhD in Literary Translation Studies from University of East Anglia.

Dr. Shigeki Nakagome

Assistant Professor, Psychiatry

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Shigeki Nakagome did his Ph.D. in Human Genetics at the University of Tokyo in 2010. He joined Trinity in 2016, after stints at The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (2011-13) and University of Chicago (2013-16).

Dr. Duoduo Xu

Visiting Research Fellow, Linguistics

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Dr Duoduo Xu’s research focuses on Dongba and Daba oral traditions. She conducts ethnographic fieldwork in Southwest China.

Doctoral Research Students at TCAS:

Name
Josiah Medin	A Descriptive Grammar of Old Meiteilon as Attested in the Numit Kappa and the Cheitharol Kumpapa Supervisor: Prof Nathan Hill (funded by a Trinity Research Doctorate Award).
Ezra Kücken	Performing and Policing Prostitution: Race, Sexuality and the Problem of Slavery under the Contagious Diseases Ordinances in Colonial Hong Kong. Funded by Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship. Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson .
Guangyu Zhu	Old Chinese phonology in the Shang DynastySupervisor: Prof Nathan Hill.
Afsana Ferdous	The documentation of Rengmitca: A critically endangered language in Bangladesh Supervisor: Prof Nathan Hill.
Jinqi Ying	Reconstructing the initials of Old Chinese through the Philology of Excavated Documents Supervisor: Prof Nathan Hill.
Muhammad Ilyas	Morpho-Phonological Analysis of Verbal System in Balti Language Supervisor: Prof Nathan Hill.
Li Shihua	Finding Tujia’s Place in Tibeto-Burman.Supervisor: Prof. Nathan Hill.
Li Ruiyao	Synchronic and diachronic analysis of a Southern Situ variety (Gyalrongic). Supervisor: Dr Yunfan Lai.
Ha Minyeong	Comparing Asian and Western Chinese learner perspectives: The New HSK level 3 Test of Chinese as a Foreign Language. Supervisor: Prof Lorna Carson.
Zhu Honghui	Multilingualism in Sino-foreign educational programs in China. Funded by TCD-China Scholarship Council Award. Supervisor: Prof Lorna Carson.
Ms Yuxuan Lang	Floating Sight: Visual Rhetoric in Chinese Urban Photography, 1843-1937. Funded by a China Scholarship Council (CSC) -Trinity College Dublin Joint Scholarship recipient. Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson.
Mr Dexter Ho Nam TSE	Maritime Piracy and British Shipping in Hong Kong, 1900-1945. Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson.

Meet our Ph.D. Graduates

Name
Du Siyi	Changing Representations of the Republic of China, 1912-1915 and 1940-1945: An Analysis of Chinese Public History Practice. Funded by a Provost’s PhD Project Award. Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson.
Clare Morrison	Identity and Irishmen in the Chinese Customs Service. Recipient of a North/South Postgraduate Scholarship. Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson.
Yau Ka Lo	Assistant Lecturer, School of Chinese Studies, University of Hong Kong. PhD Thesis title: Negotiating Modern Childhood: A Social History of Children in Republican China (1912-1949). Funded by Irish Research Council Laureate Award CHINACHILD. Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson.
Wang Hongfei	Research Fellow, School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD. PhD Thesis title: The Design and Evaluation of Intelligent Computer-Assisted Language Learning Tools for Beginner Learners of Mandarin Chinese". Supervisor: Dr Neasa Ní Chiaráin.
Chan Pak Hei	Multilingualism in Hong Kong. Supervisor: Dr Lorna Carson. Provost’s Ph.D. Project Award.
Zhang Meishan	Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Postdoctoral Fellow. Maynooth University. TCD. PhD Thesis title: Media and Medical Equipment in the Republican Shanghai, 1912-1949.Supervisor: Dr Isabella Jackson.
Kwok, Chung Kam	School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences, TCD. PhD Thesis title: Self and Identity in Additional Language Learning Motivation: A Case Study of Learners of Chinese.
Zhang Chang	Education Officer, Post-Primary Languages Ireland. PhD Thesis title: Demotivation in Learning Chinese.
Jiang Ning	Assistant Professor in Chinese Studies, TCD. Ph.D Thesis title: Chinese Character Learning Strategies in Foreign Language Education.
Jiang Renfeng	Assistant Professor, Shandong University. Ph.D. Thesis title: The Language Learning Motivation of Chinese Postgraduate Students in Ireland from the Perspectives of Confucian Learning Philosophy.
Shao Lijie	Chinese Language Instructor, Dublin City University. Ph.D. Thesis title: Three Case Studies in English Medium Instruction in Higher Education Business Programmes in in Expanding Circle Countries: Japan China, and the Netherlands.