Category: Researchers

Dr. Maryia Danilovich is a postdoc and Humboldt fellow at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen. Prior to this, she was a researcher at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, an EEGA postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, a Swedish Institute postdoc at the Institute for Russian and Eurasian…

Dr. Yonghui Hu joined the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies as a guest reseacher since October 2021. He obtained his Ph.D. in Philosophy Department at Nanjing University in June 2013, majoring in Chinese Philosophy. He is a philosophy associate professor at Nanjing University since 2016. He teaches History of Chinese Buddhism, Philosophy of Tao…

Ms Fan obtained her Ph.D. in the Sichuan University in China in June 2017, majoring in Chinese legal history. Her research focuses on Local System and Grassroots Social Governance in China. The topic of her dissertation is the Practice of the New County System in Rongxian County, Sichuan in the Republic of China (1939-1949). Ms Fan…

Ms Mengshu Zhan joined the project “Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups” in Göttingen University since June 2021 and her topic in this project is Conceptions of World Order from Chinese and African Scholars. She obtained her Ph.D. in the Center for Global Study at Bonn University in Germany in May 2021, majoring…

Professor Im joined CeMEAS as a guest researcher in March 2021 and is a history professor at Chonnam National University since 2006. He teaches Contemporary History of Korea, the Modern History of Korean Art and the Modern History of Korean Historiography among others. From 2012 to 2013, he was invited as a Fulbright scholar by…

Chunjie Zhang is working on the project, World as Method: Cosmopolitan Thinking in German and Chinese Modernist Cultures, that seeks to compare cosmopolitan thinking in German and Chinese discourses in the first half of the twentieth century. In the current theoretical debates on cosmopolitanism, scholars point out that it is not necessarily always the national…

Professor Hsiung Ping-chen received her Ph.D. in History from Brown University and her S.M. in Population Studies and International Health from Harvard University. She is Professor of History and Director of the Taiwan Research Centre at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interest lies in the area of women’s and children’s health.…

Benjamin Creutzfeldt joined our Centre in January 2021 and was a visiting fellow at CeMEAS since April 2021. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at SAIS Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins University, and a Resident Fellow at the Wilson Center in Washington, DC.  He obtained his Ph.D. in Political Studies from Externado University…

Liza Wing Man Kam was research fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Goettingen. She joined the university as assistant professor at the Department of East Asian Studies since 2016. She was research fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in 2017-2019. Prior to that she…

Feicheng Wang joined the University of Göttingen as a postdoctoral research fellow in August 2017. He studied for a PhD from the University of Nottingham (UK and China campuses) and received his doctoral degree in Economics in 2017. Before that, he attended a postgraduate programme at Xiamen University and did his undergraduate study at Beijing…