Though the academic job market in humanities continues to be highly competitive, East Asian universities offer exciting opportunities for scholarly development and diverse academic pathways. We invite you to join an online discussion with three early-career scholars with experience in academic positions across East Asia, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore. Drawing from their experiences, our speakers will share insights on key aspects of academic career development in East Asia, including job application procedures and strategies, adapting to East Asian university systems, and building professional networks in different East Asian cities. This workshop aims to provide practical guidance for those interested in pursuing academic careers in East Asia.
Sincerely,
Dr. Yi Ren
Our speakers:
Dr. Lin Du will join as an Assistant Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Chinese Studies and Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore in July this year. She completed her PhD at the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Lin holds an MA from the Regional Studies East Asia Program at Harvard University and a BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Peking University. Her pioneering work in machine learning has been published in the ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH), and her contributions to humanities research are forthcoming in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas and Asia Pacific Perspectives.
Dr. Zifeng Liu is an Assistant Professor of History in the Academy of Chinese, History, Religion and Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his PhD in Africana Studies from Cornell University and spent two years in the African Research Center at the Pennsylvania State University as a postdoctoral scholar. He is an intellectual historian of the twentieth-century Africana world with specializations in Black internationalism, anticolonial thought, and Afro-Asian solidarity. His current book project traces a history of African and African diaspora women radicals’ engagements with China in the age of Bandung.
Dr. Yu Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Toronto in 2019. Starting in 2020, he had worked at the University of Macau first as a post-doctoral fellow and then as a research assistant professor before moving to Cornell. His current book project, All Ears: Listening to Radio in China, 1940–1976, explores the dynamics of technopolitics in the Mao era, namely how loudspeakers changed the structure of information flow, the making of socialist subjects, urban and rural landscapes, and the formation of political culture in the early PRC period.
