Doctoral Candidates
Doctoral Candidates 2022
Shixuan Lyu
FUB-CSC
The end of neoliberalism in China: New governmentality of grass-root party organization in rural society
Zhuo Niu
DAAD-GSSP
Witnessing COVID-Complexity in Wuhan: Pandemic, biopolitics and the Chinese representations of compliance/resistance in Crisis
Yijun Xu
FUB-CSC
A German-Korean comparative study of the young generation’s unification Perception: Wiliness and Change
Doctoral Candidates 2021
Antonie Angerer
BMBF fellow
Visual Culture of urban futures as networked spectacle in China’s urbanization process
Junsang Lee
Searching for a Better Future, Escaping from Hell-Joseon: A Study of Korean Youths in Berlin
Lin Yu Ng
DAAD-GSSP
Precarity and Hope in Japan: Motivations and Risk Perceptions of Residents in post-Disaster Fukushima
Seunghwan Ryu
DAAD-GSSP
North Korean Socialist Globalization Project in Africa during the Cold War era: Memory, Modernity, and Identity
seunghwan.ryu[at]fu-berlin.de
Nicolas Stassar
ERC Fellow
Trying the Enemy: The Legal Interpretation of the Status of Prisoners of War By the Japanese Military Legal System 1929-1948
Doctoral Candidates 2020
Yura Hyeon
Drifting Happiness: Unearthing Life of Young Yemeni Refugees aged 20-30 in Jeju Island and Seoul
Erik Isaksson
DAAD-GSSP
Political Dialogues as Institutions: Resolving Conflict and Consolidating the Nation?
Chi Ho Kiang
DAAD-GSSP
The Taste of Occupation: Food, War, and Society in Occupied North China, 1937-1945
Shoko Tanaka
Elsa Neumann fellow
Probing the Link between Culture and Democracy through the Indicator Framework on Culture and Democracy (IFCD), with Case Studies in Japan
Hao Zhang
FUB-CSC
How Can Government Reform Towards The Future: Citizens’ Participatory In The Development Of Chinese Smart Cities
Yating Zhang
FUB-CSC
Starting a Market Economy – Institutions and Memories of the Reform and Opening era in China (1972-1987)
Doctoral Candidates 2019
Sarah Bijlsma
DAAD
Hybrid Landscapes: Identity, Space and the Natural World in the Context of the Okinawa ‘Migration Boom’
s.bijlsma[at]fu-berlin.de
Maja Korbecka
DAAD
Film festivals, youth & capital: negotiating the field of contemporary art cinema in China
maja.korbecka[at]yahoo.com
Jingyi Li
Elsa-Neumann fellow
Home Making and Belonging in Return Migration: Korean Chinese as International Labors
lijingyi0116[at]126.com
Xuan Wen
FUB-CSC
The Villagers’ Reaction to Environmental Policy Implementation —Evidence from the Construction of Beautiful Villages
Doctoral Candidates 2018
William Fujii
DAAD
Japan's Political Institutions and East Asia Policy: Processes, Continuities, Changes, 1947 - 2017
Nakako Hattori
Research Associate (Japanese Studies)
Domestic Constraints of an East Asian community: Ranking Frames of Japan's State Identity and Regional Political Disintegration (2003-2015)
Hyein Lee
DAAD-GSSP
Buddhist Military Chaplaincy of South Korea: Inner Workings and Interplays of Ideas and Discourses
lhi1206[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Doctoral Candidates 2017
Mei Chen
Policy Making in China's Health System
Gwendolyn Domning
Presidential Depravity Abides – Continuities and Changes of Institutionalized Corruption in South Korea since Democratization
Lenard Görögh
The Emergence of New Markets and Business Models in Present-Day Japan
John Jacobs
Japan’s Security Cooperation with Europe: Between the Bilateral US-Japan Alliance and UN Multilateralism
jjacobs[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Hendrik Johannemann
Cusanuswerk
Anti-LGBTI Activism in South Korea and Its Transnational Connectedness
Elizabeth Noble
A different lens: social change and female photographers in Japan in the 1990s
enoble[at]zedat.fu-berlin.de
Doctoral Candidates 2016
Oyuna Baldakova
Win-Win on the Local Level: The Belt and Road Initiative in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and its Stakeholder Narratives
o.baldakova[at]fu-berlin.de
Lu Chen
Alumna (DAAD)
The Moving Temples--A Study on the Religious Organizations of Fishermen in the Eastern Part of Tai Lake
Xinyi Lin
DAAD
Understanding different pathways towards low carbon transition - A comparison of urban energy transition in Germany and China
Chaline Mondwurf
The Role of Mediating Institutions for Brazilian Migrants in Japan
Viktória Orbán
Non-traditional Security Cooperation between Dependent Members of the US Alliance System: the Euro-Japanese Partnership
viktoria.orban[at]fu-berlin.de
Bonaventura Rescigno
Legitimacy and the production of ideas: the "new type of think tanks with Chinese characteristics"
Eva Seiwert
Alumna
"The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and China's strategy of shaping international norms"
Marie Weishaupt
Nuclear Threat, Self-Evacuation and New Life Itineraries: An Institutional Approach to Care Provision in the Aftermath of 3.11
Weijing Xing
Internal Politics, Great Powers’ Intervention and EU-Japan Security Cooperation
Doctoral Candidates 2015
Julia Gerster
Alumna
Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan. Impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami and Radiation.
Madeleine Heuer
Alumna
South Korean Identities, Ideologies and the Framing of North Korean Defectors in the South Korean media
Anselm Huppenbauer
Regionalism and regionalization in the Tumen River region
Elena Korshenko
Perpetuated Instability? Life Cycle of New and Minor Parties in Japan, 2005-2016
Valeria Lotti
Alumna Nov 2022
What women want: Beauty surgery and gender roles in Chinese urban society
Julia Teebken
Alumna
Climate Vulnerability – Wicked problem or neglected responsibility? Local approaches in China and the United States
Yi Zhu
Alumna
Shaping (online) public sphere in an authoritarian society? – How Chinese actors pushed the abolishment of the “reeducation through labor (Laojiao)”- system
Doctoral Candidates 2014
Ran Cheng
Alumna
Bringing the Firm Back to the Minimum Wage Study: Wage Effect of Minimum Wage in China from an Institutional and Organisational Perspective 8Committee: Gregory Jackson, Elena Meyer-Clement, Jörg Sydow, Barbara Fritz)
Jihye Han
Alumna
The institutionalization of the Korean higher education system with regard to lifelong learning and the support system for working adults in Korea
Angela Leggett
Alumna
Chinese NGO monitoring of corporate environmental responsibility and firms' responses
Lisa Melcher
Alumna
The multiple orders of planning: spatial development strategies for towns in rural Sichuan
Jan Niggemeier
The Other Labour Movement - Community Unions' Role in Japanese Labour Revitalisation
Simon Schwenke
Institutional Change of Civilian Control in Japanese Forces
Kyong Yong Francis Yoon
Alumnus
High Skilled Workers as Core Human Resources in the Korean Gaming Industry(Committee: Gregory Jackson, Eun-Jeung Lee, Barbara Fritz, Jörg Sydow)
Ganyi Zhang
Alumna
Trust, Commitment and the Incomplete Agreement: A comparative case study on the 1964 PRC-France normalization and the 1970 PRC-Canada normalization
Yifei Zhu
Alumnus
European Integration and the Prospects of Regionalism in Northeast Asia:A Comparative Study Based on Explanatory Integration Theory
Doctoral Candidates 2013
You Kyung Byun
Alumna
100,000 Won Friends: Calculating Gifts and Debts Among Dear Friends in South Korean Institutional Network
Paul Joscha Kohlenberg
Alumnus
Visible and Invisible Guidance: Adaptive Institutional Change and CCP Document-Politics
Daniela Simon
The Imperial House of Japan in Times of National Crises
Eun Hee Woo
Alumna
Institutional Change and Intra-Party Democracy : Mechanisms of Party Elite Recruitment in Korea and Germany
