Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab Alumni
Meet Our SNAPL Alumni
Jiwon Bang
Research Assistant
Jiwon is a graduate student at Stanford, obtaining an M.A. in East Asian Studies with a specialization in U.S.-ROK relations. She graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honors B.A. with Distinction in East Asian Studies with a double minor in History and Sociology.
Cynthia Chen
Research Assistant
Cynthia is a first-year M.A. student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford, with a focus on new media, propaganda cinema, and online nationalism in contemporary mainland China. Besides her academic training in film and literature, she enjoys taking courses in sociology, anthropology, communication study, and computer science, aiming to conduct interdisciplinary research on the cultural-political phenomenon within the digital sphere of Asia.
Eve Dill
Research Assistant
Eve is a rising second-year Ph.D. student in Sociology. Her research focuses on migration, social networks, inequality, and social mobility. Profile >
Haley Gordon
Research Associate
Haley Gordon earned an M.A. from Stanford’s Center for East Asian Studies, where she wrote a Master’s thesis on human rights in North Korea. Her research interests included historical memory in East Asia, Korean nationalism, and South Korean women’s issues and cinema. Haley received her bachelor’s degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Princeton University, with a minor in Humanistic Studies. In addition, she studied the Korean language at Yonsei University and Ewha University in Seoul. Profile >
Darren Hall
Research Assistant
Darren Hall recently completed his B.A. in East Asian Studies at Stanford University with a concentration in media analysis. For his senior thesis, he researched queer representation in the Boys' Love genre in Asia. He also studied the Korean language for four years while attending Stanford. At APARC, Darren serves as a research assistant for the SNAPL research project Nationalism and Racism in Asia. In the future, he plans to attend law school.
Yoojung Lee
Research Assistant
Yoojung is a research assistant with SNAPL. She holds an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and a B.A. in International Relations and Law and Society from the University of British Columbia. Her research interests are focused on political polarization, nationalism, and democracy. Yoojung’s thesis examines the pattern of gender differences in partisanship in South Korea, particularly focusing on the relationship between unemployment and male conservatism.
JB Jong Beom Lim
Research Assistant
E Ju Ro
Research Assistant
E Ju (she/her) is a rising senior from Seoul, South Korea studying sociology with a minor in philosophy and honors in Ethics in Society. Her interests include the intersections of race, gender, and colonialism, particularly in the context of Korea; she is currently writing her thesis on the ethics of memorializing "comfort women" experiences through a postcolonial feminist lens.
Kavya Srikanth
Research Assistant
Kavya studied Mathematical and Computational Science at Stanford, where she is pursuing a coterminal MA in History.
Sonja Stevenson
Research Assistant
Sonja is a senior at Stanford studying international relations with specializations in international security and East and South Asia. Her research interests include women’s rights and media communication in South Korea, as well as strategic autonomy and US-ROK, US-EU, and ROK-EU relations. She has studied both Korean and German, including at Yonsei University and Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, and at Stanford University in Berlin.
Maleah Webster
Research Assistant
Mengmeng Xiao
Research Assistant
Mengmeng is currently a first-year master's student in East Asian Studies. She earned her undergraduate degree with the highest honors in Political Science from Emory University. Her research interests center around identity politics and gendered institutions.
Yiguo Zheng
Research Assistant