Junki Nakahara is a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Next Asia Policy Lab, housed within the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center. Her research interests include nationalism, critical and cultural studies, feminist media studies, and postcolonial/decolonial international relations. She studies the contemporary dominance and institutionalization of nationalism, entangled with racism, xenophobia, historical revisionism (e.g., denial of wartime atrocities), and misogyny, primarily focusing on East Asia. She earned her PhD in Communication (2023) and MA in Intercultural and International Communication (2019), both from American University. Her publications include contributions to New Media & Society, Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus.

Angana P. Chatterji is a Research Anthropologist and Founding Chair of the Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative at UC Berkeley’s Center for Race and Gender. She co-leads the Berkeley-Stanford Archive on Legacies of Conflict in South Asia and is affiliated with Berkeley’s Institute for South Asia Studies and Human Rights Center, as well as Stanford’s Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Chatterji holds a B.A. in Political Science, an M.A. in Political Science, and a Ph.D. in the Humanities. Her recent scholarship focuses on political conflict and coloniality in Kashmir; prejudicial citizenship in India; and Islamomisia, caste, gender, and violence as agentized by majoritarian, Hindu nationalism. Her research excavates issues of decitizening, impunity laws, everyday militarizations, and their incursion on rights protections and defenders. She has co-founded the People’s Tribunal on Religious Freedom and Human Rights in Odisha (2005) and on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (2008) and has testified before the UN, U.S. Congress, and other national and international bodies.