School of Humanities and Sciences
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Jie Shen 沈劼
Ph.D. Student in East Asian Languages and Cultures, admitted Autumn 2021
BioJie Shen 沈劼 is a Ph.D. student in Chinese Archaeology, in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University. She mainly focuses on the crafting technology of bone artifacts in ancient China. Using the use-wear analysis, residue analysis, and experimental archaeology, Jie explores the variation and development of bone crafting techniques, and how the crafting industry was involved in social progress such as the formation of the early state. Also, she is interested in the religious and political meaning of animal-related artifacts, which are significant for understanding the human-animal relationship.
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Gi-Wook Shin
William J. Perry Professor, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Professor, by courtesy, of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsKorean democratization; Korean nationalism; U.S.-Korea relations; North Korean politics; reconciliation and cooperation in Northeast Asia; global talent; multiculturalism; inter-Korean relations
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Ariel Stilerman
Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures
BioI study the transformation of courtly literary and artistic practices into broader cultural forces across diverse social spaces.
In Court Poetry and the Culture of Learning in Japan (Harvard Asia Center, 2026), I chart the expansion of waka poetry from an aristocratic pursuit into a shared language for military and priestly elites, lower-ranking warriors, and eventually urban merchants.
Currently, I am working on a second project, Meet the People Who Built Japan: The Culture of Work in Early Medieval Japanese Literature. It investigates the intersection of technology and community in medieval literature, looking at how texts construct the lives, labor, and professional experiences of working people.
I welcome inquiries from students interested in classical through early modern Japanese literature and culture, as well as those pursuing transdisciplinary work through the program in Modern Thought and Literature, and graduate students curious about making in the humanities through the Graduate Certificate in Making and Creative Praxis. -
Jeanne Su
Director of Finance and Operations, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Current Role at StanfordDirector of Finance and Operations at East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALC).
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Chao Sun
Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and, by courtesy, of Linguistics
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy primary research interest is in Chinese linguistics studying how linguistic forms and meanings vary systematically in different socio-cultural contexts in modern Chinese languages. My other works concern with morphosyntactic changes in the history of Chinese and pedagogical grammar in teaching Chinese as Second Language.
