Former SDAC Staff
Former Professors
Michael Lackner
Phillip Balsiger
Former Deputy Professor
Dr. Alexander Smith
Dr. Alexander Smith worked for the program as the Deputy Professor from April 2018- October 2019.
Former Research Fellows
Dr. Martina Gottwald-Belinic
Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations Chair of Chinese Studies (Prof. Dr. Lackner)
- Phone number: +4991318564370
- Email: martina.gottwald-belinic@fau.de
Dimitri Drettas
Sven Grundmann, M.A.
Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations Working group: Chair of Chinese Studies (Prof. Dr. Lackner)
- Email: sven.grundmann@fau.de
Dr. Mo Tian
Dr. Mo Tian worked for the program as a research fellow from November 2017 – December 2018.
Mo Tian holds a Ph.D. in history from the Australian National University (2016). His research examines the social control of rural Manchuria under Japanese occupation during 1932 and 1945. His research interest lies in the area of social change of Northeast and North China during the Japanese occupation and Republican and Communist eras. In addition, he is also interested in Chinese intellectual history, Japanese imperialism in Asia, and gender and sexuality in East Asia. Mo Tian was a teaching fellow at the Australian National University (2012-2016), a postdoctoral fellow at New York University Shanghai (2016-2017), and a research fellow at Jinan University (2017).
Selected Publications
“The condition of Asian studies in post-war Australia” for publication in eds. Asia Research Centre, Re-narrating Asian History, and Culture, Fudan University Publishing House, forthcoming in 2017, in Chinese.
Chinese translation of Babara Watson Andaya, “Response to PrasentjiDuara, ‘Asia Redux’” for publication in eds. AsiaResearch Centre, Re-narrating Asian History, and Culture, Fudan UniversityPublishing House, forthcoming in 2017.
Chinese translation of Rudolf Mrazek, “Floating. No Gears Shifting” for publication in eds. AsiaResearch Centre, Re-narrating Asian History, and Culture, Fudan University Publishing
House, forthcoming in 2017.
Chinese translation of PrasenjitDuara, “Response to Comments on ‘Asia Redux’” for publication in eds. AsiaResearch Centre, Re-narrating Asian History, and Culture, Fudan
University Publishing House, forthcoming in 2017.
“The Korean War and Manchuria: Economic and Human Effects,” in The Korean War in Asia: A Hidden History, eds. Tessa Morris-Suzuki and Adam Broinowski, Rowman &
Littlefield, forthcoming in 2017.
“The Baojia System as Institutional Control in Manchukuo under Japanese Rule (1932-45),” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Issue 4, Vol. 59, 2016, 531-554.
“A Textual Reading of My Manchuria: Idealism, Conflict and Modernity,” in Japan as the Occupier and the Occupied, eds. Christine de Matos and Mark E. Caprio, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 249-267.
“Representing Gender, Power and Body in The Wedding Banquet,” Asia Pacific World, Vol.5, No.1, Spring 2014, 110-119.
Former Program Coordinator
Julia Klingel
Julia Klingel worked for the program as a program coordinator from October 2020 – September 2021.
Oleg Vasilchenko
Oleg Vasilchenko worked for the program as a program coordinator from September 2021 to October 2023.
Former Assistants
Yasmine Nawar
Yasmine Nawar worked for the program first as a student assistant from November 2017-March 2018 and as a research assistant from April 2018 -May 2019.
Tatjana Röttger
Elaine Zhuang
Miyuki Kamiyama
Miyuki Kamiyama worked as a student assistant for the program from April 2022-March 2023.
Kseniya Moshykhina
Kseniya Moshykhina worked as a student assistant for the program from May 2022-March 2023.