Tina Chen
Director, Global Asias Initiative
Editor, Verge: Studies in Global Asias
tcg3@psu.edu

Jess Rafalko
Verge Managing Editor
verge@psu.edu

Kenta Tokushige
Global Asias Initiative Project Manager
gai@psu.edu

Global Asias Initiative Faculty Advisory Board

Charlotte D. Eubanks
Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies

Shuang Shen
Comparative Literature and Chinese

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Erica F. Brindley
Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy

Verge Penn State Editorial Collective

Jonathan E. Abel
Comparative Literature and Japanese

Kathlene Baldanza
History and Asian Studies

Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Asian Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Erica F. Brindley
Asian Studies, History, and Philosophy

Charlotte D. Eubanks
Comparative Literature, Japanese, and Asian Studies

Jooyeon Rhee
Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Chang Tan
Art History and Asian Studies

Nicolai Volland
Asian Studies and Comparative Literature

Ran Zwigenberg
Asian Studies, History, and Jewish Studies

Li (Lily) Wong
(2025), Literature and Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies, American University

Sugata Bose
(2025), History, Harvard University

Ronak K. Kapadia
(2025) Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago

Paul D. Barclay
(2025), History, Lafayette College

Nitasha Tamar Sharma
(2025), African American Studies and Asian American Studies, Northwestern University

Bakirathi Mani
(2025), English, Swarthmore College

Corey Byrnes
(2026), Asian Languages and Cultures & Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University

Elmo Gonzaga
(2026), Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hsinya Huang
(2026), American and Comparative Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University

Erin Suzuki
(2026), Literature, University of California San Diego

Chih-Ming Wang
(2026), Literature and Cultural Studies, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica

Wesley Attewell
(2027) Geography, The University of Hong Kong

Michael R. Jin
(2027) Global Asian Studies and History, University of Illinois Chicago

Jinah Kim
(2027) Cultural Studies, Transpacific Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, California State University, Northridge

Aleksandra Kobiljski
(2027) History, French National Center for Scientific Research

Juno Salazar Parrenas
(2027) Science and Technology Studies and Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Cornell University