2025-2026

Nathan Oliveira

Nathan Oliveira, Business Manager in the Department of History, kindly supports the Asian Studies Group by coordinating the administrative processes for our annual symposium. We are proud of having him in our team!

Anthony Frasca

Anthony Frasca, Undergraduate Program Coordinator in the Department of History, kindly supports the Asian Studies Group by assisting with the logistical arrangements for our annual symposium. We are proud to have him on our team!

Rhonda Ran Huo 霍然

Rhonda is a PhD student in EALC at UIUC. Her research focuses on how Qing imperial publications on the borderlands shaped Han Chinese perceptions of the Qing as a multi-ethnic empire. She is excited to be part of the Asian Studies Group, as it is a great platform for students to learn from each other and engage in communication.

Her website: https://ealc.illinois.edu/directory/profile/ranhuo2

Luming Xu

Born and raised in China’s Northeast, I am interested in the history of my homeland and the coming into being of this region, both politically and intellectually. In history, the place of China’s Northeast, also known as Manchuria, was both the center of the Qing empire’s homeland and the important borderland of modern China. I am now working on the history of China’s political transformation from an empire into a modern nation state, and how that grand process of historical change intertwined with the regional history of Manchuria through the periods of empire, nation-states, and colonial times from the nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. https://ealc.illinois.edu/directory/profile/lumingx2

Jinju Wu

https://ealc.illinois.edu/directory/profile/jinjuwu2