2022-2023
Haruka Satake is a first year graduate student at the Elliott school of International Affairs majoring in Asian studies. She was born and raised as Zainichi Korean in Japan and graduated university in Japan. She currently studies in the Elliott School, mainly focusing on East Asia, Japan-Korean studies, and Japan affairs.
Faculty Advisor: Kuniko Ashizawa
Research Project: “Comfort Women and Women’s Rights in Taiwan”
Fall 2023 and Beyond
Haruka is currently an intern at the Council on Foreign Relations, Japan Studies Program with research fellow Sheila A. Smith. Haruka is also a Teaching Assistant of Japanese language at GW, and the Vice President of the Organization of Asian Studies (OAS). After graduation this winter, Haruka will participate a fellowship program at the Reischauer Center of East Asian Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Anais Szu Yin Fang is a senior B.A. candidate at the George Washington University’s Elliott School, pursuing a degree in International Affairs, concentrating in Asia Studies, and minoring in Peace Studies. As a first–generation immigrant from Taiwan, Anais harbors a deep passion for strengthening the diplomatic relationship between the U.S. and the Indo–Pacific. For Fall 2022, her placement is at the Global Taiwan Institute, where she works to promote intercultural awareness and create tangible policy solutions through her research.
Faculty Advisor: Robert Sutter
Research Project: “Education Reform and National Identity- the Evolving State of Peace in the Taiwan Strait”
Her TERP project examines the impact of evolving education initiatives on Taiwanese national identity, and the effect of these shifting identities on the state of peace in the Taiwan Strait.
Fall 2023 and Beyond
Since the TERP fellowship, Anais has continued to deepen her understanding of Taiwan by participating in the Annual North American Taiwan Studies Association’s Annual Conference, where Anais had the pleasure of serving as a presenter and panelist. The opportunity to share Anais’ research insights and collaborate with fellow academics who are similarly interested in Taiwan studies drew a wonderful period to her undergraduate research project. Since then, Anais has been working full-time as a Legal Analyst at a law firm in DC. As Anais prepares to apply for Law School, she hopes to incorporate her passion for Taiwan and Asia Studies into her future legal practice. Ultimately, Anais’ time as a TERP fellow has been an excellent experience, and she would encourage anyone interested in Taiwan Studies to consider the program.
Elissa DeTellis is an undergraduate student at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in Communication and Chinese with a minor in Photography. Elissa is interested in food studies, East Asian cultures, and intercultural communication. In 2022, she had the opportunity to study Chinese for six months in Taiwan and intern with a Taiwanese food and beverage company.
Faculty Advisor: Savreen Hundal
Research Project: “Understanding the Relationship Between Taiwanese Beverages and National Identity”
During her TERP Fellowship, Elissa will be using a food studies perspective to study Taiwanese national identity, with a focus on beverage culture. She will also be exploring what values there are about beverage quality and how this influences national gastronomic pride.
Faculty Advisors
Robert Sutter is Professor of Practice of International Affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University (2011-Present ). He also served as Director of the School’s main undergraduate program involving over 2,000 students from 2013-2019. His earlier full-time position was Visiting Professor of Asian Studies at Georgetown University (2001-2011).
A Ph.D. graduate in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University, Sutter has published 22 books (four with multiple editions), over 300 articles and several hundred government reports dealing with contemporary East Asian and Pacific countries and their relations with the United States. His most recent book is Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy of an Emerging Global Force, Fifth Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2021).
Sutter’s government career (1968-2001) saw service as senior specialist and director of the Foreign Affairs and National Defense Division of the Congressional Research Service, the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and the Pacific at the US Government’s National Intelligence Council, the China division director at the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and professional staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Kuniko Ashizawa, who has a doctorate in international relations, has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience on Japan’s foreign policy, international relations of East Asia, and global governance, for which she has published a number of academic journal articles and book chapters, including in International Studies Review, Pacific Affairs, the Pacific Review, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development. She was a visiting fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the East-West Center in Washington, and the Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies, SAIS. Dr. Ashizawa previously taught at Oxford Brookes University in the UK.
Savreen Hundal received her Bachelors of Science in Psychology from the University of Mary Washington. Later, she attended Boston University and received her Masters Degree in General Psychology. Before pursuing her doctorate in Communication at the University of Maryland, she simultaneously worked at the Emotion and Culture lab at Georgetown University as a Researcher/Lab Manager and the National Library of Medicine where she studied the role of health science in society and how it shaped reasoning and decision making mechanisms. She is also a Part-Time GW faculty member in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences.
