International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching

Welcome to the International Network to Expand Regional and Collaborative Teaching (INTERACT) program at Columbia University.

INTERACT is a pioneering program at Columbia University that focuses on developing global studies in the undergraduate curriculum through a network of postdoctoral scholars focused on cross-regional, trans-regional and interdisciplinary study. Each year, postdoctoral scholars are selected by centers and institutes across the University, and function as liaisons between their home office and the INTERACT network of scholars.

INTERACT’s primary goal is to improve global literacy among Columbia students and equip them to be leaders in a globalizing world. These objectives will be met through innovative courses, participating in campus programs and events, and an annual educator workshop organized collaboratively by INTERACT Fellows.

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute is proud to be a founding member of the INTERACT Network, and each year recruits one highly qualified candidate for the position. Prospective applicants can find out more here. *The INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellowship will not be available during the 2018-19 academic year.*

Program Information

Capitalism and Authoritarianism - Zhanara Nauruzbayeva

Cultures of Empire - Reto Hofmann

East Asia and the Rise of the Middle Class - Jamyung Choi

East Asia in the Long Cold War, 1945-2010s - Victor Louzon

Empires in the Formation of Modern East Asia, 1700-1950 - Victor Louzon

Gender and Development in Southeast Asia - Krisy Kelly

Gendered Migration in Transnational Asia - Hsun-Hui Tseng

History of Political Thought in Modern East Asia – A Thematic Introduction - Victor Louzon

Islam, Democracy and Secularism in Southeast Asia - Saskia Schaefer

Modernity and Nation - Reto Hofmann

Nation, State, Ethnicity and Transnational Communities in insular Southeast Asia - Saskia Schaefer

Politics of Identity in Africa - Etienne Smith

Power, Democracy and Legitimacy in Southeast Asia - Andrew Johnson

State and Society in Southeast Asia - Kristy Kelly

Transnational Genre: Documentary Film - Shi-Yan Chao

U.S.-Asian Relations in Global Perspective - Steffen Rimner

Unequal Geographies: Asia and the Making of an Inter-regional World - Steffen Rimner

Unequal Geographies: Key Concepts in Conceiving the Global - Hsun-Hui Tseng & Michael R. Griffiths

Links to Teaching Resources Developed by the INTERACT Program

After Total War: Mobilization and its Aftermath in the Japanese Wartime Empire (2017)

Fascism in East Asia (2018)

We are not currently accepting applications for this fellowship. Please check back in the future.

Andrew Johnson - 2012-13 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Southeast Asia Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Etienne Smith - 2010-2012 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, The Committee on Global Thought (not Center)

Ginger Nolan - 2015-16 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Hsun-hui Tseng - 2012-13 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Jamyung Choi - 2014-15 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Kristy E. Kelly - Associate Research Scholar Research Interests: Globalization/development/post-socialist transformation in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, gender and feminism studies, sociology of education, and politics of knowledge

Mehmet Dosemeci - 2011-2012 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Michael Griffiths - 2012-14 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society

Nicola Contessi - 2014-15 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Harriman Institute

Reto Hofmann - 2010-2012 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Rune Steenberg Reyhe - 2015-17 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow at the Harriman Institute. Research Interests: Kinship, exchange, Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan, China, Xinjiang, money/finance, border trade, social networks and community

Sanjay Pinto - 2013-14 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Committee on Global Thought

Saskia Schäfer - 2013-14 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Southeast Asia Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Shi-Yan Chao - 2013-14 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Steffen Rimner - 2015-16 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Victor Louzon - 2016-18 INTERACT Postdoctoral Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. Research Interests: History of China and Taiwan; war and cultural demobilizations; colonial and postcolonial history; violence and war

Zhanara Nauruzbayeva - 2011-13 INTERACT Postdoctoral Fellow, The Harriman Institute

INTERACT Events and Workshops 2015-2018

2017

May 13 After Total War: Mobilization and its Aftermath in the Japanese Wartime Empire

April 13 Fascism in East Asia: New Approaches in Research and Teaching

2016

March 24 Field and Archive: An Historical-Anthropological Dialogue on Research, Ethics, and Knowledge.

May 10 Teaching Asia in a Global Age: The Challenges Ahead

November 3 The Last Battle of the Sino-Japanese War? The February 28 Incident in Taiwan, 1947

2015

April 21 New Directions in Japanese History

December 9 A Stroll, A Kidnap, A Revolution: The Perils of Asian Transnationalism. Steffen Rimner