PhD Program (He/Him)
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- East Asia
- Economy, Technology and Society
- Empires, Colonialisms and Indigeneity
Areas of Interest
Cold War-era Taiwan and South Korea; Urban History; History of technology; Built Environment
Working Dissertation
Title
Concrete Technology and the Transitioning Urban Environment in Post-Second World War Taiwan and South Korea
Supervisors
Tong Lam
Biography
Yu-Han Huang is a historian of modern East Asia with a specialization in Taiwan and Korea under Japanese colonialism and the Cold War. His ongoing dissertation project draws on the history of Taiwanese and South Korean urbanism during the Cold War. With a particular interest in concrete as building technology and material, Yu-Han's dissertation aims to explore the interconnections between urban environment, anti-communism, and nation-building in post-World War II Taiwan and South Korea.
Awards
- 2024 Taiwanese Overseas Pioneers Grants National Science and Technology Council (Taiwan)
- 2023 Fellowship for Humanity and Social Science Doctoral Candidate Academia Sinica
- 2022 Man Family Graduate Research Scholarship in Asian Studies University of Toronto
- 2017 Robert J. Smith Fellowships in Japanese Studies Cornell University
- 2017 EAP East Asian Language Grant Cornell University
Education
MA, Cornell University
BA, MA, National Taiwan University
Cohort
- 2019-2020