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Department/College/UnitGraduate Studies Division

TitlePh.D Student; Teaching Assistant

AffiliationGraduate

Additional Location(s)Online

Office HoursSpring 2025: Tuesday 12-1pm or by appointment.

Mail StopHistory Department

Biography, Education and Training

M.A., University of Toronto, St. George (2017-2019)

B.A. (Honors), University of Toronto, St. George (2014-2017)

Research Interests

Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese museums, Japanese colonialism, Japanese colonialism in Korea, Japan-Korea relations, popular culture, psotwar Japan, decolonization, peace and human rights, grassroots activism, museum studies, national identity, folk crafts and art, Japanese architecture, nationalism, nation-building, historiography

Awards, Honors and Grants

• The Humanities Institute Fellowship (2022-2023)
• Chizuru Suzuki Memorial Scholarship in Japanese Literature and Japanese Studies (2018)
• The Dr. David Chu Scholarship in Asia-Pacific Studies (2018)
• Canadian Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC) (2017-2018)
• The Tsutae and Hanako Sato Scholarship in Japanese (2017)
• Ross H. Macdonald Scholarship (2015)
• Dr. Goldwin S. French Scholarship (2014-2015)

Selected Presentations

The Humanities Institute Graduate Symposium, May 2024  (University of California, Santa Cruz, CA)

• "Breaking the Glass Case: Memory-Making, Imperialism, and Decolonization in Postwar Japanese Museums”

Harvard East Asia Society Graduate Conference, February 8-9, 2020 (Harvard University, Cambridge, MA)

• "Displaying Colonial Korea: Borders Within and Without the Mingeikan"

New Frontiers Graduate Conference in History, February 22-24, 2018 (York University, Toronto, ON)

• "Crafting the Japanese Empire: The politics of Space in 'Appreciating' the Folk"

Selected Publications

Wang, Christina Mengying (2025) "Reimagining Decolonization in East Asia: The Mingeikan and Memories of Japan’s Colonization of Korea," Kritika Kultura: No. 46, Article 21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13185/1656-152X.2170