Man Hei Chan (Jacky) is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research focuses on the limits and emancipatory potentials of pathologization language in politics. He examines how mental disorder categories conditions our way of understanding and doing politics. He has taught at Queens College, Lehman College, and Stern College for Women
Sandra Davidovic is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the Graduate Center, CUNY, focusing on Comparative Politics and International Relations. Her dissertation examines how non-state political orders in North Kosovo and Transnistria shape stability after state collapse. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Harriman Institute, Columbia University, and has carried out extensive fieldwork in the Balkans. Sandra teaches International Relations and Comparative Politics at Hunter College (CUNY) and Fordham University. Her research interests include state collapse, state-building, and post-conflict governance, with a focus on the post-Yugoslav region.
Dahye Lee (이다혜) is a PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center, CUNY. A native of South Korea, she is a lifelong practitioner of Korean dance. Her research engages East Asian dance, corporeality, and performance in the more-than-human world. Her dissertation examines the emergence of changjak chum, a Korean dance form that developed in the 1970s as an inquiry into new Koreanness in post-independence, post-division South Korea. Her work is forthcoming in Theatre Journal and Asian Theatre Journal (2026). She has taught theatre and dance at City College of New York and Queens College, CUNY.
Yeshan Qian is a Ph.D. candidate in educational psychology program at The Graduate Center, CUNY and a Writing Across the Curriculum fellow at Lehman College, CUNY. Yeshan Qian’s research interests focus on Chinese immigrant families’ Chinese heritage language preservation and education to the next generations of Chinese immigrant children. Her current research explores the role of peer collaboration in Chinese immigrant children’s Chinese heritage language use, learning, education and development, in the context of meaningful peer collaborative writing activities in the classroom settings at the Chinese language school in New York.
Yingshihan Zhu (Shihan) is a PhD Candidate in Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center, where she also earned a graduate certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. Her research explores the moral, epistemic, and sociopolitical implications of power dynamics within and between differently situated social groups. Shihan strives to make philosophy accessible and meaningful to every student, and her pedagogical approach emphasizes student-centered, skill-based, and justice-oriented learning. She has taught at Baruch College, Hamilton College Summer Program in Philosophy, and NYU. Outside of philosophy, Shihan enjoys growing avocados and taking long walks in the woods.
