Mayako Liu

Mayako Liu is a third-year PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages (HEAL), specializing in modern Korean and Japanese history. Her prospective dissertation topic looks at tourism as a lens into cultural representation and identity formation in colonial Korea during wartime mobilization. She approaches these issues through a cultural-historical framework, informed by gender and media studies perspectives. Her interest also extends to contemporary popular culture, where she examines how Japanese K-Pop artists negotiate and construct their transnational identities. Mayako received her BA from International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan, and her AM from Regional Studies – East Asia from Harvard University.