E-mail: hardina.ohl@mahidol.edu
+66 (0) 2700 5000, Ext. 1616

Education

• B.A. Sinology and Cultural Studies (Humboldt University Berlin)
• International Chinese Language Program (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• M.Sc. Asian Politics (SOAS, University of London)
• PhD Politics and International Studies (SOAS, University of London)

Areas of Research Interest

• Identity
• The Politics of Memory
• Cultural and Political Dimensions of Tourism
• Borderlands
• East Asia

Course Taught

• ICIR 203 Foundations of Political Thought
• ICIR 235 Strategic Networks in Asia-Pacific
• ICIR 324 Society and Technology in the Modern World
• ICIR 325 Migration, Diaspora and the Politics of Space
• ICIR 326 Contemporary China
• ICIR 333 The Politics of Memory in Asia

Publications

• Zhang, J. J. and Ohlendorf, H. 2022. ‘The not-so-great rapprochement: Taming and consuming Chiang Kai-shek in Cross-Strait rapprochement tourism’, East Asian Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 8(1). pp. 109-130.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2020. Book review of The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. International Journal of Taiwan Studies. Vol. 3 (1). pp. 167-170.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2018. ‘Memorial Cultures in Democratic South Korea and Taiwan.’ Research Symposion of the Asia Culture Center. Gwangju: Asia Culture Center.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2018. ‘Studying Taiwan: The Politics of Area Studies in the United States and Europe’, in W. Richter, E. Koldunova and A. Tzeng (Eds.), Framing Asian Studies: Institutions: Geopolitics and Institutions. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 142-162.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2017. ‘Building a New Academic Field: The Institutionalization of Taiwan Studies in Europe’, International Journal of Asia Pacific Studies, 13 (2), 115-140. https://doi.org/10.21315/ijaps2017.13.2.6.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2014. ‘The Taiwan Dilemma in Chinese Nationalism’, Asian Survey, 54 (3), 471-491.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2014. Book review of China Goes Global: The Partial Power by David Shambaugh, Silpakorn University International Journal of Social Sciences, 14 (3), 193-198.
• Ohlendorf, H. 2012. The construction of Taiwan identity in the global field of Taiwan Studies. PhD dissertation. London: SOAS, University of London.