Dr. Qingming Huang received his Ph.D. from the University of Florida in 2022. He is a Junior Fellow at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University. He was a Rothman Doctoral Fellow at the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida and a Special Researcher at the Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies at Seoul National University. His research interests include politics in East Asia and Eastern Europe, political and economic transition, ethnicity and nationalism, and international order. His work has been published in the Journal of Chinese Political Science and Communist and Post-Communist Studies. Prior to his Ph.D., he received his BA from the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at Xiamen University (2007) and worked as a journalist and editor covering China news and international news (2007-2015).