Ethan Chiang ‘27

Ethan Chiang is a sophomore from Toronto, Canada majoring in business analytics and global affairs. He is working with Professor Victoria Tin-bor Hui to conduct archival research on the history of the Jesuit cartography of the Chinese empire, as well as on early transmissions between Europe and Asia. Additionally, Chiang is an Ethics Research Fellow with the Notre Dame Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, where he is researching the tensions between cultural traditions and individual rights in the realm of international law and neoliberal governance. In Spring 2024, he participated in the Nanovic Institute’s Berlin seminar, where he traveled to Germany to investigate European policy and attitudes towards refugees particularly in the wake of the Syrian and the Russo-Ukrainian wars. In that vein, he has worked as a Research Assistant for the Nanovic Institute and Klau Institute on issues surrounding human rights, racial and religious equality, and refugee protection. Chiang received the 2024 Hesburgh Library Research Award for his research paper on the efficacy of power-sharing agreements in ethnically plural post-conflict societies.