| Name | Year | School / Department |
| Jacqueline Armijo-Hussein | | Harvard University, The Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Dissertation: "Sayyid 'Ajall Shams al-Din: a Muslim from Central Asia, serving the Mongols in China, and bringing 'civilization' to Yunnan" |
| Chi-Cheng Chak | | Academia Sinica |
| Kang Chan | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dissertation: "The Uncultivated Man and the Weakness of the Ideal in Classical Chinese Philosophy" |
| Peter Chang | | Harvard University, Divinity School |
| Hsi-Yuan Chen | | Harvard University, The Committee on History and East Asian Languages Dissertation: "Confucianism encounters Religion: The Formation of Religious Discourse and the Confucian Movement in China" |
| Weigang Chen | | Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion Dissertation: "Confucian Marxism: Democracy, Hegemony, and Intellectuals in Marxist Theory" |
| Yang Cheng | | University of California at Berkeley, Asian Studies |
| Yifan Cheng | | University of California at Berkeley |
| Ping-Tzu Chu | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization Dissertation: "Traditional Building and Cultural Competition in Southern Song China (1162-1220): The Way, the Learning, and the Texts" |
| Paul Goldin | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dissertation: "The Philosophy of Xunzi" |
| Brian Hoffert | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dissertation: "Evolution in Zhuangzi's Philosophy" |
| Margaret Izutsu | | Harvard University, Divinity School Dissertation: "Bereavement in Japan: A Self-Critically Christian Appraisal of the PsychoSocial Benefits of Confucian Elements in Nominally Buddist Rites" |
| Youngmin Kim | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dissertation: "Redefining the Self's Relation to the World: A Study pf Mid-Ming Neo-Confucian Discourse" |
| Yong-Pil Kim | | Harvard University, Harvard Divinity School Dissertation: "God and Self-Cultivation in Chong Yak-yong" |
| Ming-Chun Lee | | Harvard University |
| Eske Mollgaard | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dissertation: "Aspects of Early Confucian Ethics" |
| David Mozina | | Harvard University |
| David Mungello | | The University of California at Berkeley, History Department |
| Soung Nah | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Dissertation: "Language and the Ultimate Reality in Sung Neo-Confucianism: The Nature and Inevitability of 'Ch'i'"" |
| Mary Phillips | | The American University, Department of Sociology |
| Wen-Jie Qin | | Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion Dissertation: "The Buddhist Revival in Post-Mao China: Women Reconstruct Buddhist on Mt. Emei" |
| Dominic Sachsenmaier | | Harvard University |
| Guo-Chou Shi | | Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion |
| Antwaun Smith | | Harvard University |
| Kit Smith | | The University of California at Berkeley |
| Jennie Song | | Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion Dissertation: "The Confucian Five Relationships as a Sacred Ritual" |
| Chia-Fu Sung | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations |
| Jiang Wu | | Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion Dissertation: "The Formation of a Chan Buddhist Denomination : The Early Huangbo (Obaku) School in Seventeenth-century China" |
| Baofeng Yu | | Harvard University, The Committee on the Study of Religion |
| Qin Zhou | | Harvard University, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations |
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