Graduate Students

Ben Hales

bhales@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/China

Ben Hales entered Harvard’s History and East Asian Languages (HEAL) program in 2024. He researches the modern history of China’s relationship with Central Asia, focussing in particular on settler-indigenous and sedentary-pastoral relations from the 1940s...

Sujin Elisa Han

han@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/Korea

Sujin Elisa Han is a PhD candidate in History and East Asian Languages. She is currently working on her dissertation, which traces the history of the pharmaceutical market in South Korea to examine changing conceptions and aesthetics of health. Sujin has...

Henry Jacobs

hjacobs@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Philosophy

Henry Jacobs received his BA and MSt in Chinese Studies from The University of Oxford, where his work focused on Early and Early Medieval text cultures and knowledge production. His doctoral research broadly concerns the reconstruction of Early Chinese...

Kaia Johnson

kaiajohnson@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature

Kaia Johnson's research focuses on gender and sexuality in Ming & Qing dynasty literature. Before coming to Harvard, she studied Chinese Language and Culture as well as Psychology at U.C. Berkeley, before earning her M.A. in Chinese literature at Stanford...

William Julian

williamjulian@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/China

William Julian’s work concerns the changes in perceptions and portrayals of the northwest ( 西北) during the Republican Period. He seeks to locate these sources not only within broader Chinese discourses on borderlands, but also within their global context...

Jonah Katz

jonahkatz@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature

Jonah Katz is a student of late imperial Chinese literature. He received his M.A. in Chinese Literature from National Taiwan University and an Honors B.A. in Asian Studies from the University of Utah. His current research focuses on the history of the...

Shae (Chae Lin) Kim

shaekim@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student in Korean Literature

Shae (Chae Lin) Kim received her B.A. in Asian Studies and a Master's degree in Korean literature from Yonsei University. In her master's thesis, she examined a 17th-century poetry book created for a courtesan, known as the Poetry Book for Chosaeng...

Mari Kishi

marikishi@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in East Asian Arts/Film/Cultural Studies

Mari Kishi is a queer film and media scholar from Japan. They received their BA in Law from Kyoto University and their MA in Film and Media Studies from New Sorbonne University (Paris 3), where they wrote their thesis on the star persona of Japanese...

Benjamin Orion Landauer

benjaminlandauer@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in Chinese Literature

Benjamin Orion Landauer studies Chinese poetry, with a primary interest in authorial identity and compositional practices in Medieval poetry. They also research modern Chinese poetry from the Republican and Post-socialist periods, and have spent time...

SangJae Lee

sangjaelee@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/Korea

SangJae Lee studied Korean history in Seoul National University, with a focus on intellectual history of Chosŏn dynasty. His interest lies from the mid-nineteenth century to early twentieth century, the period which usually being defined as ‘transitional...

Mengyuan Li

mengyuanli@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student in Chinese History

Mengyuan Li 李梦媛 received her B.A. in Chinese History from Nankai University and her M.A. in Asian Studies from the University of British Columbia. Her Master's thesis examines the intellectual development of the prominent seventeenth-century Chinese...

Tien Yi Li

tienyili@fas.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Candidate in HEAL/China

Tien Yi is a PhD Student in History and East Asian Languages, specializing in the intellectual and cultural history of Modern China. He is especially interested in the hermeneutical gap between the inner lives of historical actors and the historians’...