Mark Yu-Shan Chen received his BA in History and BS in Chemistry from the University of Chicago, and his MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Cambridge. His research has focused on the history of chemistry in Edo, Meiji, and...
Yi Zhang holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Aesthetics from Peking University. She received her second M.A. from Regional Studies—East Asia at Harvard University. Grounded in the context of late imperial China, she intends to explore the...
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...
Queenie Luo graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in Religion and Physics in 2018, completed her M.T.S in Buddhist Studies at Harvard Divinity School in 2020, and her M.S degree in Data Science at Harvard John A. Paulson School of...
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...
Seongun Park studies the political, intellectual, and environmental history of late imperial China. His current research examines the political, epistemic, and cultural frameworks that shaped disaster discourse in China from the sixteenth to the...
Joshua Linkous is a PhD student in History and East Asian Languages, focusing on the economic, environmental, and social history of nineteenth and twentieth-century Japan. His primary region of interest is northern Tohoku (Aomori, Iwate, Akita). For his...
Cathy Shen is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) of premodern Chinese literature and comparative literature at Harvard University. She specializes in literature of the Middle Period (Six Dynasties and Tang) and is interested in poetic emotion, affect theory, genre...
