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56 results for "History of Science"

56 results for "History of Science"

Mark Yu-Shan Chen

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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...

Wenxin Xiao

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Wenxin Xiao's research focuses on the social and cultural history of late imperial China. She received a bachelor's degree in History and Data Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.A. in RSEA from Harvard. Her previous work includes a...

History 1023. Japan 101: Japan in Asia and the World

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Prof. David Howell Prof. Andrew Gordon Japan is a collection of islands, but its past and present unfolds through continuous interaction with wider worlds. This course places Japan in contexts of Asian and global history. It begins with the people...

Jia Jia Zhang '20

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Harvard College ’20 (Quincy House) AB, East Asian Studies In her Sophomore year, Jia Jia chose to concentrate in Human Evolutionary Biology—not quite fully knowing what the concentration entailed. However, after taking the sophomore tutorial, she realized...

Queenie Luo

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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...

Sun Joo Kim

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Sun Joo Kim is Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. After completing an undergraduate degree in history at Yonsei University, she received a master’s degree and Ph...

Shigehisa Kuriyama

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Shigehisa Kuriyama received his A.B. degree from Harvard's Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1977 and an A.M. degree in 1978. After completing acupuncture studies in Tokyo, he entered Harvard's Department of the History of Science...

Carter Eckert (1945-2024)

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Carter J. Eckert was born in Chicago and trained in European ancient and medieval history at Lawrence College in Wisconsin, and also at Harvard. He subsequently developed a strong interest in Korea and East Asia as a result of his experience as a Peace...

Graduate Program

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Welcome to the graduate program in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. The program offers the Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC) in the principal fields of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literature; Chinese...

Hannah Waight '10

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Harvard College ’10 (Currier House) AB, East Asian Studies AM, RSEA '14 I came to Harvard knowing that I wanted to continue studying Chinese, having begun learning the language in high school. It was an introduction to Chinese history offered by EALC...

James Robson Tapped As New Asia Center Faculty Director

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James Robson recently agreed to serve as the Victor and William Fung Director of the Harvard University Asia Center for a three-year term. Professor Robson is the James C. Kralik and Yunli Lou Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations. He...

Three Professors Honored with Named Professorships

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Three faculty members in EALC have recently been awarded named professorships by Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Claudine Gay and Provost Alan M. Garber: David Howell, the Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of Japanese History...