Current Graduate Students
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Aricanli, Sare | aricanli@princeton.edu | Sare Aricanli is currently working on late imperial Chinese history, more specifically medicine in the Ming and Qing. Her research project is on the social and cultural history of the Imperial Academy of Medicine..more |
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Boyd, David | davidgb@princeton.edu |
David Boyd is primarily interested in modern Japanese fiction, literary aesthetics and translation studies. At present, his research focuses on postwar essays by Ito Sei, Hirano Ken and other critics...more |
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Brightwell, Erin | ebrightw@princeton.edu | Erin Brightwell's research interests are in classical Japanese literature, specifically setsuwa written in the late Heian and early Kamakura periods. She focuses on the relationship between...more |
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Burton-Rose, Daniel | dburton@princeton.edu | Daniel Burton-Rose completed his M.A. in Asian Studies (University of Colorado, Boulder) in 2009. His thesis, “Integrating Inner Alchemy into Late Ming Cultural History,” is a...more |
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eun@princeton.edu |
My research concerns cinema culture and filmic experience in Japan from the late colonial period through the post war. For my master thesis in the University of Tokyo, I studied Japanese national film archives and their national and local narratives...more |
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Compton, Eno | compton@princeton.edu | Eno Compton's primary field is classical Japanese literature, with minor fields in medieval Chinese literature, and literary theory and criticism. Eno is interested in narratology, figurality, and word play in a wide range of texts both Japanese and Chinese...more |
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Duffy, Kay | kjd@princeton.edu |
Kay Duffy comes to the EAS department from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she completed her M.A. in Chinese literature in 2012. Her research interests include literary aspects of historical writing in early medieval China... more
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Ericson, Kjell | kericson@princeton.edu | Kjell Ericson's research interests focus around legal history and the history of the physical and life sciences, most often in Japan but sometimes in other places too. For my dissertation I am delving into the history of cultured pearls... more |
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Goto, Miyabi | mgoto@princeton.edu |
Miyabi Goto's research interests include criticism and literary debates in modern Japan. In the academic year 2011-12, in her attempt to familiarize herself more with different methodologies...more |
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Greenstein, Elijah | egreenst@princeton.edu |
Elijah Greenstein earned his B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010 after completing a thesis on Chinese reactions to Japanese imperialism in Northeast China... more
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Guo, Jinsong | jinsongg@princeton.edu |
Jinsong Guo's main field of interest is history of science in China, with a research focus on astronomy / astrology and chronography in early and middle imperial period. ... more
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Han, Songyeol | songyeol@princeton.edu | Songyeol Han graduated with a B.A in Korean History (Seoul National University). His major field of interest is cultural and intellectual history of modern Japan and Korea, with particular focus on Korea's modernization and post-coloniality...more |
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Hayashi, Kaoru | khayashi@princeton.edu | Kaoru Hayashi was born and raised in Gifu, Japan, and worked at TV broadcasting for six years before I finally realized my dream to study in the United States...more |
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Kaup, Claire |
ckaup@princeton.edu |
Claire Kaup's major field of interest is the intersectionality of law and postwar Japanese literature, with particular focus on war responsibility and the "performance" of guilt and innocence in the novel...more |
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Lei, Qinyuan |
qlei@princeton.edu |
Qinyuan Lei received her B.A. in Comparative Literature (Brandeis University), with a thesis on the nonidentitarian subjectivity of Japanese women writers as it is manifested in their literary works and politics...more |
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Li, Zhengjie | zhengjie@princeton.edu | Zhengjie Li completed her B.A. in Sociology through the interdisciplinary Yuanpei Program at Peking University, China. At Princeton, she wants to continue exploring starvation, eating and social transformation in modern...more |
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Lue, Brent | blue@princeton.edu | Brent Lue received his B.A. in Economics and East Asian Studies in 2011 (McGill University). Brent’s primary research interests involve the study of economic and social violence, nationalism and state formation, minority identity, sexuality, race, and gender in modern Japan...more |
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Luo, Yiyi | yiyiluo@princeton.edu | Yiyi Luo completed her BA in Chinese Literature (Fudan University) in 2008 and her M.A. in Asian Studies (University of Colorado, Boulder) in 2011. Her research interests are medieval Chinese literature and history, with a primary focus on medieval Chinese poetry..more |
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Mayo, Christopher | cmayo@princeton.edu | Christopher Mayo earned his B.A. (1996) and M.A. (2007) in East Asian Languages and Cultures (University of Kansas), and he joined the East Asian Studies program at Princeton in...more |
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Mazanec, Tom | tmazanec@princeton.edu | Tom Mazanec received his B.A. in Chinese and English in 2007 (Calvin College) and his M.A. in Comparative Literature in 2011 (University of Colorado, Boulder). His research is primarily focused on Tang Dynasty poetry and translation theory...more |
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Melzer, Juergen Paul | jmelzer@Princeton.edu | Juergen Paul Melzer (Japanese History) is an international student from Germany. In 2006 he received his B.A. Japanese from SOAS, University of London. Juergen then...more |
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Moore, Cameron | cameronm@princeton.edu | Cameron Moore specializes in Early China, with a focus on the late Eastern Han and Three Kingdoms periods. Cameron was born in Southern California, raised in...more |
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Ribbing Gren, Magnus | mribbing@princeton.edu | Magnus Ribbing Gren studied literary theory and Chinese for two years at Lund University (Sweden). He then spent another two years at Beijing Normal University studying Chinese literature before earning his MA in Sinology at SOAS (London)...more |
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Soderblom Saarela, Marten Hans | msoderbl@princeton.edu | My research interests include the history of scholarship in the Qing empire (1644–1911). I'm working on a dissertation on lexicography and phonology in China's long eighteenth century...more |
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Su, Yangyang | ysu@princeton.edu | Yangyang Su (Chinese History) is an international student from mainland China. After receiving his B.A. in History, (Nanjing University)...more |
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Valmisa, Mercedes | mvalmisa@princeton.edu |
Mercedes Valmisa received two BAs, one in Philosophy (University of Seville) and another one in East Asian Studies (Autonomous University of Madrid). She intends to investigate in depth the concept of Adaptation, as well as its connection with the pre-Qin idea of freedom...more |
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Vantournhout, Sara | svantour@princeton.edu | Sara Vantournhout's current research interests are largely - though not exclusively - confined to early Chinese literature and philosophy. Sara is particularly interested in the dialectical themes of memory and forgetting embedded within ancient Chinese...more |
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Weil, Dror | dweil@princeton.edu | Dror Wei received his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Economics (Tel Aviv University), and my M.A. in History (Taiwan’s National Cheng-Chi University), with the thesis “Reconsidering the Cultural Identity of Kaifeng Jewish Descendants during the 14th-17th Centuries.”...more |
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Ye, Minlei | minleiye@princeton.edu | Minlei Ye's main interests include cultural history and literature in modern China. Minlei's dissertation will focus on traditional Chinese opera amateurs 1900-1950...more |
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Young, William Evan | wyoung@princeton.edu | Evan Young is currently a doctoral candidate where he studies the history of Japan, China, and Korea. His main research focus is the history of illness and therapy in early modern Japan... more |
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Zheng, Xinxian | xinxianz@princeton.edu | After coming to Princeton in 2009, Xinxian has been developing her interest in Chinese history, Japanese history, and history of science. Her dissertation examines the history related to the first state-sponsored agricultural garden in China...more |