Current Graduate Students
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Admussen, Nicholas | admussen@princeton.edu | Nick Admussen's dissertation is titled "Recite and Refuse: Contemporary Chinese Prose Poetry." It examines the intertextuality, transnationality and intersubjectivity of prose poems...more |
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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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Bridges, William | wbridges@princeton.edu | William Bridges specializes in 20th-century Japanese literature. His dissertation, Playing in the Shadows: Blackness and the Postwar Japanese Literary Imagination, investigates the role of African American literature and literati in the production of postwar Japanese literature...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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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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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 contemporary literary theory. She hopes to immerse herself more in these fields and also to expand her understanding of how they inform one another...more |
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Gregory, Scott | scottg@princeton.edu | Scott Gregory's primary research interests are in Ming and Qing vernacular fiction, fiction commentary, and the history of the book. He is currently completing a dissertation titled “From the Center to the Margins: The Social and Commercial Transformation of the Shuihu zhuan,” ...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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Hunter, Michael J. | mjhunter@princeton.edu | After graduating from in 2000 with a degree in Greek and Philosophy (Swarthmore College), Mick lived in Japan for five years, during which time he earned an M.A. in Japanese...more |
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Lei, Qinyuan |
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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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Ro, Sangho | sro@princeton.edu | Sangho Ro studies the history of child protection movement and children education in colonial Korea. Sangho's research questions are; how did colonial state and society understand the...more |
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Soderblom Saarela, Marten Hans | msoderbl@princeton.edu | Mårten Söderblom Saarela received his M.A. in Sinology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London). He plans to continue his studies of the intellectual history of late imperial China, and hopes to embark on the study of Korean history...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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Yang, Zhiyi | zhiyiy@princeton.edu | Zhiyi received her B.A. in humanities (literature, history, and philosophy), and M.A. in comparative literature (Peking University). She has been working on pre-modern Chinese literature especially that from the early period to the 13th century....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 | William Young is interested in the history of science and medicine in East Asia. More specifically, William is beginning research on the topic of medicine and healing practices during the...more |
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Zheng, Xinxian | xinxianz@princeton.edu | Xinxian Zheng graduated in 2007 with a B.A. in History (Nanjing University). Before coming to Princeton, Xinxian also spent one year at the University of Tokyo as an exchange student and two...more |