Students

Barnard College, B.A in Asian & Middle Eastern Cultures, 2025 Medieval China: social and cultural history; conflicts and confluences of Buddhist and non-Buddhist traditions; elite culture

University of Notre Dame, B.A. in Art History (Honors), Supplementary Major in Asian Studies, 2025 China: Modern contemporary Chinese art and visual culture , urban phenomenology , intermediality

(he/him) Johns Hopkins University, B.A. Honors degree in History and International Studies, 2024 China: My research focuses on the transnational and cultural history of late imperial China and late Victorian Britain. I am interested in their perceptions...

(he/him/his) University of Tokyo, B.A Liberal Arts, 2023 China and Japan: Xiaolong Yang’s research interests lie in applied statistics with applications in social sciences. Primarily, he is interested in political methodology focusing on the intersections...

Harvard University, AB 2026 China, Inner Asia: Uyghur intellectual history, migration, nationalism, Cold War Central Asia, Islamic studies

(she/her) Renmin University of China, B.A. Chinese Classics China: My research interest lies in premodern and early modern Asia from the thirteenth to eighteenth century, with a particular focus on the material and cultural exchanges between the...

(she/her/hers) Oberlin College, B.A. East Asian Studies and Psychology, 2021 Japan and China: Religious history; visual and material culture; Sino-Japanese cultural exchanges; historical board games and cosmograms; ritual and play; everyday religion

Dartmouth College, Class of 2024, A.B. in Art History and A.B. in Computer Science China and Japan: Ink Painting; Religious Visual Culture; Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Art; Transnational Artistic Narratives; Contemporary Art.

Sun Yat-Sen University, B.A. Chinese Language and Literature, Minor in History, 2025 China: Twentieth-century East Asian literature and revolutions, intellectual and cultural history, Sino-Japanese cultural exchange, critical theory. I currently focus on...

New York University, B.A. with Honors in Anthropology, Minors in Archaeology and History, 2026 China: Chinese Bronze Age archaeology; zooarchaeology; Shang animal economies; bone-working technology; ritual practice; formation of early complex societies