Maxim Korolkov

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Feng Li
Email: mk3363@columbia.edu

Maxim received his B.A. in history from Moscow State University (2007) and M.A. in Chinese history from Beijing University (2011). As a doctoral student in Columbia University, he is exploring the administrative organization and economic management in the early Chinese empire of Qin (221-210 B.C.) as reflected in the archive of Qianling County excavated from the remains of the Qin fortified settlement at Liye, Hunan Province. Maxim is particularly interested in the organization of production, accumulation, storage, and distribution of food and other material resources; official communication and transportation; management of labor; operation of monetary economy; and government intervention into local economic activities. He is also interested in possible implications of the existing theories of social power and anthropological research on the construction of value in various societies for the interpretation of the ancient Chinese paleographic documents.

Noga Ganany

Field: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Shang Wei
Email: ng2413@columbia.edu

 

 

 

Noga is a PhD candidate in Chinese Studies. She is currently writing her dissertation, which examines hagiographic narratives in the context of late-Ming print culture and lay religious practice. Before joining the program, Noga received her BA and MA from Tel Aviv University, Israel, and in between studied at Xiamen University. Her master’s thesis explored the literary tradition and religious worship of judge Bao-gong in late imperial and modern China and Taiwan. She is interested in late-imperial Chinese cultural history, and in particular the dynamics between literature and religion.

Clay Eaton

Field: Japanese History
Advisor: Carol Gluck
Email: cke2104@columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

Clay Eaton received his B.A. from Lewis & Clark College in 2007, where he studied International Relations, History, and Japanese. Before beginning his graduate studies he spent two years teaching English in Hyogo, Japan. He began working on his PhD at Columbia in 2010. His MA Thesis (2012) addressed the construction and public use of three monuments built in Singapore under British, Japanese, and PAP rule. His dissertation focuses on social policies implemented by the Japanese administration of Singapore during the Second World War. Using Japanese, Chinese, and Malay sources, he studies both the intricacies of Japanese policy-making and diverse local responses to the administration’s initiatives.