Nicole Roldan

Mackenzie A. Fox

Mackenzie A. Fox

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Robert Hymes
Email: maf2292@columbia.edu

Mackenzie is a Ph.D. student studying the social and cultural history of middle-period China. His research interests currently center on the evolving visions of the social world present in a variety of texts produced and circulated primarily at the local level. Before coming to Columbia, he received a B.A. in History and East Asian Languages and Cultures from Rutgers University, New Brunswick and spent a year studying Chinese at ICLP in Taiwan.

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Albert E. Errickson

Albert E. Errickson

Field: Vietnamese Studies
Advisor: John Phan
Email: aee2126@columbia.edu

Albert Errickson is a Ph.D. student with a focus in Vietnamese Studies. His current research examines the relationship between language and writing in pre-modern Vietnam. He is interested in issues of vernacularization, writing script history, book history, and literacy in Vietnam and pre-modern East Asia more broadly. Prior to beginning the Ph.D. program, he received his B.A. from Rutgers University and M.A. from Columbia University. 

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Yi Deng

Yi Deng

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Haruo Shirane
Email: yd2366@columbia.edu

Yi is a PhD student in early modern Japanese literature. Some of her interests include historical narratives, classical poetry, Noh plays, ghost stories, revenge tales, and legends of demon-slaying. Her primary focus is late Edo yomihon, where many of these elements converge. Beyond that, she is also interested in the publishing industry, contemporary media, and literary translation.

Yi received her BA in Neurobiology & Behavior from Cornell University (2011), MI in Library and Information Science from Rutgers University (2018), and MA in Japanese Literature from Columbia University (2022).

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