Dan Nguyen

Field: Early-Modern Vietnamese History
Advisor: John Phan
Email: dtn2123@columbia.edu

Dan Nguyen is an History-East Asia Ph.D. student working on intellectual history of late-dynastic Vietnam, with a focus on literati discourse and culture during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Among his research interests are Vietnamese Neo-Confucianism, discourses of loyalism, the post-Ming Chinese diaspora in Vietnam, regional networks of literati clans, and dynastic historiography as it relates to state and identity formation.

Prior to joining the EALAC department, Dan received a B.A. in English literature and a B.A. in Music from the University of Houston.

Deanna T. Nardy

Field: Modern Japanese Literature
Advisor: Takuya Tsunoda
Email: dtn2109@columbia.edu

Deanna T. Nardy is a Ph.D. candidate in modern Japanese literature and visual media. Before returning to Columbia, she received her MA in Contemporary Culture Studies from Kyoto University (2018), and her BA in East Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University (2015).  Her research interests include black studies and decolonial theories and their circulation in Japan, black literature in translation, postwar rental comics, and the processes by which art constitutes revolutionary praxis and fosters radical subjectivity.

Peter Moody

Field: Korean History
Advisors: Gregory Pflugfelder and Jungwon Kim
Email: pgm2116@columbia.edu

Peter is a PhD student in East Asian History specializing in the cultural and intellectual history of modern Korea and Japan. He is interested in looking at how the discourse of tradition vs. modern evolved during the colonial and post-war periods, particularly when state actors used notions of civilization and advancement to win support for political projects that were sometimes at the expense of the subaltern. Before coming to Columbia, he obtained his Master’s in East Asian Studies from the University of Virginia where he wrote his thesis on mass mobilization campaigns in North Korea. His recent research interests include microhistories of North Korean coastal cities and the intersection of North Korean ideology and cultural production, particularly when it comes to the popular music soundscape.