Guoying GongField: Chinese Literature
Advisor: Wei Shang
Email: gg2711@columbia.edu
Guoying Gong is a PhD student in pre-modern Chinese literature. She is primarily interested in medieval Chinese poetry, literary thought and criticism, and intellectual history. Before joining Columbia, Guoying received her M.A. in Asian Languages and Civilizations from the University of Colorado at Boulder, M.A. in Literary Theory and B.A. in Chinese Literature from Peking University.
Sally Greenland studies the complexities of the Mongol Empire and its successor states. Her academic interests include the history of military engagement and militarization, the political cultures of Inner Asia, and nomadism on the Eurasian Steppe. Her current focus on elite Mongol women evolved from her master’s dissertation, which scrutinized the contributions of female leaders in the Mongol Empire during the early imperial and imperial periods.
Sally holds an M.A. from Columbia University and an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics (with distinction) in international history. She also earned a Bachelor of Business from QUT in Brisbane, Australia. Prior to joining Columbia, she worked in both the finance and entertainment sectors. Sally prefers to spend winters in the basement of Starr Library and summers riding across the Steppe.
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.
