current-phd-students

Yong-ha Kim

Yong-ha Kim

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Li Feng
Email: yk2727@columbia.edu

Yongha is a doctoral student concentrating on early Chinese history. Before joining Columbia’s community of scholars (Fall 2016), he received both his B.A (2009) and his M.A in history (2014) from Korea University. Under the guidance of Professor Li Feng, he is currently analyzing China’s first empires, the Qin and the Han, from the perspective of the Warring States Period, and seeks to explore the tension between integration and disintegration that constantly haunted the empires. Yongha is especially engrossed in research topics such as the diversity of the Warring States, the counter-reaction towards standardization, and the empires’ measures to pacify the force of dissolution. He is also interested in comparing the process of Chinese empire formation with other cases of the world. As well as using the received texts, he is eager to blend archaeological data, and paleographic sources to reconstruct the history of this era.

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Stella Kim

Stella Kim

Field: Korean History
Advisor: Jungwon Kim
Email: ssk2217@columbia.edu

Stella is a PhD student in early modern Korean history. She focuses primarily on the late Chosŏn period, and her interests lie in mothering and motherhood, family and kinship, conceptions of death and the afterlife, as well as broader theoretical questions of feminist historiography. Stella holds a BA in Political Science from Brown University and a dual MA/MSc in International and World History from Columbia and the London School of Economics.

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Iris Kim

Iris Kim

Field: Korean Literature
Advisor: Theodore Hughes
Email: ik2398@columbia.edu

Iris is a Ph.D. student of modern Korean literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include constructions of family and gender, visual culture, and translation. In her M.A. thesis, she examined how the changing representations of the orphan in the cultural field intertwined with constructions of motherhood and gendered identities in postwar South Korea. Iris received her B.A. in International Comparative Studies from Duke University and completed her M.A. in EALAC before joining the Ph.D. program.

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