Faculty

Dorjee Gyaltsen

Dorjee Gyaltsen

Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan
Educational Background

Bachelor of Arts – North Bengal University, India
Bachelor of Education – College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, India
MA in Indian History – Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India
Associate in Classical Tibetan – College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah, India
Associate in Psychology – LaGuardia Community College, NYC

Classes Taught

TIBT UN2412 Second Year Classical Tibetan I
TIBT UN2413 Second Year Classical Tibetan II

Yong-ha Kim

Yong-ha Kim

Tang Center Postdoctoral Research Scholar; Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email: yk2727@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Mondays 1:50–3:50 p.m. and by appointment

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1002 Intro to Major Topics: East Asian Civilization – Making and Experiencing the State in East Asia

Yong-ha is a Tang Center Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, specializing in early Chinese history. His research focuses on the tension between early Chinese empire formation and local diversity. Yong-ha’s dissertation, “Rethinking Unification: Ideology, Standardization, and Local Accommodation in the Qin Empire (221–207 BCE),” critiques the concept of “unification” by examining how it can shroud the violence of conquest and obscure the accommodation of local diversity in the process of early Chinese empire-building. He deploys excavated texts, archaeological materials related to local administration as well as received texts to reconstruct the history of this era. He is also interested in the comparative history of ancient empires and civilizations and is building a database of ancient artifacts held in museums around the world. He is additionally engaged in translating scholarship on ancient civilizations beyond China into Korean.

Kana Toda Pierce

Kana Toda Pierce

Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese

Email: ktp2111@columbia.edu
Office Hours: Mondays, 10:10-11:10 A.M

Educational Background

M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy, Columbia University, New York, NY, 2019
B.A. in British and American Literature, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan, 2003

Research Interests

Japanese Language Pedagogy
Technology-Enhanced Language Learning
Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL)

Kana Toda Pierce holds a B.A. from Meiji University and an M.A. in Japanese Pedagogy from Columbia University. She taught English at junior and senior high schools in Nagasaki, Japan, for eight years. She also worked as a Japanese-English translator for eight years, translating anime-, manga-, and mobile game-related content. She has taught Japanese at Rochester Institute of Technology and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and as a substitute lecturer at Hobart and William Smith Colleges and Princeton University. She currently teaches Japanese at Japan Society and Princeton Community Japanese Language School.