Faculty

Eveline Washul

Eveline Washul

Adjunct Lecturer, Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Office: 909B IAB
Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00
Email: esy2103@columbia.edu

Educational Background
PhD: Indiana University
MA: Columbia University
BA: University of Colorado, Boulder
Classes Taught
HSEA GU4017 Ethnographic Tibet
HSEA GU4813 Early Tibetan History and Its Relations with China
Research Interests

Historical geographies of Tibet; Tibetan genealogies; anthropology of space and place; urbanization on the Tibetan Plateau

Eveline Washul is a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and Tibetan Studies from Indiana University in 2018. Her research methods combine ethnography with Tibetan historical sources from the 12th to 20th centuries. Her dissertation research studied how the particularities of Tibetan relationships to places shape their transition from rural to urban livelihoods in the late-socialist reform period in the People’s Republic of China. She is currently working on a book manuscript that examines the history of geographical regions in Tibet.

Selected Publications

“Tibetan Translocalities: Navigating Urban Opportunities and New Ways of Belonging in Tibetan Pastoral Communities in China.” October 2018. Critical Asian Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14672715.2018.1520606

“Tracing the Chol kha gsum: Reexamining a Sa skya-Yuan Period Administrative Geography.” 2016. In “Ancient Currents, New Traditions: Papers Presented at the Fourth International Seminar of Young Tibetologists,” edited by Franz Xaver Erhard et al. Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines, 37: 551-68. http://himalaya.socanth.cam.ac.uk/collections/journals/ret/pdf/ret_37_29.pdf

So-Rim Lee

So-Rim Lee

Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Lecturer at the Center for Korean Research

Office: 909A IAB
Office Hours: R 2:30-4:00
Email: sl2179@columbia.edu

Educational Background
PhD Theater and Performance Studies, Stanford University
M.A. Text and Performance, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art — Birkbeck, University of London
M.A. English Literature, Seoul National University
B.A. Film Studies, Columbia University
Classes Taught

EAAS UN3217 Korean Popular Cinema
EAAS UN 3207 Lights, Camera, Action: The Visual Culture of K-pop

Research Interests

Contemporary performance and popular culture in Korea, critical race and gender theories, performance studies and visual culture, film and global media studies, transnational East Asia

So-Rim Lee is the 2018-19 Center for Korean Research-Academy of Korean Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University. Lee researches on contemporary popular culture’s complex embodiments of neoliberalism through performance studies and visual culture, with a focus on South Korea. Lee’s doctoral dissertation, “Performing the Self: Cosmetic Surgery and the Political Economy of Beauty in Korea,” weds historiography, cultural studies, media studies, and performance analysis to construe cosmetic surgery as a mode of performing one’s subjectivity in contemporary Korea. Lee has previously written for New Theatre Quarterly, Performance Research, and Theatre Survey, and is a recipient of the Ric Weiland Humanities and Sciences Fellowship, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, and the Charlene Porras Graduate Scholar Award from the El Centro Chicano y Latino at Stanford University.

Kwi Jeong Lee

Kwi Jeong Lee

Sheng Yen Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism

Office: 80 Claremont Ave, Rm. 210
Email: kl3122@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Princeton University

Research Interests

Buddhist apologetics, inter-religious debate, material/visual culture, sensuous religion, media theory

Kwi Jeong Lee specializes in medieval Chinese Buddhism. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Religion at Princeton University in 2018. Her current project examines how and why Buddhist cultic images fueled controversy among learned circles from 300 to 700 CE. Through the analysis of the anti-Buddhist controversy over the devotional use of material objects, her project tracks the trajectory in which the rhetoric of idolatry prompted Buddhist apologists to formulate a sophisticated theory of cultic images in medieval China.