Adjunct

Shuichiro Takeda

Shuichiro Takeda

Adjunct Lecturer in Japanese

Email:  st3377@columbia.edu
Office Hours: TW 2:15 PM – 2:45 PM

Educational Background

Master of Educational Technology, University of British Columbia
BA, Psychology, Hunter College
BA, English and American Literature, Nanzan University

Research Interests

Japanese Pedagogy

After completing his master’s program in Canada, Shuichiro Takeda contributed to the establishment of a Japanese language program for adults at Centre Japonais de Québec in Quebec City as their first instructor until 2015. He has been teaching language courses at all levels at Hunter College, New York University, The New School, and the Japan Society. He has also developed cultural courses (Japanese Pop Culture, History of Manga and Anime, Society in Japan) and Japanese Business Etiquette workshops. Outside of academic circles, he was the Japanese language coach for the American lead in a TV series filmed in Japan for WarnerMedia Entertainment.

Sonam Tsering

Sonam Tsering

Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan

Office Hours: TBA
Email: st2855@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University
MTS: Harvard University
MA: Central University for Tibetan Studies

Research Interests

Tibetan Studies, Religion, and Buddhist Studies

Sonam Tsering Ngulphu has taught topics on religion, Buddhist philosophy, and Tibetan language and literature at monasteries and modern educational institutions in India and the US. He had previously worked as the managing editor of Tibet Journal, an academic quarterly on Tibetan studies, where he also co-edited thematic series on Tibet and British Raj, Tibetan monuments, and a fourteen-issue history of Tibetan art.

Sonam’s doctoral dissertation examined the eighteen-volume Collected Works of Je Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) to assess the role of the texts in the formation of Geluk School in Tibet during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It studied the significant roles that Je Tsongkhapa’s writings have played in establishing doctrinal authority, defining philosophical boundaries, postulating intellectual identity, and reorienting monastic education for Tibet’s largest school of thought and philosophy.

Trained in several languages, Sonam specializes in translation and interpretation with a focus on classical Tibetan Buddhist texts.

Selected Publications

Verses of Naga King Drum (Nāgarājabherīgāthā, Trans. 8400, 2020)
Precious Garland: Buddhist Polity on Life and Liberation (Rājaparikathāratnāvali, Trans & Annot. LTWA, 2014)
Tibet Journal (Managing Editor, 2001–2004)
Tshan rig dus deb (Assistant Editor, 2001–2003)

Eveline Washul

Eveline Washul

Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute,
Associate Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor

Office: 913 IAB
Office Hours: T 10:00-11:00, and by appointment
Email: esy2103@columbia.edu

Educational Background
PhD: Indiana University
MA: Columbia University
BA: University of Colorado, Boulder
Classes Taught
EAAS GU4017 Ethnography and Representation in Tibet
HSEA GU4816 Examining Indigeneity in the Tibetan Context
EAAS GU4814 Space and Place in Urbanizing Tibet: Indigenous Experiences in China
HSEA GU4813 Early Tibetan History and Its Relations with China
EAAS GU4017 Ethnographic Tibet
Research Interests

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

Eveline Washul is Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Associate Research Scholar, and Adjunct Professor 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