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Clay Eaton

Clay Eaton

Field: Japanese History
Advisor: Carol Gluck
Email: cke2104@columbia.edu

 

 

 

 

Clay Eaton received his B.A. from Lewis & Clark College in 2007, where he studied International Relations, History, and Japanese. Before beginning his graduate studies he spent two years teaching English in Hyogo, Japan. He began working on his PhD at Columbia in 2010. His MA Thesis (2012) addressed the construction and public use of three monuments built in Singapore under British, Japanese, and PAP rule. His dissertation focuses on social policies implemented by the Japanese administration of Singapore during the Second World War. Using Japanese, Chinese, and Malay sources, he studies both the intricacies of Japanese policy-making and diverse local responses to the administration’s initiatives.

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Andre Deckrow

deckrowAndre Deckrow

Field: Japanese History
Advisor: Carol Gluck
Email: akd2120@columbia.edu

Andre Deckrow is a doctoral student in modern Japanese history. His research focuses on twentieth-century Japanese migration to Latin America, specifically Brazil. He received his B.A. in History and Asian Languages and Cultures from Amherst College in 2006. Andre spent the 2007-2008 academic year traveling around the Pacific Rim researching Japanese gardens as symbols of historical memory as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. For the 2010-2011 academic year, Andre serves as a Co-President of the Graduate History Association, the organization that represents all history graduate students at Columbia.

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Jae Won Edward Chung

Jae Won Edward Chung

 

Field: Korean Literature
Advisor: Theodore Hughes
Email: jec2118@columbia.edu

 

 

Jae Won is a doctoral candidate in modern Korean literature. His researching and teaching interests include literary studies, intellectual history, popular culture and visual culture. His dissertation project looks at the discourse of “everyday life” (saenghwal, 生活) as a battleground of representation by writers, intellectuals, photographers, filmmakers, rural leaders and U.S. and South Korean policy makers primarily in the years following the Korean War (1950-1953). Before coming to EALAC, Jae Won received his B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College, and M.F.A. in creative writing from Columbia’s School of the Arts, and worked as a literary translator in Seoul. He is also interested in Asian American studies, theories of race, film studies, and history of photography.

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