Nolan Bensen

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Robert Hymes
Email: neb2134@columbia.edu

Nolan Bensen got his BA from New College of Florida and his MA here at Columbia. He studies the history of the early Ming Dynasty, founded in 1368. His research focuses on Ming foreign relations, large-scale Ming state projects, and the effects of former inclusion in the Mongol Empire on Ming China’s sense of the rest of Eurasia.