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Filed Under: Adjunct, Lecturer, Tibet

Lauran R. Hartley

Lauran Hartley

ADJUNCT LECTURER IN TIBETAN LITERATURE

Office:  300 Kent Hall
Office Hours: By appointment
Phone: (212)854-9875
Email: lh2112@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Northwestern University (’85)
MA: Indiana University (’98)
PhD: Indiana University (’03)

Classes Taught

ASCE UN1365  Introduction to Asian Civilization: Tibet

EAAS GU4553  Survey of Tibetan Literature

EAAS GU4565  Tibet in the World: Cultural Production and Social Change

EAAS GU4615  Tibetan Rivers and Roads: Infrastructure, Environment, and Urban Liv

Research Interests

Tibetan Literature and Cultural Production, Translation Studies, Social Theory

Lauran Hartley is an Associate Research Scholar and Director of the Modern Tibetan Studies Program at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. In addition to co-editing the book Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008) and serving as Inner Asian Book Review Editor for the Journal of Asian Studies, she has also published several literary translations and articles on Tibetan intellectual history. Her research interests include literary production and discourse from the eighteenth century to present, as well as contemporary cultural production and society. From 2007-2021,  she served as Tibetan Studies Librarian for the C.V. Starr East Asian Library and taught previously at Rutgers University and Indiana University. Hartley has served on the advisory board of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, and is currently president of the Board of Directors of the Buddhist Digital Resource Center.

Selected Publications

Co-editor, Modern Tibetan Literature and Social Change (Duke University Press, 2008)

“The Advent of Modern Tibetan Free-Verse Poetry in the Tibetan Language” in A New Literary History of Modern China (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017)

“Self as a faithful public servant: The autobiography of Mdo mkhar ba Tshe ring dbang rgyal (1697–1763)” in Mapping the Modern in Tibet. Proceedings of the 11th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2006 (Andiast, Switzerland: International Institute for Tibetan and Buddhist Studies GmbH, 2011)

“Ascendancy of the Term rtsom-rig [literature] in Tibetan Literary Discourse” in Contemporary Tibetan Literary Studies. Proceedings of the 10th Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, 2003 (Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007)

“Tibetan Publishing in the Early Post-Mao Period.” Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie 15 (2005)

 

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Robert Harrist

Robert E. Harrist Jr.

JANE AND LEOPOLD SWERGOLD PROFESSOR OF CHINESE ART HISTORY

Office: 933 Schermerhorn Hall
Office Hours: By appointment only
Phone: (212) 854-8532
Email: reh23@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BS: Indiana University (’75)
MA: Columbia University (’80)
PhD: Princeton University (’89)

Robert E. Harrist Jr. has published books and articles on Chinese painting, calligraphy, and gardens, as well as on topics such as replicas in Chinese art, clothing in 20th-century China, and contemporary artists such as Xu Bing. His most recent book, The Landscape of Words, which studies the role of language in shaping perceptions of the natural world, was awarded the Joseph Levenson Prize in 2010.

Selected Publications

The Landscape of Words (Washington, 2008)

Painting and Private Life in Eleventh-Century China: Mountain Villa by Li Gonglin, (Princeton, 1998)

Power and Virtue: The Horse in Chinese Art (Art Media Resources, 1997)

Filed Under: Emeritus

Carol Gluck

Carol Gluck

George Sansom Professor Emerita of History and Professor Emerita of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Email: cg9@columbia.edu

Educational Background

BA: Wellesley College (’62)
PhD: Columbia University (’77)

Research Interests

Modern Japan, Twentieth-Century International History, World War II, History-Writing and Public Memory in Asia and the World

A prize-winning historian, Carol Gluck’s most recent books are Shisōshi toshite no gendai Nihon [Thought and society in contemporary Japan], coedited with Akio Igarashi (Iwanami shoten, 2016) and Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon, coedited with Anna Tsing (Duke University Press, 2009). Thinking with the Past: Modern Japan and History, will be published by the University of California Press in 2017, and Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory is forthcoming from Columbia University Press.

Professor Gluck was the Cleveringa Professor for 2014-15 at Leiden University; she was a Japan Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo and gave the Marius B. Jansen Memorial Lecture at Princeton and the Nancy Bernkopf Tucker Memorial Lecture at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. She also moderated seminars for the Aspen Institute in Colorado and Berlin. She directs the transnational project on The Politics of Memory in Global Context, which this past year held workshops and symposia in Paris and at the Columbia Global Center | East Asia in Beijing.

At Columbia she has taught undergraduates, graduate students, and students in the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) for forty years. She has contributed to innovations in undergraduate education at Columbia and around the country, including a four-year $2-million project on Expanding East Asian Studies (www.exeas.org). Her PhD students in Japanese history now teach in universities across the United States, Asia, and Europe.

She is a founding member and now the chair of Columbia’s Committee on Global Thought, and co-directs the WEAI publications program, working with Ross Yelsey and others to produce the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Weatherhead Books on Asia, and Asia Perspectives. She is the Columbia coordinator of the international Consortium on Asian and African Studies (CAAS),a member of the Provost’s Advisory Committee on the Libraries, and vice-chair of the faculty steering committee of the Columbia Global Center | Europe. She is a member of the National Commission on Language Learning, an elected member of the Council of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-chair of the Trustees Emeriti of the Asia Society, member of the Board of Directors of Japan Society, the board of the Weatherhead Foundation, and numerous editorial boards and national and international committees.

Selected Publications

Words in Motion: Toward a Global Lexicon (co-editor, Duke, 2009)

Showa: The Japan of Hirohito (co-editor, W.W. Norton, 1993).

Japan’s Modern Myths: Ideology in the Late Meiji Period (Princeton, 1985)

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