Nicole Roldan

Angelo Wong

Angelo Wong

Field: Japanese Literature
Adviser: Tomi Suzuki
Angelo focuses on the intermixing of western and Chinese influences with Japanese literary tradition in the fiction of the Meiji period. His starting point is the works of Izumi Kyōka and Higuchi Ichiyō for the way they depict modern society while displaying heavy influences from classical Japanese literature. Before joining Columbia, he received a BA in English literature and in Japanese at the University of Hong Kong.

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Jiaqi Wang

Jiaqi Wang

Field: Premodern Chinese Literature
Advisor: Wei Shang
Email: jw3983@columbia.edu

Jiaqi Wang is a PhD student of premodern Chinese literature. She is primarily interested in late imperial Chinese fiction, intellectual history, and cultural history. Her current project focuses on the popular publications, literary writings, and theatrical performances during the Ming-Qing transition to examine the dynamic relationships among media and investigate the political and historical significance of literary writings during the dynastic transition. Before joining the EALAC PhD program, Jiaqi received her B.A. in Chinese literature (2017) and M.A. in classical Chinese literature (2020) from Peking University, and M.A. in East Asian studies from Columbia University (2022). An abridged version of her M.A. thesis (2020) has been published in Chinese as “Shilun Honglou Meng de wenzhang jiegou (On the Compositional Transitions and Narrative Structure of The Story of the Stone)” in Honglou Meng xuekan (Studies on “A Dream of Red Mansions”), 2022(04).

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Benjamin Avichai Katz Sinvany

Benjamin Avichai Katz Sinvany

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Robert Hymes
Email: bas2260@columbia.edu

Benjamin is a doctoral student in Chinese History. He studies the history of science and technology and the military history of Middle Period East Asia (~ AD 900-1300). Benjamin hopes to use material historical methodologies borrowed from Archaeology and Art History as well as digital humanities tools, like GIS, to better understand the production of technologies like gunpowder and their transmission among the many states that existed in East Asia in the tenth, eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries. Benjamin received his BA in History from Emory University where he began his research on this period. This past spring he received an MA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University.

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