Nicole Roldan

Xinzhi Lin

Xinzhi Lin

Field: Chinese History

Advisors: Robert Hymes and Zhaohua Yang

Email: xl3020@columbia.edu

Xinzhi is a Ph.D. student in pre-modern Chinese history, he studies the political, intellectual, and religious history of the Song dynasty. His primary research focuses on the development of the Song emperorship system, the evolving roles of emperors and those high officials, the changing nature of the imperial-subjects relationships, also how Song emperors were able to position themselves above religious hierarchies through political maneuvers on the one hand and ideological reframing of religion on the other hand. 

Xinzhi was born in the ancient capital city of the Song- Kaifeng, in Henan Province of China, and grew up in Flushing, New York. Xinzhi received his BA in History and International Relations from Syracuse University in 2020 and his MA in EALAC from Columbia in 2022.

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Faculty Award


Madeleine Zelin receives the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award

Madeleine Zelin receives the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award

The EALAC department would like to congratulate Madeleine Zelin, Dean Lung Professor of Chinese Studies, on receiving the Lenfest Distinguished Faculty Award for her outstanding contributions and dedication to mentoring students within and outside the classroom. In 2019, Madeleine also had the honor of delivering the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lecture, a series of three lectures on a topic of the faculty member’s choosing that will be published as a book by Columbia University Press. We are delighted to congratulate her for this well-deserved recognition and thank her for her continued service to our academic community.

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Constantine Lignos

Constantine Lignos

Field: Sino-Tibetan History & Religion
Advisor: Gray Tuttle and Jacob Dalton (UC Berkeley)
Email: cjl2212@columbia.edu

Constantine’s research focuses on the history of public ritual performance in Tibet and its Mongol and Manchu adoption in the borderlands.  He is interested in the transference of religious ritual performance (particularly ‘cham/‘chams, the masked monastic dance) to the social and political spheres during the ascendence of the Fifth Dalai Lama and the establishment of the Ganden Phodrang.  More broadly, his project explores the relationship between public ritual and sacral rulership to reconsider the nature of the “theatre state.” He is also compiling a glossary of Tibetan terms relevant to the LGBTQ community. Previously, he received his MA in Tibetan Studies from Columbia and his MA in Performance Studies from NYU Tisch.

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