Nicole Roldan

Filed Under: Adjunct, Tibet

Karl Debreczeny

Karl Debreczeny

Adjunct Lecturer of Tibetan Art

Office: 401 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M 5-6 PM
Email: kdebreczeny@rubinmuseum.org

Educational Background

PhD: University of Chicago (Art History)
MA: Indiana University (Central Eurasian Studies)
MA: Indiana University (Art History)
BA: Oberlin College (East Asian Studies)

Classes Taught

HSEA GU4815 Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism

Research Interests

Exchanges between Tibetan and Chinese artistic traditions; Tibetan Art; Sino-Tibetan relations;
Karl Debreczeny is Senior Curator, Collections and Research, at the Rubin Museum of Art, New
York, where he has worked since 2006. He completed a Double-Masters in Art History and
Tibetan Studies at Indiana University (1994); and his PhD in Art History at the University of
Chicago (2007). He was a Fulbright-Hays Fellow to China (2003–2004) and a National Gallery
of Art CASVA Ittleson Fellow (2004–2006). His has conducted field research in various
locations along the Sino-Tibetan border.

Selected Publications

Faith and Empire: Art and Politics in Tibetan Buddhism. (ed.) NY: Rubin Museum of Art, 2019.

The Tenth Karmapa and Tibet’s Turbulent 17th Century. (ed. with Gray Tuttle) Serindia
Publications, 2016.

The All-Knowing Buddha: A Secret Guide (with Elena Pakhoutova, Christian Luczanits, and Jan
van Alphen). Antwerp: Museum Aan de Stroom. MAS: 2014.

Situ Panchen: Creation and Cultural Engagement in 18th-Century Tibet. (ed.) Guest Editor of a
special issue of the Journal of the International Association of Tibetan Studies no. 7 (August
2013). http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/current/

The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa NY: Rubin Museum of Art,
2012.

“Wutaishan: Pilgrimage to Five Peak Mountain” Journal of the International Association of
Tibetan Studies, Issue 6 (Dec 2011): 1-133. http://www.thlib.org/collections/texts/jiats/#!jiats=/06/debreczeny/

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Yongjun Choi

Yongjun Choi

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean

Email: yjc2126@columbia.edu

Educational Background

MA: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
BA: The Kyoto University of Education

Research Interests

YongJun Choi received his M.A. in Comparative Linguistics from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. His research focused on the verb systems of Korean and Japanese. From 2001 to 2011, he taught Korean at language schools in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo. He has also taught at CUNY, the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Beekman School and the Korea Society, at all levels, from beginning to advanced. He currently teaches Korean and Japanese at Montclair State University, the Korean Education Center, New York University and Columbia University.

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen

Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute

Office: 926 IAB
Office Hours: R 1-2:30 pm and by appointment
Phone Number: (212) 854-0129
Email: ln2358@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Yale University, 2008
BA: University of Pennsylvania, 1996

Classes Taught

The Vietnam War
The United States and East Asia
The Wars for Indochina
Southest Asia & the World

Research Interests

Lien-Hang T. Nguyen, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, specializes in the Vietnam War, U.S.-Southeast Asian relations, and the global Cold War. Professor Nguyen is currently working on a comprehensive history of the 1968 Tet Offensive for RandomHouse. She is the general editor of the forthcoming Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols., as well as co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations.

Selected Publications

Books

Hanoi’s War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012).

Tet 1968: The Battles that Changed the Vietnam War and the Global Cold War (New York: Random House, forthcoming).

Cambridge History of the Vietnam War, 3 vols. (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Scholarly Articles

“Revolutionary Circuits: Toward Internationalizing America in the World,” Diplomatic History 39, Issue 3 (June 2015): 411-422.

“1968: Negotiating While Fighting or Just Fighting?” in Eds. Pierre Journoud and Cécile Menétrey-Monchau, Vietnam, 1968-1976: Exiting a War (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2011).

“The Vietnam Decade: The Global Shock of the War,” in Eds. Niall Ferguson, Charles Maier, Erez Manela, and Daniel Sargent, Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010).

“Waging War on All Fronts: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Vietnam War, 1969-1972” in Eds. Fredrik Logevall and Andrew Preston, Nixon in the World: American Foreign Relations, 1969-1977 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

“Cold War Contradictions: Toward an International History of the Second Indochina War, 1969-1973” in Eds. Mark Philip Bradley and Marilyn B. Young, Making Sense of the Vietnam Wars: Local, National and Transnational Perspectives (New York: Oxford University Press, 2008).

“Sino-Vietnamese Split in the Post-Tet War in Indochina, 1968-1975” in Eds. Sophie Quinn-Judge and Odd Arne Westad, The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-1979 (London: Routledge Press, 2006).

“Vietnamese Perceptions of the French-Indochina War” in Eds. Fredrik Logevall and Mark Lawrence, Indochina in the Balance: New Perspectives on the First Vietnam War.  (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006).

“The War Politburo: Vietnam’s Diplomatic and Political Road to the Tet Offensive,” Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1, nos. 1-2 (February/August 2006).