Dan Nguyen

Field: Early-Modern Vietnamese History
Advisor: John Phan
Email: dtn2123@columbia.edu

Dan Nguyen is a Ph.D. candidate on the History-East Asia track. His work focuses on the post-Ming Chinese diaspora in the seventeenth and eighteenth century Vietnamese states of Tonkin and Cochinchina. His dissertation focuses on the formation and collapse of indigenous Cochinchinese elite clans during the pre-imperial Nguyen period (c.1558-1786), and their subsequent replacement with the hybrid Sino-Vietnamese elite normative of the Nguyen dynasty proper (1802-1945). His interests include middle period and late imperial Confucianism across East Asia, the intellectual history of civilization (hua) and barbarism (yi) within the Confucian tradition, Literary Sinitic prose and poetry in Vietnam, and the influence of Chinese peoples and institutions on state and identity formation in early modern Southeast Asia.

Prior to joining the EALAC department, Dan received a B.A. in English Literature and a B.A. in Music from the University of Houston.

Maho Miyazaki

Field: Japanese Literature
Advisor: Haruo Shirane
Email: mm4909@columbia.edu

Maho Miyazaki is a PhD candidate in premodern Japanese literature. Before joining Columbia she received her BA (2012) and MA (2014) in English literature from Kyoto University. Her research project focuses on theories on cross-dressing in noh plays; how men in the 14th to 15th centuries imagined and recreated female body, and how gender and age of actors have affected the theorization of female impersonation. Her research also includes comparisons with two other transvestite theatrical genres, kabuki and English Renaissance theatre, and the changes and evolvement in female impersonation brought about by the participation of female professional noh performers since the 20th century.

Yuqing Luo

Field: Chinese History
Advisors: Robert Hymes and Zhaohua Yang
Email: yl3592@columbia.edu

Yuqing is a Ph.D. student in pre-modern Chinese history. Her research interests include Song popular religious texts, medieval ritual performance and cross-cultural mortuary traditions. Yuqing received her BA in Chinese Language and Literature from Zhejiang University (2013), and her MA from Stanford University’s East Asian Languages and Cultures Department (2015). Her MA thesis examines the relationship between Song literati and spirit writing tradition. Before joining Columbia’s Ph.D. program in the fall of 2016, she spent a year working as an intern at Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology.