Adjunct

Seunghyo Ryu

Seunghyo Ryu

Adjunct Lecturer in Korean

Email: sr2862@columbia.edu
Office: 502F Kent Hall
Office hours: After class or by appointment

Educational Background

MA: Applied Linguistics, Teacher’s College, Columbia University (2012)
MA: English Language and Literature, EWHA Women’s University (2006)
BA: English Language and Literature, EWHA Women’s University (2004)

Classes Taught
KORN UN1001 Introductory Korean A
KORN UN1002 Introductory Korean B
KORN UN1101 First Year Korean I
KORN UN1102 First Year Korean II
Research Interests

Second Language Acquistion, Sociolinguistics, Class pedagogy.

Seunghyo Ryu has taught Introductory Korean A since 2018 at Columbia. Before teaching Korean, she had worked as English/Korean translator in Seoul at a global law firm.

Morris Rossabi

Morris Rossabi

Associate Adjunct Professor

Office Hours: T 9-10 AM
Email: mr63@columbia.edu

Educational Background

PhD: Columbia University (’70)

Classes Taught

HSEA UN3898 The Mongols in History
HIST GR6999 Graduate Seminar – History of the Mongols

Research Interests

Asian History

Professor Rossabi is a historian of China and Central and Inner Asia. He teaches courses on Inner Asian, East Asian, and Chinese history at Columbia. During the 2008–2009 academic year, he received an honorary doctorate from the National University of Mongolia. He and Mary Rossabi are involved in an oral history of 20th and 21st century Mongolia, which has led to the publication of Socialist Devotees and Dissenters; A Herder, a Trader, and a Lawyer; and The Practice of Buddhism in Kharkhorin and its Revival (National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, 2010, 2012, and 2013).

Author or editor of 25 books, he has helped organize exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. He was on the advisory board of the Project on Central Eurasia and Chair of the Arts and Culture Committee of the Soros Foundation. The author of numerous articles and speeches, he travels repeatedly to China, Central Asia, and Mongolia. In 2021, the Minister of Foreign Affairs awarded Professor Rossabi a Certificate of Merit at the Mongolian Embassy to the United Nations.

Selected Publications

The Mongols and Global History (W.W. Norton, 2010)

Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists (University of California, 2005)

Khubilai Khan: His Life and Times (University of California, 1988)

Andrew Plaks

Andrew Plaks

Adjunct Professor
Office: 410A
Office Hours: WF 9:00-10:00
Email: ap3606@columbia.edu

Educational Background

AB: Princeton University (’67)
PhD: Princeton University (’73)

Research Interests

Chinese and Japanese Classical Literature

Selected Publications

Pu Andi Zixuanji (Collected Works of Andrew Plaks). Beijing: Sanlian shuju (2011)

“Zheng Xuan’s Commentary on the Zhouli,” in Statecraft and Classical Learning: the Rituals of Zhou in East Asian History, ed. Benjamin A. Elman and Martin Kern (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

“Why the Chinese Gods Don’t Suffer?,” in Studies in Chinese Language and Culture: Festschrift in Honor of Christoph Harbsmeier (2006).

“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.

“Completeness and Partiality in Traditional Commentaries on Honglou meng,” Tamkang Review (XXXVI:1-2), Fall-Winter 2005. pp. 117-35

“Xin as the Seat of the Emotions in Confucian Self-cultivation,” in Love, Hatred, and Other Passions, ed. Paolo Santangelo and Donatella Guida (Leiden: Brill, 2006), pp.113-25.

The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean. London: Penguin Classics (2003)