Faculty

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)

Jonathan M. Reynolds

Reynolds

Jonathan Reynolds

PROFESSOR (BARNARD)

Phone: (212) 854-5396
Email: jmreynolds@barnard.edu
Office: 500P Diana Center
Office Hours: Mondays, 1-2 and Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30

Educational Background

PhD: Stanford University (’91)

Classes Taught

AHIS BC3688 Japanese Photography
AHIS BC3970 Methods and Theories of Art History
AHIS G8606 Japanese Architecture: Tokyo

Research Interests

Japanese Art and Architecture

Jonathan M. Reynolds teaches on a wide range of topics in the history of Japanese art and architecture. His research has focused on the history of modern Japanese architecture. More recently he has also begun to work on Japanese photography. His book Allegories of Time and Space: Visualizing Japanese Cultural Identity through Architecture and Photography, which explores the role of the concept of tradition in the construction of cultural identity in Japanese architecture, photography, and popular culture from the 1940s to the 1990s, was published by University of Hawai’i Press in early 2015.

Selected Publications

Allegories of Time and Space: Japanese Identity in Photography and Architecture (University of Hawai’i, 2015)

“Teaching Architectural History in Japan: Building a Context for Contemporary Practice,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2002)

Maekawa Kunio and the Emergence of Modernist Japanese Architecture (University of California, 2001)

Shaoyan Qi

Shaoyan Qi

Senior Lecturer in Chinese

Office: 510 Kent Hall
Office Hours: W 2:15-5:15
Phone: (212) 854-3604
Email: sq2106@columbia.edu

Educational Background

EdD: Applied Linguistics, Teachers College, Columbia University
MA: Education, Villanova University
MA: Linguistic and Socio-cultural Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton

Classes Taught

CHNS UN2201 Second Year Chinese N I
CHNS UN2202 Second Year Chinese N II
CHNS UN1010 Introductory Chinese
CHNS GU 4904 Acquisition of Chinese as a Second Language

Research Interests

Instructed Second Language Acquisition
Chinese Language Pedagogy
Task-Based Language Teaching

Shaoyan’s teaching career began at a weekend school for children adopted from China in a suburban area of Philadelphia. Before she joined Columbia at 2004, she taught Chinese language at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Princeton, and Middlebury Summer School. Shaoyan has taught all levels of Chinese language classes and linguistic courses at both Columbia and Teachers College.  She is the main author of the award-winning textbook series Discover China (http://www.mydiscoverchina.com/components/ ). 

Publications

Implementing TBLT in an online Chinese class for beginners (2024), in Lambert C. (ed) Designing tasks for teaching foreign languages, Cambridge University Press.

Introduction: Why should second/foreign language teachers tune in to instructed SLA? (2015). Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 15 (2), pp. i-iv. Teacher’s College, Columbia University: New York

Discover China (2014). Macmillan: Hong Kong

Computer-assisted second language teaching, learning, and research (2011). Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 11 (2), pp. 27-28. Teacher’s College, Columbia University.

“The Selective Fossilization Hypothesis and its Putative Implications for Second Language Teaching” “Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 2009)

Book Contribution Chinese Grammar Made Easy—A practical and effective guide for teachers (Yale University Press, 2008)

“Questions for Pedagogy and Research” (Working Papers in TESOL and Applied Linguistics, 2007)