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: 512 Kent Hall
Office Hours: M 12:00-1:00 pm
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

Research Interests

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

Shaoyan Qi has been teaching in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC) at Columbia University since 2004. She has taught Chinese language courses at all levels, as well as linguistics courses at both Columbia and Teachers College. She is the lead author of the award-winning Discover China textbook series.

Her research is closely informed by her commitment to effective classroom practice and responsiveness to students’ learning needs. From 2008 to 2017, she also served as a teacher trainer in a certificate program at Teachers College. She approaches her work as a researcher, teacher, and teacher trainer as deeply interconnected.

Shaoyan served as a member of the Lecturer Advisory Committee (LAC) from 2022 to 2025 and as its Chair from 2024 to 2025. She is currently a lecturer representative on the Arts & Sciences Policy and Planning Committee (2025–2028).

Publications

S., Qi (In press). Implementing TBLT in an online Chinese class for beginners [Case Study], in Lambert C. (ed) Designing tasks for teaching foreign languages, Cambridge University Press.

S., Qi (2015). 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

S., Qi & Q. Tan (2014). Discover China, Book IV. Macmillan: Hong Kong

S., Qi (2013). Discover China, Book III.  Macmillan: Hong Kong

S., Qi & J., Zhang (2012). Discover China, Book II. Macmillan: Hong Kong

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

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