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Stella Kim

Stella Kim

Field: Korean History
Advisor: Jungwon Kim
Email: ssk2217@columbia.edu

Stella is a PhD student in early modern Korean history. She focuses primarily on the late Chosŏn period, and her interests lie in mothering and motherhood, family and kinship, conceptions of death and the afterlife, as well as broader theoretical questions of feminist historiography. Stella holds a BA in Political Science from Brown University and a dual MA/MSc in International and World History from Columbia and the London School of Economics.

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Iris Kim

Iris Kim

Field: Korean Literature
Advisor: Theodore Hughes
Email: ik2398@columbia.edu

Iris is a Ph.D. student of modern Korean literature and cultural studies. Her research interests include constructions of family and gender, visual culture, and translation. In her M.A. thesis, she examined how the changing representations of the orphan in the cultural field intertwined with constructions of motherhood and gendered identities in postwar South Korea. Iris received her B.A. in International Comparative Studies from Duke University and completed her M.A. in EALAC before joining the Ph.D. program.

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Chris Kim

Chris Kim

Field: Chinese History
Advisor: Li Feng
Email: cfk2123@columbia.edu

Chris is a Ph.D. student in early Chinese history. His research investigates the long-term developments in the sociopolitical institutions and economic systems of the Zhou period, with a focus on the Spring and Autumn period. His approach is multi-disciplinary, drawing on textual and paleographic studies, archaeology, spatial analysis, and anthropological theory. Chris holds an A.M. from Harvard University and a B.A. from Brown University.

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