Crismon Lewis

Field: Chinese History

Advisor: Feng Li

Email: crismon.lewis@columbia.edu

Crismon Lewis is a Ph.D. candidate of pre-modern Chinese history. His dissertation project, entitled “Western Zhou (1045–771 BCE) Bronze Inscriptions and the Beginnings of Early Chinese Literature,” traces the evolutionary development of early bronze inscriptional practice and explores their literary and aesthetic qualities. His research also concerns questions of literacy and its expansion in early first millennium BCE China.

Prior to joining the EALAC department, Crismon received an M.A. in Chinese from the University of Colorado Boulder and a B.A. in Chinese from Brigham Young University.