We are pleased to showcase new and forthcoming titles in the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute book series. The Studies of the WEAI series was inaugurated in 1962 to bring to public attention the results of significant new research on modern and contemporary East Asia. The books are published by academic and trade presses and represent scholars of East Asia … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Nicholas Bartlett
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Nicholas Bartlett, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Chinese Culture and Society at Barnard College, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Bartlett, who earned his PhD in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, specializes in medical and psychological anthropology, addiction and recovery, civil … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Paul Kreitman
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Kreitman, who earned his PhD from Princeton in 2015, specializes in environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. In the following Q & A, Professor Kreitman discusses his scholarship and … [Read more...]
WEAI Welcomes New Faculty Member Lien-Hang Nguyen
The Weatherhead East Asian Institute welcomes Lien-Hang Nguyen, the Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia, to the WEAI faculty. Professor Nguyen, who earned her PhD from Yale and previously taught at the University of Kentucky, specializes in the study of the United States in the world, with spatial focus on Southeast Asia and … [Read more...]
Carol Gluck Speaks at November Events on Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age and on Turkey in the World
Carol Gluck, the George Sansom Professor of History and Chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, spoke at the symposium "The Location of Europe: Shared and Divided Memories in the Global Age," which was held from November 28 through November 30, 2016 at the Palace Herrenhausen in Hanover, Germany, and convened by the European University Viadrina. The … [Read more...]
