Daniel Asen

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History -- East Asia

Dan’s areas of research in Modern Chinese History include the history of medicine and science in China. Dan, who received his B. A. from the University of Pennsylvania, was awarded a Fulbright Research Grant (2004-2005) for study at Peking University.

Aram Bae

Ph. D. Candidate
Union Theological Seminary, Religion and Education

Aram received her M.A. in Divinity from Princeton University and her B.A. from Smith College. She has worked as a leader of youth ministries in New Jersey and Virginia.

Jen Buckley

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English & Comparative Literature

Jen’s research interests include Modernism, history of the book, and 19th and 20th century drama and performance. In January of 2008 Jen attended Rare Book School in New York City. Jen received her B.A. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Daniel Fox

M.S. Candidate
Historic Preservation

Dan is the design editor of Future Anterior, a journal of historic preservation, history, theory and criticism, published by the University of Minnesota Press. Dan received his A.B. from Wesleyan University.

Thai Jones

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History

Thai, a graduate of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism, worked as a reporter for Newsday before retreating back to the safety of campus life. His areas of research include American history with a focus on radical labor politics in the late 19th and early 20th century. Thai is the author of A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience (Free Press, 2004).

Darragh Martin

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of English & Comparative Literature
-- Theatre

Darragh is a native of Ireland and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin. His primary areas of research are 19th and 20th century Shakespearean soundscapes and animals in performance. In New York Darragh has directed Macbeth at the Chashama Theatre on 42nd Street and "Inflation," as part of Suzan Lori-Parks' 365 Day Festival. His play, An Air Balloon across Antarctica, was performed in the 2007 Fringe Festivals in New York and in Edinburgh.

Nick Osborne

Ph.D. Candidate
Department of History

Nick specializes in United States history with an emphasis on political economy and rights discourses from 1865 to 1965. He is organizing research for a dissertation on the role that savings and thrift ideologies have played in the development of U. S. capitalism. Nick received his M.A. from Columbia in 2007 with a thesis on the movement to regulate the gas-lighting industry in Baltimore, and his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2005.

Sarah Ponichtera

Ph.D. Candidate
Yiddish Studies

Sarah received an M.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College. She is the co-ordinator of Yiddish events at Deutches Haus and her translation of Der Nister's tale, "The Green Man's Story" is in the press.

Min-Ying Wang

Ph. D. Candidate
Architecture

Min-Ying’s research interests include modern architectural history, cross cultural issues in architectural studies and historiography of modern Chinese architectural writings in publication. Min-Ying is qualified as an architect in Taiwan and was the Chinese translator of Barbara-Ann Campbell's book, Paris: A Guide to Recent Architecture.