Yingchuan Yang is a doctoral candidate in the History-East Asia Program at Columbia University. He works at the intersection of knowledge (often in the form of science and technology), culture, and politics in twentieth-century China. His dissertation, “Revolution on...

I specialize in the social and political history of law in the French empire. Methodologically my work is informed by historical sociology and critical geography, comparative and transimperial histories, and theorizations of racial capitalism and social reproduction....

Rohan Shah is a doctoral candidate in history at Columbia University. His research examines 20th century US and international history, with a focus on postwar political-economy. He is writing a dissertation on the protracted social, political, and economic conflicts...