Sohee Ryuk is a historian of twentieth-century Eurasia and the Soviet Union.  Her dissertation is tentatively titled “Weaving “Oriental Carpets” into the Soviet Union: Handicraft and Folk Art at the Intersections of Nations, Commodity, and Labor, 1890-1986.” In her...

Lynton Lees is a PhD candidate in modern European history. Her research explores the political history of education, liberal democracy, and citizenship in the late British empire. Placing education within broader political, social, cultural, and imperial contexts, her...

Isaac Chun-Kiang Tan is a Ph.D. student in modern Japanese history. He has completed a double degree program, receiving a B.A. (History) from the National University of Singapore and a B.A. (International Liberal Studies) from Waseda University, Japan. Before coming...