In another academic life, I might have become a historian of China. I studied Mandarin in high school in Singapore, spent a year between high school and university at Beijing Foreign Studies University, and returned to Beijing during my junior year of college. As an undergraduate, I minored in Chinese. I majored in History and... Continue Reading →
Learning to Read 17th Century Dutch
This past summer, I participated in a month-long series of courses and workshops based at Columbia University as well as various museums and archives across the Netherlands. The primary purpose of this program was for me to learn seventeenth century Dutch vocabulary and paleography (historical handwriting) and to familiarize myself with resources in the Netherlands.... Continue Reading →