Where did you grow up?
Northern New Jersey.

What drew you to your field?
As an undergraduate, I was a Europeanist with interests in comparative literature and history. China was off the map. I told myself that China was a familiar part of the world to which I could always go back. After college, I spent some time traveling and working in Asia, and discovered that I knew absolutely nothing about China. The people and the sense of place were so different from what I had been taught to think growing up. I found myself trying to engage through history—looking at things through history was a means of grounding them. Both the interest and the habits that went with the experience stuck with me, and I decided to come to Columbia to study Chinese history.

How would you explain your current research to someone outside of your field?
My research focuses on the habits and ethics of the low-level bureaucracy in Maoist China. More specifically, I am interested in bureaucratic practices of file-making and investigation as they pertain to the documentation of persons. In the Mao era, there existed a comprehensive system of individual dossiers for nearly all Chinese subjects. These dossiers were held in secrecy and approximated a CV, a political biography, and an intelligence report rolled into one. My project tries to retrace the politics and the methodology surrounding the production of these files in an attempt to understand issues of administration, local justice, and the archive.

What is your favorite thing about being a student at Columbia GSAS?
The people, of course. History and EALAC have big cohorts, and getting to know such exceptional individuals is just compensation for six or more years of graduate study. For most of my time here, I have lived in Columbia housing with my dear friend in the program, whom I first met on visit day.

What resources or opportunities at Columbia have been most valuable to you?
I have been fortunate to have superlative faculty advisors. That has made my time at Columbia more rewarding and productive. I am very grateful that the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, in tandem with our department, brings together valuable perspectives from different disciplines and generously supports graduate student research. Both our department and WEAI have backed countless graduate student initiatives to organize professional conferences, workshops, and trainings over the years.

Is there a common misconception about a topic in your field that you wish you could correct?
Perhaps not a misconception so much as a point that I thought little about until recently: Most people are inclined to approach Mao Zedong as a dictator, full stop; but Mao perpetually presented himself as a populist democratic leader, mobilizing the masses against established and reactionary bureaucratic forces. We are generally familiar with Weber’s notion that there is some sort of inherent contradiction between the bureaucratic rule of experts and the ideals of democracy. Strangely enough, Mao some time later came to precisely the same conclusion through a separate process of reasoning. If we take Mao seriously, his answer to overcoming the “iron cage” was permanent revolution, whereby the renewal of popular passions—often entailing the use of violence—was the only means to keeping technocracy at bay. But that innate tension between bureaucratic and populist democratic values underlies the politics of many societies, not just Maoist China. Chinese history reminds us that not only the state is capable of violence, and that the masses are always virtuous—until they are not.

What do you consider your greatest achievement?
While I should not continue to take credit for the accomplishments of others, I have to say that I am extremely proud to have taught the EALAC Undergraduate Thesis Workshop for the past two years. The course is designed to help senior thesis writers develop a project proposal for their senior theses, and in both years I was fortunate to have smart, passionate students who went on to write great papers. Beyond that, I would say barely passing third-year Japanese.

Who are your favorite writers?
While orals preparation destroyed my ability to appreciate books by reading cover to cover, I am still a huge fan of the Chinese novelist Mo Yan. In particular, I sympathize with Mo Yan’s bastard antiheroes, like Ding Gou'er in The Republic of Wine or Ximen Nao in Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out. Mo Yan's antiheroes are often seized by good intentions, but seem to always be missing out on essential information, which causes them to screw up everything. You could say that there is a non-teleological theory of history in Mo Yan's novels, one that is very much informed by the recent past.

Where is your favorite place to eat on or around campus?
Chapati House on Broadway, and ROKC for ramen in Hamilton Heights.

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Anthropology
Molenda, John. A historical archaeology of oversees Chinese laborers on the first transcontinental railroad. Sponsor: Nan Rothschild.

Biological Sciences
Carr, Ambrose. A single-cell immune map of normal and cancerous breast reveals an expansion of phenotypic states driven by the tumor microenvironment. Sponsor: Dana Pe'er.

Kato, Niyo. Mechanisms of replication independent ICL repair. Sponsor: Jean Gautier.

Biomedical Engineering
Apostolakis, Iason Zacharias. 2-D and 3-D high frame-rate pulse wave imaging for the characterization of focal vascular disease. Sponsor: Elisa Konofagou.

Shaik, Mohammed. Evaluating endothelial function during neurovascular coupling in awake behaving mice using advanced imaging technologies. Sponsor: Elizabeth Hillman.

Computer Science
Miau, Daniel. Personalized navigation instruments for map user interfaces. Sponsor: Steven Feiner.

Varley, Jacob. Learning to grasp. Sponsor: Peter Allen.

Mechanical Engineering
Zhu, Jianzhong. Synthesis and analysis of design methods in linear repetitive, iterative learning and model predictive control. Sponsor: Richard Longman.

Neurobiology and Behavior
Tsai, Joseph. SRGAP2 in the adult barrel cortex. Sponsor: Attila Losonczy.

TC / Economics and Education
Ran, Xiaotao. Essays on instructor quality in higher education. Sponsor: Thomas Bailey.

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Art History and Archaeology
Cavalcanti, Dave. Potraits, pots, or power objects? On the imagery and ontology of Wari Face neck jars.

Gassaway, William. On Deformation in Aztec Art (AD 1200-1521): Extraordinary bodies, extraordinary sacrifices.

Marzullo, Francesca. Overdoors of Renaissance Florence.

Scheier-Dolberg, Joseph. Yu Zhiding (1646-1716) and the envisioning of the early Qing world.

Vigotti, Lorenzo. A new type of home for a new ruling class: Private architecture in Tuscany (1350-1444).

Biomedical Engineering
Ji, Hayeun. In vitro microphysiological system for modeling vascular disease.

Park, Ji. Engineering the microenvironmental cues on enhancing the cell fate determination.

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Lu, Zheng. Assessment framework for financing public-private partnership infrastructure projects through securitization.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pavia, Frank. Investigating biogeochemical processes in the South Pacific Ocean using thorium and proactinium isotopes.

English and Comparative Literature
Bloomfield, Gabriel. The poetry of interpretation: Exegetical verse in post-reformation Britain.

Bohannon, Catherine. Narrative and cognition in the novel.

Cunard, Candace. Managing narrative time in the eighteenth-century novel.

Mayer, Nicholas. Postures of resistance: Obeah, fetishism, and material culture in the English literature of the Americas and Africa, 1647-1899.

Petracca, Eugene. Dante in Medieval England.

Reid, Tiana. "Our World-Work": Questions of labor and gender in African diasporic literature and politics.

Schneider, Rosa. Tools of history: The American history play and techniques of historical creation, 1979-2014.

Svampa, Maria. Romantic movements: Body motions and resistance in romantic poetry.

Zhang, Rachel. The constant paradox: Constancy and literary form in the English Civil Wars.

French and Romance Philology
Alvarez, Kalinka. Jean Genet and Michel Foucault: Prison, power and subjectivity.

History
Reich, Robin. Copper-alloys and cures: A material history of spices and scientific translation in Norman Sicily.

Wanner, Buck. Downtown dance in the 1900s.

Political Science
Leavitt, Thomas. Racism and redistribution: The effect of political-economic and attitudinal factors on democratic transitions.

Rivera-Burgos, Viviana. Essays in minority politics and representation: A dissertation proposal.

Psychology
Conley, Mark. Field experiments in motivation science.

Sociology
Renault, Beatrice. Schizophrenia diagnosis: A trading zone between psychiatry and the jurisprudence a comparative study in France and the USA.

Theatre
McHugh, Meadhbh. Stages of shame.

Theatre
Simon, Jessica. Mimetic sensations: Sensation (melodrama, the sensational novel and Victorian realism).

What is your current role?
Division Head and Chair Professor of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology.

What are you working on now?
I am working on several projects broadly related to the political economy of contemporary China in comparative perspective. I recently returned from fieldwork in various parts of India and Dubai as part of a multi-year book project comparing the local developmental implications of migration, return migration, remittances, and ethnic foreign direct investment in three pairs of localities in China and India.

What drew you to your field?
Understanding China's political economy offers endless empirical and analytic puzzles. I knew that I would never tire of exploring it—or be satisfied that I know enough, even nearly two decades out of graduate school.

What lessons from graduate school have you found useful in your professional life?
Success as a scholar should not be a solitary pursuit. Research and education inherently depend on the generosity of others in mentoring, sharing information, and offering comfort during rough patches.

What skill has unexpectedly helped you in your career?
Building micro-communities, whether they be based on shared intellectual interests, research interactions, or non-academic concerns, has enabled me to bring people together in my various administrative and leadership positions.

What is your favorite memory from your graduate years?
As odd as it sounds, studying for comprehensive exams with classmates proved to be an intensely inspiring experience.

What are your passions outside of your work?
Traveling with my husband and two sons, exploring new places through early morning runs and hiking tours, and dancing.

What is your advice for current GSAS students?
Be aware of your relative strengths and weaknesses. Be proactive in addressing the latter. Be patient with yourself and your topic, but if something is clearly not a good fit or working out as planned, have the courage to change course.

What is next for you, professionally or otherwise?
I start in my new role, as Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, on July 1, 2018.

Read about the recent achievements of GSAS students:

• Economics doctoral student Andrew Olenski, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School researcher Anupam Jena, published a study in The New England Journal of Medicine challenging the notion that experienced firearm users are less likely to injure themselves. The study was covered by Scientific American.
• Robin Reich, PhD student in History, won the prize for Best Student Paper (for “Nearly Gold and Nearly Perfect? Meaning and Materiality of Copper-Alloy in Twelfth-Century Sicily”) from the Medieval Academy of America at its 2018 Annual Meeting.
• English and Comparative Literature PhD student Jonathan Reevewon the the New York City Digital Humanities Graduate Student Project Award for Corpus-DB, a textural corpus infrastructure for computational literary analysis. He also received a runner-up award from the British Library Labs for his project Git-Lit.
• Benjamin Serby, PhD candidate in History, published an article (“The Dialectical Liberalism of Richard Hofstadter”) in the journal Society.
• Ethan Coffel, doctoral student in Earth and Environmental Sciences, was quoted in a Popular Science article that described how climate change will disrupt air travel.

Do you have news to share about a GSAS student? Write to us at gsas-communications [at] columbia.edu.

DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED

Art History and Archaeology
Wiesenberger, Robert. Print and screen, Muriel Cooper at MIT. Sponsor: Barry Bergdoll.

Biological Sciences
Alpar, Elif. Spatially restricted regulation of cell competition by the cytokine Spätzle. Sponsor: Laura A. Johnston.

Yang, Ju. Synaptic elasticity. Sponsor: Ozgur Sahin.

Computer Science
Huang, Yi-Peng. Hybrid analog-digital co-processing for scientific computation. Sponsor: Simha Sethumadhavan.

Jiang, Weiwei. Design and performance optimization of asynchronous networks-on-chip. Sponsor: Steven Nowick.

Kang, Yuan. Combining programs to enhance security software. Sponsor: Salvatore Stolfo.

Smith, Breannan. Structure preserving and scalable simulation of colliding systems. Sponsor: Changxi Zheng.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
Reeves, Kristopher. Of poetry, patronage, and politics: From Saga to Michizane, Sinitic poetry in the early Heian court. Sponsor: Haruo Shirane.

Electrical Engineering
Li, Jiangyi. VLSI techniques and applications in IoT systems. Sponsor: Mingoo Seok.

Epidemiology
Work, Meghan. Breast cancer risk factors and associations with breast cancer tumor characteristics in high risk populations. Sponsor: Mary Beth Terry.

History
Kideckel, Michael. Fresh from the factory: Breakfast cereal, natural food, and the marketing of reform, 1890-1920. Sponsor: Karl Jacoby.

Latin American and Iberian Cultures
Ibáñez Aristondo, Miguel. Disclosing the Far East: Travels, exchanges, and scientific cultures in the Iberian world(1565-1667). Sponsor: Alessandra Russo.

Mechanical Engineering
Arefe, Ghidewon. Engineered two dimensional materials for advanced opto-electronics. Sponsor: James Hone.

Pathobiology and Molecular Medicine
Neufeld, Jessica. Searching for a biomarker of endosomal dysfunction. Sponsor: Scott Small.

Political Science
Gallo, Andrew. Understanding military doctrinal change during peacetime. Sponsor: Richard Betts.

Visconti, Giancarlo. Political preferences in adverse conditions. Sponsor: Maria Victoria Murillo.

TC / Cognitive Studies in Education
Georgoulas-Sherry, Vasiliki. The impact of resilience and grit on inductive and deductive reasoning after exposure to combat-like environments. Sponsor: Ryan Baker.
 

DISSERTATION PROPOSALS FILED

Art History and Archaeology
Cinar, Muge. Ways of ancient seeing: Greek temple sculpture and decoration.

Art History and Archaeology
van Oppen, Brian. Cast of bodies: Lighting the gaze upon Etruscan candelabra statuettes.

Biomedical Engineering
Ji, Hayeun. In vitro microphysiological system for modeling vascular disease.

Lao, Yeh-Hsing. Targeted delivery for cancer nanomedicine and gene editing.

Park, Ji. Engineering the microenvironmental cues on enhancing the cell fate determination.

Shaik, Mohammed. Evaluating endothelial function during neurovascular coupling in awake behaving mice using advanced imaging technologies.

Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Bartilson, Daniel. Relating stochastic and deterministic model updating methods.

Camaj, Mario. Good Book of IT.

Lu, Zheng. Assessment framework for financing public-private partnership infrastructure projects through securitization.

Xu, Lei. Centrifuge modeling of Gabion facing geosynthetic reinforced soil retaining walls.

Classics
Rudoni, Elia Ruben. Libere loquor: Poetry and language in Neronian court literature.

Computer Science
Argyos, Georgios. Symbolic model learning: Algorithms and applications.

Psallidas, Fotis. Expressing and optimizing data-intensive interactive applications.

Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pavia, Frank. Investigating biogeochemical processes in the South Pacific Ocean using thorium and protactinium isotopes.

East Asian Languages and Cultures
MacBain, Abigail. Foreign persuasion: International monks in eighth century Japan.

Yang, Chung-Wei. Fiction in the Age of New Media: Visuality, print technology, and the production of novels in early-twentieth century China.

History
Allen, David. A popular diplomacy? The Foreign Policy Association, public opinion, and American foreign relations, 1918-1976.

Aumoithe, George. Epidemic preparedness in The Age of Chronic Illnes: Public health and welfare politics in the United States, 1920-1996.

Bhattacharyya, Tania. Bombay, 1839-1832: Empire, space, and belonging in an Indian Ocean port-city.

Ferguson, Susanna. Tracing Tarbiyah women education and childrearing in Egypt and Lebanon 1865-1939.

Gerien-Chen, James. Between empire and nation: Taiwanese settler-migrants and the making of the Japanese empire in South China.

Giordani, Angela. Islamic philosophy and the humanist imagination in twentieth century Egypt.

Gonzalez Le Saux, Marianne. The lawyer's rule: Legal aid, the legal profession, and the rule of law in Chile, 1925-1989.

Kaplan, Abram. The Janus faces of tradition: Newton, Leibniz, and the philological of calculus.

Kideckel, Michael. Fresh from the factory: Breakfast cereal, natural food, and the marketing of reform, 1890-1920.

Kressel, Daniel. The age of technology: The Argentine and the Opus Dei doctrine of development in Latin Americas southern cove 1951-1978.

Kung, Chien Wen. Coercion, culture, and Chineseness: Nationalist China and overseas Chinese anticommunism in the Philippines, 1945-1970.

Kursteiner, Sarina. The hidden architects of the common good: Notarial culture, affect, and paperwork in Northern Italy (ca. 1150 - ca. 1350).

Kuzuoglu, Ulug. Engineering minos: Psychology and minority script reforms in China, 1910-50s.

Marris, Caroline. 'The Silver Sea' and the nation state: The multifaceted geopolitics of the early modern English channel.

Menashe, Tamar. Jews in cross-confessional legal cultures in reformation Germany.

O'Neil, Sean. Technicians of the sign: The practice of semiotics in early modern Europe.

Pesaran, Natasha. The 'Third River': The Iraq-Mediterranean oil pipeline and politics in the Middle East, 1920-1968.

Powers, Allison. Settlement colonialism: Compensatory justice in United States expansion, 1903-1941.

Purcell, James. Parsing truth in Merovingian Gaul: Evidence and the early medieval critic.

Reich, Robin. Copper-alloys and cures: A material history of spices and scientific translation in Norman Sicily.

Resnikoff, Jason. Automatic America: Automation and the meaning of labor in the United States, 1945-75.

Rosenblum, Noah. The tribe of the eagle.

Swett, Brooks. The process of political reconstruction: Policymaking in the United States and Britain in the 1860s and 1870s.

Vuljevic, Suzana. Cosmopolitanism, (cultural) diplomacy and literature: The curious case of union in the post-Ottoman Balkans.

Music
Bell, Eamonn. The computational attitude in music theory.

Glasenapp, Brian. The Beaupré Antiphoner: Liturgy, community, and continuity.

Hannaford, Marc. One line, may view: Muhal Richard Abrams, musical improvisation, and affordances.

Jiang, Qingfan. Toward a global enlightenment: Missionaries, musical knowledge, and the making of encylopedias in eighteenth-century China and France.

O'Rourke, Russell. Musical representation in Italy 1550-1600, Reconsidered.

Saccomano, Mark. Surfaces, objects, and environments: How music affects the perception of space.

Nursing
Biok, Irene. Hospitalization risk factors of home health care patients with dementia.

Handschuh, Caroline. Peer and parental relationships and their association with adolscent sexual behaviors.

Philosophy
Nielsen, Michael. Essays on convergence to the truth and merging of opinions.

Political Science
Thorley, Dane. Courts, experiments, and randomization: A three-paper dissertation proposal.

Religion
Barnes, Rex. Loca infesta: Demonic infestation in Northern Europe, 1400-1600.

Sociology
McKinney, Warren. Incorporating diaspora - Blurring distinctions of race and nationality through heritage tourism in Ghana.

Where did you grow up? 
I grew up in a military family and later joined the military myself, so I have lived many places around the US and overseas.

What drew you to your field? 
I finished high school on a military base near Tokyo and then returned in my own military career several years later. My personal and professional experiences in Japan led me to develop an interest in US–Japan and international relations.

How would you explain your current research to someone outside of your field? 
I am interested in how Japan views the international security environment, particularly with regard to the US's role in East Asia. Since Prime Minister Abe assumed office in 2012, Japan has undertaken a series of security reforms that have strengthened US–Japan relations, but have proven controversial within Japan and with some of Japan's neighbors. I am exploring why Japan felt these changes were necessary, so that we can understand the prospects for future changes.

What is your favorite thing about being a student at Columbia GSAS?
Everyone at GSAS is amazing to work with. Nearly every interaction with the students, the professors, and the professional staff reaffirms my decision to come to Columbia.

What resources or opportunities that Columbia provides have been most valuable to you?
Butler Library is one of the best parts of studying at Columbia. I have never had any trouble finding the resources that I need for my research.

Is there a common misconception about a topic in your field that you wish you could correct?
I think there is an incomplete understanding of the role that the US military plays in East Asia, particularly in places like South Korea and Okinawa, Japan. Although there are several concerns about US overseas basing that resonate in the media and with many people, the US presence there has also been very important for preventing war and responding to humanitarian crises.

Who are your favorite writers?
Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Frank Miller.

Who are your heroes of fiction?
Harry Potter and Captain Picard.

Who are your heroes in real life?
Anyone who commits to public service for a profession—especially public school teachers and local police officers.

Whom in your field do you consider a role model?
I am impressed with the group of Asia scholar–practitioners who have served in DC and are important contributors to the field, in particular, Thomas Christensen, Michael J. Green, Victor Cha, and Kurt Campbell.

If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A professional surfer or snowboarder.

What music have you been listening to lately?
The Clash and the Ramones.

What is your favorite blog or website?
The Washington Post and the Financial Times.

Where is your favorite place to eat on or around campus?
It wasChé Bella Pizza. I hope it reopens!

GSAS Office of Academic Diversity

Apply to Be a Graduate Student Mentor
Deadline: Wednesday, March 14
The GSAS Office of Academic Diversity is hiring six graduate students to serve as mentors in the GSAS–Leadership Alliance Summer Research Program. Graduate student mentors teach, train, and support undergraduate minority scholars who are conducting research at Columbia under the direct supervision of faculty. For more information about the Summer Research Program, please click here. To apply to be a graduate student mentor, click here. 

Research Collective Symposium
Thursday, April 26, 3:00-6:00 p.m.
Broadway Room, Lerner Hall
Join us in celebrating the work of students in the OAD Research Collective, an interdisciplinary group of doctoral students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences who are researching topics of particular interest to underrepresented groups, such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class. Research Collective fellows will present their research in a formal symposium, with a reception to follow. Additional details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Diversity Film Series
Save the dates for upcoming film screenings hosted by the GSAS Office of Academic Diversity. All film screenings are free, and beer and snacks will be provided. Follow the links below to learn more and register.

• Hidden Figures: March 15, 8:00-10:00 p.m.
• Saturday Church: April 19, 8:00-10:00 p.m.

Center for Teaching and Learning

Teachers' Lounge: Teaching When Marginalized
Wednesday, April 18, 12:00-1:15 p.m.
212 Butler Library
Teachers’ Lounges are series of informal discussions about teaching practices and the culture of learning at Columbia. Our conversations often introduce participants to related educational models, research, and theory, and invite dialogue about their pertinence to day-to-day teaching. Graduate students and new instructors at Columbia are especially welcome, and lunch is available. In Spring 2018, we are focusing on emotions, moods, and attitudes in the classroom. In our final consideration of emotions in the classroom this semester, we'll focus on situations when an instructor may feel marginalized in particular classroom settings. In what ways might we assess, acknowledge, and even leverage such feelings of marginalization? 

To view additional CTL events, click here.

Center for Career Education

Lime Connect Information Session
Thursday, March 8, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Center for Career Education Conference Room
Learn about the Lime Network, an exclusive resource for university students and professionals with disabilities. If you are not a person with a disability, but would like to stay informed and share information about our opportunities and programs, we encourage you to join as well.

Women’s Focus Groups
Friday, March 23, 11:00-12:00 pm and Tuesday, March 27, 5:00-6:00 p.m.
Center for Career Education Conference Room
These follow-up focus group sessions will cover women's career development topics. The CCE invites all undergraduate and graduate students from Columbia College, SGS, GSAS, SEAS, and SOA to join. Please cce [at] columbia.edu (subject: Women%27s%20Focus%20Groups) (email CCE) to participate in this event.

LGBTQ Career Panel and Networking Hour
Thursday, March 29, 5:00-6:30 p.m.
Center for Career Education Conference Room

Meet LGBTQ professionals working in diverse industries including consulting, fintech, city and state government and policy, startups and non-profits. The event is sponsored by Center for Career education, EGSC, qSTEM, Graduate Queer Trust, GS Alliance, Columbia Queer Business Society, and Columbia iQ. Open to undergraduate and graduate students from Columbia College, SGS, GSAS, SEAS, and SOA.

To view additional CCE events, click here.

Office of University Life

In Conversation: Exploring Race and Whiteness in America Today
Wednesday, March 7, 12:00 p.m.
Faculty Room, Low Library
A candid discussion between author and poet Claudia Rankine (’93Arts) and Columbia research scholar and documentarian of “Whiteness Project” Whitney Dow (’86GS) about identity, race and social constructs in America. MSNBC’s Joy Reid moderates. Lunch provided. Register here.

Campus Conversations Training
Thursday, March 8, 4:00 p.m.
Join students from across Columbia and become a facilitator for the Campus Conversations project on identity, designed by Columbia’s Race, Ethnicity and Inclusion Task Force and the Office of University Life. Sign up here for a training session this week or next.

To view additional University Life events, click here.

What is your current role?
I am the Head of Member Engagement for The Climate Group in North America.

What are you working on now?
The Climate Group aims to accelerate response to climate change by bringing together powerful networks of businesses and governments. In my current role, I build and maintain our membership network in North America by establishing and maintaining relationships with key partners.

What drew you to your field?
I was impressed by the leadership of companies and state and regional governments to take bold action on climate. Both have shown agility in accelerating our transition to a clean energy future.

What lessons from graduate school have you found useful in your professional life?
Remain curious! I took several classes outside of the Climate and Society concentration, and continue to attend lectures on campus and participate in events.

What skill has unexpectedly helped you in your career?
The ability to translate scientific and economic information and trends to lay audiences in ways that best resonate with them—making local and personal the impacts of climate change.

What is your favorite memory from your graduate years?
It may say sound strange, but studying Hurricane Sandy as it was happening. It was clear how those with the fewest resources were most impacted.

What is your advice for current GSAS students?
Participate in as many lectures, symposia and events as you can. There are incredible thought leaders on campus: absorb their knowledge, and contribute your perspective.

What is next for you, professionally or otherwise?
I am moving to London in March!

Please find below a detailed breakdown of the annual fellowship support offered to doctoral students in Humanities and Social Science departments for the 2018-19 academic year.

*Tuition for doctoral students registered for Residence Units. Tuition costs for students registered for Extended Residence and Matriculation and Facilities may be found on the Cost of Attendance page.

Other benefits include:

• Guaranteed Columbia housing for five academic years 
• Subsidy for upgrading to Platinum‐level health insurance plan (students only)
• Full Gold‐level health insurance coverage for eligible dependents
• Health insurance coverage while on an official medical leave
• Accommodation for Parental Responsibilities
• Child-care subsidy
• Funding to attend conferences
• GSAS International Travel Awards
• Coverage of Internet fee for students in university housing
• Printing quota upgrade when not on appointment
• Gym access during funding‐eligible years 

Please find below a detailed breakdown of the annual fellowship support offered to doctoral students in Mathematics and Statistics for the 2018-19 academic year.

*Tuition for doctoral students registered for Residence Units. Tuition costs for students registered for Extended Residence and Matriculation and Facilities may be found on the Cost of Attendance page.

Other benefits include:

• Guaranteed Columbia housing for five academic years 
• Subsidy for upgrading to Platinum‐level health insurance plan (students only)
• Full Gold‐level health insurance coverage for eligible dependents
• Health insurance coverage while on an official medical leave
• Accommodation for Parental Responsibilities
• Child-care subsidy
• Funding to attend conferences
• GSAS International Travel Awards
• Coverage of Internet fee for students in university housing
• Printing quota upgrade when not on appointment
• Gym access during funding‐eligible years