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Russell Patrick Burge
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2013
BioField: East Asia
Research Interests: Development and social change in South Korea; decolonization and the Korean War; urban history; colonial and postcolonial memory
B.A. in Art History, Minor in Political Science, UCLA
A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia, Harvard University
Russell Burge is a PhD candidate in the History Department at Stanford University focusing on the history of modern Korea. His dissertation examines social change and economic development in South Korea during the Park Chung Hee period (1961-1979), at the height of the Cold War. His other interests include the history of decolonization in East Asia, the Korean War, and the global proliferation of rock music.
Russell's master's thesis in Harvard's Regional Studies East Asia program focused on historical memory and the museumification of Sǒdaemun Prison, a detention facility that was famously used by various regimes throughout Korea's twentieth century. This thesis was awarded the Harvard RSEA program's Joseph Fletcher Memorial Award in 2013. -
Jeffery Chen
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2018
BioI am a Ph.D. candidate in history at Stanford University. I completed my first graduate degree, an MSt. in British and European History, at the University of Oxford. Broadly, my research focusses on cross-cultural encounters between Qing China and eighteenth-century Europe and on the commercial networks linking the two regions.
Outside of academia, I enjoy composing, playing piano and chamber music, and creative writing. -
Nicole Martin
Ph.D. Student in History, admitted Autumn 2011
BioNicole Martin is a social and cultural historian interested in how Americans have framed, understood, and reconciled questions about belonging and place in relation to territorial expansion. Her research and teaching interests are in gender and women’s history, Reconstruction, the American West, and settler colonialism. She received a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University (2018), an M.St. in Women’s Studies from Oxford University, and a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. Her current manuscript project traces the creation and rise of the American home as the core social concept organizing nineteenth-century American society. It uncovers how the federal government, social and moral reformers, and various cultural authorities wielded the home as a powerful tool to first connect and then reconstruct the expanding nation according to a single vision of American citizenship. She has taught courses on the Age of Jefferson, the Gilded Age, Women in Modern America, and Race and Gender in the American West. As a Thinking Matters Fellow at Stanford, she will teach “Race in American Memory” and “American Enemies.”
