School of Humanities and Sciences
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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. -
Gabriel Ellis
Ph.D. Student in Music, admitted Autumn 2017
BioGabriel Ellis is a musicology PhD student at Stanford University. His current research focuses on intersections between music, technology, and identity in contemporary popular (and unpopular) genres. He has presented research at the Midwest Chapter Meeting of the American Musicological Association and at the Music and Visual Cultures International Conference in Maynooth, Ireland.
Before coming to Stanford, Gabriel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He moonlights infrequently as a countertenor. -
Linda Galvane
Ph.D. Student in Japanese, admitted Autumn 2012
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsThe aim of my dissertation is to elucidate the significance of scatological representations in modern and contemporary Japanese literature, tracing their lineage in both canonical and non-canonical works from the 1930s until the post-bubble era. I focus on representations of scatology that are specifically related to sexuality -- which have been disregarded as a narrow and meaningless subset of perverse desire – as they appear in the aesthetic realm.
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Mei Li Inouye
Ph.D. Student in Chinese, admitted Autumn 2013
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsHer interests include modern and contemporary Chinese literature, film, dance, theater, and visual culture. Her research explores transnational exchanges and appropriations, genre and media boundary crossings and transformations, and the mediating and critical role of memory in modern and post-socialist Chinese literature and film.
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Whitney Legge
Master of Fine Arts Student, Documentary Film and Video
BioWhitney Legge grew up in a small town on the coast of Maine and after graduating high school relocated to Guatemala to develop photography programs for at-risk youths. In 2008, Whitney was accepted to the San Francisco Art Institute where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Photography and honored with the John Collier Humanitarian Award. After graduation Whitney helped organize and lead DocuPhoto a public lecture series with acclaimed documentary photographers and filmmakers. She works for The Asia Foundation producing documentary short films. Whitney’s personal photography and films explores themes of family, identity, and social issues such as immigration and poverty.
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Timothy O'Brien
Ph.D. Student in Music, admitted Winter 2014
BioTim O'Brien is a Ph.D. student at Stanford University's CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics), where he is able to unite various interests and study/research at the intersection of music, media, art, and technology. Currently, he is most interested in spatial audio signal processing, machine learning, music information retrieval, algorithmic/generative composition, and multimedia improvisational systems.
He is a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he earned a B.S. in physics with distinction, concentrating in computational physics and minoring in anthropology. He is an avid guitar player and musician, and had been composing, performing, and recording in New York for the six years prior to his start at CCRMA.
