IAAS Students

Religious, cultural, and social histories of Muslim societies in the Russian Empire and early Soviet Union, with regional focuses on Transoxania and the Volga-Urals.

The Treasure Tradition in Tibet, Sino-Tibetan Political and Intellectual History, and Textual Scholarship.

Intellectual and social history of late Imperial China; Trans-Imperial Mobility; Islamic networks across Inner Asia.    

Sophie Xiaofei Lei is a Ph.D. student in Inner Asian and Altaic Studies at Harvard University. She received her BA in Classical Studies and Art History from Smith College and her MA in Regional Studies--East Asia at Harvard University, with a master's...

Inner Asian archaeology and ethnography, pastoral nomadism, craft production, archaeological organics, ancient and ethnographic textiles, human-animal relations, circumpolar archaeology and ethnography.