IAAS Graduate Students

Sophie Xiaofei Lei is a second-year 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...

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

The history of Tibetan medicine in Russia; Tibetan Buddhism in Buryatia; Inner Asian frontier regions; Post-imperial Inner Asia; Post-socialist Siberia and Mongolia.

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.

Buddhist Art of China and Inner Asia from the 10 th to the 14 th century, Buddhist publishing and printing culture, Buddhist Art in Dunhuang during the Tibetan and Post-Tibetan periods, 786-1036.

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