# IAAS Graduate Students ## expand\_more [### Xiaofei (Sophie) Lei ](/people/xiaofei-sophie-lei) Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies 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... person [### Kristen Pearson ](/people/kristen-pearson) Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Inner Asian archaeology and ethnography, pastoral nomadism, craft production, archaeological organics, ancient and ethnographic textiles, human-animal relations, circumpolar archaeology and ethnography. person [### Jake Vasishchev-Perl ](/people/jake-vasishchev-perl) Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies 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. ![Jake Vasishchev-Perl headshot](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/2024-08/Vasishchev-Perl%2CJake_kitobkhona.jpg?itok=pdZGCZGh) [### Keira Yan ](/people/keira-yan) [ keirayan@g.harvard.edu]()Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies The Treasure Tradition in Tibet, Sino-Tibetan Political and Intellectual History, and Textual Scholarship. ![Keira Yan](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/iaas/files/keira.jpeg?itok=7S_xskjm) [### Aisajiang Youshe ](/people/aisajiang-youshe) Graduate Student, Program on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies Intellectual and social history of late Imperial China; Trans-Imperial Mobility; Islamic networks across Inner Asia. ![Isa Youshe](/sites/g/files/omnuum916/files/styles/hwp_4_5__690x865/public/iaas/files/img_1272.jpg?itok=3HBof1Cj)