DEPARTMENT FACULTY GRADUATE UNDERGRADUATE COURSES CALENDAR RESOURCES Graduate Introduction Announcements Newsletter Fields of Study Faculty Officers and Committees Admissions Fellowships & Grants Dissertations Placement Guide to GSAS Offices Sociomedical Sciences Ph.D. Certificate Programs M.A. in Int'l and World History M.A. in History and Literature Language Exams Graduate Handbook Graduate History Association Post-MPhil Study Spaces History Department Lockers Science Po Exchange Program Directories Ph.D. Students Ph.D. Students by Field Ph.D. Students by Year Staff Faculty Rebecca Suzanne Best Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES Email rsb2124@columbia.edu Add this person to your addressbook Rebecca Suzanne Best Student, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES East Asian Languages & Cultures Biography Advisor: Gray Tuttle Rebecca Best received her B.A. cum laude with distinction in Religious Studies at Yale University (2005) and an M.A. in Regional Studies: East Asia at Columbia University (2009). In 2004 she studied in Lhasa with support from a Richter Fellowship and returned the next year as a foreign student at Tibet University. In 2008 she studied in Beijing and Inner Mongolia with a Weatherhead Training Grant. She is currently completing coursework in the Ph.D. program on Sino-Tibetan history, with a focus on the role of Buddhism. Her research interests include temple festivals, magic and methods of material history. Besides adventures in East Asia and the East Asian library, she also enjoys cultivating plants, taking in the great outdoors, and making art out of whatever's at hand. DEPARTMENT HOME SITE MAP COLUMBIA HOME