Yunna J. Han is a historian of the early twentieth-century Sino-Mongolian borderlands whose research focuses on gender. While her M.A. thesis examined prostitution in Manchukuo, she also initiated a broader exploration of Mongol women, female spiritual authority, and the relationship between institutional Buddhism and indigenous shamanic traditions at Columbia University. Beginning her Ph.D. in History at New York University, Yunna will continue researching the tensions between institutional religion and indigenous practices, as well as the ways marginalized communities negotiated and resisted regimes of gender, colonialism, and state control. Her research interests also include women's education, Chinese and Mongolian masculinities and femininities, and menstrual studies.