Fellowships, Grants & Internships 2012 Grants and Support for Graduate Students
Graduate Students
RIJS Summer Language Study Grants for Doctoral Students
Wenjiao Cai, RSEA, KCJS Program, Kyoto
Andrew Campana, EALC, Inter-University Center, Yokohama
Heng Du, EALC, Inter-University Center, Yokohama
Zoe Eddy, Anthropology, Yamasa Institute, Ozaki
Xiaolu Ma, Comparative Literature, KCJS Program, Kyoto
Dan Orbach, History, Inter-University Center, Yokohama
Qiong Xie, Comparative Literature, Inter-University Center, Yokohama
RIJS Summer Research Grants for Graduate Students
Neal Akatsuka, Anthropology, Japanese Forms of Life and Transgenic Forms
Katherine Brooks, History of Art & Architecture, Excess Value in Surimono
Ethan Bushelle, East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC), A Cultural History of the Preaching Arts in Japan
Andrew Littlejohn, Anthropology, Sentient Commodities: The Shifting Terrain of Interspecies Engagement in Northern Japan
Shi-Lin Loh, EALC, Building Communal Knowledge: Nuclear Science and Nuclear Villages
Adam Lyons, Religion, Religion and the Law in Japan
Dan Orbach, History, Cultures of Disobedience: Rebellion in the Japanese Officer Corps 1853-1936
Esra Gokce Sahin, Anthropology, Viewing the Social Through the Comic
Eric Swanson, EALC, The Revival of Doctrinal Studies and Ritual Debate in Medieval Japan
Hirozaku Yoshie, You Think, Therefore You Are: Keeping a Diary (and a selfhood) in Late Meiji and Taisho Elementary School
RIJS Dissertation Completion/ Supplementary Research Grants for 2012-2013
Dissertation Completion
Michio Arimitsu, African and African American Studies, Another Race: Afro-Asian Cosmopolitam Imaginings in East-West Encounters
Mark Erdmann, History of Art & Architecture, The Azuchiyama Matrix: Architectural Innovation and Political Legitimacy in Sixteenth-Century Japan
John Hyong Kim, Comparative Literature, Universal Poetics: Word, Image and Matheme (share grant with Korea Institute)
Supplementary Research
Alex Bueno, Architecture and Urban Studies, Media Consumes Tokyo
Satoru Hashimoto, EALC, Transformations of the Aesthetic in East Asia, 1880’s-1930’s
Chiaki Nishijima, Anthropology, The Social Life of Anti-Trafficking Laws: Engendering Domestic Sex-Trafficking Victimhood in Contemporary Japan
Dan Orbach, History, Culture of Disobedience: Rebellion in the Japanese Officer Corps 1853-1937
Rachel Saunders, EALC, The Illustrated Life of Xuanzang (Genjo Sanzo-e): Poetry, Painting, and Pilgrimage in Kamakura Period Japan
RIJS Graduate Conference Attendance Grants
Neal Akatsuka, Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
Sakura Christmas, History, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Craig Colbeck, EALC, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Zoe Eddy, Anthropology, Society for East Asian Archaeology Conference, Fukuoka, Japan
Evan Shea Ingram, Buddhist Studies Conference, Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Konrad Lawson, History, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Andrea Murray, Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada
Andrea Murray, Anthropology, International Conference on Sustainable Tourism, A Coruna, Spain
Rachel Saunders, EALC, Gakushūin University Handscroll Research Group Meeting, Tokyo, Japan
Victor Seow, EALC, Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada
Kanako Shiota, International Education Policy HGSE, Comparative and International Education Society Conference, Puerto Rico
RIJS Dissertation Production Grants
Mikael Bauer, EALC, “The Power of Ritual: An Integrated History of Medieval Kôukuji”
Amy Catalinac, Government, “Politicians and Foreign Policy: The Rise of National Security Debate in Election Campaigns in Japan”
William Hedberg, EALC, “Locating China in Time and Space: Engagement with Chinese Vernacular Fiction in Eighteenth-Century Japan”
Nikhil Kapur, History, “The 1960 US-Japan Security Treaty Crisis and the Origins of Contemporary Japan”
Eunmi Mun, Sociology, “The Organizational Reproduction of Gender Inequality: The Equal Employment Opportunity Law and Women’s Employment in Japan, 1986-2009
Andrea Murray, Anthropology, “Footprints in Paradise: Ethnography of Ecotourism, Local Knowledge, and Nature Therapies in Okinawa”