Dissertation Completion Fellows

The RIJS Dissertation Completion Fellows for the 2023-24 academic year are as follows:


Daniel Borengasser
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Hall of the Lotus King: Sculpture and Multiplicity in Early Medieval Japan"


Holly Hummer
Dept. of Sociology
"Women Without Children: Cultural Perspectives on a Demographic Phenomenon"


Juhee Kang
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (HEAL)
"From Numbers to Personhood: Psychological Testing in Twentieth-century Japan"


Sara Kang
Dept. of History
"Operation Relax: Empires of Sex in Japan and the Asia-Pacific"


Lingling Ma
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Creative Life - Aesthetic Evolution and Japanese Modernism"


Yuxin Qin
Committee on the Study of Religion
"Practitioners in Action: The Power of Lay Buddhists in Contemporary Japan"


Jesus Solis
Dept. of History
"Black Market Empire: Shadow Networks, Illicit Goods, and Drug Trafficking in Postwar Japan"


Helen Swift
Dept. of History of Art and Architecture
"Wisdom, Impression, Sentiment: Academy, Self, and Nation in the Oeuvre of Kuroda Seiki, 1880-1900"


Jonathan Thumas
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Places Apart: Buddhist Hermitage in Medieval Japan"


Catherine Tsai
Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Development at the Ends of Empire: Migrations and the Making of the Southern Ryukyus, 1900s-1970s"


Botagoz Ussen
Dept. of Comparative Literature
"Red Feminisms: Transnational Perspectives & Hybrid Identities"