Dissertation Completion Fellows

The RIJS Dissertation Completion Fellows for the 2024-25 academic year are as follows:

Patrick Chimenti, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Grasping for the Periphery: Ethnographic Media and Imaginaries of Place in 1970s Japan”

Leah Justin-Jinich, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
“Ties that Bind: Exploring Complex Relationships within Japanese Inscribed Paintings”

Sara Klingenstein, Committee on the Study of Religion
“The Form Will Set You Free: Pedagogy and Self Cultivation in Japanese Tea Ceremony”

Naohito Miura, Committee on the Study of Religion
“Transnational New Religious Movements: Ethnography of Sekai Meshia Kyō in Angola”

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"

Jeremy Woolsey, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"On the Rise and Fall of Telepolitics in Japan: The Case of Tahara Soichiro”