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”