2022-23
John Hayashi, Dept. of History
"Hydraulic Taiwan: Colonial Conservation under Japanese Imperial and Chinese Republican Rule"
Yusung Kim, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Cold War Techno-Fantasy and Its Displays: New Materiality and Environment in South Korea and Japan"
Jesse LeFebvre, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"The Antifragile Kannon Revitalizing Disaster and the Profileration the Hasedera Kannon"
Susan Taylor, Dept. of Anthropology
"The City of Texts: Affective Work and the Ethics of Care in Booktown Jimbocho, Tokyo"
2021-22
Jonas Rüegg, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"The Kuroshio Frontier: Business, State, and Environment in the Making of the Japanese Empire"
2020-21
Yuting Dong, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Empire on the Ground: The Co-Production of Japanese Railway Towns in Northeast China (1905-1953)"
Dana Mirsalis, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Female Shinto Priests: Gender and Labor in Contemporary Shinto"
Kimberlee Sanders, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Intimate Listening: Tuning into the Voices of 20th and 21st-Century Japanese Popular Media"
Maria Joelle Tapas, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Schooling Artlessness: New Media and Children's Arts Education in Early 20th-Century Japan"
Haruka Umetsu Cho, Committee on the Study of Religion
"The Newly Forming Flesh of Women and the Divinity: A Theological Reading of Modern Japanese Fiction"
Rebecca Voelcker, Dept. of Visual and Environmental Studies
"Field Work: Land, Cultivation, and Culture"
2019-20
Julia Cross, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Stolen and Worshipped Relics: Enshrinements of the Buddhas Body in Kamakura, Japan"
Max Durayappah-Harrison, Dept. of Anthropology
"Remaking Rural Japan"
Subodhana Wijeyeratne, Dept. of History
"Red Sun Rising: People and Places in the History of the Japanese Space Program 1920-2003"
2018-19
Peter Bernard, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Rural Japanese Gothic: The Topography of Horror in Modern Japanese Literature"
Ryan Glasnovich, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Return to the Sword: Martial Identity and the Modern Transformation of the Japanese Police"
Eric Swanson, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"The Restoration of Peace through the Subjugation of Vengeful Spirits: Jien (1155-1225) and the Construction of Orthodoxy in Japan at the Turn of the 13th Century"
2017-18
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2016-17
Katherine Brooks, Dept. of History of Art and Architecture
"Something Rubbed: Medium, Texture, and Poetry in Japanese Surimono"
Andrew Littlejohn, Dept. of Anthropology
"After the Flood: The Politics of Reconstruction in Post-3.11 Tohoku
Adam Lyons, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Karma and Punishment: Prison Chaplaincy in Japan"
Xiaolu Ma, Dept. of Comparative Literature
"The Vital Link: Japan as an Intermediary in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese and Russian Transcultural Relationships"
Chiaki Nishijima, Dept. of Anthropology
"Tokyo Jukujo: Sexual Commerce in a Precarious Age"
Hirokazu Yoshie, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Framing Power and Authority: the Emperor's Portrait in Education and Schools in Japan, 1890-1945"
2015-16
Hansun Hsiung, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Republic of Letters, Empire of Textbooks: Japan in the Birth of Global Distance Learning, 1790-1895"
Shi Lin Loh, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Rentogen and Instrumental Modernity: Japan's Irradiated Past, 1896-1950's"
Yurika Wakamatsu, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
"Painting in Between: Gender and Modernity in the Japanese Literati Art of Okuhara Seiko (1837-1913)"