2021 RSEA Fletcher Awards and Honorable Mentions in the Field of Japanese Studies
The Committee on Regional Studies — East Asia (RSEA) announced the recipients of the 2021 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Awards.
Read MoreProfessor Carol Oja Wins Society for American Music’s Irving Lowens Article Award
The Reischauer Institute congratulates Professor Carol Oja, William Powell Mason Professor of Music at Harvard, who has recently been awarded the Irving Lowens Article Award by the Society for American Music for the article "Marian Anderson's 1953 Concert Tour of Japan: A Transnational History" (American Music, volume 37).
Read MoreKoji Everard ('21) Awarded Hoopes Prize
Congratulations to Koji Everard ('21) on winning the 2021 Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for outstanding scholarly work for his thesis, titled "The Political Ecology of Sugar: Beet Agriculture and the Limits of State Power in Interwar Hokkaido," advised by Prof.
Read MoreProfessor William M. Tsutsui Interviewed by Federation of State Humanities Councils
Prof. William M. Tsutsui (RIJS Distinguished Visiting Professor) has recently been interviewed for the article “Imagining Japanese Monsters with Dr. Bill Tsutsui,” by the Federation of State Humanities Councils, part of the Humanities in American Life series, an initiative to increase awareness of the importance and use of the humanities in everyday American life.
Read MoreRIJS Google Arts & Culture Featured in Kahoku Shimpo
The Reischauer Institute's Google Arts and Culture page was recently featured in the Kahoku Shimpo, a local newspaper based in Sendai, one of the areas most heavily impacted by the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The article, in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of March 11, 2011, drew from stories shared by former Harvard students who volunteered in the Tohoku region, as well as experiences and photo collections from Mr.
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