The Reischauer Institute congratulates Harvard's 2024 Ph.D. and A.M. graduates in Japanese Studies.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Ph.D. Recipients

Anthropology

Susan Paige Taylor, "The City of Texts: An Ethnography of The Work/Labor of Care in Booktown Jimbocho, Tokyo"

Comparative Literature

Botagoz Ussen, "Red Feminisms: Transnational Perspectives & Hybrid Identities"

East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Daniel Borengasser, "Hall of the Lotus King: Sculpture and Multiplicity in Early Medieval Japan"

Lingling Ma, "The Pattern of Life—Discourses of Life in Literature, Art, and Design of Modern Japan from 1911 to 1941"

Yusung Kim (November 2023), "Cold War Futurity on Display: New Techno-Environment Staged in South Korea and Japan Through Models and Miniatures"

Jonathan Thumas, "Places Apart: Buddhist Reclusion in Medieval Japan"

History

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

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

History of Art & Architecture

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

Regional Studies - East Asia A.M. Recipients

David Anderson, Jr., “The Ties That Bind: On the Tripartite Relationship That Exists Between China, Japan, and the United States of America”

Gunn Chaiyapatranun, “Mingei Modern: Crafting a New Mode of Living In Shōwa Japan”

Jiayu Gui, “Modern Literary Mentorship in Wartime Women’s Magazines: The Cases of Kawabata Yasunari in Shinjoen and Tamura Toshiko in Nüsheng”

Tabreya Ryan, “Unmasking Eros: Demystifying the Liberative Potential of Female Masochism through Okuhara Hiroshi’s Film Adaption of Ogawa Yōko’s Dark Romance Hotel Iris”