Karen Thornber publishes new book "Gender Justice and Contemporary Asian Literatures: A Casebook"

Karen Thornber, Henry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Richard L.

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Victor Seow awarded 2025 Sarton Prize for the History of Science by American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Victor Seow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, has been awarded the 2025 Sarton Prize for the History of Science by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which recognized his "exceptional promise and distinguished achievements as an emerging scholar in the field."

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David C. Atherton recognized by American Library Association for 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title

David C. Atherton's most recent book, Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature (Columbia University Press, 2023), has been named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association.

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Karen L. Thornber featured in Harvard Gazette

Karen L. Thornber, Henry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Richard L. Menschel Faculty Director of the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, was recently featured on the front page of the Harvard Gazette. In her interview, Prof. Thornber discussed her visions for the future of the Bok Center.

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Ryo Morimoto awarded Modern Japan History Association Book Prize

Ryo Morimoto has been awarded the Modern Japan History Association (MJHA) Book Prize for his recently published monograph Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone (University of California Press, 2023).

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