EALCS Ph.D. student Li-Ting Chang, recently won the 2023 ASPAC-Mori Graduate Student Paper Prize in Asian Studies for her article on Taiwan. Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) is one of the regional affiliates of the Association for Asian Studies. According to its website, the purpose of the award is to “recognize extraordinary graduate student scholarship… in any discipline in any area of research pertaining to Asian Studies.” Congratulations, Li-Ting!
We are pleased to announce that EALCS graduate student Rachel Levine was recently awarded a Fulbright Dissertation Grant for 2023–2024 to pursue her project, “Breaking Open the Black Box: Shifting Discourse Policy and Praxis in Contemporary Japan” while affiliating with Sophia University, Tokyo, and working under the guidance of Professor Mari Miura (Faculty of Law). Congratulations, Rachel, we are proud of you!
Thursday, October 13
4:30–6:00pm in the HSSB Courtyard
Come mingle with your classmates, professors, and new friends!! We will provide delicious snacks, live music performances, and fun games!!
Sponsored by the UCSB Center for Taiwan Studies, Chinese Language Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, with support from our CLP Volunteers, CSSA ICE (International Cultural Exchange), and Jasmine Echo.
EALCS graduate student Sabra Harris is among six grad students across UCSB to receive a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. She will travel to Japan to continue her PhD research on “Emergent Indigeneities within Public-Facing Ainu Performance.” She and the other winners were recently featured in The Current, UCSB’s official news site.
Congratulations, Sabra!
EALCS is proud to congratulate Linshan Jiang for earning her Ph.D. and moving to a postdoc at Duke University! Way to go Linshan!!
Huge congratulations to Sophia Shi who just earned her MA and is entering the Princeton Ph.D. program in Religion! We know Sophia will do GREAT!
We celebrate the 2022 Mochizuki award winners, Dr. Akiyo Cantrell and Aidan Pedersen. Congratulations!
The Journal of Japanese Studies is excited to welcome Sabine Frühstück as new coeditor (with Morgan Pitelka). Sabine has been a regular contributor to JJS (and a member of its boards) since submitting her coauthored article on the normalization and management of violence in Japan’s armed forces in 2000 (if not before), and we look forward to her new contributions to JJS. JJS is also deeply grateful to Janet Hunter for her service as coeditor since 2015 and particularly for her commitment to supporting early-career scholars and to the interdisciplinary JJS readership.
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Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary forum for communicating new information, interpretations, and research on Japan. Its core objective is to maintain an enduring record of highest-quality and evidence-based scholarship through the publication of empirical and interpretive work on Japan.
