2009 - 2010 Academic Year
Grant and Fellowship Recipients
Sasakawa Fellowship
Moshe Lakser, History
Rachel Turtledove, ALC
Gabriel Ritter, Art History
Franz Prichard, ALC
Stephanie Snyder, History
Jessica Woo, ALC
Lindsey Dewitt, ALC
Timothy Goddard, ALC
Research topic: Transnational Intellectual Culture in 1920s and 1930s Tokyo
Julia Grimes, Art History
Research topic: Paris? …Tokyo? Japan and the Development of Modern Chinese Oil Painting
Eijiro Isa, Sociology
Research topic: The Triumph of Self-Development: Cultures of Self-Formation in Postwar Japan
Koji Kagotani, Political Science
Research topic: Military Alliances, Regional Trade Agreements, and the Politics of Compliance
Maya Stiller, ALC
Research topic: On the traces of awakened masters: Korean monk portraits
Peter Weldon, Education
Research topic: Neoliberal Dynamics within Japanese Higher Education: A Case Study Examination of the 2004 Reforms
Sasakawa Japanese Language Study Fellowships
Joonbum Bae, Political Science
Research topic: The Left as Prism: the Sources of Tension between Progressives in Japan and South Korea
Rosemary Candelario, WAC
Research topic: River to River, Coast to Coast: A Choreographic Itinerary of Eiko & Koma
Caleb Carter, ALC
Research topic: Shugendō
Winifred Chang, History
Research topic: Marshalling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Taiwan, 1920-1945
Yi-ling Hung, ALC
Research topic: The Just-in-time Production of Everyday Life: Convenience in Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Taipei
Dennis Lee, ALC
Research topic: State Relations Between the Japanese Archipelago and the Korean Peninsula (4th - 7th centuries CE)
Lujing Ma, ALC
Lita Martinez, History
Gabriel Ritter, Art History
The George and Sakaye Aratani Field Experience Scholarship
Noriko Day, ALC
Research topic: The representation of Hokkaido as an internal colony in the modern Japanese literary imaginary
Franz Prichard, ALC"
Research topic: Landscapes in Flux: Japanese Literary and Visual Representations of Urbanization in the 1960s and 1970s
The George and Sakaye Aratani Fellowship
Yuki Yanai, Political Science
Research topic: Redistributive Consequences of Economic Inequality: A Comparative Analysis
Lita Martinez, History
The Herb and Helen Kawahara Fellowship
Anke Hein, Archaeology
Research topic: Prehistoric Cultures of the Liangshan District – Development of a Multicultural and Multiethnic Interaction Sphere from the late Neolithic to the Early Han Period