2011 - 2012 Academic Year
Grant and Fellowship Recipients
Sasakawa Fellowship
Ken Shima, ALC
Mari Ishida, ALC
Research topic: An Ambiguous Border of Utopia and Dystopia: Multilingual Colonial Spaces of the Japanese Empire
Kevin Richardson, History
Zsuzsanna Magyar, Political Science
Ryoko Nishijima, Anthropology
Research topic: Google Suggests Japan is Weird: National Imagining through Keywords
Sarah Walsh, History
Thiam Chye Tay, Political Science
Winifred Chang, History
Research topic: Marshalling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Taiwan
Timothy Goddard, ALC
Research topic: Writing Urban Space in 1920s-1930s Tokyo
Mari Ishida, ALC
Research topic: An Ambiguous Border of Utopia and Dystopia: Multilingual Colonial Spaces of the Japanese Empire
Maya Stiller, ALC
Research topic: Actual and Virtual Pilgrimages in Medieval Japan and Korea
Sasakawa Japanese Language Study Fellowships
Tanya Barnett, EAS
Jack Davey, Archaeology
Research topic: Cities of the Living and the Dead: Iron Age Mortuary Rituals in Southern Korea and Japan
Lindsey Dewitt, ALC
Elizabeth Evans, ALC
Research topic: Heaven is High and Home is Far Away: The Coolie Trade and Identity Formation among Early Chinese Migrants
Michael Hayata, EAS
Hsin-Pei Liu, History
Research topic: Chinese merchants in Nagazaki: Chinese business organization and regional networks in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Gabriel Ritter, Art History
Research topic: Kitawaki Noboru and Surrealism in Japan, 1930-1951
Joseph Small, WAC
Research topic: Taiko drumming and contemporary dance
Thiam Chye Tay, Political Science
The George and Sakaye Aratani Field Experience Scholarship
Winifred Chang, History
Research topic: Marshalling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Taiwan
James Edwards, Ethnomusicology
Research topic: Classical and contemporary Ryūkyūan kumiodori in an East Asian geopolitical context
Bryan Hartzheim, Film & TV
Research topic: Shonen, or “boys,” media properties
Gabriel Ritter, Art History
Research topic: Kitawaki Noboru and Surrealism in Japan, 1930-1951
Alexandra Roedder, Musicology
Research topic: Japanamerica or Amerijapan? Globalization, Localization, and the Film Scores of Joe Hisaishi
Maya Stiller, ALC
Research topic: Actual and Virtual Pilgrimages in Medieval Japan and Korea
The George and Sakaye Aratani Fellowship
Nahoko Kameo, Film & TV
Research topic: From the Lab to the Shelf-Changes in the Commercialization of Scientific Discoveries in the US and Japan
Michael Sakamoto, WAC
Research topic: History, Mythology, and Transnational Identity in Butoh Performance
The Herb and Helen Kawahara Fellowship
Louis Felipe Murillo, Anthropology
Research topic: Information Technologies and Politics in Brazil and Japan