Student Research

The Asian Studies Prize: Awarded to a member of the senior class majoring in Asian Studies who has attained an exceptional cumulative average in Asian Studies courses and/or undertaken an advanced independent study or honors project in the major.

The Chinese Language Prize: Awarded to a student with demonstrated motivation and commitment to the study of Chinese language and culture.

The Japanese Language Prize: Awarded to a student who demonstrates excellence in Japanese language and contributes to cross-cultural understanding through service or research.

2018

Awards and Prizes

Pauline Marie Unietis won the Goldsmith Adams Research Award to pursue her project "Chinese Language at Princeton in Beijing."

Yujin Moon was awarded the Wolstencroft Fellowship to pursue their project "Princeton In Beijing Language Program and its influence on my future career as a Chinese herbal medicine researcher."

2017

Honors Theses 

Mitsuki Nishimoto received Highest Honors for her Honors Project: Meme Butterfly: Tracing Heterogeneity and Agency in Madame Butterfly and Her Diasporic Descendants

Sophia Walker received High Honors for her Honors Project: The Scars of War: The Demonic Mother as A Conduit for Victimization, Collective Guilt and Forgiveness in Postwar Japanese Film, 1949-1964 

Independent Studies

Wu, Guo Wei, "Chinese Poets and Poems of Tang Dynasty"
(Xiaoke Jia, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Awards and Prizes

Mairead Campbell won a Wolstencroft China Fellowship to pursue her project titled "Global Mindset: Studying in China with Princeton in Beijing."

Ethan Barkalow won the Goldsmith Adams Research Award to pursue his project titled "Urban Space on the Frontier: The Development of Sapporo in Meiji Japan."

2016

Independent Studies

Acosta, Maggie, "India's Janana Suraksha Yojana(Safe Motherhood Programme): State Intervention and the Power to Control Birth" (Rachel Sturman, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Adoumie, Lara, "Comparison of Legal Response to Communal Violence in the 1993 Bombay Riots and the 2002 Gujarat Riots: Shifting Frameworks and Discourses on Culpability" (Rachel Sturman, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Carter, Katherine, "The Environmental History of Tuna in Japan's Transwar Period" (Sakura Christmas, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Faucher, Grégoire, "The Yakuza - business practices and relationship with the police" (Henry Laurence, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Sangsuradej, Ponpavi, "Indigenous Labor and the Construction of the Burma Road" (Sakura Christmas, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Susman, Lily, "The 'New Woman' in Colonial Korea" (Sakura Christmas, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Zhang, Elina, "China's ethnic minorities and global anthropological fictions" (Belinda Kong, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

2015

Honors Theses

Defining Democratic Change within the Lay Judge System, Mathieu, Alexandra

Independent Studies

Coleman, Katie, "History, theory, and practices of ink painting" (Peggy Wang, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Faller, Theresa, "Layering Assurance: Depictions of Disease in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Japan"(Jayanthi Selinger, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Yeo, Younghyun, "Historiography of Japanese Colonialism in Korea" (Tristan Grunow, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Awards and Prizes

Justin Ehringhaus received the first Japanese Language Prize at the 19th Annual Honors Day Celebration.

Yunhui Jeong received the first Chinese Language Prize at the 19th Annual Honors Day Celebration.

Margaret A. Bryan selected to JET Program.

Justin Ehringhaus recommended by Consul General of Japan for MEXT (Ministry of Education and Technology) Scholarship to fund a year of study at Hiroshima University in Japan.

Kevin Mackenzie awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship in Dalian, China.

Tyrone Li named alternate to Critical Language Fellowship to fund study in Japan.

Violet Ranson, recipient of a Goldsmith Adams Research Award, is spending the summer in Tokyo, Japan on a research internship at Temple University, Japan campus conducting sociological research on the Fukushima Daiichi disaster.

Justin Ehringhaus, Alexandra Mathieu, and Tianchen Zhou all placed in a recent Japanese language contest organized by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston.

Ponpavi Sangsuradej awarded a Wolstencroft China Fellowship.

Violet Ranson awarded a Riley Research Grant.

2014

Honors Theses

Beyond contemporary "Chinese" art : interpreting post-'80 art and artists from Sichuan, China, Li, Hongbei

Rebalancing economic growth in China : the importance of Special Economic Zones and Yuan convertibil
, Query, James Tucker

Village loudspeakers to virtual chatrooms : mass media and multigenerational memory in Sino-Japanese, Rothschild, Viola Luolan

Independent Studies

Li, Ziqi, "An Yiminand defender of Chinese heritage: Zhang Daqian's landscape paintings on self-exile"

(Peggy Wang, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Zhang, Yiran, "The Horizontal Construction of Asian American Identity by the Positioning of an Individual"

(Nancy Riley, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Zhao, Yu, "Youth, Homelessness, and Lack of Social Belonging in Japanese Films of the 1990s and 2000s"

(Shu-chin Tsui & Jayanthi Selinger, Independent Studies Faculty Advisors)

Honegger, Jean-Paul, "Changing Nuclear Identities: Nuclear Protest in India and Japan in the Pre and Post-Fukushima World"

(Tristan Grunow, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Talbot, Ashley, "Masculinities and Japanese Male Idols: The Case Study of Arashi"

(Jayanthi Selinger, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Awards and Prizes

Viola Rothschild received a Fulbright Research Award in China.

Maya Little awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship studying Chinese.

Alexandra Mathieu won the Goldsmith Adams Award.

Yu Zhao won first place in the Consulate General in Japan in Boston Japanese Language Contest.

Katherine Carter won second place in the Consulate General in Japan in Boston Japanese Language Contest.

Theresa Fuller selected to do research in the sciences at the USTIP Program at University of Tokyo Kashiwa campus, but declined.

J. Tang received a Maine Space Grant - Swarm Artificial Intelligence with Stephen Majercik.

2013

Honors Theses

From Demo to the Diet : political participation among postwar Japanese labor unions
, Bogardus, Willem Reeves

Buddhism, resistance and dynastic legitimacy during the Huichang Suppression
, Brandstadt, Maxwell Joseph

Dynamics of fertility policy in Japan
, Kristofferson,Karen Mai

Independent Studies

Barber, Carolyn, "Monogatari no wayaku to eiyaku no kokoromi (A foray into translating fiction from Japanese to English and English to Japanese)"
(Jayanthi Selinger, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Farrar, Julianne, "Ningen wa jidai ya bunka ni yotte osoreru mono wa chigau (What People Fear Differs Based on Culture and Time Period)"
(Jayanthi Selinger, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Li, Ziqi, "Caught Between the Market and the Ideal: A Case Study of Yu Hong's Work and the Art Market"
(Shu-chin Tsui, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Kim, Minnie, "Migrant workers in contemporary Chinese literature and film"
(Belinda Kong, Independent Studies Faculty Advisor)

Awards and Prizes

Carolyn Barber selected for JET Program.

Kim Lacey selected for JET Program.

Ruiqi Tang selected for JET Program.

Will Bogardus received Grua/O'Connell Research Award to support travel to Japan related to his honors project on 1960s labor movements in Japan.

Kim Lacey in JPN 206 won the third prize in an essay contest organized by the Consulate General of Japan in Boston.

Alexandra Mathieu selected for Japan-America Student Conference.