Student & Alumni Notes

Hyokyung Choi (Ph.D. student, Japanese) has won a Japan Foundation fellowship to conduct research at the University of Tokyo in Japan for 14 months starting this summer. She will also go to Korea during the fellowship term.

Terry Clark (senior, EALC & History) received a Freeman Asia grant to study Chinese at the Center for Chinese Language and Culture at National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. He will be there for 3 months this summer. Terry has also been president of China House this past academic year.

Lawton King (senior, EALC) presented his honors thesis "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Sino-Vatican Relations during the Communist Era" on April 6th on the I.U. Bloomington campus.

Stephen Kory (EALC) has been selected as the Graduate and Professional Student Organization representative for the East Asian Languages and Cultures graduate students for 2004-05.

James Malenkos (B.A., EALC, Biochemistry & Religious Studies) was recently accepted to study at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Studies in Yokohama starting next fall. He was awarded a Blakemore fellowship to study there.

Todd Munson (Ph.D. candidate, Japanese) has accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of History at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, VA, beginning in the fall of 2004. Also, Todd's article entitled "The Strange Case of 'Fisher v. Rickerby': Press, Scandal, and Satire in Treaty-Port Japan" will appear in the forthcoming issue of Asian Cultural Studies (Vol. 30; March 2004).

Joanne Quimby (Ph.D. student, Japanese), who is working on her dissertation at Ritsumeikan University in Kyoto under a Japan Foundation fellowship this academic year, has been granted a Fulbright-Hayes fellowship to continue her research for the year 2004-05.

Aaron Rio (senior, EALC) presented his honors thesis "The Vyaghri-Mahasattva or Hungry Tigress Jataka: The Transmission of Buddhist Pictorial Narrative from India to Japan" on April 6th on the I.U. Bloomington campus. Aaron will go to Japan this summer as a participant in the JET program.

Jeeyoung Shin (Ph.D. candidate, Communication and Culture with a minor in East Asian Studies) will be presenting a paper titled 'New Korean Cinema and Cultural Identity' at the 54th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association to be held May 27-31 in New Orleans. She has been awarded an EASC Graduate Student Travel Grant for her participation in the conference. Her essay "Globalization and New Korean Cinema" will be printed in the book New Korean Cinema, co-edited by Chi-Yun Shin and Julian Stringer and published by Edinburgh University Press (2004, forthcoming).

Kyoim Yun (Ph.D. student, Folklore and Ethnomusicology) gave a presentation entitled "Selling Shamanism on the Global Tourist Market" at the AAS meeting in San Diego in March. Travel was partially funded by a graduate student travel grant from the EASC.

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