Student & Alumni Notes

Yoonhee Chang (Ph.D. student, FOLK/Ethno) received an EASC travel grant to give her paper "GugakFM and the Promotion of Traditional Music in South Korea" at the International Conference on Korean Music and Dance.

Yu-hua Chang (M.A. student, EALC) has been elected to be the new graduate student moderator for the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Katherine French Dudley (M.A., EALC) completed her Master’s degree in December.

Christopher Frey (Ph.D. student, Education; M.A. student, EALC) presented a paper in late March at the Colorado University East Asian Graduate Association Conference in Boulder called "John Batchelor: A Critical Re-evaluation of the Father of the Ainu." He also received an EASC travel grant to give a CIES paper titled "What Do I Call Them? Glocalization, Social Memory and Nomenclature: Glocalities in Japan, the United States and Latin America." Frey has received a Monbukagakusho (MEXT) Fellowship for his dissertation research which he will do at Hokkaido University. Under the direction of Professor Katsuo Inoue, Frey will research English Missionary Schools for Ainu in Hokkaido in the Meiji Era. His dissertation chair is Professor Heidi Ross in Education, and he also works very closely with Professor Richard Rubinger in EALC. He will leave for Sapporo in October 2005, and be there until at least April 2007.

Susan Furukawa (Ph.D. student, EALC) received a national P.E.O. Scholar Award for the 2005-2006 academic year.

Clarke Hudson (Ph.D. student, RELS) received an EASC travel grant to give his paper “The Inner Alchemist as Chan Master” at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia.

Margaret Key (Ph.D., EALC) successfully defended her dissertation on April 26, 2005.

Stephan Kory (Ph.D. student, EALC) received an EASC travel grant togive his paper “Like a Cicada Leaving Behind Its Shell: Changing Accounts of the Early Medieval Chinese Holy Man Shan Daoka” at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia.

Junmin Kuo (Ph.D. student, LANG ED) received an EASC travel grant to give his paper “Discourse Analysis and World Englishes: A Case Study of Situated Identities as Reflected in Political Dialogue” at the Taiwan TESOL International Conference.

Dongmyung Lee (Ph.D. student, LING) received an EASC travel grant to give his paper “Weight-Sensitive Tone Patterns in Loan Words of South Kyungsang Korea” to the Berkeley Linguistic Society.

Jingjing Lou (Ph.D. student, EDUC) received an EASC travel grant to give the paper “Which Role Comes First? The Shifting Focus on the Mission of Chinese Universities” at CIES.

Vanessa Nolan (Ph.D. student, CMLT) received an EASC travel grant to give the paper “Puccini’s Madam Butterfly as Exotic Operatic Encounter” at the Southeastern Conference AAS.

Jonathan Pettit (Ph.D. student, EALC) received an EASC travel grant to give his paper “Daoist Origins of the Chinese Lantern Festival” at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia.

Joanne Quimby (Ph.D. student, (EALC/CMLT) received an EASC travel grant to give her paper “Visuality and Corporeality in the Poetry and Essays of Ito Hiromi” at the Women’s World International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women.

Liyan Shen (Ph.D. student, EALC/CMLT) received an EASC travel grant to give her paper "Time Consciousness in Selected Chinese Lyric Poems” to the American Comparative Literature Association.

Michael Stanley-Baker (M.A.-Ph.D. student, EALC) received an EASC travel grant to give his paper “Drugs, Visions, and Millennialism in Early Medieval China: The Divinization of Private Property through Botanical Apotheosis” at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia.

Harue Tsutsumi (Ph.D., EALC) has been honored with the prestigious Esther Kinsley Award for an Outstanding Dissertation. This is the highest award that I.U. bestows. She successfully defended her dissertation in November 2004.

Jianxun Wang (Ph.D. student, POLS) received an EASC travel grant to give the paper “Constitutional Choice of Villages in China” to the Public Choice Society.

Hiromi Yampol (M.A. student, EALC) received an EASC travel grant to give the paper “Being Abandoned: Empire, Identity, and Orphaned Japanese ‘Returnees’ from Japan’s Former Colonial Lands, 1945-2000” at the Columbia University Graduate Student Conference on East Asia.

Ran Zhang (Ph.D. student, EDUC) received an EASC travel grant to give the paper "The Responsive Roles of Chinese Universities: The Redefinition of University-Student Relationships” to CIES.

Undergraduate Awards for 2004-2005:

Aaron Cantrell won the Gines Prize for excellence by an undergraduate who is pursuing a professional career.

Julian Chunovic won the Alpine Prize for Japanese studies.

Alexander Eble received the Nutter Award for demonstrating the “never-say-die” attitude that characterized the award’s namesake. Alex also received the Herman B. Wells Scholarship, an Abel Scholarship from the College of Arts and Sciences, an IU Foundation Scholarship, and the Moffat Scholarship for Outstanding Performance by a Junior or Senior in Economics. Alex published two feature articles in the Beijing Qingnianbao and was the Indiana University Nominee for the Rhodes, Marshall and Mitchell Scholarships.

Kyle Fry received one of the Uehara Awards for excellence in a field of East Asian Studies.

Jason Gustaffson won the Award for Advancement into 200-level Japanese. This is a new award that has been generously funded by Political Science graduate student, Travis Selmier II and his wife Madeleine Wing, who holds a Master’s degree from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.

Lituo Huang won the Award for Advancement into 200-level Chinese. This, too, is a new award that has been generously funded by Travis Selmier II and his wife Madeleine Wing.

Justin Pollard was awarded the SOFOKS Undergraduate Award for excellence in Korean studies.

Angela Proto received one of the Uehara Awards for excellence in a field of East Asian Studies.

Andrea Robinson received the EASC undergraduate award for Chinese studies.

Michael Underwood received one of the Uehara Awards for excellence in a field of East Asian Studies.

Luke Winikates received the Yasuda Award for excellence in Japanese language study. Luke also took second place at the 19th Annual Japanese Language Speech Contest in Chicago in March. The contest was cosponsored by the Consulate General of Japan at Chicago, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry of Chicago, the Japan America Society of Chicago, and the Osaka Chicago Assocation.

The following students have been inducted into the academic honorary society Phi Beta Kappa:

Fall 2004
Cheryl Hopkins
Sarah Mussett
Andrea Robinson
Emily Sekine
Michael Underwood,
Mika Yuki

Spring 2005
Julian Chunovic
Leslie Coss
Brenna Dwyer
Alexander Eble
Elizabeth Pinnick

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