Capstone

Supervisor: Sachiko Kondo

• Austin Alcancia (Winter Term 2022) “City Pop Recording Project”

Supervisor: Sharon Wang

• Nathan Englehart (Spring Term 2022 in CHIN 500-06) “日本战国时代的一向一揆历史脉络分析”

Supervisor: Yu-chi Chang

• James Sullivan (Spring 2022 in EAST 327): “How Maps Detail the Different Colonial Intentions of the Qing Empire and Japan in Taiwan”

Supervisor: Andrew Macomber

• Charlotte Glessner-Fischer (Spring 2022 in EAST 335): “Mindfulness as a Solution to the Lack of Trust the Public Has in Primary Care Doctors” 

Supervisor: Ann Sherif

• Laurel Moore (Fall 2021 in JAPN403/JAPN002) “Underground Battleship: Technology and Empire in Meiji Period Adventure Novels”

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Amber Evans (Spring 2021 in EAST 329): “The Thefts of Kannon Bosatsu: The Complexities of Repatriation in East Asia”
• Eric Hughett (Spring 2021 in EAST 329): “Bell from the Temple of Guanyin: Questions of Life History, Ownership and Meaning”

Supervisor: Sheila Jager 

• Sophie Bernstein (Summer 2021 in EAST 367) “How the Sino-Japanese War Laid the Foundations for the Russo-Japanese War, 1994-1905”
• Dewi Beer (Summer 2021 in EAST 367) “19th Century Olympic Boxing: How Western Imperialism Led to the Boxer Uprising.”

Supervisor: Mariko Takano

• Xueyao Liu (Spring 2021 in JAPN402) “太宰治「葉桜と魔笛」について”
• Binhong Wu (Spring 2021 in EAST326) “Purposeful Consciousness in Three Short Stories” 
• Shuting Xie (Spring 2021 in EAST 326) “The Liminality of Women when Confronting Labor and Social Norms”

Supervisor: Marc Blecher

• Will Cramer: “State, Science and Qigong: The Production of Miracles in 1980s China”. Earned highest honors in Religion.

Supervisor: Emer O’Dwyer 

• J.W. Parker (Fall 2020 in EAST 332): “Zainichi Activism and Political Participation in Postwar Japan”
• Zack Mayer-Bickel (Fall 2020 in EAST 332): “The Many Measurements of Contemporary Zainichi Conditions in Japan”

Supervisor: Andrew Macomber

• Hannah Adler-Levine (Spring 2020 in EAST 335): “Buddhism and Abortion in Japan: Mizuko Kuyō as Public Subversion & Personal Healing” 
• Jacky Valentine (Winter Term 2020): “The Authors of Japanese Horror”

Supervisor: Ann Sherif

• Liam Hefta “Morishiba’s Aikido: Maki no ichi” (Winter Term, 2020)

Supervisor: Emer O’Dwyer 

• Nicholas Gallitano (Fall 2019 in EAST 307), “A Man on the Throne: Hirohito’s Shifting Image, 1945-1959”

Supervisor: Marc Blecher

• Sabine Gross (in Politics 313): “Soft Power, Diplomacy and Western Classical Music in Post-Cultural Revolution China”

Supervisor: Marc Blecher:

• Rachel Coyte (in Politics 313): “Education Reform in China”
• Emily Kelly (in Politics 313): “Effects of the One-Child Policy on Urban Chinese Women”

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Naomi Greenspann (Winter Term/Spring 2018) “Yakimono on Display”

Supervisor: Keren He:

• Rin Liu (Spring 2018): “Living as Individuals in China”
• Eliza Edwards (Spring 2018): "She Is A Woman, I Am Also A Woman" (A Translation of Wong Bik-Wan’s Novella "她是女子，我也是女子"）

Supervisor: Sachiko Kondo

• Daniel Evans (Spring 2018): “Kobo Abe: Japan's Kafka? Literature and Western-Centricism”「安部公房－日本のカフカ？　文学と西洋中心主義 」
• Nathan Nieburg (Winter Term 2018): “Remaining Japanese soldiers - Their contribution to Japan-Vietnam relationship”「『在留日本兵』- 彼らの日越関係に対する貢献 -」

Supervisor: Emer O’Dwyer 

• Kristen Miles (Spring 2018 in EAST 332): “The Crests and Falls of The Korean Wave and Anti-Korean Wave in Japan”

Supervisor: Xin Zhang

• Jenny Xin Luan (Spring 2018) "The Chinese Student Commencement Speech Controversy: A Discourse Analysis of Responding Microblogs"
• Ethan Hill (Spring 2018) “金荷非人: Writing a Chengyu-Inspired Story in Modern and Literary Chinese“

Supervisor: Ann Sherif

• Yiyin Zhong (Spring 2018) “Representations of the Tokaido Road in Text and Visual Media”

Supervisor: Marc Blecher

• Meredith Leung (in Politics 313): “Environmental Issues and Social Injustice in China”

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Emma Laube (Fall 2017): “Selfhood and Self-Erasure: The Digitized World of Lu Yang” 

Supervisor: Emer O’Dwyer 

• Kayla Thomson-Mitchell (Spring 2017 in EAST 332): “The Evolution of Korean Sex Work in Japan: How filial piety and economic gains supported the continuation of sex work in Japan from 1910-1960”
• Haru Zenda (Spring 2017 in EAST 332): “Religious freedom in postwar Japan"

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Adina Shanholtz (Spring 2015): “A Computerized 3D Rendering of the Marquis of Yi Tomb”                                

Supervisor: Sachiko Kondo

• Kim Chul (Spring 2015): “Kazuki Kaneshiro’s ‘Go’ and the history of discrimination towards Zainichi Koreans” 「金城一紀の「Go」と在日韓国人に向けられている差別の歴史」
• Rachel Young (Spring 2015): “Japan and America: Relation between Dialects and Society” 「日本と米国：方言と社会の関係」

Supervisor: Ann Sherif

• Hannah Lorber (Spring 2015 in JAPN 402): “Translating Hayao Miyazaki’s book”

Supervisor: Marc Blecher 

• Devon Rettew (in Politics 313): “Something is Rotten in the State of China” (on corruption)
• Rachel Coyte (in Politics 313): “China’s Sexual Revolution”
• Anna Saltzmann (in Politics 313): "Cut Sleeves in the Peach Garden: Homosexuality and Gender Roles in China’s Global Development”
• ZHANG Qing (in Politics 313): "Internet Censorship in China”

Supervisor: Marc Blecher

• Terry Hsieh: “Jazz Meets East: The Jazz Scenes in Beijing and Shanghai”.
  • An honors thesis that he eventually published.

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Jeremy Blanks (Winter Term 2012) “Japanese Ceramics - History and Practice” 

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Amanda Tobin (Spring 2011), “A Solution to ‘The Woman Question’ Envisioning the Japanese Woman in the bijin-ga of Japan's Modern Print Designers,” High Honors in Art History
• ​Samantha Conroy (Spring 2011), "Computerized 3D Rendering of the Cangshan Tomb"​

Supervisor: Bonnie Cheng

• Alexandra Sterman (Spring 2009) “Official and Unofficial Chinese Art Exhibitions,” High Honors in Art History

Supervisor: Marc Blecher

• Juliet Lu (in Politics 313): “Representations of Minority Nationalities in China”.