Asian Studies Student Symposium Awards
2025 Symposium Awards
Dallyn Edmunds, “Individuals, Communities, and Nations: Trauma as Impetus in A Real Durwan”
Jared Johnson, “One Family Under Kim: Depictions of the Family Unit in North Korean Propaganda”
Katherine Linton, “The Hallyu Hexagon: A Deductive Content Analysis of Nation Branding Techniques in the Korean Drama Crash Landing on You”
Sarai Brown, “The Cycle of Giving: Food as a Vehicle of Obligation and Connection in Taiwan”
Becca DeWitt, “Motherhood in K-Drama: Cultural Memory and Modern Representation”
Caroline Elliott, “The Gayageum: An Ambassador of Korean Musical Tradition”
Rozlyn NeVille Sun, “Contested Statehood and National Identity: Taiwan and Hong Kong”
Margaret Jeppesen, “Mandatory AI Training in Schools”
Xander Moore, “The Missing Thread in the New Silk Road: What the Silk Road’s Soft Diplomacy Can Teach China’s Belt & Road Initiative”
Nina Harris, “Colonial Legacy and National Identity: The Impact of Japanese Colonial Rule on Taiwan”
Bridget Eddy, “Harmony in Transit: The Cultural Fabric of Japan’s Transportation System”
2024 Symposium Awards
Kathryn Blau, "Leasing Land, Losing Sovereignty: U.S. Military Land Leasing in Okinawa, Japan"
George Dibble, "Show Me Nagara, Tell Me Shinji: Proven Growth vs. Assumed Progress in Sonny Boy and Neon Genesis Evangelion"
Kate Zernzach, Benjamin Culverwell, and Will McFarland, "North Korea in the News: Avenues of Media Misinformation"
Audrey Thomas, "Colorism in South Korea: Modern-day Implications, Cultural History, and a Comparison to Western Culture"
2023 Symposium Awards
Madi Sedgwick, “Foreigners in Korean Communities”
Robin Giles, “You Can Hear It In The Silence: The Reflection of Aizuchi in Manufactured Tokyo Soundscapes”
Ryan Christenson, “Gu Dasao the Tigress: An Analysis of the Female Knight-Errant (nüxia) Character Type in Outlaws of the Marsh”
Madelaine Gonzales, Emma Naylor, and Katherine Rose, “Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn”: a Connection between China’s Past and Present”
Tehina Slade, “The Hula in Japan”
William Martindale, “The Many Names of Limahong: Remembering a Chinese Pirate in the Philippines”
Megan Scarlet Keys, “Exploring the Gap Between Self-Assessed and Actual Language Proficiency: A Comparative Analysis of Japanese and Romance Language Learners”
Rachael Merrill, “A Sociolinguistic View of Cultural Influences in Conversations about Religion”
Devon Bollin, “Land of the Rising Son: The Emergence and Character of Japanese Christian Theology”
Cambrie Ball, “Honor, Shame, and Hope: Cultural Contexts of Disciplinary Rehabilitation in Japan”
Emma Jones, “Biomedical versus Ayurvedic Traditions: The Triumph of Indian Medicine in a Postcolonial World”
Zoe Ngan, “Blame in the North Korean Famine of 1994-1998” Brooke Robison, “Trash and Culture in Tokyo, Japan”
2022 Symposium Awards
Kiner Kwok, “The Second Failed British Mission to China”
Natasha Wang, “Asian American Identity and Museum Collections”
Jackson Keys, “The Many Vows of Feng Menglong: An Intersection of Chastity and Qing”
Josh Eyre, “The Makioka Sisters, and the Failures of Literary Censorship in WWII Japan"
Madison Buckles, “Sound Symbolism in Japanese”
Lindy Miller, “Dowry and It's Repercussions in Indian Society”
William Ranse Gale, “Ping Pong and Self-Actualization”
Natalie Lyman, “How the West is Represented in Modern Fictional Chinese Dramas”
Brayden Lane, “Creating a Japanese Christianity: Allessandro Valignano, Indigenization, and the Hidden Christians"
William Martindale, "Contemporary Conspiracy Theories in China: A Review”