Nishiuchi Awarded Karofsky Prize for Teaching

Story posted May 10, 2001

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies Takeyoshi Nishiuchi has been awarded the 2001 Sydney B. Karofsky Prize for Junior Faculty at Bowdoin College. The award is given annually to "an outstanding Bowdoin teacher who best demonstrates the ability to impart knowledge, inspire enthusiasm, and stimulate intellectual curiosity." The award was announced at the College's annual Honors Day ceremony May 9.

Nishiuchi, who joined the Bowdoin faculty in 1997, earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute, and his Master of Architecture and Ph.D. in Rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2000 he became a Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley.

At Bowdoin he has taught courses in the Nô theater, Zen aesthetics, modern Japanese drama, Japanese architecture, Zen and postmodernity, Heidegger, and Taoism. He has served the College with various committee roles, including as a member of the Asian Studies Program Committee and Off-Campus Study Committee, and was the representative at the 2001 Associated Kyoto Program board meeting.

This past year he has been conducting research in Italy, Germany and Japan, and is completing a book-length manuscript entitled "Towards an Architectonics of Zen Performance." His other areas of research include the aesthetics of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, medieval and modern Japanese architecture, and German and American phenomenology.

The Karofsky Prize is given by members of the Karofsky family, including Peter S. Karofsky '62, Paul I. Karofsky '66, and David M. Karofsky '93. It is conferred by the dean for academic affairs in consultation with the Faculty Affairs Committee on the basis of student evaluations of teaching. The prize is given to a member of the faculty who has taught at Bowdoin for at least two years.

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