Student Research

Mitsuki Nishimoto, “Meme Butterfly: Tracing Heterogeneity and Agency in Madame Butterfly and Her Diasporic Descendants.” Received Highest Honors. (Honors Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Sophia Walker, "The Scars of War: The Demonic Mother as A Conduit for Victimization, Collective Guilt, and Forgiveness in Postwar Japanese Film, 1949-1964." Received High Honors. (Honors Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Katherine Carter, "Environmental History of Tuna in Japan's Transfer Period"
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Sakura Christmas)

Grègoire Faucher "The Yakuza—Business Practices and Relationship with the Police" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Henry Laurence)

Violet Ranson, "Safe Exposure: Agency and Nuclear Crisis in Japan" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Nancy Riley, Sociology)



Chandler Tinsman, "The Medical Manga Black Jack: Redefining Personhood One Operation at a Time" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Theresa Faller, "Layering Assurance: Depictions of Disease in Pre-Modern and Early Modern Japanese" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)



Younghyun Yeo, "Historiography of Japanese Colonialism in Korea" 
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Tristan Grunow)

Jean-Paul Honegger, "Changing Nuclear Identities: Nuclear Protest in India and Japan in the Pre and Post-Fukushima World" 
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Tristan Grunow)



Ashley Talbot, "Masculinities and Japanese Male Idols: The Case Study of Arashi" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Yu (Shirley) Zhao, "Youth, Homelessness, and Lack of Social Belonging in Japanese Films of the 1990s and 2000s" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Carolyn Barber, "Monogatari no wayaku to eiyaku no kokoromi (A foray into translating fiction from Japanese to English and English to Japanese" 
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)



Willem Bogardus, "From Demo to the Diet: Political Participation among Postwar Japanese Labor Unions." Received Highest Honors. 
(Honors Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)



Julianne Farrar, "Ningen wa jidai ya bunka ni yotte osoreru mono wa chigau (What People Fear Differs Based on Culture and Time Period)" 
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)



K. Mai Kristofferson, “Birthrate Policy in Modern Japan." Received High Honors. 
(Honors Project Advisor: Henry Laurence)

Angela Kung, “Visual Narrative in Heian and Kamakura Emaki" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Isabelle Blankmeyer, "Explaining Japan's Falling Birth Rate" 
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Henry Laurence)



Dylan Crawford, "Nationalization and Nation Building: Railroad Development in Meiji Japan" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)



Zoe Eddy, "The Life and Times of the Japanese Sweet Potato: A Not-So-Rooted Visual Pilgrimage" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)



Kate Emerson, "Cultivating Mutual Respect: France and Bakumatsu Japan" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)



Yong Mei, "Scenes Inside and Outside the Capital: The Rakuchu Rakugai Zu of Sixteenth Century Kyoto" 
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)



Yaritza Pena, "Soft Power in Harajuku? Japan's Influence on Global Fashion"
(Independent Study Project Advisor: Henry Laurence)



Zachary Rudick, "Elements of Perceived Civilization: The Historiography of Tea, 1565-Present" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)

Matt Gray, "The Mount Ōe Picture Scrolls: An Annotated Translation and Commentary." Received Honors.
 (Honors Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)



Ngoc Pham, "The Unnatural Sciences of Alchemy: Bodily Transformations in Japanese Animation" (Independent Study Project Advisor: Vyjayanthi Selinger)

Eric Davis “Realism, Liberalism, and Pan-Asianism: The Evolution of the Japanese Empire (1905-45)" Received High Honors.
 (Honors Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)

Daniel Benson, "Taiko: The Formation and Professionalization of a Japanese Performance Art." Received High Honors. (Honors Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)



Sarah Damerville, "Imposition and Adaptation: The Japanese Confrontation and Manipulation of European Notions of the "East" 1860-1905" 
(Honors Project Advisor: Tom Conlan)