Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and chair of EALAC, has been awarded the 26th Yamagata Banto Prize for his book Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons (Columbia University Press). The prize was given for his contributions to “deepening the understanding of Japanese culture in a global context.”
Details may be found here:
http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/bunka/news/bantou.html
http://www.pref.osaka.lg.jp/attach/4002/00025240/Reference%20Metarial.pdf
We are proud to announce that Ariella Napoli, an undergraduate major in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College, has received the 2019 Marianna McJimsey Student Paper Award in recognition of her paper “Plurality within Singularity: Choson Korea’s Neo-Confucian Framework.” This award is given to one undergraduate student each year by ASIANetwork, a consortium of over 170 North American colleges that seek to strengthen the role of Asian studies in the liberal arts. Napoli will present her paper at the 2019 ASIANetwork Annual Conference at the University of San Diego in California this April. Her paper will also be published in ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts. The department extends its heartiest congratulations to Napoli and looks forward to her future contributions to the field of Korean studies as she begins an already promising career.
Please join us in congratulating Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, on receiving the 2018 Leopold-Hidy Award for the best article published in Environmental History, an interdisciplinary journal that addresses issues relating to human interactions with the natural world over time. The article, “Attacked by Excrement: The Political Ecology of Shit in Wartime and Postwar Tokyo,” was recognized for its superb writing style, quality of argument and research, and contribution to the fields of environmental history and forest history. Professor Kreitman will be honored for his work at the awards ceremony of this year’s American Society for Environmental History conference in Columbus, Ohio. The department echoes the sentiments of Environmental History and has no doubt that Professor Kreitman will continue to produce great scholarship as his career progresses.
