Wandi Wang stands with her committee members and the Department chair, with one additional member appearing on a laptop in front of them.

Wandi Wang defends dissertation, accepts professorship at Lehigh University

We are delighted to announce that EALCS PhD candidate Wandi Wang successfully defended her dissertation, “Taste and Gastropoetics in Traditional China, Ninth to Seventeenth Centuries CE,” on May 30, 2025. She has also accepted an offer to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Chinese in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at Lehigh University.

Congratulations, Professor Wang!

Hanne Deleu awarded Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Dissertation Fellowship

EALCS is proud to announce that, in addition to a one-year Japan Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, Hanne Deleu has also been awarded a prestigious one-year Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Dissertation Fellowship to pursue her dissertation project titled “Milk Matters: Breastfeeding and the Material Body in Modern Japan” under the guidance of Professor Akihito Suzuki, Japan’s most prominent historian of medicine, at the University of Tokyo.