Japanese Language Placement Test
The Japanese placement tests for Fall ’20 will be conducted in September on GauchoSpace and Zoom. Please go to our website below for more details.
http://japaneselanguage.eastasian.ucsb.edu/about/placement.htm
If you have any questions, please contact Yoko Yamauchi yokoy@eastasian.ucsb.edu
During the 2019-2020 academic year, our graduate students enjoyed great success winning awards, fellowships, and grants. We are truly proud of their academic achievements and offer them our warmest congratulations!
Carl Gabrielson, a Ph.D. candidate researching on contemporary Japan, was awarded a number of grants and fellowships: 1. UCSB Graduate Scholars Program Mentoring Grant; 2. UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Mellon Engaging Humanities Fellowship; 3. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Short-Term Fellowship for Research in Japan (Project Title: “Orienting the Troops: Militarizing the Interpersonal in the U.S.-Japan Alliance”); and 4. Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship.
Elizabeth Kataoka, a Ph.D. candidate specializing on modern Japan, was awarded a Fulbright Open Study Research Award and a 2020 Japan Foundation/UCSB Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award. She will continue researching for her dissertation project on “Assimilating Identity? Education, Epistemologies, and Ainu Consciousness in the Twentieth Century.”
Joseph Lovell, a Ph.D. candidate working on modern China, was awarded a highly competitive doctoral fellowship by the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Joe’s dissertation project is titled “The Maoist Soundscape: The Usage and Reception of Amplified Sound in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1976.”
Yiming Ma, a first year Ph.D. student, won a 2020 Japan Foundation/UCSB Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award, which will enable him to conduct preparatory archival research for his dissertation project on underground trans-war networks of Japanese and Chinese leftwing intellectuals and artists in Tokyo and Shanghai.
Keita Moore, a Ph.D. candidate working on contemporary Japan, received Japan Society for the Promotion of the Sciences (JSPS) Doctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan for his dissertation project titled “Grand Designs: Videogames, Societal Time, and Developer Agency in Contemporary Japan.” In addition, Keita also won the 2020 Koichi Takashima Graduate Research Award.
Kaitlyn Ugoretz, a Ph.D. candidate working on Shinto, received a number of important grants. She was awarded the Japan Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship, a Social Sciences Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellowship (SSRC-IDRF), and a 2020 Japan Foundation/UCSB Graduate Division Research Accelerator Award for her dissertation project, “World-Wide Shinto: The Globalization of ‘Japanese’ Religion.” In addition, she received a GSA Excellence in Teaching award and is currently in the final stage of consideration for a Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant.
Congratulations, all!
The 2019 Department newsletter is now available for download. Though delayed due to the pandemic, we are excited to tell you about many of the wonderful achievements of our students, alumni, faculty, staff, and programs.
Table of contents:
The Center for Taiwan Studies (CTS) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, invites applications for a half-time Academic Coordinator I position. This is a 12-month fiscal year appointment (non-tenure track). The Academic Coordinator (AC) assists the Center for Taiwan Studies Director in developing and implementing programming consistent with the mission of the Center, including yearly international conferences of scholars whose work relates to Taiwan, and two to three quarterly events, such as movie showings, lectures, cultural events, graduate student forums, etc. The AC also assists, as needed, with events in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies that include Taiwan in full or as a component. The goal of the programming at CTS is to promote Taiwan Studies and to educate students, scholars, and community members about the culture, literature, history, society, and politics of Taiwan. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship.
Program Administration
The AC performs administrative functions for CTS, serving as a key contact for all visiting speakers, UCSB faculty, staff and students, and the off-campus community. The AC oversees the coordination and implementation of all Center activities and interacts with public speakers and visiting scholars, writers, authors, and other public figures. This includes arranging accommodations, venues, food, technical assistance, logistics, agendas, name cards, posters, and office support.
The AC is also responsible for assisting the Director in implementing research and learning support opportunities for UCSB students and faculty associated with the Center. The AC manages routine communication with faculty and community members; supervises and coordinates visits and events, including receptions for visiting speakers; maintains budget records for the program; coordinates travel and lodging for speakers; supervises student assistants; maintains the website; and supervises public information materials, such as the quarterly calendar, publications, and interviews with speakers.
Program Analysis and Evaluation
The AC analyzes the Center’s budget and prepares regular reports for the Center Director regarding the Center’s finances. The AC assists with grant writing and reporting, and program analysis. The AC monitors the demographics of program attendance and works with other campus centers and programs to coordinate co-sponsored events and to ensure diversity of participants and audience. The AC assists the Director in writing and editing grant proposals and reports.
Publishing & Design Work
The AC edits and designs proceedings, anthologies of Taiwan literature, and other publication projects, including the biannual journal, Taiwan Literature: English Translation Series. Editorial assistance includes editing, writing, and proofreading for CTS publications, the CTS newsletter, webpages, and flyers for public lectures and cultural events
Basic Qualification:
•M.A. in the humanities or social sciences
Additional Qualifications:
•1-2 years of experience working within an academic institution
•1-2 years of experience in a position that required administrative and organizational activities
•1-2 years of experience designing marketing materials and books in InDesign and Photoshop
•2-3 years of experience using Word and Excel for standard administrative duties.
Preferred Qualifications:
•Experience coordinating public events
•Strong written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
•Significant editing, writing, and proofreading skills and experience
•Ability to prioritize, conduct, and manage multiple projects
•Ability to oversee and mentor student assistants
•Experience in financial management
•Demonstrated ability to write reports and communications to high-level grant-dispensing institutions
•Familiarity with Taiwan and its culture
• Basic reading and conversation proficiency in Chinese language
Salary is based on UC salary scales and depends on qualifications. Complete applications received by July 24, 2020, will receive full review. To ensure full consideration, please submit the following electronically to https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF01810:
• Cover letter
• Contact information for two references whom we may contact by email or phone.
• Current curriculum vita (CV).
The department is especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community. For information on our department, please visit our website: https://www.eastasian.ucsb.edu. Inquiries about the advertised position may be directed to our department’s Academic Coordinator, Natalie Juarez at nmjuarez@hfa.ucsb.edu. Please be sure to mention JPF01810.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
In our shock and anguish regarding the events addressed, EALCS faculty, lecturers, and graduate students fully support the following College of Letters and Science statement and the efforts by our entire UCSB community to respond to these events and the long, terrible, and shameful history they prolong. We pledge to participate in all ways with the plan outlined in the statement, and we join the Deans and Associate Deans in their resolve towards significant and meaningful change.
College of Letters and Science Statement on Racial Injustice: A Plan of Accountable Action
The College of Letters and Science shares the collective grief and anger over the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, and Breonna Taylor by means of state-sanctioned violence. These deaths are hardly a new or unique phenomenon, as Black peoples and other people of color in our country have faced such violence for more than 400 years. Yet we also know that the particular context matters. The conjunction of long-standing economic and racial inequality, our nation’s history of racial violence, an ongoing pandemic, and our current political environment have served to create a national crisis that threatens the health of our communities and the viability of our multicultural and multiracial democracy.
The College of Letters and Science affirms its solidarity with Black faculty, staff, and students, and expresses its support for the millions of protestors in the United States and abroad who are working to change systems of inequality. We know that words of solidarity are not sufficient for this moment, and that we must translate our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion into concrete actions and policies.
We thus commit to a plan of accountable action that includes but is not limited to the following measures:
We are resolved to stand with so many others in our campus community who work daily to ensure that UC Santa Barbara embodies our shared commitment to diversity, equity, and social justice.
The Deans and Associate Deans of the College of Letters and Science, UC Santa Barbara
We are delighted to announce that three of the four 2020 Japan Foundation/UCSB Graduate Division Research Accelerator Awards were given to EALCS graduate students: Elizabeth Kataoka (EALCS) will continue her dissertation project on “Assimilating Identity? Education, Epistemologies, and Ainu Consciousness in the Twentieth Century” that was disrupted by the COVID-19 crisis. Yiming Ma (EALCS) will conduct preparatory archival research for his dissertation project on underground trans-war networks of Japanese and Chinese leftwing intellectuals and artists in Tokyo and Shanghai. Kaitlyn Ugoretz (EALCS) will carry out ethnographic research on a new part of her dissertation project, “Shinto in the Time of Coronavirus: Japanese Religion Online During a Global Pandemic.”
A fourth award went to Michael Ioannides (Anthropology) who will attend the advanced, immersive Japanese language course offered by the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Study (IUC) in Yokoyama in order to prepare himself for his dissertation research on Indigenous-led sustainable development in Hokkaido.
We warmly congratulate the awardees,
Naoki Yamamoto (selection committee)
Jessica Nakamura (selection committee and Co-PI)
Sabine Frühstück (selection committee and PI)
