We are pleased to announce that EALCS professor Mayfair Yang has published a new edited volume, titled Anthropology of Ascendant China: Histories, Attainments, and Tribulations (Routledge, 2024). Please visit the book’s website for more details.
Additionally, Prof. Yang was recently elected President of the Society for Anthropology of Religion (SAR), a Section of the American Anthropological Association. Congratulations!
Congratulations to Howard Chiang, the Lai Ho & Wu Cho-liu Endowed Chair in Taiwan Studies, who was recently awarded a Howard Foundation Fellowship to support his work on the history of psychoanalysis in the Sinophone Pacific!
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation is an independent foundation administered at Brown University. It awards a limited number of fellowships each year for independent projects in selected fields.
EALCS graduate student Sabra Harris is among six grad students across UCSB to receive a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship. She will travel to Japan to continue her PhD research on “Emergent Indigeneities within Public-Facing Ainu Performance.” She and the other winners were recently featured in The Current, UCSB’s official news site.
Congratulations, Sabra!
EALCS is proud to congratulate Linshan Jiang for earning her Ph.D. and moving to a postdoc at Duke University! Way to go Linshan!!
Huge congratulations to Sophia Shi who just earned her MA and is entering the Princeton Ph.D. program in Religion! We know Sophia will do GREAT!
We celebrate the 2022 Mochizuki award winners, Dr. Akiyo Cantrell and Aidan Pedersen. Congratulations!
The Journal of Japanese Studies is excited to welcome Sabine Frühstück as new coeditor (with Morgan Pitelka). Sabine has been a regular contributor to JJS (and a member of its boards) since submitting her coauthored article on the normalization and management of violence in Japan’s armed forces in 2000 (if not before), and we look forward to her new contributions to JJS. JJS is also deeply grateful to Janet Hunter for her service as coeditor since 2015 and particularly for her commitment to supporting early-career scholars and to the interdisciplinary JJS readership.
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Established in 1974, the Journal of Japanese Studies is a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary forum for communicating new information, interpretations, and research on Japan. Its core objective is to maintain an enduring record of highest-quality and evidence-based scholarship through the publication of empirical and interpretive work on Japan.
The Audio Interview Award recognizes outstanding examples of audio interviews conducted by UCSB students of individuals who grew up in Taiwan. The winning interviews need to be
about 55 minutes long, good audio quality, and, at minimum, include most of the following questions:
What year were you born?
Were you born in Taiwan? If not, at what age did you come to Taiwan
and with whom?
What is the earliest memory you have of your childhood?
What kinds of values did your parents instill in you?
What kinds of conversations did you have around the dinner table?
What language did you speak at home?
What was your favorite food and who prepared it for you usually?
What did your family do for a living?
What was your relationship with your mother and father like?
Do you have siblings? If so, what role did they play in your life growing up?
What kind of education did you get in Taiwan and where?
What was a normal day like for you at the age of 10 or 15?
What were some of your favorite places to be as a child?
Could you tell me a little about your friends? What did you play with
them? How much time did you spend with your friends?
Do you still keep in touch with a friend or friends from your childhood
in Taiwan?
When you grew up, what kind of life and profession did you imagine
having as a grown-up? (For example, what was your dream job? Your ideal of family or house?)
In sum, what kinds of feelings and words come to mind when you
remember your childhood in Taiwan?
Lastly, if you could tell your 10-year-old self one thing, what would it be?
Submit to CT at eastasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu your current CV, the interview audio file, and a 500-word description of the interview.
For questions, please contact eastasian-taiwanstudies@ucsb.edu prior to submission.
The deadline is May 30, 2022.
The winners will receive a certificate and $500.
The winning interviews will be included in the Made in Taiwan archive.
