East Asian Studies Student Awards & Achievements
Congratulations to EASC-affiliated students for their achievements in the last year and awards for 2014-15! We are proud to highlight a few of the many graduate and undergraduate East Asia student accomplishments.
GRADUATE STUDENTS
- Yasuhito Abe (Communications): 2014-15 USC Research Enhancement Fellowship
- Keisha Brown (East Asian Languages & Cultures): 2014-15 USC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Nancy Chao (East Asian Area Studies): Full-time job with IBM as a Senior Consultant
- Nate Heneghan (East Asian Languages & Cultures): 2014-15 USC Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship
- Chin-hao Huang (Political Science and International Relations): 2014 USC Ph.D. Achievement Award; 2014-15 USC Korean Studies Institute Postdoctoral Fellow
- Amanda Kennell (East Asian Languages & Cultures): 2014-16 Andrew W. Mellon Digital Humanities Fellowship
- Ana Lee (Comparative Literature): Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University, followed by tenure-track position at Columbia University
- Kate Page-Lippsmeyer (East Asian Languages & Cultures): 2014-15 USC Manning Endowed Fellowship
- Di Luo (East Asian Languages & Cultures): 2014-15 USC Research Enhancement Fellowship
- Victoria Montrose (East Asian Languages & Cultures): 2014-15 Blakemore Freeman Foundation Fellowship For Advanced Japanese Language Study
- Luman Wang (History): Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History, Virginia Military Institute
- Gaoheng Zhang (Provost’s Postdoctoral Scholar in the Humanities): Assistant Professor of Italian Cinema and Literature, University of Toronto
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
- Eri Aguilar (Political Science): Heyman Scholarship
- Cindy Barrios (East Asian Area Studies): Ronald E. McNair Scholarship
- Shoko Oda (International Relations, East Asian Area Studies): Gold Family Scholarship
- Marisa Tsai (International Relations): TAPIF (Teaching Assistant Program in France)
- Leowil Villanueva (International Relations Global Business, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Spanish): Summer 2014 Critical Language Scholarship in South Korea; 2014-15 Hassenfeld Fellowship for International Law/Economics MA Program at Johns Hopkins SAIS-Nanjing University Center
- Vivian Yan (History, Comparative Literature): Lois W. Banner Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis (History)