USC EASC

The East Asian Studies Center at the University of Southern California provides leadership, coordination and support for East Asian studies at the University of Southern California.

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May 12 2014

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)