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GRAD NEWS
2006-2007
•
Zachary Brittsan has been awarded the UCSD Friends of
the International Center Frederick and Clara Wall Scholarship as well
as a CILAS Travel Grant to support his research in Mexico in 2006-07.
• Jeremy Brown, whose dissertation is entitled
“Chinese Socialist Inequality: Rural-Urban Difference in the Tianjin
Region, 1949-1978,” has been awarded a writing fellowship by the
Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation and the UCSD Center for the Humanities.
• Joseph Busby was awarded a UCSD Center for the
Humanities Fellowship to support his research project, “A Comparative
Study of International Refugee Policy after World War Two and the 1994
Genocide in Rwanda.”
• Matt Crawford was awarded a Science Studies Summer
Fellowship and an IICAS Travel Grant for research in Ecuador.
• Sean Dinces was awarded a M.A. in United States
History and is now fulfilling his Naval Academy military commitment in
Texas.
• Carmel Finley was awarded a UCSD Center for the
Humanities Fellowship to support her dissertation research, “All
the Fish in the Sea: Fishing and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960,”
which seeks to discover the links among fishing, science, and foreign
policy during this critical Cold War period.
• Brent Haas, whose proposed dissertation project
is entitled “Turning ‘Wilds’ into Borders in Republican
Qinghai,” has been awarded a UC Pacific Rim Fellowship for dissertation
research in China in 2006-07.
• Christian Hess, whose dissertation entitled “From
Colonial Port to Socialist Metropolis: Dalian, 1932-1955 ” will
be completed by the end of summer 2006, has accepted a 1-2 year visiting
appointment in the History Department at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison.
• Ellen Huang, whose dissertation is entitled “China
and ‘china’: Re-envisioning Qing China and Global Relations
through the 19th Century Ceramic Industries at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province,”
has been awarded a scholarship by Middlebury College to study advanced
Japanese in summer 2006, and has been awarded Boren, Harvey, and UCSD
International Center fellowships to conduct dissertation research in Asia
and in the United States in 2006-07. In addition, Ellen's research essay
entitled "qing as Social Relations, qing as Social Action: Lin Shu,
the Politics of Feeling, and Empathy in Translated Fiction, 1898-1908"
won the George Haydu Prize for the Study of Culture, Behavior, and Human
Values awarded annually by UCSD's Department of Anthropology.
• Gerald Iguchi recently defended his dissertation,
entitled, "Nichirenism as Modernism: Buddhism, Fascism, and Imperialism
in Modern Japan." Gerry holds a lecturer position at UC-Irvine.
• Matthew Johnson, whose dissertation is entitled
“Thought Industry: State Cinema and Society in the People’s
Republic of China, 1949-1969,” has been awarded writing fellowships
by the UCSD IICAS and the Center for the Humanities for use in the 2006-07
academic year.
• Ji Hee Jung has been awarded a Pacific Rim Fellowship
and a Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation Fellowship to support her research
project, “Power and Mass Culture under Two Regimes: Radio Broadcasting
in Japan during the Asia-Pacific War and the US Occupation.”
• Heidi Keller-Lapp, Faculty Fellow in the Department
of History, will present a paper at the International Seminar of the History
of the Atlantic World at Harvard University this summer. Her paper is
titled, “Floating Cloisters and Maritime Habits: Ursuline Atlantic
Voyages to the New World,1639-1727.” Heidi was awarded her Ph.D.
in European History in December 2005.
• Steven Luis was awarded a UCSD Center for the
Humanities Fellowship to support his research at the U.S. Supreme Court
archives, researching the legal profession’s response to the problem
of scientific expertise in the early 20th century.
• Stephanie Moore was awarded the UCSD Daum Urey
Academic Fellowship to support her research project, which analyzes the
motives and the interests behind Peru’s decision to deport Japanese
Peruvians to internment camps in the United States during World War II.
• David Pye will commence law school this summer
at the California Western School of Law (CWSL) in San Diego. David is
the first student to enroll in the UCSD-CWSL Dual Degree Program where
students earn both a Ph.D. in History and a Juris Doctor.
• Sara Sanders was awarded an IICAS Travel Grant
to support her summer research in Mexico.
• Tomoyuki Sasaki has been awarded a Pacific Rim
Fellowship as well as an IICAS Travel Grant to support his research in
Japan.
• Miriam Sherman was awarded a Ph.D. in Ancient
History in June 2006. Miriam’s dissertation is titled, “A
Well in Search of an Owner: Using Novel Assertions to Assess Miriam's
Disproportionate Elaboration Among Women in the Midrashim of Late Antiquity.”
• George Solt was awarded a Naiman Fellowship in
Japanese Studies to support his research project on “Changing Dietary
Habits and the Popularization of Ramen in Modern Japan.”
• T.J. Tallie was awarded a M.A. degree in European
History in spring 2006 and has accepted a teaching position at the Frances
Parker School in San Diego.
• Ana Varela-Lago was awarded an IICAS Travel Grant
for summer research in Spain.
• Don Wallace, recently defended his dissertation,
titled, "The Death of Civilization: Hermann Broch's American Exile,
1938-51." In addition, Don was selected to participate in the National
Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in Rome in July 2006. Don
will continue as a Lecturer at the University of San Diego in 2006-07.
• Todd Welker has received a UC Berkeley Bancroft
Library Study Award to support his research on “The Roots of Modern
Agribusiness: Economic Behavior and Culture Among Early American Farmers
in California’s Central Valley.”
• Clinton Young was awarded a Ph.D. in European
History in May 2006 and has accepted a visiting appointment in the History
Department at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, NC. Clint’s
dissertation is titled, “Zarzuela; or Lyric Theatre as Consumer
Nationalism in Spain, 1874-1930.”
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