Featured Projects
Here are a few projects that exemplify the wonderful research students from the Asian Studies department have done over the years.
Additional Research Projects
These are all the projects the Asian Studies department has presented at SSRD in the last few years.
2018
- The Sword and the Cinema: Japanese Nationalism and Film - Benjamin Mendelsohn (Thesis)
2017
- The Digital Hinterland: Social Media Use in Student Protest - Paige Baker (Thesis)
- Criminalizing Prenatal Addiction: A State Comparison - Tashana Mithen (Thesis)
- Challenging “Illegality” and “Citizenship” with the Rise of the Dreamers Movement - Luz Reyna (Thesis)
- Why the World’s Most Socially Progressive Country is Anti-outsider - Karina Salzberg (Thesis)
- The Eternal Life of Violence against Women - Susana Hernandez (Thesis)
- Lesbian Death Syndrome: The Representation of Queer Women in Television - Carlene Blaugher (Thesis)
- Lana, Taylor,and the Other Fifty-three Percent: The Role of Pop Music in Gendered American Nationalism - Jacqueline McKenna (Thesis)
- Finding Harmony: Her Performance as the Prototype for Improved Characterizations of Trans Latinas - Ráelyne Moreno (Thesis)
- The Inseparable Relation between a Classical Ballet and Femininity - Yoshimi Okazaki (Thesis)
- No Longer the King of Games - Reed Joslin (Thesis)
- Dissecting Kampo Medicine: Understanding Japan’s Cultural Healthcare Approach - Gunnar Lee (Thesis)
- Japan’s Vertical Structure: A Case Study of Toyota - Natsumi Yeo (Thesis)
- The Feminists of China - Stelarus Stickel (Thesis)
- Japanese American Internment Camps: Documenting Isolation and Debris - Benjamin Bajema (Colloquium Grant)
2015
- Zhang Ziyi: A Transnational Star Mirroring the Change of Public Image of Chinese in Film - Victoria Lay (Independent Research)
- What Are You Afraid Of?—Translating Japanese Feminism for a New Generation - Camille Priebe (Independent Research)
- The Next Big...Banana? : The Future Reception of Banana Yoshimoto’s “Sponge” - Kathryn Terry (Independent Research)
- Beyond Blood: A Policy Analysis on Parental Rights in Japan’s Alternative Child Care Systems - Alyssa Fusek (Independent Research)