2021 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Thesis Awards
2021 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Awards
This annual award was established in 1985 in honor of the late Joseph Fletcher, Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History and a past chairman of the RSEA Committee.
This award is given to a student or students in the RSEA program for a research thesis which demonstrates the high standard of excellence encouraged by Professor Fletcher.
Fletcher Prize Winners:
Jeonghun Choi | "Popularization of Historical Knowledge in Meiji Japan: Writers of Hakubunkan and Bankoku Senshi (Universal History of Wars)" | Andy Gordon
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Yuchan Kim | “The Deadly Art of Survival: Elite Purges in North Korea” | Sung-Yoon Lee
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Yi Zhang | "Myriad Images: Illustrated Books and Media Ecologies in the Late Ming” | Tom Kelly |
Honorable Mentions
Latifa Al Saud
| "North Korea in the Arab World: Opportunity, Diplomacy, and Denial" | John Park
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John Goodwin
| "China’s Military Civil Fusion Project: Transferring Emerging Technology to Defense Applications" | Iain Johnston
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Benjamin Landauer
| "Abstruse Poetry, Fluctuating Ink: Emotive Intent and Early Medieval Writing Media in Ruan Ji (210-263)" | Xiaofei Tian
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Masaki Naito
| “Addressing Setbacks: Restoring Public Confidence in the US-Japan Alliance” | Susan Pharr
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Teresa Ng
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"Knowledge Production and the Construction of the “Other” in the Context of the BRI" | Meg Rithmire
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Bridget Nicholas
| "Attachment to Places, Attachment to Causes: Transnational Identity and Political Engagement among U.S.-Based Chinese International Students" | Ya-wen Lei
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Quade Robinson | "Hostile Translation in Japanese Wartime Fiction" | Karen Thornber |
Jiyoung Sohn
| “Lowering ironclad glass ceilings: Insider views of work environments that elevate women to managerial roles in South Korea” | Mary Brinton
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Liza Tarbell
| "Dianchi Transformed: Energy, Technology, Consumption, and (In)justice at a Lake in Kunming, China, 1970-2020" | Arunabh Ghosh
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Will Taylor
| ““Sesame seeds between tectonic plates”: Huawei, ZTE and 5-geopolitics” | Meg Rithmire
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Yuyan Zhang
| “Roaming Deity of Night: Suspense and Transmedia Divinity in the State of Emergency” | David Wang
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