2021 Joseph Fletcher Memorial Thesis Awards

May 31, 2021

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

 

Yuchan Kim

“The Deadly Art of Survival: Elite Purges in North Korea”

Sung-Yoon Lee

 

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

 

John Goodwin

 

"China’s Military Civil Fusion Project: Transferring Emerging Technology to Defense Applications"

Iain Johnston

 

Benjamin Landauer

 

"Abstruse Poetry, Fluctuating Ink: Emotive Intent and Early Medieval Writing Media in Ruan Ji (210-263)"

Xiaofei Tian

 

Masaki Naito

 

“Addressing Setbacks: Restoring Public Confidence in the US-Japan Alliance”

Susan Pharr

 

Teresa Ng

 

 

"Knowledge Production and the Construction of the “Other” in the Context of the BRI"

Meg Rithmire

 

Bridget Nicholas

 

"Attachment to Places, Attachment to Causes: Transnational Identity and Political Engagement among U.S.-Based Chinese International Students"

Ya-wen Lei

 

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

 

Liza Tarbell

 

"Dianchi Transformed: Energy, Technology, Consumption, and (In)justice at a Lake in Kunming, China, 1970-2020"

Arunabh Ghosh

 

Will Taylor

 

““Sesame seeds between tectonic plates”: Huawei, ZTE and 5-geopolitics”

Meg Rithmire

 

Yuyan Zhang

 

“Roaming Deity of Night: Suspense and Transmedia Divinity in the State of Emergency”

David Wang