2026 Commencement

5.15.26

EALC congratulates our 2026 PhD graduates

Two EALC graduate students winners of 2026 Dean’s Award for Teaching Excellence

4.14.26

Qingyi Emmy Sun and Yue Wang win teaching award

From Lab to Label: A Field Trip to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City

10.24.25

Graduate students Qingyi Sun and Cynthia Chen discuss class field trip to Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

EALC Graduate Teaching Awards

5.6.25

EALC graduate students receive teaching awards: Elsa Chanez and Zihan Feng

Ki Chow receives award for paper

4.25.25

Ki Cora Chow received the 2025 Graduate Student Paper Prize at AAS

A factory worker’s take on AI

10.3.24

Ki Cora Chow is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, focusing on the technological experiences of factory workers in her dissertation.

Ran Wei awarded Percy Buchanan Graduate Student Prize

8.12.24

Ran Wei, Japanese Ph.D. candidate, receives award

Ran Wei receives Sumitomo Foundation award

4.8.24

Ran Wei awarded grant for research in Japan

Yu-Ning Chen interview for The Textile Museum Journal

2.28.24

The Textile Museum Journal: Reading Mosurin Wool Textiles in Imperial Japan

Ran Wei to address the Kyoto Asian Studies Group

9.21.23

Ran Wei, PhD candidate in Japanese Literature, to address the Kyoto Asian Studies Group on the representations of the urban margins in modern and contemporary Japanese literature and media

Laurel Taylor attends British Centre for Literary Translation

9.14.23

EALC graduate student participates in the Japanese Workshop at the British Centre for Literary Translation

Yuan Gao joins Graduate Student Fellows

9.1.23

Yuan Kevin Gao, one of six Graduate Student Fellows in the humanistic disciplines, will join the Center for the Humanities for a semester in residence during the 2023–24 academic year.