List of Alumni
Jason Mark ALEXANDER (2020). MA Thesis. “The Racial Ideology of Naisen Yūwa:(Dis)harmony between Japanese and Koreansin the Imperial Metropole in the 1920s and ’30s”
Raya ALLAHHAM (2022). MA Thesis: “A Who is Responsible? A Literary Analysis of Responsibility in the Works of Kazuo Ishiguro”
Budoor ALMUBARTI (Bahrain, 2018). MA Thesis: “Tea Orthodoxy and Variant Practices in Fukuoka: The Influence of Kyoto Grandmasters”
Steven APOTHEKER (2016). MA Thesis: “The Promotion of a National Museum in Kyushu: Local Support and Key Turning Points”
Radha Saule BARTNINKAITE (2021). MA Thesis: “Creating Heritage through Folkloristic Ritual: The Case of Takachiho Kagura”
Maria del Carmen Georgina CAMACHO MONTERO (2016). MA Thesis: “Educating Hakatakko 博多っ子: Language Planning, Dialect and Identity in Hakata Elementary School”
Ignas CEPELE (2022). MA Thesis: “Recreating a Tradition: Contemporary Shugendō at Mt. Hiko”
Yat Yi (Bethany) CHAN (2022). MA Thesis: “Beyond the Academy: Sinitic Practices of Court Women in the Early Heian Period”
Xinye CHEN (2021). MA Thesis: “Kuniyoshiʼs Suikoden : Chinese Figures in Japanese Woodblock Prints”
Kate Lee CLARK (2023). MA Thesis: “Man or Monster: Exploring the Relationship Between Tengu and Ascetics in the Premodern Japanese Imagination”
Pieter CREYTENS (2014). MA Thesis: “Hakata Gion Yamakasa: A Tradition Adapting to the Times”
Thomas CURTIS (2024). MA Thesis: “Timeless Tenshu Constructing Castle Spaces and Historical Narratives”
Minori EGASHIRA (2017). MA Thesis: “The Life and Legacy of Takenouchi Hisakazu (1853-1916): Changing Assessments of Japanese Sculpture in Modern Japan”
Alex EVANS (2021). MA Thesis: “Beyond the Gate: A Shipping Agent in the Social Space of Nineteenth-Century Dazaifu”
Daniel FELDBAUM (2022). MA Thesis: “Salt from the Tides: The Economic History of the Yugeshima Maritime Estate in the Thirteenth Century”
Grace Fisher GALIE (2014). MA Thesis: “The Eighth-Century Shūkongōjin Statue of Tōdaiji’s Hokkedō: Approaching Old Questions With New Research”
Jemma GALLAGHER (U.S.A., 2018). MA Thesis: “Mindfulness in Japan: An Evolving History”
Margaux GACKIERE (2024). MA Thesis: “Ambiguous Ashura: The Display of Kōfukuji’s National Treasures under Imperial Japan”
Sierra Skye GYSLER (2017). MA Thesis: “Howl as a Tengu in Miyazaki Hayao’s Howl’s Moving Castle”
Lilly GRAY (2022). MA Thesis: “Flowers in the Dojo: Women and the Cultural Transmission of Aikido”
Kurtis Towers HANLON (2015). MA Thesis: “The 913 Teijiin Utaawase: A History, Translation, and Fresh Look at an Early Japanese Poetry Competition”
Mary HANNAHAN (2019). MA Thesis: “Analysis of the Zenkōji sankei mandara through the institutional motivations that likely led to its creation and composition”
Xiaoyang HAO (2014). MA Thesis: “Portrayals of Oda Nobunaga from the Late Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century”
Jan HAUSMANN (2022). MA Thesis: “On New Religions and Their Founders: The Case of Nakayama Shingoshō Buddhism”
Hiro Mitsuo HAYASHI (2014). MA Thesis: “An Analysis of Sata Ineko’s The Shade of Trees and Its Bearing on Post-War Understanding of the Atomic Bomb”
Cheuk HIM HAN (2023). MA Thesis: “Revitalizing Shugendō in the Digital Age: The Case of Yamap”
Lachlan “Lachie” James HILL (2021). MA Thesis. “Landscapes of Black, Blue, and White: Navigating Chōsen-Karatsu Ceramics.” ⠀
Mason JOHNSON (2016). MA Thesis: “Three Waves of Scholarship: Changing Perspectives on Chōgen’s Journeys to China”
Kavitha Sangeetha KALAIVANAN (2019). MA Thesis: “Examination of setsuwa in relation to their audiences through an exploration of the language, structure, and presentation style”
Elizabeth Jane KOCHINSKI (2015). MA Thesis: “Kyushu, Kami, Court: The 749 Transfer of Hachiman from Usa Shrine to Tōdaiji Temple”
Romanca KOPACKOVA (2014). MA Thesis: “The Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (福岡アジア美術館): Its History, Future and the “Beauty of the Horse Mackerel””
Ruilin KOU (2024). MA Thesis: The Reception and Spread of Chinese Fengshui: A Case Study of Daishogun Hachi Shrine and Daishōgun Belief
Roisin LACEY-MCCORMAC (2021). MA Thesis: “Mobilizing the Cosmos: Ritualized Journeys in the Cult of Tomobuchi Hachiman Jinja, 1228‒”
Yuhan LI (2013). MA Thesis: “Writings on Onmyōdō: An Analysis of Hoki Naiden, Volume 1”
Zitao LI (2020). MA Thesis. “Female Apparitions Trapped by Love in Yuan Zaju and Noh”
Ru LIN (2013). MA Thesis: “The Sentence-Final Particle Wa in the Kansai Dialect”
Tingting LIU (2015). MA Thesis: “English Influences on Japanese: Gairaigo and Wasei Eigo”
Lindsey MITCHELL (2019). MA Thesis: “Uchina-Yamatoguchi versus Uchinaguchi: The Role of Language within the Okinawan Identity”
Raditya NURADI (2020). MA Thesis. “Taking Note of Anime Pilgrimage: The Case of Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto”
Caroline Ann OAKLEY (2015). MA Thesis: “Nihonga Now: Continuity and Innovation in Contemporary Japanese-Style Painting”
Catherine Miki OTACHIME (2017). MA Thesis: “Visualizing the Sounds of Eternal Bliss: Representation of the Celestial Music of Amida's Descent in a Twelfth-Century Raigō Painting”
Yiwei PAN (2015). MA Thesis: “Water in Eighth-Century Japanese Gardens”
Larrissa REDDITT (2022). MA Thesis: “A Miyajidake Kofun: The Making of a Sacred Place in Seventh-Century Japan”
Jacob RITARI (2021). MA Thesis: “Arrest and Development: Perpetual Adolescence and Japanese Detective Fiction”
Alejandra ROJAS Barrera (2023). MA Thesis: “Kakiemon-style porcelain in 18th century Europe: An analysis of the Oranienburg Palace and the Drayton House inventories ”
Arisha Livia SATARI (2021). MA Thesis: “The Politics of Architecture: The Takatori Residence in Karatsu as Meiji-Period Identity Construction”
Greg SATTLER (2019). MA Thesis: “Japan’s early private traders: the lives and activities of overseas merchants, ca. 810–1126”
Yasmin SHAMSI (2024). MA Thesis: “Revitalizing Rakugo: Representations in Modern Media and their Dissemination”
Xue “Alessandra” SHENG (2019). MA Thesis: “From Ink to Silk: Pictorial Embroidery in the Meiji Period”
Snorri Birkir SNORRASON (2019). MA Thesis: “The categorization of Kakinomoto Hitomaro’s poetry in scholarship”
Sierra Spender Fredet SROKA (2013). MA Thesis: “A Sociolinguistic Investigation of Attitudes Towards Japanese Women Who Use “Feminine” and “Masculine” Language”
Kenza STREIFER (2023). MA Thesis: “Beyond the Veil: Gender, Morality, and Identity through Women's Head- and Face-Covering Practices in Premodern Japan”
Benjamin Oliver STEPHENSON (2023). MA Thesis: “Symbiotic Propaganda: Suematsu Kenchō and The Risen Sun”
Noni STEPHENSON (2019). MA Thesis: “Questioning the historical accuracy, intent and motivations for the depiction of Iwai no Ran as a ‘rebel’”
Giovanny Paiz TORRES (2013). MA Thesis: “Japanese Stereotypes of Mexican People, and Their Variations in Japanese Corpora and Two Different Generations”
UESUGI Nao (2023). MA Thesis: “Reception and Reevaluation: Exploring the Divergent Perspectives on Bruno Taut and his Architectural Legacy in Japan”
Joppe VERMEYEN (2020). MA Thesis. “The Buddha's Attorneys: Monastic Violence,Land Disputes, and Litigation in the LateHeian Period”
Bryan “Alex” WOOD (2020). MA Thesis. “Gatekeepers of the Way of Tea: The Voicesthat Defined the Japanese Tea Ceremony.”
Patty WU (2019). MA Thesis: “Decoding Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo”
Hongyi “Kyle” YANG (2019). MA Thesis: “The movement and construction of Daianji, 639-752”
Huiyi (Riva) YANG (2022). MA Thesis: “Shimadai: Ephemeral Decoration for Edo-Period Commoner Weddings”
Wenjing (Claire) YANG (2017). MA Thesis: “Money, Power, and Authority: Go-Kashiwabara's Enthronement Ceremony in 1521”
Renato Maria ZANGHERI (2021). MA Thesis: “Gairaigo and COVID-19: how a pandemic affected the use of modern loanwords in Japanese”
Yechen ZHANG (2022). MA Thesis: “The Twelve Zodiac Signs in the Kitora Tumulus: Iconography and Spatial Representation”
Yizhi ZHOU (2016). MA Thesis: "The Idealized Monk: A Study of Ganjin’s Earliest Hagiographies”
