2009 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
MCAA AWARD
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Undergraduate
Mikiso Hane Prize: "Kansai Dialect in Anime: A Look at Stereotypes in Japanese Media" by Heather D'Evelyn from St. Olaf College.
Sidney De Vere Brown Prizze: "Public Assassination on the Small Screen: A Shocking Murder Forgotten in Time?" by Erica Hague from Purdue University.
Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize
China and Inner Asia: “Performing the Family Planning Project in Post-socialist China: An Interpretive Approach to (Re)Producing Class” by Junjie Chen, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Northeast Asia: “Gender Equality and the Practice of Virtue: What Makes the Portrayal of Women in the Samguk sagi distinct from that of the Lienu zhuan?” by Sookja Cho, Ph.D. Candidate, Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University St. Louis.
South Asia: “’There is Much, Very Much, in the Name of Book,’ or the Famous Title of the Hobson-Jobson and How it Got that Way” by Traci Nagle, M.A. English, Ph.D. student, Indiana University.
Undergraduate
Mikiso Hane Prize: "Kansai Dialect in Anime: A Look at Stereotypes in Japanese Media" by Heather D'Evelyn from St. Olaf College.
Sidney De Vere Brown Prizze: "Public Assassination on the Small Screen: A Shocking Murder Forgotten in Time?" by Erica Hague from Purdue University.
Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize
China and Inner Asia: “Performing the Family Planning Project in Post-socialist China: An Interpretive Approach to (Re)Producing Class” by Junjie Chen, a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Northeast Asia: “Gender Equality and the Practice of Virtue: What Makes the Portrayal of Women in the Samguk sagi distinct from that of the Lienu zhuan?” by Sookja Cho, Ph.D. Candidate, Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University St. Louis.
South Asia: “’There is Much, Very Much, in the Name of Book,’ or the Famous Title of the Hobson-Jobson and How it Got that Way” by Traci Nagle, M.A. English, Ph.D. student, Indiana University.