Graduate Prize
Sara Ann Swenson
Syracuse University
‘Three Trees Make a Mountain’: Women and Contramodern Buddhist Volunteerism in Vietnam
Graduate Honorable Mention
Terese Gagnon
Syracuse University
‘There are No Seeds Here’: Severing Seed Sovereignty in Mae La Camp
Undergraduate Prize
Andreanna L. Downing Zheng
Wells College
‘Flowers of the rear garden’: The People’s Republic of China’s Male Homosexological Lexicon
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Zejian Zhou
St. Lawrence University
Confucian Freedom: Practice, Morality, and Responsibility
Graduate Prize
J. Travis Shutz
Binghamton University
Chaozhou Pirates, Zhangzhou Traders, and Quanzhou Sailors: Mediators Between the Ming and Spanish Empires in the Late Sixteenth Century
Graduate Honorable Mention
Du Fei
Syracuse University
Fatima’s Inheritance: Three Itineraries of Law Between Early Modern Aceh and Europe
Undergraduate Prize
Taylor Armijo
St. Lawrence University
In an Era of Reform: Reimagining Government Control in the Chinese Film Industry
Undergraduate Prize
Meghan Reilly
Union College
Ancient Greek in Chinese Translation: The 'Sinicization' of Euripides
Graduate Prize
Adrienne Lee Atterberry
Syracuse University
Schooling within a Transnational Context: Examining Indian American Return Migrants’ K-12 School-Choice Decision
Undergraduate Prize
Jordan Flanagan
St. Lawrence University
Memories Clashing: Analyzing Historical Memories of Support and Conflict Between Vietnam and Cambodia Surrounding the 1979-1989 Vietnamese Occupation of Cambodia
Graduate Prize
Xuening Kong
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Anna May Wong and Her Travels in Europe and China—Identity Construction Interconnectedness Between Gender, Race, and Nationalism
Undergraduate Prize
Xuanyi (Shane) Zhang
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Poet versus Chairman: The Incident of Hu Feng & The Literary Warfare of Chairman Mao
Graduate Prize
Emily Bowlus-Peck
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Jesuit Understandings of Abnormal Behavior in Early Modern Chinese Medicine
Graduate Honorable Mention
Patrick Nash
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Re-imagining the Ku Klux Klan in Chinese Media, 1950-1959
Undergraduate Prize
Kristin Xinming Chang
Sarah Lawrence College
The Gold Medal Rush: Machine-body Racializations of Chinese Labor at the Olympics and Beyond
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Niall Chithelen
Cornell University
In Search of “Spaces”: The Ezra Opium Case of 1925, Extraterritoriality, and Analyzing Semicolonial China
Graduate Prize
Michael Denman
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Identities from Shaolin: Identity and Culture in 1970’s Hong Kong Kung Fu Genre Movies
Graduate Honorable Mention
Alexandra Dalferro
Cornell University
Subjectification through Silk: The Story of the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles
Undergraduate Prize
Donghai Yu
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Why the Chinese Sponsored the TAZARA: An Investigation about the People’s Republic of China’s African Policy in the Regional Context, 1955-1970
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Rachel Clarey
Union College
Factors That Influence Chinese Students to Study in the United States
Graduate Prize
Hayden Kantor
Cornell University
A Dead Letter of the Statute Book: The Strange Bureaucratic Life of The Bihar Food Economy and Guest Control Order, 1950-1954
This paper has been published in revised form in the journal South Asian History and Culture (2016). The published version is available here: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19472498.2016.1168098
Undergraduate Prize
Ayman A. Khondker
Colgate University
The Factors Affecting South Asian National Hierarchy
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Lisbeth DaBramo
Hamilton College
Situating Gender in Water-Related Issues: Regional Perspective from Jaipur and Varanasi
Graduate Prize
Phillip Guingona
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Warlords and Dancing Beauties: A Study of Early Twentieth-century Sino-Philippine Bilateral Media Representations
Undergraduate Prize
Tatenda Pasipanodya
St. Lawrence University
Democratic Tendencies: Wealth, the Middle Class, and the Prospects for Chinese Democracy
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Chika Okuyama
Hofstra University
Francis Ford Coppola and Japanese Culture
Graduate Prize
Rafal Stepien
Columbia University
The Impossibility of Language: Poetic Modes of Apophasis in Buddhist and Islamic Mystical Literature
Undergraduate Prize
Kai R. Wasson
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
The Power of Invisibility: American Empire in the Conundrum Yasukuni Shrine
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Eric Lee
Binghamton University, State University of New York
Empress Liu: Agency, Regency, and Bureaucracy
Graduate Prize
Jeffrey Gower
University at Buffalo
Knowledge Management and Transfers between North and South Korea at the Kaesong Industrial Complex
(No undergraduate prize awarded in 2012.)
Graduate Prize
Helena Zeweri
The New School
Generating the Collective through Text: Afghan American Writings on Belonging and the Homeland
Undergraduate Prize
Nora Langan
St. Lawrence University
Sino-African Relations: Mutually Beneficial?
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Fernando Gomez
St. Lawrence University
Cities of Dreams: Examining the Ideology of Colonial Architecture in India
Graduate Prize
Kyoung-Lae Kang
University of Rochester
Maternal Face and Voice in Public Prosecutor and Teacher: Its Symbolism upon Korean Modern History
Undergraduate Prize
Jacob Birchard
St. Lawrence University
State Intervention in India: An Analysis of Bureaucratic Change and Its Impact on Economic Growth
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Nick Ogonek
Bard College
Mizuko Kuyo and Blame in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism
Graduate Prize
Anouluk Kittikhoun
Graduate Center, City University of New York
A Geographical Analysis of the Revolution in Laos
Graduate Honorable Mention
Kevin Carrico
Cornell University
Re-centering China: The Cantonese In and Beyond the Han
Undergraduate Prize
Julia Burke
University at Buffalo, SUNY
The Expanding Network of the Uyghurs: The Past and Prospects of the East Turkestan Independence Movement
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Kara Cooperrider
Colgate University
Maneuvering the Space in Between: The Hijras of India and the Gender Politics of Nation Building
Graduate Prize
Chien-Ju Lin
Binghamton University, SUNY
Gender and Labor In East Asia
Undergraduate Prize
Kevin H. Keepper
Saint Lawrence University
Intellectual Property Rights in China: Capacity and Incentive for Proper Enforcement in China
Graduate Prize
Yu-Ling Huang
Binghamton University, SUNY
Negotiating Health in Thailand: AIDS, Global Patent Regime, and Health Social Movement
Undergraduate Prize
Joshua Evan Schlachet
Cornell University
Human Warmth: Comfort Women & Destabilizing Historical Narrativism Towards Multiplicity of Voice
2007 Pre-Collegiate Student Writing Prize Competition
[In Cooperaton with Asia for Educators, Columbia University, and the New York Council for History Education]
Winner-First Prize
Omar Hayes
Spring Valley High School, Spring Valley, NY
(Teacher: Christopher Ferraro)
The Economic and Political Effects of Burmese Opium Trade 1886-present
Graduate Prize
(No Graduate Prize Awarded in 2006)
Tie - Undergraduate Prize
Maria Marangos
Fordham University – College at Lincoln Center
Modernizing Through Tradition: Kyoto’s Development in Meiji Period
Samuel L. Sapirstein
Bard College
Civil Unrest in Contemporary China: Some Implications for U.S.-China Relations
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Alexander Gordon
Cornell University
The Role of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants in the Primary Health Care and Economy of People in Lower Mustang (Nepal)
Graduate Prize
Jeongsuk Joo
University at Buffalo, SUNY
From Periphery to Center: The Rise of the Korean Film Industry Since the Late 1990s and Ironies of its Success
Undergraduate Prize
Daniel Schwartz
Binghamton University, SUNY
Terror and Revolt: Examining Al Qaeda through the Lens of the Satsuma Rebellion
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Theresa McNutt
University at Buffalo, SUNY
The Double-Standard of Cross-Genderization in Japanese Theatre
Graduate Prize
Seo-Hyun Park
Cornell University
Islands for Cash: Economic Influence Strategies and the Russo-Japanese Territorial Dispute
Graduate Honorable Mention
Samuel Yunxiang Liang
Binghamton University
Ephemeral Households, Splintered City: Be(tween) Tradition and Modernity in Flowers of Shanghai
Undergraduate Prize
Alexandra Geertz
Hamilton College
Seat Reservation for Women in Local Panchayats: An Analysis of Power
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Linda Stein
Columbia University
Death for Death: A Comparison of Three Classic Revenge Dramas
Graduate Prize
Fang Qiang
University at Buffalo
Were Chinese Rulers above the Law: Aspects of the Theory and Practice of the Rule of Law in Chinese History
Graduate Honorable Mention
Nosheen Ali
Cornell University
The Politics of Conservation in the Khunjerab National Park, Pakistan Explorations and Insights
Undergraduate Prize
Renee Karl
LeMoyne College
Women in Practice: A Comparative Analysis of Gender and Sexuality in India
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Aaron Edelstein
Union College
Abortion and Buddhism
Graduate Prize
Linda Rui Feng
Columbia University
Snatching the Last Word(s): Value-driven Suicides and the Role of Narrative in Chinese Literary History
Graduate Honorable Mention
Heather Fried
University at Buffalo
A Prismatic Image of Identity
Undergraduate Prize
Emily McRae
Union College
Gender, Self and Enlightenment: A Feminist Analysis of Buddhism
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Kevin Carrico
Bard College
Chairman Mao’s Good Soldier: The Many Faces of Lei Feng
Graduate Prize
Ping Chou
New School for Social Research
Imagining Formosa Through Western Writings, 17th-19th Century: A Buddhist Middle Way Discourse Analysis
Graduate Honorable Mention
Naveen Zaidi
Cornell Law School
The Controversies behind the H-1B Visa Program: Truth or Myth
Undergraduate Prize
Andre Foisy
University at Buffalo
Free Aceh Movement: A Nosological Problem
Undergraduate Honorable Mention
Jane Lim
Cornell University
Alternative Identities: Anti-Communism and the ‘ASEAN’ Way
