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Annual Newsletter

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2024-2025 Edition

  • Includes an overview of the Asian Studies Program’s highlights for the past academic year: Featuring Faculty News, events such as the Southern Japan Seminar, Lunar New Year Lantern Festival, Korean Studies activities, JSR Final Issue, new Japan Study Abroad Program, scholarships, and updates from students and alumni!

Past Editions

  • 2023-2024

    Fall 2024 Edition

    • Includes an overview of the Asian Studies Program’s highlights for the past academic year: A special in memoriam for our beloved Japanese Sensei Dr. Asuka Mashav, new Morikami Scholarship, featured events such as the Southern Japan Seminar, Lunar New Year Lantern Festival, Korean Studies activities, JSR Special Issue, new Taiwan Study Abroad Program, and updates from Asian Studies Faculty, Students & Alumni!
  • 2022-2023

    Fall 2023 Edition

    • Includes an overview of the Program’s highlights over the last academic year: New Undergraduate Korean Studies Certificate, first recipient of the April Messersmith Scholarship, Faculty News with a spotlight on Dr. Marcela López Bravo, in addition to various featured co-sponsored events, Southern Japan Seminar, Director’s Research, Student & Alumni News, and more!
  • 2021-2022

    Fall 2022 Edition

    • Includes an overview of the program’s activities during the last academic year, featuring events like “Networking for Historical Justice” and highlights such as the Japan Foundation grant, Adjunct Teaching Awards, Director’s Festschrift, Southern Japan Seminar, Faculty News with a spotlight on Masako Kubota, as well as inspiring Student & Alumni updates.
  • 2020-2021

    Fall 2021 Edition

    • Includes an overview of the Program’s highlights over the last academic year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic challenges: new Japan Foundation grant, D&E Foundation Award, Faculty News with a spotlight on Dr. Mitzi Carter, new C.O.I.L. courses at FIU, updates to our Degree Programs, Student & Alumni News, and featured virtual events, such as “Dialogue on Japan’s Marginalized,” and more!
  • 2019-2020

    Fall 2020 Edition

    • Includes information on the Program's accomplishments over the last academic year, new April Messersmith Scholarship, growth in Korean Studies, Faculty News with a spotlight on Claudia Lau, Student & Alumni News, in addition to highlights from this year's program lectures and cultural events.
  • 2018-2019

    Fall 2019 Edition

    • Includes information on two Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership grant projects, Faculty News with a spotlight on Marcela Lopez Bravo, Student & Alumni News, as well as an overview of the year's accomplishments and cultural events, such as the "Roots of Dōgen Studies" Symposium, and more!
  • 2017-2018

    Fall 2018 Edition

    • Includes information on the Program's accomplishments over the last academic year, new Japan Foundation grant projects, Faculty News with a spotlight on Dr. Matthew Marr, Fully Online Asian Studies B.A. and Undergraduate Certificate, new Korean Instructor at FIU, Student & Alumni News, as well as an overview of the year's cultural events, such as "Cool Japan @ FIU" and more!
  • 2016-2017

    Fall 2017 Edition

    • Includes information on the Asian Studies 7-Year Program Review, Faculty News and Accomplishments, with a spotlight on Dr. Shenggao Wang, student accomplishments and awards (including the Omar K. Carrion Scholarship and Fu Foundation), Undergraduate/Graduate Student and Alumni News, a new East Asia Virtual Reality Travel Course Online, as well as an overview of the final year of the Japan Foundation IPS and NEH grant report, and other event news.
  • 2015-2016

    Fall 2016 Edition

    • Includes information on the "Tokyo: High City and Low City" NEH Summer Institute, the Japan Foundation's Institutional Project Support Program Grant Activities, student accomplishments and awards (including the Omar K. Carrion Scholarship), Undergraduate/Graduate Student and Alumni News, as well as a spotlight on Dr. Asuka Mashav, and other faculty news.
  • 2014-2015

    Fall 2015 Edition

    • Includes information on the new National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grant, the Japan Foundation's Institutional Project Support Program Grant, student accomplishments (including a Worlds Ahead graduate), Undergraduate/Graduate Student and Alumni News, as well as a spotlight on Dr. Amy Marshall and Dr. Hitomi Yoshio, and other faculty news.
  • 2013-2014

    Fall 2014 Edition

    • Includes information on the Japan Foundation's Institutional Project Support Program Grant, Dr. Amy Marshall as new Japanese History Assistant Professor, the new Chinese Area Studies major, student accomplishments (including a Worlds Ahead graduate), Undergraduate/Graduate Student and Alumni News, as well as a spotlight on Dr. Li Ma (Mali), Naoko Komura, Dr. Bin Xu, and other faculty news.
  • 2012-2013

    Fall 2013 Edition

    • Includes information on the Japan Foundation's Institutional Project Support Program Grant, new Asian World Affairs Track, student accomplishments (including two Worlds Ahead graduates), Dr. Shenggao Wang as new Chinese Instructor, Iwami Kagura Japanese Shinto Dance Performance, Linguistics Symposium, as well as a spotlight on Dr. Julie Zeng and other faculty news.
  • 2011-2012

    Fall 2012 Edition

    • Includes information on the new Japanese Area Studies Major, conference on Zen Master Dōgen, the joint Southern Japan Seminar & Midwest Japan Seminar, student news and achievements, including a Worlds Ahead graduate, and a faculty spotlight on Masako Kubota.
  • 2010-2011

    Fall 2011 Edition

    • Includes information on the new Chinese Studies Professors, FIU as the new Florida Center for NCTA, the Japan Teach-In, the new Chinese Studies Teaching Assistantship, student news and achievements, and a faculty spotlight on Dr. Nathan Katz.
  • 2009-2010

    Fall 2010 Edition

    • Includes information on the Board of Governors’ Program Review process, NCTA Summer Session, student news, and a faculty spotlight on Dr. Matthew Marr.
  • 2008-2009

    Fall 2009 Edition

    • Includes information on new home within the School of International and Public Affairs, student news, and a faculty spotlight on Naoko Komura.
  • 2007-2008

    Fall 2008 Edition

    • Includes information on new Dual Asian Studies MA/International Relations PhD, student news, and a faculty spotlight on Li Ma.
  • 2006-2007

    Fall 2007 Edition

    • Includes information on Asian Studies Grant activity, Dr. Heine's Emperor Award, student news, and a faculty spotlight on Andrea Mantell-Seidel.
  • 2005-2006

    Fall 2006 Edition

    • Includes information on the launch of the Asian Studies M.A. Program, student news, and a faculty spotlight on Laura Nenzi.