The following list includes the names of Dickinsonians who have earned departmental honors, the thesis/project title, and the year of conferral. If there is no thesis or project title, the conferring department only will be listed. Each academic department (or program) has its own criteria for awarding departmental honors. Please see the Advising Guide or elsewhere on the department’s main website for details.
Grace Isabelle MacDougall (2024)
The tale of tears, youth, and faces: How affective symbols are used within the "comfort women" movement.
Frances Irene Feng Xian Smith (2024)
Separation through unity: How propaganda made surrender a psychologically difficult experience for imperial Japanese soldiers during and after WWII.
Leah Tian Goldberg (2023)
The Point of Pointlessness: Healing Through Snapshots of Anime
Ashley Jeanette Heighton (2021)
Standing Out: The Exploration of Brand Positioning Strategies Used by Industry Leaders in China's Private Tutoring Market
Julie Elizabeth Mancini (2021)
Queens and Queerness: Drag Performers and LGBTQ Advocacy Work in Japan
Amanda T Xiong (2020)
K-Pop Connection: Maintaining Fandom Loyalty in K-Pop and V Live
Min Xie (2019)
Traveling and Transformed Bodies: Reconceptualizing Leprosy in Late-Qing Literature (1848-1909)
Leigh Anne Parrott (2018)
Reaching for the Stars: Fictional Women, Female Researchers, and the Importance of Role Models in Japan's Aerospace Fields
Sarah D Brand (2017)
Rationalizing Neglect: How Asia-Pacific Countries Escaped Responsibility - Sharing the Refugee Crisis
Lina-Marie Lindboe Malone (2017)
Marketing K-Pop and J-Pop in the 21st Century
Brianna Margaret McFarland (2016)
Departmental honors in East Asian Studies
Christopher Sean Ivimey (2015)
Japanese Naturalist Literature and 'Nature'
Anna Beth Roach-Howell (2014)
Who Cares? Japanese Male Caregivers and Shifting Cultural Scripts on Family, Gender, and Care
Kyle C Serra (2013)
A Reised History: National and International Archeological Interpretations of Protohistoric Japan-Korea Relations
Patrick J Griffin (2012)
The rise & fall of Taiwanese identity politics
Courtney Brooke Weatherby (2012)
Damming the World: Burma as a Case Study for Chinese Exportation of Hydropower
Nicholas Johnston Adams (2011)
The So-Called New Women: The Evolution of the Seitō Organization and their Discourses on New Women and Sexual Liberation
Brandon Michael Howard (2011)
A Yokai Parade Through Time in Japan
Kendahl Marie Lester (2010)
The Current State of the Right to Remain Silent in Japan
Anna Catherine Pusack (2010)
The Place of the Globalized World: Nishida Kitaro and Japanese Ultra-nationalism
James Yarnall Watson-Krips (2010)
The Soundtrack of a City: Jazz, Modernity, and Urban Life in Republican Shanghai (1927-1949)
Shumei Chen (2009)
Western-Educated Chinese in China's Economic Decision-Making: Haigui's Increasing Inflluence in Chinese Politics; with senior INBM case analysis presentation
Amanda Ruth Drummond (2009)
Medical Malaise in the PRC: Deficiencies in Social Trust, professionalism and the physician-patient relationship in post-deng China
Sean Kyle Hutchinson (2009)
Supervision from Below: Sousveillance Through New Media as a Force for Political Change in China
Chloe Autumn Mandell (2009)
Perceptions of Japanese Honorific Language (Keigo) Use in Japan Today: A Reflection of Personal and National Reputation at Stake
Jeffrey Scott Wilson (2009)
Hataraki-Man: Gender and Success in the Workplace
Micah Yoder Hostetter (2008)
Reactions to Resettlement: Protest in China's Three Gorges Region
Madison Lee Levitan (2008)
Unspoken Words: Constructions of Lesbianism in Nananan Kiriko's Blue and Murakami Haruki's Sputnik Sweetheart
Sean Alexander Rhoads (2007)
Godzilla the social critic: Kaiju eiga and 1970s Japanese environmentalism
Christina D Bengfort (2006)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Frank William Clements (2005)
Religious Traditions in the Lives of the Knights and the Samurai
Matthew Steven Lemieux (2005)
The Life of Francis D. Gamewell
Jonathan Andrew Knauer (2004)
Chinese Government Tactics to Censor, Regulate and Assimilate the Internet
Shannon Marie Lee (2002)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Michael Hayato Trinkle (2002)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Gabriel Miller Warren (2002)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Joshua Henry Dominick (2000)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Jessica Ann Priselac (1999)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Heather Thomas Rogal (1998)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Eric Scott Diehl (1997)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Chull Soon Park (1996)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Cathleen Jacqueline Pope (1996)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Amy Ka Yee Liu (1995)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Heather Miller Rangel (1995)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Thanh Vinh Luu (1994)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Komal Deshpande Dietz (1993)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Kerri Lynn Russell (1993)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Suzette Dudding Thronson (1992)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies
Matthew Robert Whitehead (1992)
Departmental Honors in East Asian Studies