CEAS Announces 2022-23 Faculty Travel Grant Recipients

Oct. 11, 2022
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CEAS proudly announces the recipients of 2022-23 Faculty Travel Grant!

All of this year's faculty travel grants have been awarded. Thank you for your interest. Please feel free to apply next year. 

2022-23 CEAS Faculty Travel Grant

Takashi Miura

East Asian Studies

Project: Deifying Those Who Died to Save the Village: Rural Shrines Commemorating Tokugawa Protest Martyrs

Dr. Miura, from Department of East Asian Studies, received the travel grant to attend the conference of American Academy of Religion. His paper, "Deifying Those Who Died to Save the Village: Rural Shrines Commemorating Tokugawa Protest Martyrs," examines the emergence of "martyr shrines" in Tokugawa Japan, dedicated to leaders of peasant protests who were executed by the government for organizing "illegal" protests. The paper argues that the emergence of the martyr shrines represents a new religious current in Tokugawa Japan, which constitutes an aspect of "religion on the peripheries."

Qing Zhang

Anthropology

Project: Co-construction of meaning in the performance of a MOFA spokesperson persona

Dr. Zhang, from School of Anthropology, received the travel grant to attend the conference of New Ways of Analyzing Variation. Her paper, "Co-construction of meaning in the performance of a MOFA spokesperson persona," takes a multidimensional approach to meaning-making as a co-operative process whereby variation takes on (new) meaning through its use in constructing a speaker’s persona and its uptake by other participants. It examines the performance of Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson of China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), at the daily press conferences.  

Jiang Wu

East Asian Studies

Project: Dimensions of Textual Spirituality: Gentry Reading of the Śūraṃgama Sūtra in the Ming

Dr. Wu, from Department of East Asian Studies, received the travel grant to attend the 2023 Hawaii International Conference on Chinese Studies. His paper "Dimensions of Textual Spirituality: Gentry Reading of the Śūraṃgama Sūtra in the Ming" investigates the mode of gentry reading of the Śūraṃgama Sūtra  by focusing on commentaries on this scripture authored by Ming literati. He argues that in addition to being a scholastic practice, writing commentaries is also a spiritual cultivation.

Congratulations to the Faculty Travel Grant awardees!