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Greetings from the Chair/Director
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The Department of Transnational Asian Studies and the Chao Center for Asian Studies welcome our return to campus with a look back at the very productive 2024-25 academic year.
This is an exciting time of growth for the department and Chao Center. Starting in the fall of 2025, the Department of Transnational Asian Studies has doubled in size, with the inclusion of the entirety of the faculty and curriculum in Asian languages. We now offer Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language studies as a central component of our major, which has been divided into two concentrations. The first is our long-standing and popular research-based Major Concentration in Transnational Asian Studies. The second is the Major Concentration in Asian Language.
Our department is growing even larger with the addition of our new Assistant Professor of Transnational Asian Studies, Sourav Chatterjee, who is joining us as a recent PhD from Columbia University. A scholar of comparative literature, Chatterjee explores the Bengali literary response to British efforts at moralizing and censorship, a response, he argues, that centered cynicism, mockery, and irreverence against both British imperialism and contemporary Indian society. Exploring otherwise neglected ephemeral texts, such as the widely popular Bengali print media of illustrated periodicals, proto-comics, cartoon albums, gags, joke books, and political caricatures, Chatterjee focuses on themes of caste and gender, nationalism and colonialism, self-representation and legitimacy. We are very excited to have him joining our department at Rice University, where he will be teaching classes on literature and film, intellectual history and cultural studies of South Asia.
2024-25 was a banner year for events at the Chao Center for Asian Studies and the Department of Transnational Asian Studies. We kicked off the year by co-hosting a talk by Shashi Tharoor, the Indian literary star and politician, representing the state of Kerala in the Indian Parliament, who offered a rousing synthesis of India’s moment in global politics. Immediately afterwards, the Chao Center was recognized by the Asia Society-Texas, as the recipient of their inaugural Game Changer Award, for its significant impact on the Houston community, in particular noting the years of successful outreach to Asian and Asian American communities. We thank the Asia Society for this very great honor.
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of America’s war in Vietnam, the Frank and Cindy Liu Distinguished Visitor Series sponsored a series of speakers, offering a historical retrospective. Each of our speakers offered a very different perspective, including the impact of the American secret war in neighboring Laos, the post-war experience of the Vietnamese in diaspora, and a close study of the U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, its context and repercussions.
We ended the year with a hybrid international conference-workshop organized by Professor Sonia Ryang, on Race in Transnational Asia, which identified and explored the ways in which historical factors such as imperialism and national identity-building have impacted and redefined racial dynamics, with a focus on Korea and Japan. Our student-run affiliate, the Rice Asian Diasporic and Asian American Research (RADAAR) Collective co-hosted the first annual Texas Association for Asian American Diaspora Studies (TAAADS) Symposium with Texas A&M in College Station in the spring of 2025. We are excited to confirm that they will repeat that success with another collaborative graduate student-led conference, on Rice campus this time, in the spring of 2026.
Another stand-out event included the finale to the Robert Ho Artist-in-Residence-Grant, with the performance of Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits from the Houston Asian American Archive. Three young artist composers created original work for the event, inspired by their research in the HAAA on the experiences of Houston’s Asian American diasporic community.
Finally, our accomplished senior majors in Asian Studies at Rice presented their research in a compelling poster presentation, only a few weeks before graduation, many with honors—listed below! We will miss them but are confident that these extraordinary young scholars will lead interesting and meaningful lives.
Upcoming:
As we kick off the new academic year, please make a note on your calendars of our upcoming events. On October 29 at 4 pm, our former colleague and good friend, Dr. Lan Li, now of Johns Hopkins, will be returning to Rice campus to discuss her new book, Body Map: Improvising Meridians and Nerves in Global Chinese Medicine (Johns Hopkins University Press, April 2025), described by her publisher as: “A rich history of the hidden landscapes of the human body… Drawing on case studies across time and place, from Kaifeng to Dejima and from Beijing to Berlin, Li expertly navigates the complex interplay between Eastern and Western medical traditions…By bringing together insights from the history of science, postcolonial studies, art history, Chinese studies, critical cartography, and medical anthropology, Li offers a fresh perspective on the cultures of objectivity that have defined our approach to the human body.”
Other upcoming talks include those of the Transnational Asia Speaker Series:
Andrew Schonebaum, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Department Head of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Maryland, will give a talk on October 16 entitled, “ Water, Connoisseurship, and Curiosity in Early Modern China,” illuminating the intersection of natural philosophy, medical practice, popular culture, and literary imagination in early modern Chinese approaches to understanding the relationship between environment, body, cosmos and unseen realms.
Eric Schluessel, Associate Professor of History and International Affairs, Director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, and Co-Director of the East Asia National Resource Center at The George Washington University, will visit on October 24 to present his research on “ Piety and Capitalism in Chinese Central Asia.” During the period 1877–1918, the agrarian economy of the Uyghur region (Xinjiang, East Turkestan) became integrated into the Eurasian economy in new ways, resulting not only in the immiseration of local people, but in innovations in local economic organization. This talk explains the origins of this new integration, focusing on collusion between Chinese merchants from Tianjin and a government dominated by Hunanese officials. It shows how ordinary farmers, traders, and craftspeople responded to the resultant changes, with an emphasis on the effects on one of the region's central institutions, the Islamic pious endowment (waqf). The talk is based on new research in recently uncovered sources in Chaghatay (premodern Uyghur) as well as Chinese.
For questions about any of our events, please write to chao.center@rice.edu.
In the meantime, this, our second annual newsletter, will offer a more detailed look at the activities of our busy past year and will point you towards our faculty and student resources and support.
All my best,
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Lisa Balabanlilar
Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor in the Humanities
Chair of the Department of Transnational Asian Studies
Director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies
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Chao Center for Asian Studies
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Transnational Asia Speaker Series
Through the generosity of the Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation and with the support of our faculty, the Chao Center for Asian Studies hosts a number of distinguished scholars annually for guest lectures that are free and open to the public. In 2024-25, TASS talks included:
“Singing Beyond the Ivory Tower: The South Korean Song Movement of the 1980s” | Susan Hwang
October 4, 2024
Susan Hwang explored the ways in which student song clubs emerged in South Korea in the 1980s, using music as a powerful tool for protest and social change. Their blending of activism with diverse musical styles supported the country’s push for democracy.
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“Classifying the Unseen: Curiosity, Fantasy, and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China” | Andrew Schonebaum
November 8, 2024
This talk explored how people in early modern China—both literate and marginally literate—understood the natural world through a wide range of texts, from medical manuals and almanacs to novels and newspapers. By examining both elite and popular writings, Schonebaum offered a new perspective on early scientific thinking and how the curious and unexplained were interpreted across society.
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“The Making of Japanese American War Heroes and the Rearmament of the Armed Forces in Occupied Japan” | Eiichiro Azuma
March 27, 2025
Eiichiro Azuma discussed the period of the U.S. occupation of Japan after World War II, during which Japanese American soldiers were promoted as ideal models for a new, democratic Japanese military. He examined how this image served both American propaganda goals and Japanese cultural narratives during a key moment of rearmament and shifting power dynamics in East Asia.
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“Becoming Independent: Taiwan In-Between Empires and Nation-States” | Leo Ching
April 11, 2025
Leo Ching gave a lively presentation, exploring the ways in which debates over Taiwan’s independence have been shaped by both U.S.-China power struggles and Taiwan’s complex colonial history. He examined competing political visions—from Marxist nationalism to decolonial thought—and argued for rethinking sovereignty beyond the traditional nation-state model.
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“Thinking Big: Mapping and Graphing Data in Tibetan History” | Gray Tuttle
April 16, 2025
This talk shared the speaker’s experiences using large datasets—such as climate, lifespan, and monastic records—to explore new questions about Tibetan history within a broader Asian context. It highlighted the challenges and insights gained through interdisciplinary collaboration with experts in science, social science, and industry.
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Liu Distinguished Visitor Series
Through the generosity of Frank ('78) and Cindy Liu, the Liu Distinguished Visitor Series has allowed the Chao Center to host a number of dynamic speakers in 2024-25, including a series commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War.
“The New World Disorder? India’s Role in Global Governance” | Shashi Tharoor
September 6, 2024
Shashi Tharoor, Minister of Parliament representing Thiruvananthapuram in the Indian state of Kerala, a prolific author and distinguished former diplomat, visited the Rice University campus to discuss how India emerged as a key force in global politics, using its economic growth, strategic alliances, and technological innovation to influence international affairs. Tharoor discussed India’s foreign policy, regional security efforts, and its growing role in shaping global markets and sustainable development in conversation with Ambassador Satterfield of the Baker Institute for Public Policy.
This event was co-presented with the Baker Institute and Rice Global.
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Loboc Children’s Choir
December 3, 2024
The internationally acclaimed Loboc Children’s Choir of the Philippines performed a program sharing Filipino culture and heritage along with holiday carols.
This event was co-presented with the Philippine Consulate General Houston.
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A Retrospective Series on America’s War in Vietnam: 50 Years Later
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“Making Sense of the U.S. Secret War in Laos and Its Aftermath” | Chia Youyee Vang
November 21, 2024
Professor Youyee Vang shared her research, examining the ways in which views of the U.S. Secret War in Laos have shifted over time and brought attention to its often-overlooked role in the larger Vietnam War. The talk highlighted how covert military operations in Laos contributed to widespread displacement and had lasting global impacts.
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“T.E.A.C.H.: Memory Work in the Vietnamese Diaspora 50 Years Later” | Thuy Vo Dang
March 25, 2025
This talk explored how Vietnamese refugees and their descendants have used archives and oral history to reclaim their stories and challenge historical erasure. It highlighted the harm caused by mainstream institutions and emphasized the importance of ethical, community-centered approaches to preserving cultural memory.
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“Children of the Ladder: Gerald Ford and the End of the Vietnam War” | Douglas Brinkley
April 9, 2025
The third and final talk in our retrospective series on America’s war in Vietnam showcased our own Douglas Brinkley, from the Department of History, examining the political and economic crises that weakened the presidencies of Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, ultimately contributing to the U.S. withdrawal from South Vietnam. Drawing from his bestselling books, Dr. Brinkley highlighted the resettlement of Vietnamese immigrants in Texas and Louisiana.
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HTX MADE Presents: Andrew Thomas Huang
“Selections from Huang’s Body of Work and Artist Q&A”
June 27, 2025
Selections from Huang's body of work, including FKA twigs’ Cellophane, Björk’s Mutual Core, and his short film Kiss of the Rabbit God were presented. A Q&A followed moderated by co-founder of The Big Queer Picture Show Michael Robinson, and Houston Asian American Archive intern Chi Pham.
This event was co-presented with the Moody Center for the Arts at Rice and The Big Queer Picture Show.
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“Weaving Biomythography into Film Narrative”
June 29, 2025
Huang discussed world-building, creative impulses, and hybrid methodologies followed by a local artist showcase and round table conversation with Chap Edmonson, Bryce Saucier, and Mani Olaniyan.
This event was co-presented with SANMAN Studios.
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Tai Event Series in Cross-Cultural Studies
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“Meiji Modern: Curatorial Perspectives on 19th and Early 20th Century Japanese Art” | Bradley M. Bailey & Chelsea Foxwell
September 10, 2024
Chelsea Foxwell, Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago and Bradley Bailey, curator of Asian Arts in the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, sat together to discuss their co-curated exhibition, Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan, the first major U.S. exhibition of Meiji-era art in decades. The curators described the challenges of presenting this period to contemporary audiences and shared new insights into the artworks and evolving scholarly perspectives.
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Bhagwaan Mahavir Lecture in Jain Studies
“Multispecies Solidarity and Nonviolence in Jain Practices of Unselfing” | Brianne Donaldson
February 19, 2025
Former Chao Center for Asian Studies postdoctoral scholar, now Associate Professor at UC Irvine, Brianne Donaldson explored how Jain philosophy, especially its emphasis on nonviolence and universal sentience, offered a unique perspective on forming solidarity not just with, but as other species. It challenged Western, human-centered ideas of political identity by highlighting Jain practices like rebirth memory and fasting unto death as pathways to deeper multispecies connection and compassion.
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Korean Culture Night
January 26, 2025
Organized by the Korean Student Association (KSA) and Korean International Student Association (KISA), Korean Culture Night featured performances, cultural booths, and activities that gave the Rice community the opportunity to celebrate Korean traditions.
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Conferences
Race in Transnational Asian Studies: with a Focus on Japan and Korea
February 17 & 18, 2025
Organized by Dr. Sonia Ryang, this hybrid conference-workshop examined the ways in which race and racism have been overlooked in Asian Studies, particularly in the contexts of Japan and Korea. Participants explored how historical imperialism, U.S. military presence, and claims of national homogeneity shaped racial dynamics in the region, aiming to introduce new tools for studying race in East Asia.
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Game Changer Award – Community Partner | Presented by Asia Society Texas
October 15, 2024
The Chao Center for Asian Studies was honored to receive Asia Society Texas’ inaugural Game Changer Award in the Community Partner category for our outreach to Asian and Asian American communities. The Game Changer award was introduced to recognize and celebrate trailblazing individuals, institutions, and corporations for their significant impacts on the Houston community.
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Kathleen Canning, Dean of the School of Humanities, and Lisa Balabanlilar, Director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies
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Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA)
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Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits from the Houston Asian American Archive
October 2, 2024
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Robert Ho Family Foundation’s artist-in-residence grant culminated in the event Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits from the Houston Asian American Archive. It was a unique and innovative concert experience that highlighted the importance of HAAA’s oral history work while enabling HAAA to reveal oral histories from a seldom-explored perspective. Founded on HAAA's mission, musical compositions centered on the diasporic experience of Asians of Greater Houston. Three young Houston-based composers — Victor Cui, Ethan Soledad, and Tian Qin researched HAAA's materials and oral history collections, which sparked their inspiration to create musical compositions. Vibrant Voices: Musical Portraits from the Houston Asian American Archive was hosted by Asia Society and performed by Musiqa.
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Vibrant Voices performers receive a standing ovation from the audience.
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“Accessibility and the Power of Storytelling: Houston Asian American Archive’s Oral Histories at Rice University” | Global Education Symposium
November 7, 2024
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Members of the HAAA team (Indre Rapalaviciute, Bryson Jun, and Grace Park) and Woodson Head Archivist Amanda Focke led a breakout session at the Global Education Symposium hosted at Asia Society Texas in partnership with the University of Houston Institute for Global Engagement and the Institute of International Education. They highlighted archival materials as a primary research resource, as well as guided the attendees through their oral history method and practice.
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Fondren Library Woodson Head Archivist Amanda Focke, HAAA interns Grace Park and Bryson Jun, and HAAA Program Administrator Indre Rapalaviciute present to the audience.
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Dr. Anne Chao Honored | Gee Family Association 2025 Chinese New Year and Scholarship Banquet
February 16, 2025
The Gee Family Association and the Gee Family Association Education Fund honored Dr. Anne Chao, co-founder and Program Manager of the Houston Asian American Archive, for her significant contributions to the Houston Gee family through the preservation of their oral histories and physical memorabilia and mementos.
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HAAA Featured on Voice of America | “The Story of Chinese Americans Who Call Texas Home”
March 13, 2025
International broadcaster Voice of America (VOA) presented a story on Chinese Americans in Texas featuring the oral histories and physical archives of the Houston Asian American Archive. VOA is the largest U.S. international broadcaster, providing news and information in nearly 50 languages to an estimated weekly audience of more than 354 million people.
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Rice Asian Diasporic and Asian American Research (RADAAR) Collective
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“Beyond Electoral Politics: The Fight for Immigrant and Reproductive Justice in Texas”
October 28, 2024
This panel event brought together two Houston-based reproductive and immigrant rights activists to discuss how these issues impact Asian American communities in Texas. Organized to engage students ahead of the upcoming election, the event included a reception, student-led moderation, and opportunities for students to connect directly with the speakers.
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Unassimilable Book Launch Event
January 30, 2025
This event featured a reading and conversation with Bianca Mabute-Louie, author and PhD student at Rice, as part of her national book tour for Unassimilable: An Asian Diasporic Manifesto for the 21st Century.
This event was co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology.
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2025 Texas Association for Asian Diaspora Studies Annual Symposium
February 20 - March 1, 2025
This conference brought together scholars, students, and community members from across Texas and beyond. Organized as an inclusive, interdisciplinary space, the two-day event featured panels, a keynote, and a roundtable, with special emphasis on supporting undergraduate and graduate student research; it marked the start of what will become an annual statewide gathering.
This conference was hosted in partnership with Texas A&M and the University of Texas’s Center for Asian American Studies.
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The Motherload: A Vietnamese American Film Screening and Q&A with the Filmmaker
April 15, 2025
RADAAR hosted a screening of The Motherload, a Vietnamese American film, followed by a virtual Q&A with filmmaker Dr. Van Tran Nguyen. Held on the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War, it invited participants to reflect on war, memory, and diasporic identity through the lens of Vietnamese American feminism.
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Transnational Asia: an online interdisciplinary journal
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Special Issue: Orientalism and Asian Studies
Fall 2025
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Nearly fifty years after the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978), its influence on Asian Studies remains both profound and contested. The upcoming special issue of Transnational Asia revisits Said’s foundational work to explore how it continues to shape teaching and learning in Asian Studies classrooms today.
Featuring cross-disciplinary contributions from scholars, this issue asks: How have academic approaches to Asia evolved in light of Orientalism’s critiques? What challenges and transformations have emerged in classrooms and institutions amid shifting global political and economic contexts? Look for the issue’s release later this fall on the journal’s website.
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Department of Transnational Asian Studies
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Transnational Asian Studies at Home and Abroad
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Lunar New Year Lunch
February 6, 2025
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Advanced Undergraduate Research Award (AURA) and Chao Scholars Show & Tell
April 10, 2025
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Rice in Country
Summer 2025
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Equitable, Just, and Inclusive Practices in Language Education
October 11 - 13, 2024
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Hosted by the Center for Languages and Intercultural Communication and co-sponsored by the Department of Transnational Asian Studies, the Humanities Research Center, the Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Literatures and Cultures, the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, Jewish Studies, and the Office of Access and Institutional Excellence, this conference brought together scholars, educators, and students for two days of discussion on equitable, just, and inclusive practices in language education. Featuring keynote speakers, interdisciplinary panels, and student perspectives, the conference highlighted innovative research and teaching practices in second language acquisition amid today’s complex sociopolitical climate.
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Faculty and Staff Achievements
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The Department of Transnational Asian Studies extends our warmest congratulations to our staff and faculty who have been recognized for their contributions this year.
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Congratulations to Susan Huang for her promotion to full professor and for receiving the Center for Career Development’s Career Champion Award for her work in supporting students’ career development.
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Congratulations to Steven W. Lewis on the publication of his and coauthor Brandon Zheng’s extensive Baker Institute working paper, “An Introduction to Images in the China Urban Outdoor Propaganda Image Archive, 1998 to 2019.” This project represents decades of fieldwork capturing urban propaganda images across China, followed by years of archival development in collaboration with Fondren Library.
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Congratulations to Heather Lazare for receiving the 2025 Humanities Shining Star Award. The award recognizes a School of Humanities staff member with a demonstrated commitment to their job and who has made a superlatively positive impact on the School of Humanities and to Rice culture within the past academic year.
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Student and Alumni Achievements
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Congratulations to our 2025 Advanced Undergraduate Research Award (AURA) recipients, David Lee (‘25) and Michelle Moya Aceves (‘25). Lee completed a summer internship with the U.S. House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party and Aceves researched the use of artificial intelligence in K-pop.
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Congratulations to our 2025 HAAA Outstanding Award recipients, Grace Park (‘26) and Hannah Son (‘25).
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Congratulations to the graduates who received a certificate in an Asian language. Charlotte Henley (‘25), Spencer Kresie (‘25), and Mohammad Khuroo (‘24) received a Certificate in Arabic, Alessia Gangone (‘25), Danika Li (‘25), Lily Remington (‘25), and Owen Silberg (‘25) received a Certificate in Chinese, Emma Codianne (‘25) received a Certificate in Japanese, and Sophia Govea (‘25) and Maya Habraken (‘25) received a Certificate in Korean.
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Congratulations to Maya Habraken (‘25) for receiving a Fulbright Scholarship to pursue her master’s degree in Korean studies at Yonsei University’s Graduate School of International Studies.
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Congratulations to Arabic student Charlotte Heeley (‘25) for earning a Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Oman.
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Congratulations to Arabic student Connor Nguyen (‘26), Japanese student Luiz Fernandes (‘27), and Korean students Kaitlyn Kim (‘26) and Marco Tan (‘27) for receiving Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarships.
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Congratulations to Arabic student Connor Nguyen (‘26), Japanese student Luiz Fernandes (‘27), and Korean students Kaitlyn Kim (‘26) and Marco Tan (‘27) for receiving Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarships.
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Congratulations to Bryson Jun (‘25), winner of the 2025 Elizabeth A. Pyke Prize. With the support of the prize, he will travel to Japan to attend the 80th anniversary Peace Memorial Ceremony commemorating the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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Congratulations to PhD candidate in English, Karen Siu, the inaugural recipient of the HAAA 2025 Junior Scholar Award. Karen will use the materials from HAAA’s collection on Vietnamese Americans to develop a unit of her course on Vietnamese American oral histories and storytelling in Houston.
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Faculty and Staff Appointments
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Sourav Chatterjee (PhD, Columbia University, 2024), whose research interests include South Asian literary and visual cultures, postcolonial theory, graphic narratives, cultural studies, multimodal theory, and the history of print and emprie, joins us from Columbia University as Assistant Professor. He will teach ASIA 222: The World and South Asia and ASIA 358: Film and Society in South Asia this fall.
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Sidney X. Lu was appointed the Department’s Director of Undergraduate Studies this summer.
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Hossam Elsherbiny was appointed the Department’s Director of Language Instruction this summer.
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Draha Brejchova joined our team in the Spring as our Program Administrator for both the Department of Transnational Asian Studies and the Chao Center for Asian Studies.
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Funding for Faculty and Researchers
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Thanks to a generous gift from the T.T. and W.F. Chao Foundation, the Chao Center is pleased to offer competitive funding support towards the Asia-related academic and intellectual endeavors of Rice faculty and researchers. A broad range of proposals may qualify for funding. All full-time faculty, PhD students, postdoctoral and research fellows, lecturers, and other academic personnel are eligible to apply.
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Small Grants (Up to $5,000)
Small grants should represent a unique opportunity or event and not be used to support an on-going class or repeated program.
Learn More and Apply →
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Large Grants ($5,000 - $10,000)
The Chao Center for Asian Studies awards competitive grants that are intended to develop innovative models for conducting research on or about Transnational Asia or to ask new questions within existing models.
Learn More and Apply →
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Funding for Students of Transnational Asian Studies
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Thanks to a generous gift from the T.T. and W.F. Chao Foundation, the Chao Center for Asian Studies is pleased to offer competitive funding support towards the Asia-related academic and intellectual endeavors of students in the Department of Transnational Asian Studies. These fellowships are awarded with the goal of facilitating the initiation, completion, or development of either individual or collaborative research projects. A broad range of proposals may qualify for funding.
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Chao Scholars Research Funding
Competitive grants are available only to majors in Transnational Asian Studies. Proposals are evaluated by the Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Transnational Asian Studies, in collaboration with the faculty of the department.
Learn More and Apply →
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Advanced Undergraduate Research Award (AURA)
Through the generous support of the Gee Family Association, the Chao Center supports Asian Studies majors and minors to pursue interdisciplinary academic research, internship or pre-professional work experience, cultural study opportunities, and community service projects.
Learn More and Apply →
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Funding for Students of Asian Languages
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The Chao Center for Asian Studies is pleased to announce new funding for Asian Studies majors enrolled in Rice in Country programs. Additional details regarding eligibility and application procedures will be made available mid-semester on the Department of Transnational Asian Studies website. Check there for updates and take advantage of this exciting new opportunity!
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