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East Asia Faculty Join Fall Semester at Sea Program
Two East Asia Center faculty will be embarking on UVA's Fall 2008 Semester at Sea. Professor Leonard Schoppa (Politics) and Professor Paul Groner (Religious Studies) will teach courses while sailing around the world. The voyage, which has been themed "China —Then and Now. How is China Reshaping the World as It Returns to a Position of Prominence?", will visit several East Asian destinations, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Kobe and Yokohama. Professor Anne Kinney (Chinese) will be spending the Spring 2009 semester at sea.
UVA welcomes New Professor of Japanese History
Professor Federico Marcon will be joining UVa and the East Asia Center this semester as the History department’s new professor of Japanese History. Professor Marcon began studying Japanese language and culture at the Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy, where he graduated in 1998 with a thesis on Motoori Norinaga's theory of knowledge after one year of research at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He then spent an additional year and a half at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies as a Japanese Ministry of Education Graduate Research Fellow. In 2001 he entered the graduate program of Columbia University, where he earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in the History – East Asia Program in May 2007, after a 14-month research period at Waseda University with a Japan Foundation fellowship. He joins us after a year as a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard’s Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.
New Dean of Arts and Sciences
Meredith Jung-En Woo has become dean of the University of Virginia’s College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. Read the full story at A&S Online.
New Vice Provost for International Affairs
Gowher Rizvi, an internationally renowned political scientist and current director of the Ash Institute for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, has been appointed vice provost for international programs at the University of Virginia. Read the full story at UVaToday
Japan Foundation Grant
By Leonard Schoppa
The Japan Foundation has awarded the University of Virginia a three-year grant totaling $150,000 that will be used to expand the Japanese Studies faculty at the University of Virginia and enhance library support. The grant was made in the inaugural competition of the Japan Foundation’s new Institutional Project Support Program. The university was one of just four American colleges selected to receive a grant from among 63 applicants.
The grant provides half the salary, for three years, for the university to hire a second faculty member in Japanese History. With the History Department (under chair Duane Osheim) and the new Dean of the College Meredith Woo agreeing to fund the other half of the salary for this position and support the line in perpetuity, the grant allows the university to conduct a search during the coming academic year and bring an additional Japan scholar to the Grounds. This faculty member will join newly-arrived Federico Marcon and give the university’s History Department the ability to train graduate students as these young scholars begin making a mark on the field.
In addition to providing the funds to initiate this hire, the Japan Foundation grant provides $16,000 to the UVA Library to make acquisitions of books and other materials related to the teaching and research interests of Prof. Marcon and the new hire in History. Library support is essential to make sure these scholars can do their work and begin building a collection of documents and resources critical to their studies.
A final $8,000 from the grant will go toward library support for another new hire in Japanese Studies. According to the plan outlined in the grant proposal, the University will hire a new scholar in Japanese film/media in 2009-2010. This hire, in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, is part of the effort to strengthen this department and prepare it to begin offering masters degrees.
The East Asia Center Newsletter appeared quarterly, until we transitioned to the current web-based news dissemination in 2004. The following archive contains webpage (html) versions of newsletters from the Spring of 1997 until April 2001, and print-quality (pdf) versions of newsletters from September 2001 to Fall 2004.
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