The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures warmly congratulates Yating Li, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate, on receiving both the 2026–27 HRI Campus Fellowship, themed “Up Against Erasure,” and the 2026 Illinois Global Institute Summer Research Fellowship. Her dissertation project, “Pathologizing the Womb: Medical Knowledge, Women’s Body, and Mirage of Health in...
Jinsub Song, who graduated this summer with his PhD from EALC, won the Percy Buchanan Graduate Prize for the China and Inner Asian Region at the 2024 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs. His paper is titled “The Divergence of Self in the Dasheng Qixin Lun and True Self as A Priori Foundation” and a description of his research is shared below. Jinsub has also...