Asian Studies Faculty Awards and Appointments for 2008/2009
The Council of Editors of Learned Journals has given its award for the Best Special Issue of a learned journal in 2008 to the issue of positions entitled "war, capital, trauma," edited by Tani Barlow. Professor Barlow is the founding editor of the journal, positions: east asia cultures critique, and director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies.
Hiroko Sato has been elected president of Japanese Teachers Association of Texas for 2007-2009. In this position, she has been able to receive funding from major Japanese corporations and organizations in Texas for JTAT workshops and programs for Japanese Teachers in Texas.
Lily Chen has been named Director of the Institute for Chinese Language Teaching at Rice's School of Continuing Studies.
Jeff Kripal has received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Contemplative Practice Fellowship.
Meng Yeh has been elected president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Texas. In January, 2008, that organization, through her leadership, was awarded a national grant to provide Chinese education programs for Texas students and teachers. It is the first such grant, a STARTALK or "Start Talking" grant, to be awarded in Texas. See the following link for more information: STARTALK
Steven Lewis has been appointed a non-resident Associate Fellow of the national organization of the Asia Society and a member of the editorial board of the journal Asia Policy.
Nanxiu Qian has been project director of the collaborative research project “Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and the Negotiation of Knowledge in Late Qing China,” supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She has recently concluded her presidency of the Association of Chinese and Comparative Literature.
Elora Shehabuddin has been chosen to be a Carnegie Scholar for 2006/2008, Rice’s first and one of only 20 in the United States, receiving support for her research project, “Women at the Muslim Center: Islamist Ideals and Democratic Exigencies.”
Matt Shibatani has been elected a Christensen Fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford University. He will now enjoy lifetime membership of the College. Also, he has been appointed to the advisory committee of the Institute of Linguistics of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan. He was a presenter and panelist at the joint workshop in Taipei on march 3-4, 2008 held by the Rice Linguistics Department and the Graduate Institute of the National Taiwan University as a part of the inaugural event of the signing of a formal academic collaboration agreement. The three panel topics were Cognitive Linguistics, Linguistic Fieldwork, and Interactional Linguistics.
Anne Klein is among 125 scholars world wide included in an invitation-only 5 days of lectures by the Dalai Lama on central philospohical texts of the Indian and Tibetan tradition in New Delhi, March 25-29.
Diana Strassmann’s Feminist Economics ranks second among top women’s studies journals, and twentieth among 175 economics journals.
Gautami Shah has been elected president of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages for 2006/2008.
