Asian Studies

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Walking the Suffering: Travel Sequence as Path to Enlightenment in Onnamonogurui Plays” at the European Association for Japanese Studies

Posted by adl245 on October 5, 2023

Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and the Comparative Study of Religions Dr. Dunja Jelesijevic recently presented the paper “Walking the Suffering: Travel Sequence as Path to Enlightenment in Onnamonogurui Plays” at the European Association for Japanese Studies in August. Her paper analyzed michiyuki – travel sequences – in two “mad women” Noh plays arguing that depictions of travel and landscapes create symbolic language which articulates the protagonists’ frantic wandering as a… Read more

Congratulations to CCS student Randell York on receiving the prestigious Boren scholarship to fund his year-long study in Taiwan!

Posted by adl245 on July 30, 2023

Congratulations to CCS student Randell York on receiving the prestigious Boren scholarship to fund his year-long study in Taiwan! He is an Accounting and Comparative Cultural Studies (Asian Studies) double major with a minor in Mandarin. He was recently featured in The NAU Review-check out the story!

This image repeats the long description and depicts Randell and an image of the landscape in Taiwan.

CCS End of Year Celebration!

Posted by adl245 on May 12, 2023

CCS celebrated our spring 2023 Outstanding Senior Katherine Leddy, our scholarship winners Joce Dolezal (Lakeview United Methodist Scholarship), Kieran McKinney (Lakeview United Methodist Scholarship), and Morgan Wood (Lois Kellogg Duncan Scholarship and the Gary Kane Study Abroad Scholarship), and our junior book prize winners Joce Dolezal (Public Humanities, Lee Wiechmann (Museum Studies), and Mckenzi Monical (Art History) at our end of semester reception on May 11! Learn more about CCS awards and scholarships at Read more

Student News: Congratulations to CCS 2023 scholarship recipient Kieran McKinney

Posted by adl245 on April 29, 2023

Congratulations to CCS undergraduate student Kieran McKinney, who will receive the Lakeview United Methodist Church scholarship offered by the department of Comparative Cultural Studies! Kieran is in the Asian Studies-Integrated Global Program and will graduate with two degrees, one in Asian Studies with a Japanese emphasis and another in Applied Computer Science. Kieran writes “my favorite class so far would definitely have to be ARH 270 Arts of Japan with Dr. Gulacsi” and despite the challenge of two rigorous… Read more

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