This page contains honors theses produced by senior Asian Studies majors. For a list of all honors theses since 2011, click here.
Theses from 2025
Royal Guards, The Mixi Sword, and Political Identities: Mongols as Co-Founders of the Ming Dynasty, Gongshi Huang
Theses from 2022
Shanshui Reinterpreted: The Contemporary Art of Xu Bing, Yao Lu, and Yang Yongliang, Anna Landgren
Theses from 2021
“Resolute Support:” Contextualizing Afro-Asian Imagery of the Cultural Revolution through the Lens of Maoist Theory, Owen Greenwood
Medium-bound Horror in the Manga of Itō Junji, Michael A. Lombardi
Authorship Identification of Li Qingzhao’s Anthology: A Computational Approach, Richard Tyler Simmons
Theses from 2018
Revolutionizing Girl: Oppressive Social Structures as Stymieing Adolescent Change In Revolutionary Girl Utena, Garrett T. Anderson
Theses from 2015
Submissively Subversive: Mo Yan's Red Sorghum Clan and its Film Adaptation by Zhang Yimou, David FC Kohler
Theses from 2014
The Ainu Speak of Famine: How Oral Traditions Reflect and Inform Historical Analysis of Changing Food Practices and Trade Relations in Early Modern Period Hokkaido (1603-1868), Joanna Charlotte Moody
Theses from 2012
Japanese Manga and Modern Literary Heroism: Heroes of Action and Inaction in Japanese Comic Books, Brendan Steel Culliton
Defining the Japanese OL Body Through Modern Advice Literature: Text and Images, Kaitlin L. Harrison
Kaleidoscopic and Non-Monolithic Ethnic Tourism in China: A Case-specific Approach to the Examination of its Impacts on Minority Identities, Romina Istratii