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What impact can study abroad have on the rest of your time at Yale? Many Light Fellows return to Yale from overseas with research and senior thesis ideas focusing on East Asia. Below are some recent examples of how Light Fellows routinely turn their study abroad experiences into academic and career success stories.
| Name (Class Year) | Dissertation/Senior Essay Topic |
|---|---|
| Edward COLUMBIA '18 | Sunrise (日出): A Contemporary English Translation of Cao Yu's 1935 Drama |
| Charlotte COTTER '18 | Alternative Marriage Practices of Wartime Urban China in Discourse and Practice (1937-1949) |
| Meredith DERECHO '18 | China’s Newest Emperor?: Putting Xi Jinping’s Use of the Lunyu in Context |
| Jacob FABER '18 | The Method of No Method: Re-Contextualizing Shitao’s Later Compositions in a Zhuangzian Framework |
| Josh FENG '18 | Bite-Sized Culture: Culinary Performance, Urban Space, and Constructions of Novelty in Taipei's Tonghua (通化) Night Market |
| Cameron FERGUSON '18 | Illusions of Meritocracy: How China’s Gaokao System Perpetuates Geographical Inequality and Preserves Power |
| Alexandra KELLY '18 | Article 23 and the Legacy of “Reactionary Protest” in Hong Kong |
| Alexandra LOMBARDO '18 | Contradictions of ‘China in Africa:’ The CCP Narrative and Lived Reality in Kampala |
| William MAGLIOCCO '18 | “The Merits for Setting Them Free”: Knowledge and Freedom in Guo Xiang’s Zhuangzi |
| Alexander POORVU '18 | The Use of Traditional Materials in Contemporary Chinese Art |
| Andrew WEISS '18 | Towards a Beautiful Japan: Right-Wing Religious Nationalism in Japan's LDP |
| Max GOLDBERG '17 | Enclave of Ingenuity: The Plan and Promise of the Beijing Intellectual Property Court |
| Ryan HINTZMAN '17 | Chinese Wines and Foreign Urns: Making Objects of Lyric |
| Claire WILLIAMSON '17 | A Coffee-Scented Space: Historical, Cultural, and Social Impacts of the Japanese Kissaten |
| Frances CHAN '16 | How Liberal Korean and Taiwanese Textbooks Portray their Countries’ “Economic Miracles” |
| John D'Amico '16 | Dōtonbori and Merchant Power in Early Modern Ōsaka |
| Mikko SALOVAARA '15 | Microcosms of Empire: Bishu shanzhuang, Yuanmingyuan and Kew Gardens in the 18th Century |
| Alexander DANCU '13 | The Great Leap Forward and Perceptions of Hunger in the Modern Chinese Consciousness |
| Jason DOUGLASS '13 | A Case Study of Mighty Atom: What Does Anime Look and Smell Like? |
| Joshua FULLER '13 | Promoting the Burakumin Movement Abroad: The BLL's Strategic Utilization of English to Foster International Awareness of the Buraku Issue |
| Jason KUO '13 | Cooperation and Paranoia: US Perceptions of Japan in the Early 20th Century |
| Nicholas LOMBARDO '13 | Tea Time in China: An Analysis of Tea's Influence on the Decline of Sinocentrism during the Opium Era |
| Ethan RODRIGUEZ-TORRENT '13 | Perceptions of the Police: Can and Should the United States Learn from China? |
| Brendan ROSS '13 | The Language of Development: Land Grabs and China's Evolving Agrarian Program in Africa |
| Monica TUNG '13 | The Changing Role of the State in Chinese Scientific Research Following Economic Liberalization |
| Jing CAO '10 | Zhang Xiaogang (1958 - ): Cultural Revolutionary from Margin to Center |