2024 Honors Reception:
Layla Gianna Arty—"The Acquisition of the English Plural Form by Native Japanese Speakers: An Investigation" (Thesis Advisor: Yunchuan Chen)
Clara Harms—"The Road to Rebuilding Trust in Medicine: A Case Study of Levantine Refugees and Immigrants‘ Negative Experiences with the U.S. Healthcare System and Subsequent Mistrust" (Thesis Advisor: Mbaye Lo)
Mac Hester—"Existing among Ambiguity: Understanding the Grammars of Korean-Chinese Bilinguals Through Scope Assignment in Quantifier-Negation Sentences" (Thesis Advisor: Yunchuan Chen)
Andrew Shi—"Telling “Queer Time” in the Age of Empire: Transcolonial Modernism across the May Fourth China and Late Colonial Taiwan" (Thesis Advisor: Carlos Rojas)
Isadora Toledo— "Migrants, Maids, and Slaves: Tracing the Activist and Counter Discourses of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong" (Thesis Advisor: Carlos Rojas)
2023 honors student: Leah Okamura
“Scope of Negation and Conjugation in Heritage Japanese” (Thesis advisor: Yunchuan Chen)
2022 Honors Reception:
1.Nora Benmamoun—“How Does Increasing Chinese Involvement in Algeria and Morocco Impact Public Perception Towards China? An Analysis of How History and Contemporary Relations With The U.S., Europe, and China Informs How Algerians and Moroccans Perceive China ” (Thesis advisor: Kang Liu)
2.Soren Christensen—“Style Shifts in Japanese Video Game Commentary Monologues” (Thesis advisor: Yunchuan Chen)
3.Raia Lockerman—“#WhenISeeThemISeeUs: Conceptualizing Black Power's Palestine” (Thesis advisor: Ellen McLarney)
4.Jennifer Shen—“Simplified Grammar in Both Languages? On Scope Assignment in Q-Neg Sentences in Eng-Dominant Heritage CHN Speakers” (Thesis advisor: Yunchuan Chen)