2025 Honors Reception:
Iyesha Belgrave—"Voices of Faith: The Evolving Identity of African American Muslims in Philadelphia" (Thesis Advisor: Mbaye Lo)
Jose Guadalupe Chavez Orozco Jr.—"Reexamining the Interpretation of English Definite Plurals by L1 Spanish and L1 Japanese English Learners: Persistent Transfer Effects from Spanish" (Thesis Advisor: Yunchuan Chen)
Sofía Morales-Calderón—"Systems of Governance and Ethnic Depoliticization: A Comparative Analysis between Russia (1917–2023) and the People’s Republic of China Using an Organizational Theory Framework" (Thesis Advisors: Carlos Rojas, Erdag Göknar, Michael Newcity)
Alistair Simmons—"The AI Race: Competition and Convergence Between China and the United States" (Thesis Advisors: Carlos Rojas, Leo Ching, Fan Liang)
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)