Miriam Kingsberg (History) received the 2015 Eugene R. Kayden Book Award and the Provost's Award for Faculty Achievement for her book, Moral Nation: Modern Japan and Narcotics in Global History (UC Press, 2013). The Kayden Award workshop in February 2016 included four outside scholars and several ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ faculty who convened to discuss themes raised in the book.
Ariana Maki (Art and Art History) conducted field research in Bhutan in summer 2015 with the support of a Collaborative International Research Grant awarded by the American Academy of Religion. The project, Historical Artists of Bhutan, is a research project in partnership with Dr. Yonten Dargye of the National Library and Archives of Bhutan.
Suranjan Ganguly (Film Studies) published The Films of Adoor Gopalakrishnan: A Cinema of Emancipation (Anthem Press, UK) in May 2015.
Liora R. Halperin published her first book, Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948 Â (Yale University Press, 2015), for which she won the Shapiro Award for best book from the Association for ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Studies. Halperin was appointed to the new Endowed Professorship in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥/Palestine Studies in fall 2015, created by an anonymous donation to the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Program in Jewish Studies.
Photos from Ariana Maki's field research:
   
   
      
   
   
   
   
   
   
