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Spring 2024 ASCL Honors Theses

  • Arturo Korean Studies

    Arturo Serrano Borrero '24, with Chair Ed Miller and thesis advisors Sunglim Kim and Soyoung Suh. He won the ASCL Prize in Korean Studies

  • Wing Tsit Chan Prize

    The winner of the Wing Tsit Chan Prize for the outstanding thesis this year, Sri Sathvik Rayala '24, with thesis advisor Reiko Ohnuma and Doug Haynes. He also won the Douglas E. Haynes Prize in South Asian Studies

ASCL had four honors theses completed this year, including one for a special major under the supervision of ASCL. The honors thesis presentation event on May 14, 2024 was well attended by faculty, students, and friends of the students completing the theses. The theses were on a wide range of topics and demonstrated impressive scholarship and original research, which made it difficult to decide which to select for the Wing-Tsit Chan Prize for the outstanding honors thesis. This year, that prize went to Sathvik Rayala '24. The full listing of theses is below.

Sri Sathvik Rayala
Faculty Advisor: Reiko Ohnuma
A Vision Etched in Copper: A Medieval Tĕlugu Poet's Subversion of Hereditary Social Hierarchies

Alexander Munson
Faculty Advisor: Allen Hockley
(Re)politicizing Shinto: the State of Religion in Contemporary Japan

Arturo Serrano Borrero
Faculty Advisors: Sunglim Kim & Soyoung Suh
Historicizing Korean Art in the Northeastern United States: Present Legacies of the American Legation and Missions (1883-1908)

Esme Lee
Faculty Advisor: James Dorsey
"In Love With The World:" Mystery, Wonder, and Translation in Pursuit of the Ineffable 道