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Announcing the Recipients of JPP’s Spring 2025 Project Funding

Japan Past & Present is delighted to announce the recipients of our Spring 2025 Project Funding competition. We received compelling applications from researchers and educators around the world, including many that brought together scholars at different stages in their careers and from a variety of regions, embodying the global vision for the field to which JPP is committed. We congratulate the teams that were selected:

Environmental Humanities as Indigenous Semiotics: An Annotated Translation of Tsushima Yuko’s Jakka Dofuni

口承記号論としての環境人文学：津島裕子「ジャッカドフニ」の翻訳と注釈

  • Margherita Long マゲリータ・ロング, Associate Professor, University of California, Irvine (Team Coordinator)

  • Reiko Abe Auestad レイコ・アベ・オースタッド, Professor Emerita, University of Oslo

  • Davinder Bhowmik ダビンダー・ボーミック, Associate Professor, University of Washington

  • Yukiko Shigeto ユキコ・シゲト, Associate Professor, Whitman College

  • Dennis Washburn デニス・ワッシュバーン, Professor, Dartmouth College

Kusazōshi in Flux: Chains of Adaptation in Text and Image

流動する草双紙―⽂章と挿絵にみる翻案の連鎖

  • Victor Fink ウィクトル・フィンク, Graduate Student, University of Heidelberg (Team Coordinator)

  • Fumiko Kobayashi ⼩林ふみ⼦, Professor, Hōsei University

  • Yoshitaka Yamamoto 山本嘉孝, Assistant Professor, National Institute of Japanese Literature

  • Chencheng Feng 馮辰チェン, Independent

  • Xinqing Fu 付⼼晴, Professor, Graduate Student, Hōsei University

Recipes for Life: The Cultures of Food in Okinawa

命のレシピ ― 沖縄・琉球の食文化

  • Drew Richardson ドリュー・リチャードソン, Lecturer, University of California, Santa Cruz (Team Coordinator)

  • Noriko Aso ノリコ・アソウ, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Alan Christy アラン・クリスティー, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

  • Geneva Samuelson ジェニイバ・サミュエルソン, Student, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Jumble of the Senses: The Language of Food in Contemporary Japan

感覚のごた混ぜ：現代日本における食と言語

  • Katarzyna Cwiertka カタジーナ・チフィエルトカ, Professor, Leiden University (Team Coordinator)

  • Keiko Yoshioka 吉岡慶子, Lecturer, Leiden University

  • Riikka Länsisalmi リイッカ・ランシサルミ, Senior University Lecturer, University of Helsinki

  • Andrea Giolai アンドレア・ジョライ, Lecturer, Leiden University

We are excited to work with these teams over the next several months to develop their project and prepare it for publication on the JPP website, thus facilitating JPP’s mission to foster multilingual collaboration, communication, and scholarship, and disseminate their results to a global audience. Thank you to everyone who applied! Please be sure to subscribe to our news blog and follow us across social media (Twitter, Facebook, & Bluesky)  to receive information about our next Project Funding recruitment cycle.

Michael Emmerich
Director, Japan Past & Present
Director, The Yanai Initiative

Paula R. Curtis
Operations Leader, Japan Past & Present
Academic Administrator, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA

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