 |
|
|
|
|
Awards & Honors
Turrell V. Wylie Memorial Scholarship
for outstanding students in the
Department of Asian Languages and Literature
The Turrell V. Wylie Scholarship was established in
1994 to recognize outstanding students in the Department.
Professor Wylie was for many years Professor of Tibetan
at the
University of Washington and was the first chair of the
Department of Asian Languages
and Literature.
Wylie Scholarship Recipients
- 2008 Lin Deng, Chinese
- 2007 Erin Brightwell, Japanese
- 2006 Stefan Baums, Sanskrit, Buddhist Studies
- 2005 Haeree Park, Chinese, and Ping Wang, Chinese
- 2004 Yukiko Shigeto, Japanese
- 2003 Fusae Ekida, Japanese
- 2002 Mei-huang Lee, Sanskrit, Buddhist Studies
- 2001 Andrew Glass, Sanskrit, Buddhist Studies
- 2000 Valerie Ritter, Hindi
- 1999 Jason Neelis, Sanskrit
- 1998 Christine Marran, Japanese
- 1997 Rachel DiNitto, Japanese
- 1996 Ramiro Casanas, Chinese Linguistics
- 1995 Timothy Lenz, Sanskrit, Hindi
- 1994 Abby Petty, Sanskrit, Buddhist Studies
Henry S. Tatsumi Scholarship
for excellence in the study of Japanese
The Henry S. Tatsumi Scholarship fund was established by Professor and Mrs. Nobutaka Ike in 1983 to support Japanese at the University of Washington. Professor and Mrs. Ike, who both studied Japanese under Professor Tatsumi, established the scholarship to honor his forty years of teaching Japanese at the University of Washington. The first Tatsumi Scholarships were given in 1986.
Henry S. Tatsumi was born in San Francisco in 1896 and received both a B.A. and an M.A. from the Department of Oriental Studies, the predecessor of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature, at the University of Washington. He began teaching Japanese as an undergraduate teaching fellow in 1927, joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 1939, and retired from the University in 1967. |
 |
Tatsumi Scholarship Recipients
- 2008 Kei Hiyaki; Raeanna Kaylin Pierce Mason
- 2007 Lindsey Dewitt; Brian Garcia
- 2006 Kathryn E. Illback
- 2005 Erika Ahlstrom, Kristi Govella, Katharine Klise, Kevin Southard
- 2004 Matthew Keyes; Christine Priyatna; Jeremy Yellen
- 2003 Ming-hsuan (Mandy) Wang; Nina Uchida; Erin
Brightwell
- 2002 Jennifer Barrick; Brian P. Walsh
- 2001 Scott Richard Blow; Zachary Huntting; Chien-hsin
Tsai
- 2000 Jermain Ma; Elijah Zupanic; Scot Ritchy
- 1999 Faith Ashizawa; Curtis Strong; Brenda Dieck
- 1998 Jennifer E. Hall; Christian Ratcliff; Michael
O'Keefe
- 1997 Jonathan Perkins; Ryan Morris; Heeson Pyon
- 1996 Stanley D. Crow; Joseph Heitzeberg
- 1995 Stephen Snyder; Stacy Holmes; Rebecca Morley
- 1994 Scott Dinwiddie; Fran Fuller; Margaret Nakayama
- 1993 Adam Goff; Dan Charlson
- 1992 Richard Hoge; Martin Koessel; Rachel Seymour
- 1991 Yukiko Sato; Christopher J. Smith
- 1990 Michelle Wing; Laura Hess
- 1989 Stefanie Rush; Daniel Hsieh
- 1988 Ted Woolsey; Paul Vosti
- 1987 Lucy Bottemiller; Jeffrey Lawrence
- 1986 Cynthia Howe; Richard Simmons
The Scott H. Swaner Memorial Book Award
This award, which recognizes excellent students within the Department, was renamed in 2007 to memorialize Scott Swaner, who taught Korean poetry and aesthetic theory in the Department from 2003 until 2006.
Scott H. Swaner was born in California in 1968 and studied at Cornell University before taking his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2003. He came to the University of Washington as a postdoctorate fellow later that year, and joined the faculty as an assistant professor in 2004. |
 |
- 2008 Kendra Nichole Buchanan
- 2007 Jeffrey Alexander Kyllo
- 2006 Elizabeth Marie Thelen
- 2003-5 No award given
- 2002 Ping Wang; Miguella Milluzzo
- 2001 Fusae Ekida; Dung Dinh Truong
- 2000 David Brick
- 1999 Anders Sandell
- 1998 Kumar Bodana
- 1997 David Smith
- 1996 Karen Ballard
- 1995 Charles Cox
- 1994 Mary Dyczewski
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award
The Asian L&L Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award was established in 2003 to recognize the vital role and important contributions of student teaching assistants. The award is open to any TA teaching in the department regardless of home department. Awards are given for excellence in teaching and are based on nominations by students and supervisors.
Distinguished Teaching Assistant Award Recipients
- 2008 Jon Patrick Holt (Japanese); Jessica Ann Likens (Korean); Chia-ying Shih (Chinese)
- 2007 Tae-Youn Ahn (Korean); Koji Tanno (Japanese); Jie Wu (Chinese)
- 2006 Hee-Seung Kang (Korean); Yukiko Shigeto (Japanese); Li Yang (Chinese)
- 2005 Chi-fa (Suyong) Pak (Japanese); Ying Ren (Chinese); Sun-hee Yoon (Korean)
- 2004 Christopher John Dakin (Chinese); Fusae Ekida (Japanese); Prem Pahlajrai (Hindi)
- 2003 Sachi Schmidt-Hori (Japanese); Moon-jin Choi (Korean); Jung-im Chang (Chinese)
Yen Fu Translation Prize
This annual prize established in 2006 is named in honor
of Yen Fu (1853–1921), one of China’s greatest translators
and modern thinkers. He was the grandfather of Professor
Isabella Yen (1912–1991), who taught Chinese in the Department
of Asian Languages and Literature from 1960 to 1980.
Professor Yen and her husband Dr. Shu-Koo Kao established
this endowment in 1991.
Yen Fu Translation Prize Recipients
- 2008 Frances Chi-Chuan Li; Mark Gerald Pitner
- 2007 Ed Lien; Jeffrey Alexander Kyllo
- 2006 David Stone; Nicholas Williams
|
|
|
|
