CAS Celebrates our Graduates and Student and Faculty Achievement
Asian Studies Major
Madchen CraigÌý
Vitalina Lagutkina Second Major: International Affairs; Minors: Geography and EconomicsÌý
Lucas Lowenfish Minors: Philosophy and Chinese
Zachary Katsuleres Additional Majors: International Affairs, Political Science, and Japanese Language and Civilizations
Asian Studies Minor
Abigail Ellis Major: History
Jeff Heiges Major: Mathematics
Sophia Mix Major: Psychology
Alex Rodrigue Majors: History and Chinese Language and Civilization
Graduate Certificate in Asian Studies
Aaron Bhatoya Ph.D. History
Christy Go Ph.D. Ethnomusicology
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships
Graduate Student Fellows
Aaron Bhatoya* Hindi; History
Vincent Burnett# Japanese; ALC
Callysta Caraballo# Chinese; Linguistics
Edward Hayward*# Japanese; Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies
Lillith Jackson# Chinese; ALC
Kelly Kroeger# Uzbek; History 
Sarah Maronick*# Chinese; Linguistics
Jessica Misiorek# Japanese; Anthropology
Stephanie Oh* Korean; ALC
Casey Ringer* Japanese; History
Emily Swertfeger*# Arabic; History
Undergraduate Fellows
Axel Castillo-Armenta# Japanese; Computer Science
Amy Fink (MSU)# Japanese; Linguistics
Marion Furukawa# Chinese; IAFS
Michael Kakkar# Chinese; Business
Jason Nam# â¶Ä‚â¶Ä‚Japanese; International Affairs  â¶Ä‚â¶Ä‚
Ryan Zhang# Chinese; Economics
Japanese Studies Scholarship Fellows *
Vincent Burnett Asian Languages and Civilizations
Brandon Edwards Asian Languages and Civilizations
Haruka Fujii Asian Languages and Civilizations
Bergen Grant Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ubochi Igbokwe M³Ü²õ¾±³¦
Lillith Jackson Asian Languages and Civilizations
Jessica Misiorek Anthropology
Xuanyu Piao Asian Languages and Civilizations
Casey Ringer History
Nyla Schaberg Asian Languages and Civilizations
Juliana Valverde Asian Languages and Civilizations
Taoxuan ÌýXu Asian Languages and Civilizations
Ayako ÌýYamaguchi Asian Languages and Civilizations
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant *
Alifia MociÌýMaritta Indonesian Language Instruction
Asian Studies Faculty Course Development Grants #
Stephanie Choi College of Music
Dan Hirshberg Asian Studies
Miriam Kadia Kingsburg History
Cody Walizer College of Communication, Media, Design and Information
Cultures and Languages Across the Curriculum Course Development Grants #
Lauren Collins Asian Studies
Runqing Qi Asian Languages and Civilizations
- Academic Year 2025-26Ìý ÌýÌý# Summer 2026