RIJS People

Graduate Students: G-K

W. David GARRAHAN, Jr. (RSEA) garrahan@fas.harvard.edu
Will, a RSEA student focusing on pre-1600 Japan, is currently on leave while studying at the University of Tokyo on a Ministry of Education grant. He received his A.B. in history with honors from Cornell University in 2001, where he specialized in court-clergy economic exchange in the middle Heian period. After leaving Cornell he traveled abroad in East and Southeast Asia (by way of Japan) before coming to Harvard in the Fall of 2003. Will's focus is Nara and Heian history, especially the development of the Northern Fujiwara regency and its relationship with, and superintendence of, the cycle of court ritual (nenjuu gyouji). His current project is a case study of Ategawa no shou, an early mediaeval estate that belong to Mt. Kouya.

Sarah KASHANI (Anthropology) kashani@fas.harvard.edu
Sarah is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology.  After attending Canadian Academy for twelve years in Kobe, Japan, she received her B.A. in History and Economics from Brandeis University in 2002 and an A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard in 2005.  She has also worked at the Graduate School of International Studies at Korea University in Seoul as a lecturer before returning to Harvard to enter the Ph.D. program. Her research interests include Japanese-Korean postcolonial relations, transnational identity, popular culture,and ethnic entrepreneurship and business practices in Japan.

Hyojin KIM (Anthropology) kim59@fas.harvard.edu
Hyojin is Ph.D. candidate in Department of Anthropology, working with Prof. Theodore Bestor. She gained BA and MA from the Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University. Raised as a fan of Japanese popular culture, her interest in Japan is quite ranges from the meaning of tradition in Japanese society to Japanese popular culture. She is currently doing her fieldwork in Nishijin, Kyoto, focusing on Kyomachiya (Kyoto-style old wooden house) revitalization movements after 1990's.

Jiyul KIM (HEAL) jiyulkim@fas.harvard.edu
Jiyul, a soldier in the US Army with over 23 years of service, passed his HEAL Generals Exam in May 2004 after studying Korean, Japanese and Cold War history with Profs. Kim Sun-joo, Eckert, Gordon, and May. He began teaching at the US Army War College in the summer of 2004 in the Department of National Security & Strategy. In January 2005 he will conduct dissertation research in Korea under a Fulbright grant for 8 months. He was at Harvard in 1990-91 for the RSEA degree and studied Japanese at the Defense Language Institute as well as at the US State Department Japanese language school in Yokohama. His research interest is the social, cultural and ideological dimensions of the Cold War in Asia.