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Department News
EALC Professor Paul Goldin's Art of Chinese Philosophy is #22 on Library Journal's list of bestsellers in academic philosophy!
Dr. Paul Goldin's Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them, came in at #22 on Library Journal's list of bestsellers in academic philosophy for May 2020-May 2021.2021 EALC Student Prizes!
On the occasion of the 2021 graduation, EALC salutes all our graduating students. And we congratulate our award-winning undergraduate and graduate students for the year! Undergraduate Student PrizesEALC Professor, Dr. Nancy Steinhardt, wins the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award!
Professor Nancy Steinhardt has been named as the winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, established in 1949 to recognize annually the "most distinguished work of scholarship in thPenn Today Recognizes the Work of Dr. Linda Chance and EALC Ph.D. student, Caitlin Adkins!
Penn Today featured an article on two recent EALC events held on March 8, 2021. These events were co-sponsored by the Japanese Language Program and the Center for East Asian Studies, combining a documentary movie screening and panel disProfessor David Spafford in Netflix’s “Age of the Samurai"
Professor David Spafford is part of "an international cast of academicians,” who “deliver a historically substantiated account of the samurai” (WSJ, 1/23, https://tinyurl.com/yncdku6k) in the nTwo Language Faculty Win SAS Grants
Congratulations to both Mien-hwa Chiang and Ye Tian! Both have received SAS Language Grants.
