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2024-2025 Williams Prize Award Winner

Caitlin Hong (Grace Hopper College) was the winner of the 2025 Williams Prize in East Asian Studies. The Council on East Asian Studies had a chance to catch up with Caitlin at graduation, and she kindly answered a few of our questions about her essay.

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From K-Pop to the Classroom: Wonseok Lee’s Journey in Defining Music and Culture

K-pop, short for Korean pop, continues to amass global fascination as it transcends cultural boundaries and blends diverse music genres worldwide. Wonseok Lee, a postdoctoral associate with the Council on East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Music, has brought an examination of the K-pop phenomenon to Yale.

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Asakawa Kan’ichi (1873-1948)

CEAS is Yale’s interdisciplinary hub for the study of all aspects of East Asia and its constituent peoples, cultures, and societies. For over sixty years, its mission has been to support scholarship of the highest level across the humanities and social sciences, and to facilitate deeper understanding of the region at Yale and beyond.

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