Avery Fair ’22

Michelle Mecham ’22

Congratulations to senior Asian Studies majors Avery Fair ’22 and Michelle Mecham ’22, whose paper proposals recently were accepted for presentation at the 61st Annual Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SECAAS) in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as at the 2022 Annual Conference of ASIANetwork in Geneva, New York!  ASIANetwork is a consortium of over 160 North American colleges (including Berea College) that strives to strengthen the role of Asian Studies within the framework of liberal arts education. Both Avery and Michelle will be sharing their senior research – Avery’s on traditional houses in China’s Yunnan province, Michelle’s on Japanese popular culture and environmental spirituality – at these conferences, which attract scholars and students from all over the United States and Canada.  Avery and Michelle are the only undergraduate students whose paper proposals were accepted by SECAAS this year.  Their research was supervised by Dr. Jeff Richey and they will be mentored at the conferences by Dr. Richey and Dr. Jianfen Wang.