John Near and Mitra Scholar Grant Reception Tuesday, April 25, 2023 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Nichols Hall You are cordially invited to join the 2023 Chen Lin Mentors in celebrating and honoring the scholars in this year’s John Near Excellence in History Education Endowment Fund and the Mitra Family Endowment for the Humanities. Refreshments will be served in the Nichols Hall atrium from 4:15-5 p.m. Scholars will present their papers in the Nichols Hall auditorium from 5-6:30 p.m. This event will be livestreamed for those who cannot attend in person. Watch the Livestream John Near Scholars Rahul Mulpuri Caged Songbirds: The Revitalization of Traditional Japanese Music Subculture During Internment Mentors: Jennifer Sandusky and Meredith Cranston Stephen Xia “We Won’t Move”: Grassroots Housing Activism in San Francisco’s Chinatown and Manilatown Mentors: Chris Gatto and Amy Pelman Austina Tianyu Xu “I contain multitudes”: The Modern Making of Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg Mentors: Charles Shuttleworth and Lauri Vaughan Sabrina Zhu “The Conscience of the South”: Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill as an Early Champion of New Journalism in 20th-Century Georgia Mentors: Whitney Huang and Amy Pelman Mitra Family Scholars Emmett Chung New Politics, Old Challenges: Mainstream Responses to the Far-Right in Reunification-Era Germany Mentors: Matt McCorkle and Meredith Cranston Michelle Jin Linguistic Divergence at the 38th Parallel: The Political Evolution of Kim Il-Sung’s Language Reform Campaign Mentors: Bryon Stevens and Lauri Vaughan Alex Lan Curating a Culinary Culture: How Peru’s Gastronomic Revolution Redefined a Nation Mentors: Chuck Witschorik and Meredith Cranston Sarah Fathima Mohammed Eye to I: Panoptic Muslim Surveillance and Warsan Shire’s Poetics of Liberation Mentors: Nicholas Manjoine and Lauri Vaughan Isha Moorjani Languages Live On: The Impact of Indigenous Languages on the Development of Modern Spanish in South America Mentors: Isabel Garcia and Lauri Vaughan Social Media facebook.com/harkerschool instagram.com/harkerschool youtube.com/harkerschool Contact Us 500 Saratoga Ave., San Jose 95129 communications@harker.org Need more spirit wear? Shop the Eagle Store at https://eaglestore.harker.org/ Copyright © The Harker School 2025. All Rights Reserved.