August 28, 2015
Kati Fitzgerald awarded the Jonathan T.Y. Yeh Award
A huge congratulations goes out to Kati Fitzgerald for being the recepient of the 2015 Jonathan T.Y. Yeh Award for Student Scholarship in Asian American Folklore. She received this award for her work, "Nangsa Ohbum and Lama Shakya Gyaltsen as Manifestations of Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi". The Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of the American Folklore Society praised Kati's paper as exploring Tibetan arts "through a lens that combines language scholarship, folklore studies, and performance studies." Again, congratulations Kati!