The Chao Center is currently accepting applications for the T.T. and W.F. Chao Professor of Transnational South Asian Studies, to begin July 1, 2019. More information can be found here.
Asian Studies alumnus Jaymin Kim ('08) joins the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota as an Assistant Professor focusing on East Asian history.
Maria C. Hwang, Henry Luce Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Southeast Asian Studies at the Chao Center, is one of four recipients of the 2018 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award at Brown University.
A new exhibit introducing the Rice community to Jainism, one of the oldest religious traditions of India, is now on display at Fondren Library. “Structures of Striving,” consisting of colorful 24-by-36-inch photos of Jain temples and structures, will be viewable through March 23 in the... Read more
Anne Chao '05, '09 grew up a child of the world. Her father was a career diplomat who moved his family from Taiwan to the Republic of the Congo, Australia and the United States. Young and eager, she learned the languages of those countries - Chinese, French and English - and readily absorbed... Read more
