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Fabio Rambelli, professor of religious studies, interim chair of EALCS and International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies, said the award was a well-deserved acknowledgment of Ikeuchi’s first-rate scholarship.
“The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies is enormously proud of this accomplishment by one of its faculty members; it is a very meaningful prize, one of the most important in the field of anthropology of East Asia,” he said.
“This prestigious achievement is a further indication of the vitality and creativity of the research being carried out by my colleagues, which places our department among the top in the nation for the quality and originality of its research output,” he said.