Congratulations to Dr. Wenyuan Shao, who has just defended her dissertation, Unheard Voices and Alternative Pasts: Deciphering Chronicles of Southwest Yi and Its Layered Ranges of Signification in the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, with Mark Bender as chair and Patricia Sieber and Dorry Noyes as committee members. Wenyuan developed and demonstrated a productive fourfold method for interpreting an encyclopaedic compendium of historical and ritual texts drawn from an at least millennium-long literary and oral tradition. 

Well done, Wenyuan!