On May 11, 2018 Akiko Imamura (Ph.D. Japanese) successfully defended her dissertation, "The interactional organization of Positive coparticipant assessments in Japanese ordinary conversation: Revisiting two conflicting preferences,” (Junko Mori, Advisor).
Akiko is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese in Modern Languages & Literatures at Swarthmore College.
Congratulations!