PhD Student

Biography

Rebecca Stover is is a PhD student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She is interested in the visual and material culture of Japanese Buddhism. 

Research Interests

Buddhism 

Material and Print Culture

Japan 

Academic Librarianship

Education

B.A in Religion, Carleton College, 2018

M.A History, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

M.S Library and Information Science University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Grants

Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellow, Japanese, 2021-2022

Illinois Global Institute (IGI) Fellow, Japanese, 2023-2024

John ‘Bud’ Velde Graduate Fellow, Rare Books and Manuscript Library, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Highlighted Publications

Stover, Rebecca A. (2023) "A Guide to Secondary Scholarship for Pure Land Buddhism using Japanese Periodicals," Journal of East Asian Libraries: Vol. 2023: No. 176, Article 3. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jeal/vol2023/iss176/3