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Rui Kohiyama (Professor, Department of International Relations, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) is a specialist on the women’s foreign mission movement in North America and female missionaries’ work in Japan from the late 19th – early 20th century. She recently wrote chapters on early history of Ferris University, which was founded in 1870 by a female missionary from the Dutch Reformed Church and later headed by Rutgers alumni. She will talk about the educator, novelist, and translator Wakamatsu Shizuko (1864-1896), the first graduate of Ferris Seminary, as the progeny of RCA/Rutgers efforts in Japan.