Lacey Bryant, a student of Mary Baldwin University’s Baldwin Online and Adult Programs, has recently distinguished herself in the field of Asian studies under the tutelage of Dr. Daniel A. Metraux, professor emeritus and adjunct professor of Asian studies at the university.

According to a press release, Bryant’s article, “The Women Before Me” will be published in the Virginia Review of Asian Studies and indexed in the nationally respected Asia_studies.com bibliographical system.

“It is a fascinating legacy of your family stretching from shogunal Japan to Germany and the U.S. with a touch of China,” Metraux said in a press release. “You have done a superb job researching and writing your family history — a true example of globalism and immigration.”

“There are four generations of women before me, and I knew none of them, having only met my grandmother in 2012 three years before she died on Christmas Eve 2015,” Bryant said in the press release, summarizing her article. “These women have stories that began in the Edo Period in Japan and continue today with me in America in 2017.”