Eleven international journalists have been named Nieman Fellows for the 1997-98 academic year. They will join 12 American journalists whose names were announced earlier in May to make up the 60th class of Nieman Fellows.

Established in 1938 through a bequest of Agnes Wahl Nieman in memory of her husband, Lucius, founder and publisher of The Milwaukee Journal, the Nieman Fellowships are the oldest midcareer fellowships for journalists in the world.

They are awarded to working journalists of particular accomplishment and promise for an academic year of study in any part of Harvard. Since 1951-52, 293 journalists from 66 foreign countries have studied as Nieman Fellows.

The international journalists in the new Nieman class and their areas of interest are:

Charlotte Bauer, 37, assistant to the editor, Sunday Times, Johannesburg, South Africa. She will study popular culture in the Third World, the history of modern art, and classical literature. Her fellowship is supported by the United States-South Africa Leadership Development Program.

Nam-Chin Heo, 45, political editor, The Joong-ang Ilbo, Seoul, Korea. He will compare methods of political and social conflict resolution in Korea and in the United States. His fellowship is supported by The Asia Foundation and The Sungkok Journalism Foundation.

Yin Hui, 33, producer, journalist and writer, China Central Television, Beijing. She plans to study communications theory, feminist thought, and environmental issues. She is the recipient of the 1997-98 Chiba-Nieman Fellowship in memory of Japanese journalist Atsuko Chiba, late columnist for the Yomiuri Shimbun and Nieman Fellow '68. Funding is provided by The Atsuko Chiba Foundation Inc.

Françoise Lazare, 31, staff reporter, Le Monde, Paris, France. She plans to study, from an economics viewpoint, geography, the structure and role of the state, and demography.

Marcelo Leite, 39, special reporter, Folha de S.Paulo, Brazil. He will take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of sustainable development in the Brazilian Amazon. As the 1997-98 Knight Latin American Fellow, his fellowship is supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Jim Meek, 46, editorial writer and columnist, The Chronicle-Herald, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He plans to examine, retrospectively, an election campaign and its coverage, and how literary texts fit into their historical era. He is the 1997-98 recipient of the Martin Wise Goodman Canadian Nieman Fellowship created by U.S. and Canadian friends in memory of the late president of The Toronto Star and Nieman Fellow '62.

Seda Poumpianskaia, 32, freelance journalist, Moscow, Russia. She will focus on present-day Russian culture, its changes and its place in the modern world, and will also study ethics. Her fellowship is supported, in part, by The Freedom Forum.

Carlos Puig, 33, information editor, Proceso, Mexico City. He plans to study economics, American contemporary history, and the U.S. political system.

Tatiana Repkova, 38, freelance journalist, Center for Independent Journalism, Bratislava, Slovakia. She will study media business, management, communications, economics, political science, international relations, and European history. Her fellowship is supported, in part, by The Henry Brandon Memorial Fellowships and The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Kathryn Strachan, 32, health writer, Business Day, Johannesburg, South Africa, and Health Systems Trust. She will study how various countries formulate health policies and the way in which health reforms filter down to the community level, and will also study modern literature, film criticism and theory, and philosophy. She is supported by the 1996 Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Health Journalism.

Chen Xiaoping, 35, former correspondent for the short-lived Economics Weekly, Beijing, and has worked in the offices of The New York Times. He will focus on press freedom and press reforms in China.