Asian studies centers, institutes announce grant recipients

The Harvard Asia Center, the Harvard China Fund, the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, the Korea Institute, the Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative are pleased to announce the recipients of student grants for summer 2009 and academic year 2009-2010.

ASIA CENTER UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS & FUNG SCHOLARSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN CHINA (ASIA CENTER & OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS)

Mette Andersen ’11, Chemistry & Physics, Impact assessment of microfinance in northern India

Svyatoslav Andriyishen ’10, History, Senior thesis research on the Silk Road, China

Roger Batt ’10, HAA and Neurobiology, Research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan

Stella Barth ’10, Neurobiology, Research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan

Kelly Brock ’11, Engineering Sciences, Research at the RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI) in Japan in Japan

Tristan Brown ’10, NELC, History of the Arabic language among the Muslims of Northwest China

Mihir Chaudhary ’12, Microfinance in India

Gabriel Daly ’10, Social Studies, An examination of the financial sector’s role in shaping the middle class in Mumbai

Alyssa D’Gama ’11, MCB, Research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan

Kelly Diep ’10, History and Science, The Barefoot Doctors of China and the WHO: Influence of the Barefoot Doctors on Global Health Policy

Chen Ding ’10, History, Sino-American business relations from 1986 to 2005

Rachel Esplin ’10, EAS, China-WTO affairs

Kyle Haddad-Fonda ’09, History and NELC, Research on the study and teaching of Arabic in China

Tracy Han ’11, Arsenic mitigation in rural Bangladesh

Yi Han ’12, Botanical and sociological study and research in China

Ridhi Kashyap ’10, Social Studies, Modernization, Development and the Changing Nature of Son Preference in India

Yoon Jin Lee ’11, Economics, The Economic Evolution of East Asia: Theory, Policy, and the Market (Confucianism and Women)

Marena Lin ’11, EPS, The impact of science education on social mobility in Indian society

Kevin Liu ’11, Neurobiology, Research at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan

Caroline Merrifield ’10, Social Studies, Organic Farming in China: Agriculture and Environment from the Farmer’s Perspective

Sarah Nam ’11, Environmental Sci. & Public Policy, Climate change and disaster management in Laos

Ami Nash ’10, Sociology, Which organizational factors influence “bottom of the pyramid” corporate strategy success in India?

Nicholas Navarro ’10, Psychology, Addressing conflict in virtual teams with Chinese and United States citizens

Oded Oren ’11, Social Studies, The Vipassana Movement and Indian society

Trisha Pasricha ’11, VES, Production assistant in Hindi film industry

Manisha Pandita ’10, Economics, Assessing the impact of the Maharshtra Employment Guarantee Scheme

Nicole Poteat ’11, Government, Orphanage in Thailand

Suhas Rao ’12, Microhealth in India – An examination of the potential of microfinance to alleviate health issues

Anna Ruman ’10, OEB, Effect of reef disturbance on anemonefish and anemone mutualisms in Malohom Bay, Borneo

Adam Sidman ’10, Engineering Sciences ’10, Documentary film about Chinese engineers

Luke Sperduto ’11, Philosophy, Research on the work of the National Commission of Scheduled Castes in India

Elizabeth Towle ’10, Social Studies, English language pedagogy and how it shapes language ideologies in New Delhi

Sonam Velani ’09, Government, Slum redevelopment strategies in India

Hanjay Wang ’11, MCB, The potential of traditional Chinese medicine as a booster for antiretroviral therapy

Hong Suk Yang ’10, Social Studies, Remembering the Olympics in Seoul and Beijing

Denise Ye ’10, MCB, Research at the RIKEN RCAI in Japan

FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS

Jenny Zhang ’10, Social Studies, Birth Planning in Rural China: Local Perspectives on the One-Child Policy

Weiqi Zhang ’10, Social Studies, Disaggregating State and Society in China’s Environmental Protection Issues – the Case of Nu

Yoon Jin Lee ’11, Economics, The Economic Evolution of East Asia: Theory, Policy, and the Market (Confucianism and Women)

ASIA CENTER UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER LANGUAGE GRANTS AND FUNG SCHOLARSHIPS FOR CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDY (ASIA CENTER & OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS)

Christine An ’10, Literature, Korean Language Study

Svyatoslav Andriyishen ’10, History, Chinese language study

Jane Baldwin ’11, Environmental Science and Public Policy, Chinese language study

Priscilla Bok ’11, History, Chinese language study

Genevieve Carmel ’10, Anthropology, Chinese language study

Yichen Chen ’11, Government, Japanese language study

Justin Chew ’11, Neurobiology, Chinese language study

Aaron Fallon ’11, History and Literature, Chinese language study

Benjamin Gallant ’11, EAS, Chinese language study

Samuel Galler ’12, Social Studies, Chinese language study

Austin Glamser ’12, Japanese language study

Julia Glenn ’11, Linguistics, Chinese language study

Anne Goetz ’11, English, Chinese language study

Vicky Guo ’11, EAS, Chinese language study

Hyo Jung Hong ’12, History, Chinese language study

Jacqueline Li ’11, EAS, Chinese language study

Chioma Madubata ’11, MCB, Japanese language study

Yoon Mun ’12, Psychology, Japanese language study

Siodhbhra Parkin ’10, History, Chinese language study

Dillon Powers ’11, History, Chinese language study

Brandon Silverman ’12, Chemistry, Japanese language study

Robyn Thom ’11, CPB, Chinese language study

FUNG SCHOLARSHIPS FOR INTERNSHIPS AND VOLUNTEER WORK IN CHINA (ASIA CENTER AND OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS)

Andrew Chen ’11, OEB, Heart disease clerkship in Kunming, China

Florence On ’11, Neurobiology, Internship at Global Art Exhibit, raising money through art for children

Sheng Si ’11, Neurobiology, Harvard China Care volunteer internship in a Chinese orphanage

Caterina Yuan ’11, MCB, Traditional Chinese medical practices and contemporary applications

ASIA CENTER GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS

Anjali Adukia, HGSE, Food for Thought: The Impact of Nutrition Schemes on Student Attendance and Academic Achievement

Jade D’alpoim Guedes, Anthropology, A Perspective from the Margins: The Spread and Intensification of Agriculture in the Chengdu Plain

Aryo Danusiry, Anthropology, When the Rebels are in Power: Former Combatants, Reintegration and Social Change in Post-Conflict and Post-Tsunami Aceh

Devon Dear, IAAS, The Kiakhta Customs House Records for Russo-Qing Trade, 1743-1920

Yang Ga, IAAS, Sources for the writing of the Rgyud bzhi

William Hedberg, EALC, Translation and analysis of Chinese fictional commentary in Tokugawa Japan

Jane Hong, History, Redefining America in the World: The End of Asian Exclusion & the Search for Allies in Asia, 1943-1965

Qiulei Hu, EALC, Gender and Gendered Voice in Early Medieval Chinese Poetry

Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi, NELC, Abu’l Fazl: Author of the Akbarian Legend

Kyle Jaros, Government, Provincial interests and foreign policy making in China

Youn-mi Kim, HAA, Eternal Ritual: Relic Crypts of the Chaoyang North Pagoda (1043-1044 CE)

Jie Li, EALC, Phantasmagoric Manchukuo: Films Produced by the Manchuria Motion Picture Association, 1937-1945

Bilal Malik, HGSE, The Secular Modern at an Islamic Seminary: An Ethnography of the Bhera Madrasa, Pakistan

Johan Mathew, History, Crossing Seas, Connecting Histories: Connective Histories from Muscat to Bombay and Back

Allison Miller, Art History/EALC, The Emergence of the Western Han Rock-Cut Mountain Tomb: A New History of the Western Han Burial System

Jeffrey Moser, EALC, Confucian Revivals in the Ritual Implementations of Song China and Post-Heian Japan

Anh-Thu Ngo, Anthropology, Memory and Militarization: Hue in the Vietnamese Social Imaginary

Dinyar Patel, History, Parsis and the Indian Nationalist Movement

Julie Regan, HDS, Research on an early biography of a key woman in Tibetan Buddhism

Wei Ren, HAA, Comparative study between Wimar Vanguards and Chinese modernists in art and aesthetic theory in 1920s and ’30s

Aeri Shin, EALC, The Unbearable Plainness of Being: Wooden Movable Type, Itinerant Printers, Private Libraries and the Rareness of Plain-Jane Keepsake Books in Korea from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century

Benjamin Siegel, History, Betel and Tobacco, Gossip and Ideas: Informal Public Spaces in colonial North India

Claudio Sopranzetti, Anthropology, Melting Relations: Ice Trade and Social Networks in Bangkok’s CBD

Maria Stalford, Anthropology, Gifts, Commodities, Debts: Social Support and the Cost of Chronic Illness in Contemporary Vietnam

Kyoko Takehana, Anthropology, Transforming moralities in Neoliberal Asia: Filial Practices in Late-Socialist Vietnam

Jennifer van der Grinten, RSEA, Early education at five institutions in Kobe, Japan

John Wong, History, Global Positioning: China Trade and the Hong Merchants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Maoliang Ye, HKS, A New Political Economy Perspective on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships in China

Jeremy Yellen, History, Wartime Visions of Order in Southeast Asia: Perceptions in the Philippines of Japn’s Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere

Hsiao-pei Yen, History, Discovering China: Science, Imperialism and Nationalism in the Chinese Frontier

FAIRBANK CENTER FOR CHINESE STUDIES GRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS

Yun-Ru Chen, HLS, The encounter between Imperial Chinese and modern Japanese law

Sheena Chestnut, Government, Rethinking State Security: Ethnic minorities in Chinese Foreign and Domestic Policy

Jade D’alpoim Guedes, Anthropology, A Perspective from the Margins: The Spread and Intensification of Agriculture in the Chengdu Plain

Leif-Eric Easley, Government, Nationalism and Strategic Trust: The Paths of Allies and Potential Rivals in East Asia

Hsuan-Ying Huang, Anthropology, The Future of Disillusionment: Conselling and Psychotherapy in Contemporary Urban China

Macabe Keliher, EALC/History and East Asian Languages, Diversity and Reconciliation in Late Imperial Zhanglin, the Case of the Fire God Parade and the Wind God Temple

Di Yin Lu, History, Selling Civilization in Shanghai: 1942-1976

Allison Miller, Art History/EALC, The Emergence of the Western Han Rock-Cut Mountain Tomb: A New History of the Western Han Burial System

Max Oidtmann, EALC, Archival research in Northwest China

John Paul Sniadecki, Anthropology, Representing a Shifting Reality: the Independent Documentary Movement in Beijing

Maoliang Ye, HKS, A New Political Economy Perspective on Intergovernmental Fiscal Relationships in China

GRADUATE SUMMER LANGUAGES GRANTS (ASIA CENTER, FAIRBANK CENTER, KOREA INSTITUTE, REISCHAUER INSTITUTE)

Nathaniel Adler, RSEA, Korean language study; Yun-Ru Chen, HLS, Japanese language study; Ilsoo David Cho, EALC/History and East Asian Languages, Japanese language study; Hale Eroglu Sager, IAAS, Japanese language study; Kan Har Ye, GSD, Japanese language study; Kuang-chi Hung, History of Science, Japanese language study; Mitcheka Jalali, RSEA, Japanese language study; Natalie Koehle, EALC, Sanskrit language study; Martin Kroher, EALC, Chinese language study; Casey Lee, EALC, Chinese language study; Ian MacCormack, HDS, Tibetan language study; Chiaki Nishijima, Anthropology, Indonesian language study; Julie Regan, HDS, Chinese language study; James Reich, HDS, Sanskrit language study; Victor Seow, EALC, Japanese language study; Vivian She, EALC, Japanese language study; Harpreet Singh, HDS, Panjabi language study; Claudio Sopranzetti, Anthropology, Thai language study; Nicolas Sternsdorff, Anthropology, Japanese language study; Kyoko Takehana, Anthropology, Vietnamese language study; Qiaomei Tang, EALC, Japanese language study; Lina Verchery, HDS, Chinese language study; Graham Webster, RSEA, Chinese language study; and Wen Yu, History, Japanese language study

HARVARD CHINA FUND, 2009 HARVARD CHINA STUDENT INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Andrew Alcorta ’11, Government, Beijing

Pamela Ban ’12, Taiwan

Yi Cai ’11, MCB, Shanghai

Kelly Chang ’11, EAS, Shanghai

Synne Chapman ’11, English and American Lit. and Lang., Hong Kong

Amy Chen ’10, Economics, Beijing

Sylvia Chen ’10, Government, Taiwan

Eunji Chung ’11, Economics, Shanghai

Nicholas Culbertson ’11, EAS, Beijing

Manning Ding ’12, Shenzen

Y. Joy Ding ’11, Computer Science, Shanghai

Whitney Fitts ’12, Shanghai

Kyle Gordon ’11, EAS, Shanghai

Kelly Gu ’10, Economics, Shanghai

Will Guzick ’11, Economics, Beijing

Emily Hsu ’10, Economics, Shanghai

Eve Hu ’09, Biology, Shanghai

Benjamin Kies ’10, Mathematics, Taiwan

Ted Kirby ’09, History, Hong Kong

Jan van der Kuijp ’12, Beijing

Kevin Lin ’11, Economics, Shenzhen

Niamh O’Rourke ’11, EAS, Beijing

Farah Qadar ’10, Government, Shanghai

James Reach ’11, Economics, Shenzhen

Alison Schumer ’11, History, Shanghai

Sarah Sears ’10, Environmental Sci. & Public Policy, Shanghai

Matthew Jacob Setless ’10, History, Beijin

Chelsea Shover ’11, Literature, Hong Kong

Adam Sidman ’10, Engineering Sciences, Hong Kong

Amalie Catherine Thavikulwat ’12, Taiwan

Charles Vanijcharoenkarn ’11, Economics, Beijing

Vidya Viswanathan ’11, Social Studies, Hong Kong

Maeve Wang ’11, Government, Taiwan

Wendy Wenqian Wang ’11, Sociology, Beijing

Tiantong Wen ’11, Economics, Shenzhen

Natalie Wong ’11, History, Taiwan

Shuang (Annie) Yao ’10, Economics, Shanghai

Feifei Yi ’12, Shanghai

Dian Yu ’11, Economics, Beijing

Lisa Mingqin Yu ’11, Economics, Beijing

Robert Yu ’10, Economics, Beijing

Frances Yun ’10, Economics, Beijing

Phillip Zhang ’12, Shanghai

Li Zhou ’12, Beijing

Xin (Ben) Zhou ’10, Economics, Beijing

Korea Institute, 2009 Funding for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

KOREA INSTITUTE SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS — UNDERGRADUATE

Yoon Jin Lee ’11, Economics, “The Economic Evolution of East Asia: Theory, Policy and the Market (Confucianism and Women)”

Hong Suk Yang ’10, Sociology, Thesis Research in Seoul & Beijing: The Remembering of the Olympics

KOREA INSTITUTE SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS — GRADUATE

Jane Hong, History, “Battling Communism at Home and Abroad: The Korean War, Cold War Deportations, and the Korean Diaspora in America”

Youn-Mi Kim, History of Art & Architecture, “Eternal Ritual: Relic Crypts of the Chaoyang North Pagoda (1043-1044CE)”

Aeri Shin, EALC, “The Unbearable Plainness of Being: Wooden Movable Type, Itinerant Printers, Private Libraries and Rareness of Plain-Jane Keepsake Books in Korea from the 18th to the Early 20th Century”

LG YONAM FELLOWSHIP FOR KOREAN LANGUAGE STUDY

Nathaniel Adler, RSEA, Korean Language Study

HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL — KOREA INSTITUTE SCHOLARSHIPS

Salvador Alejo ’10, Mathematics; Jieun Baek ’10, Government; Ja Yoon Uni Choe ’12; Xuezhi Dong ’12; Eason Hahm ’12; Ki Hoon Han ’12; Heejin Hwang ’12; Sanghyeon Park ’12; and James Williamson ’10, Computer Science

TUITION WAIVERS TO SELECT KOREAN UNIVERSITIES AWARDS

Christine Su Yon An ’11, Literature, Sogang University; Jeong Min Jaymin Kim ’12, Yonsei University; Sae-byok Kim, English ’11, EAS, Seoul National University; and Christine Jane Lee ’12, Sogang University

KOREA INSTITUTE SUMMER UNDERGRADUATE INTERNSHIPS IN SEOUL, KOREA

Marino Auffant ’10, History; Andrew Badger, ROK National Assembly; Emily Bruemmer ’19, History, EAS; Anita Joseph ’12; Jee Hyeon Jenny Lee ’10, English, Chosun Ilbo; and Kevin Lee ’12

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, 2009 Grants and Support for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

UNDERGRADUATES

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE ROSOVSKY SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS

Kyle Hecht ’10, Government, “Peace, Protest, and Politics: The Article 9 Movement and Interest Group Advocacy in Japan”

Marie Kodama ’09, Social Studies, “Preparing for Formal War History: Moral Education on World War II in Japanese Elementary Schools”

Yoon Jin Lee ’11, Economics, “The Economic Evolution of East Asia: Theory, Policy, and the Market”

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE SUMMER LANGUAGE GRANTS AND SUPPORT

Blake Allen ’11, Linguistics, Princeton in Ishikawa (PII)

Romeo Alexander ’11, Mathematics, PII

Glenn Bogardus ’12, PII

Yichen Chen ’11, Government, Hokkaido International Foundation (HIF)

Austin Glamser ’12, HIF

Jeremiah Glenn ’11, EAS, HIF

Chioma Madubata ’11, MCB, HIF

Cheryl Morris ’10, EAS, Council on International Educational Exchange

Yoon Mun ’12, PII

Le Van Nguyen ’10, Applied Mathematics, PII

Jessica Qu ’10, Economics, Genki Japanese and Cultural School

Kent Rakip ’11, Computer Science, HIF

Brandon Silverman ’12, PII

Yizi Yang ’12, PII

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE JAPAN SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM

Tomomichi Amano ’12, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (Tokyo)

Peter Bernard ’11, EAS, The Isseido Booksellers (Tokyo)

Shomesh Chaudhuri ’11, Engineering Sciences (SB), RIKEN NanoJapan Program (Osaka)

Chad Cannon ’11, Music, Nakashima Propeller (Okayama)

Sorina Codrea ’12, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo)

Alexander Copulsky ’10, History, Deloitte Tohmatsu Consulting (Tokyo)

Lucas Habte ’11, History and Science, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Tokyo)

Iddoshe Hirpa ’11, HAA, EAS, Temple University (Tokyo)

Nara Lee ’11, Government, University of Tokyo, IMADR (Tokyo)

Yifan Li ’11, Economics, DPJ office of Representative Akihisa Nagashima (Tokyo)

Ada Lio ’11, Economics, Temple University (Tokyo)

Kevin Martinez ’11, History, Japan Local Government Center (Mitoyo-shi, Kagawa-ken, Japan)

Benjamin Michel ’10, Physics, Mathematics, Japan-US Undergraduate Research Exchange Program – IPMU (Tokyo)

Fuyuo Nagayama ’11, Economics, Goldman Sachs Japan (Tokyo)

Adam Nguyen ’12, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) (Tokyo)

Elizabeth Paisner ’12, JETRO (Tokyo)

Patrick Quinn ’10, Computer Science, Semiconductor Portal (Tokyo)

Cameron Spickert ’10, EAS, Tokyo Gas (Tokyo)

Rachel Storch ’10, Folklore and Mythology, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo)

Sadie Ariel Stoddard ’10, EAS, Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry (Tokyo)

Kathleen Tang ’12, Found Nation (Osaka, Tokyo)

Yuhki Yamashita ’11, Computer Science, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles (Sendai)

Wen Si Zhu ’11, Economics, Mizuho Venture Capital (Tokyo)

HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL AT RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSITUTE, WAKO-SHI SAITAMA, JAPAN

Stella Barth ’10, Neurobiology

Roger Batt ’10, HAA, Neurobiology

Alissa D’Gama ’11, MCB

Kevin Liu ’11, Neurobiology

HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL AT RIKEN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ALLERGY AND IMMUNOLOGY, YOKOHAMA, JAPAN

Kelly Brock ’11, Engineering Sciences (SB)

Denise Ye ’10, MCB

HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL AT WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO

Dan Bratter ’12

Alexei Chijoff-Evans ’11, Anthropology

Jennifer Francis ’11, History

Amanda Hu ’10, Neurobiology

Yunan Jin ’12

Gilberto Lopez ’12

Alex Lupsasca ’11, Physics, Mathematics

David Lynch ’12

Catherine Poor ’12

Ewa Sadej ’12

Vi Vu ’11, VES

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE STUDY TRAVEL

Tomomichi Amano ’12, Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)

Lorenzo Bartolucci ’11, Literature, Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP)

Andrea Blankmeyer ’09, Economics, EAS, HCAP

Jessica Caplin ’10, Social Studies, HCAP

John Chen ’12, HPAIR

Alan Chiu ’10, OEB, HCAP

Lin Cong ’09, Physics, Mathematics, Kawamura Fellowship

Chen Ding ’09, History, HPAIR

Scott Gregg ’11, Social Studies, Kawamura Fellowship

Ilyes Kamoun ’10, Economics, HCAP

Lawrence Kuklinski ’10, Neurobiology, HCAP

Yuan Lin ’12, HPAIR

Kevin Martinez ’11, History, HPAIR

Gregory McWilliams ’09, Biology, HCAP

Elizabeth Mead ’10, History and Literature, HCAP

Margaret Muller ’11, HAA, Kawamura Fellowship

Nan Ni ’10, Economics, HCAP

Allegra Richards ’09, English and American Lit. and Lang., HCAP

Samuel Rosenberg ’10, Mathematics, HPAIR

Julia Rozier ’09, Anthropology, HCAP

Rachel Staum ’09, EAS, Japan-America Student Conference

Sonam Velani ’09, Government, HCAP, Science and Technology Leadership Association

Maeve Wang ’09, Government, HCAP

Yi Wei ’10, Social Studies, HCAP

Xinran Yuan ’10, VES, HPAIR

Joyce Zhang ’09, Government, Economics, HCAP

Lucy Zhang ’11, Economics, HPAIR

Xin Zhou ’10, Economics, HPAIR

Yuxuan Zhuang ’09, Economics, HCAP

GRADUATE STUDENTS

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE SUMMER LANGUAGE STUDY GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS

He Bian, History of Science, Inter-University Center (IUC)

Adam Lyons, Religion, HIF

Steffan Rimner, History, HIF

Evan Ingram, EALC, IUC

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE SUPPLEMENTARY DISSERTATION COMPLETION/RESEARCH GRANTS FOR 2009-10

Christopher Callahan, Religion, “Representing Shinran: Kakunyo and the Making of Shinran”

Amy Catalinac, Government, “Japan: Rising or Not? How Electoral Incentives and Domestic Party Politics Influence National Security Policy”

Leif-Eric Easley, Government, “Nationalism and Strategic Trust: The Paths of Allies and Potential Rivals in East Asia”

William Fleming, EALC, “The World Beyond the Walls: Morishima Churyo and the Development of Late Edo Fiction”

Sarah Kashani, Anthropology, “Korean Ethnic Entrepreneurialism and Narratives of Postcolonial Identity in Japan”

Regan Murphy, Religion, “The Urgency of History: Language and Ritual in Japanese Nativism and Buddhism”

Hiromu Nagahara, History, “Unpopular Music: The Perils and Pleasures of Mass Culture Critique in Modern Japan”

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS

Ethan Bushelle, EALC, “Fujiwara Shunzei’s Buddhist Poetic Theory and Practice”

Christopher Callahan, Religion, “Re-presenting Shinran: Narrative, Pictorial and Ritual Representation of Shinran in Medieval Shin Buddhism”

Mark Erdmann, HAA, “Understanding Azuchi: Oda Nobunaga’s Castle, Capital and Image”

William Hedberg, EALC, “Translation and Analysis of Chinese Fictional Commentary in Tokugawa Japan”

Kyong-Mi Kwon, EALC, “Between Tradition and Modernity: The Tale of Spring Fragrance and the Cultural Transformation of Colonial Korea”

Jie Li, EALC, “Phantasmagoric Manchuko: Films Produced by the Manchuria Motion Picture Association, 1937-1945”

Jeffrey Moser, EALC, “Confucian Revivals in the Ritual Implements of Song China and Post-Heian Japan”

Nozomi Naoi, HAA, “Situating Takehisa Yumeji — His bijin and the Creation of a New Graphic Aestheticism at the Wake of Japan’s Modernity”

Chiaki Nishijima, Anthropology, “Commodified Bodies and Objectifying Subjectivities: Sex-Trafficking and Enjo Kosai in Japan”

Esra-Gokce Sahin, Anthropology, “Learning Rakugo”

Fumitaka Wakamatsu, Anthropology, “Making of Scientific Whaling in Japan: Science and Cultural Politics in the Era of Global Conservation”

Jeremy Yellen, History, “Wartime Visions of Order in South Asia: Indian and Burmese Perceptions of Japan’s ‘Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’”

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE GRANTS

Andrea Murray, Anthropology, Leeds Metropolitan University Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Blackpool, UK

Hiromu Nagahara, History, AAS, Chicago

Emily Pearl, GSD, Tokyo

Yongwook Ryu, Government, Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

REISCHAUER INSTITUTE DISSERTATION PRODUCTION GRANTS

Jiyeoun Song, Government, Global Forces, “Local Adjustments: The Politics of Labor Market Deregulation in Contemporary Japan and Korea”

Akiko Walley, HAA, “Constructing the ‘Dharma King’: New Religio-political Movements in the Soga Era

(536-645) and the Sakyamuni Triad, Golden Hall, Horyuji”

Thomas Glynne Walley, EALC, “‘I Would Rather Be a Faithful Dog than an Unrighteous Man’:  Virtue and Vice in Kyokutei Bakin’s Nanso Satomi Hakkenden”

SOUTH ASIA INITIATIVE, 2009 SUMMER GRANTS FOR UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS

SAI STUDY GRANTS — GRADUATE

Anjali Adukia, HGSE, “Food for Thought: The Impact of Nutrition Schemes on Student Attendance and Academic Achievement”

Sana Aiyar, History, “Religious and National Identity amongst the South Asian Diaspora in Colonial Kenya and Post-colonial Britain: Multiculturalism in Two Milieus”

Tariq Ali, HLS, “The Envelope of Global Trade: Political Economy and Ideas about Jute, the 1850s to the 1970s”

Rwitwika Bhattacharya, HKS, “Corporate Social Responsibility”

Antara Datta, History, “War, Violence, and Displacement During the 1971 Bangladesh War”

Ujala Dhaka, Anthropology, “Muslim Minority Politics in Contemporary Mumbai”

Namita Dharia, Antrhopology, “Building the City: Interactions of Architecture, Artisanship, and Citizenship in North East India”

Victoria Fan, HSPH, “An Evaluation of Linkages between SEWA’s Community Health Program and Insurance Scheme”

Bridget Hanna, Anthropology, “Health and Religion in the Yamuna River Action Plan”

Jane Hong, History, “Redefining America in the World: The End of Asian Exclusion & the Search for Allies in Asia, 1943-1965”

Aliya Iqbal-Naqvi, NELC, “Abu’l Fazl: Author of the Akbarian Legend”

Shashank Joshi, Government, “Sources of Indian Foreign and Security Policy”

Tsering Lama, “Epidemiologic Study of the TB-HIV/AIDS Co-Infection in Nepal”

Daniel Majchrowicz, NELC, “Discovering Home Abroad: The Evolution of the Nationalist Travelogue in Urdu in the Early 20th Century”

Bilal Malik, HGSE, “The Secular Modern at an Islamic Seminary: An Ethnography of the Bhera Madrasa, Pakistan”

David Martinez, “Agrarian Equality and Relative Status: Kinship and Land Ceilings in Bhutanese Transnational Labor Strategies”

Johan Mathew, History, “Crossing Seas, Connecting Histories: Connective Histories from Muscat to Bombay and Back”

John Mathew, History of Science, “To Fashion a Fauna for British India”

Vipin Narang, Government, “Indian Security Strategy in the 21st Century”

Dinyar Patel, History, “Parsis and the Indian Nationalist Movement”

Sarah Shehabuddin, Government, “Rules of Engagement: Women’s Rights and the Determinants of Secularist-Islamist Relations”

Daniel Sheffield, NELC, “Zarathustra between East and West: Orientalist Archives and Zoroastrian Manuscripts in Munich”

Muhammad Osama Siddique, HLS, “Colonial Heritage and Post-Colonial Development Imperatives: Ethos, Legitimacy and Continuing Efficacy of Pakistani Laws”

Benjamin Siegel, History, “Betel and Tobacco, Gossip and Ideas: Informal Public Spaces in colonial North India”

Harpreet Singh, “Panjabi Language Study in Punjab, India”

Stephanie Spray, Anthropology, “Hope’s Harvest”

Gitanjali Surendran, History, “‘The Indian Discovery of Buddhism’: Buddhist Revival in Calcutta, c 1891-1956”

Naseem Surhio, NELC, “Sindhi Language, Sindhi Library: Researching the Roots of Proto-Salafism in the Sufi Hadith Scholars of Sindh”

Mattie Lou Ming Thompson, GSD, “Modern Natural Ventilation in India: Laurie Baker and the Creation of Sustainable, Affordable, and Healthy Architecture”

Anand Vaidya, Anthropology, “The Indian Forest Rights Act and the Limits of the Law”

Jeremy Yellen, History, “Wartime Visions of Order in South Asia: Indian and Burmese Perceptions of Japan’s ‘Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’”

SAI WINTER STUDY GRADUATE GRANTS

Sana Aiyar, History, “Anti-colonial Agitation Across the Indian Ocean: Exploring the Boundaries of Race and Nation in Kenya between 1919-1923”

Rwitwika Bhattacharya, HKS, “Coalescing Society: Analyzing the Impact of Times Foundation”

Umang Kumar, HDS, “Co-option of Other Sacreds: Dharma Thakur Worship and its Evolving Relationship with the Popular Faith”

Suvranil Majumdar, HKS, “US-India Nuclear Project”

Johan Mathew, History, “Trafficking the Globe: a History of the Route from Muscat to Bombay and Back, 1869-1939”

Shagun Sabarwal, HSPH, “Coping with Intimate Partner Violence — An exploratory study of Indian women”

Laura Serban, HBS, “Constraints, Behavior and Outcomes in Agricultural Commodity Futures Markets”

Gitanjali Surendran, History, “Drumming the Dhamma: Buddhologists, Reformers, Adventureres, and the Cult of The Buddha”

Ying Zhang, HSPH, “How to Eradicate Poverty in India through Social Enterprise Incubator”

SAI STUDY GRANTS — UNDERGRADUATE

Mette Andersen ’11, Chemistry & Physics, Impact Assessment of Microfinance in Northern India

Nishchal Basnyat ’09, Government, Research on Maoist movement in Nepal and its impact on India and China

Jessamin Birdsall ’10, Sociology, Conflicting Identities: Complexities of Ethnicity and Religion in the Christian Indo-Fijian Community

Mihir Chaudhary ’12, Microfinance in India

Gabriel Daly ’10, Social Studies, An Examination of the Financial Sector’s Role in Shaping the Middle Class in Mumbai, India

Tracy Han, Arsenic Mitigation in Rural Bangladesh

Johan Hong ’10, Sociology, Decentralization of Health Care in Modern Nepal: The Intersection of Development and Health Care

Ridhi Kashyap ’10, Social Studies, Modernization, Development and the Changing Nature of Son Preference in India

Marena Lin ’10, EPS, The Impact of Science Education on Social Mobility in Indian Society

Ami Nash ’10, Sociology, Which Organizational Factors Influence “Bottom of the Pyramid” Corporate Strategy Success in India

Oded Oren ’11, Social Studies, The Vipassana Movement and Indian society

Trisha Pasricha ’11, VES, Production Assistant in the Hindi Film Industry

Manisha Pandita ’10, Economics, Assessing the impact of the Maharshtra Employment Guarantee Scheme

Suhas Rao ’12, Microhealth in India — An examination of the potential of microfinance to alleviate health issues

Tiziana Smith ’11, Environmental Sci. & Public Policy, 8 Week Microfinance Internship working on Impact Analysis at Mann Deshi Mahila Sahakari Bank

Luke Sperduto ’11, Philosophy, Teaching English and researching the work of the National Commission for Scheduled Castes in India.

Bishnu Thapa ’10, Economics, The Effect of International Macroeconomic Conditions on Remittance Inflows in Nepal

Joseph Tobias ’10, Social Studies, Gross National Happiness in Bhutan

Elizabeth Towle ’10, Social Studies, English language pedagogy and how it shapes language ideologies in New Delhi.

Katherine Tygielski ’10, VES, A Silent Monsoon: Ethnographic Filmmaking in a Nepali Deaf School

Sonam Velani ’09, Government, Slum Redevelopment Strategies in India

SAI SERVICE IN INDIA INTERNSHIPS

Lei’La’ Bryant ’11, English, Folklore & Mythology, Hands For Help

Arhana Chattopadhyay ’11, Chemistry & Physics, Asha Community Health and Development Society

Gillian Grossman ’10, Social Studies, Ujjivan Financial Services

Nina Jain ’11, MCB, Asha Community Health and Development Society

Elizabeth Kinsey ’12, Projects Abroad

Amanda Mangaser ’10, Government, South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre

Alexander Mersereau ’10, Government, Mimoza Enterprises Finance (MIMO)

Ashin Shah ’12, St. Xavier’s College