Travel Grants and Fellowships in Asian Studies

The Asia Center is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2000-01 travel grants to Asia. This year, the Asia Center – together with the John K. Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, the Korea Institute, and the Concentration in East Asian Studies – has funded 43 undergraduate and 26 graduate students to conduct research in Asia over the summer, as well as during the academic year. Some $250,000 was awarded during this granting period.

This year’s recipients are:

Asia Center Summer Research Grant (Asia Center)

Neil Brown ’01, sociology; social policy development in developing nations, particularly in the area of human rights.

Minh-Chau Le ’01, economics and East Asian studies; the refusal of the Vietnamese government to accept the American trade agreement of August 1999.

Saif Shah Mohammed ’02, economics; effect of changes in a Bangladeshi village on agricultural contracts.

Best Senior Thesis Award (East Asian Studies)

Ryan Bayley, East Asian studies; the appointment of outside managers as a disciplinary force in Japanese corporate boards of directors and its decline in the 1980s.

Alistair Isaac, East Asian studies; decoding the future: evolution and communication in three Japanese dystopias.

William Braden Travel Grant (Fairbank Center)

Minh-Chau Le ’01, economics and East Asian studies; the refusal of the Vietnamese Government to accept the American trade agreement of August 1999.

Joseph Robbins ’01, social studies; student activist and business executive interviews at the National University of Singapore.

Dissertation Research Travel Grant (Reischauer Institute)

Abigail Schweber, history; the establishment of the compulsory education system in Meiji Japan.

Dissertation Production Grant (Reischauer Institute)

Duncan R. Williams, study of religion; re-presentations of Zen: an institutional and social history of Soto Zen Buddhism in Edo Japan.

John King and Wilma Cannon Fairbank Undergraduate Summer Travel Grant (Fairbank Center)

Jie Li ’01, East Asian studies; Chinese notions of the public and private through the archaeology of everyday life.

Karen Tseng ’01, government; Chinese state’s response to Falungong movement.

Lee Merritt Folger Fellowship

Li Chen ’01, social studies; village elections and self-governance in China.

Emily Cheung ’01, history of science; practice of Chinese medicine during the Cultural Revolution.

Jeremy Gaw ’01, East Asian studies; East Asian regional security and the threat of militarization: constructing a strategic U.S.-China partnership.

Alexis Grove ’01, East Asian studies; basic assumptions behind Chinese foreign policy.

Kristen Heistand ’02, East Asian studies; early years of Chinese general Chen Yi.

June Kim ’01, social studies and East Asian studies; Korean immigration to the United States between 1965-1990.

Joyce M. Koh ’01, history and East Asian studies; shifts in popular sentiment in Korea after the April Revolution and Park coup.

Jason Mann ’01, East Asian studies; current state of medical missions in China.

Saif Shah Mohammed ’02, economics; effect of changes in a Bangladeshi village on agricultural contracts.

Kathryn Ousley, East Asian studies; research on rural elections in China at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Jonathan Shapiro ’01, social anthropology; study of a community of exiled Burmese student democracy activists living in New Delhi.

Karen Tseng ’01, government; Chinese state’s response to Falungong movement.

Ching Han Wong ’01, anthropology; domestic tourism in China and how it influences the creation of national identity.

Michael A. Freedman Award (East Asian Studies)

Jason Mann ’01, East Asian studies; current state of medical missions in China.

Harvard Club of the Republic of China Fellowship (Fairbank Center)

Alexis Grove ’01, East Asian studies; basic assumptions behind Chinese foreign policy.

Melissa Inouye ’01, East Asian studies; culture and translation in the Mormon Church’s missionary effort in China and Taiwan.

Jing Li, MPP ’00, public policy; 2000 Taiwan presidential election and young voters’ political preferences and tendencies.

Ashley McCants ’02, social studies; language, history, and culture studies in China.

Tashi Rabgey, social anthropology; political subjectivity in Taiwan.

Adam Ross ’02, government; language study in China.

Angela Wu ’01, study of religion and government; villagers’ values relativity and universality in Tainan, Taiwan.

Japan-America Student Conference 2000 Awards (Reischauer Institute)

Naila McKenzy ’02, East Asian studies and Afro-American studies.

Yayoi Shionoiri ’00, government.

Korea Institute Summer Travel Grant (Korea Institute)

Young M. Cho ’01, East Asian studies; relationship between gender roles and the environment during and after the Japanese colonization of Korea.

Joyce M. Koh ’01, history and East Asian studies; shifts in popular sentiment in Korea after the April Revolution and Park coup.

Janice Yoon ’01, social studies; 1997 financial crisis and long-term effects on family/gender ideologies.

Korea Foundation Graduate Student Scholarship (Korea Institute)

Sue-Jean Cho, regional studies East Asia; Korean history from 1910-1988.

John Frankl, East Asian languages and civilizations; images of America in modern Korean fiction.

Chiho Sawada, East Asian languages and civilizations; culture as politics in colonial Korea: the rise of Keijo Imperial University.

Jiwon Shin, East Asian languages and civilizations; Korean literature.

National Cash Register Foundation East Asia Scholarship (Asia Center)

Hongmei Jin, Sanskrit and Indian studies; role of a Tibetan principality in Chinese-Tibetan relations.

Hung-jen Niu, anthropology; spatial analysis on regional settlement patterns of the late Neolithic Age in the Jugarian area of western Inner Mongolia.

David Zeb Raft, East Asian languages and civilizations; Japanese language study in Japan.

Jiwon Shin, East Asian languages and civilizations; Korean literature.

Jing Tsu, East Asian languages and civilizations; failure: the promise of race, nation, and literature in China, 1898-1937.

William H. Overholt Summer Travel Grant (Asia Center)

Pavan Bendapudi ’02, department of history; tuberculosis prevalence research and therapy implementation in China.

Dimple Chaudhary ’01, social studies; urban migration’s effect on dowry inflation and the dynamics of dowry exchange in Rajasthani arranged marriages.

Maggie Loo ’01, environmental science and public policy; cross-border air pollution in Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta and the sustainable development of the region.

Zuzanna Olszewska ’01, social anthropology; the effect of the transnational migrant laborers’ experience on Nepali villagers’ perceptions of development and modernity.

Priya Patel ’01, environmental science and public policy; institutional dimensions of the arsenic problem in Bangladesh.

Janice Yoon ’01, social studies; 1997 financial crisis and long-term effects on family/gender ideologies.

William Morgan Palmer Travel Grant (Fairbank Center)

Selene Kaye ’01, anthropology; effect of China’s one-child policy on women’s status in the patriarchal household.

Reischauer Institute Summer Research Grants for Graduate Students (Reischauer Insitute)

Daniel P. Aldrich, government; issues of financial deregulation, especially regarding the decision-making processes which have allowed for the series of reforms known as the “Big Bang.”

Cemil Aydin, history and Middle Eastern studies; Japanese pan-Asianism and the Muslim world: Nationalist Internationalism of Okawa Shumei.

Jamie Berger, history and East Asian languages; overseas Chinese community in Nagasaki, Japan.

Harumi Furuya, government; effect of international politics on domestic reconciliation: Case of Korean-Japanese in Taiwan.

Kenji Ito, history of science; development of modern physics in Japan during interwar period.

Rieko Kage, government; how do voluntary associations matter? The case of recycling in Japan.

Eiko Maruko, history; political, social, and cultural history of youth in pre-war Japan to explore larger issues of “grassroots fascism” and the role of “ordinary Japanese” in the road to war.

Izumi Nakayama, history and East Asian languages; evolution of Menstruation Leave as a concept of motherhood protection law in 20th century Japan.

Chiho Sawada, East Asian languages and civilizations; imperial liberalism in Taisho Japan and cultural politics in colonial Korea: Making Keijo Imperial University. 1919-1931.

Jun Uchida, history; Japanese colonialism in Korea.

Reischauer Institute Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants (Reischauer Institute)

Sven A. Carlsson ’02, East Asian studies; how do Japanese create national identity for cultural traditions derived from China, focusing on martial arts.

Birgit C. Gerlach ’01, East Asian studies and economics; comparative analysis of Japan-U.S. healthcare systems.

Jeffrey Kurashige ’01, East Asian studies; biography of Takeda Shingen; analyzing changing society of Sengoku, Japan.

Ari Nishitani ’01, history and literature; Japanese art culture in Tokugawa and Meiji Japan as background on Japonisme in Europe.

Religion in Contemporary Asia Travel Grant (Asia Center)

Zongze Hu, anthropology, G1; relationship between religion and politics in a Chinese village.

Justin McDaniel, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; how medieval pedagogical religious texts could guide modern religious reform laws in Laos.

The Henry Rosovsky Undergraduate Summer Travel Grant (Reischauer Institute)

William David Marx ’01, East Asian studies; current underground Japanese fashion labels and their reverse-marketing strategy.

Leila F. Sobin Summer Travel Grant (Asia Center)

Brydie Andrews ’01, study of religion; comparison of Hindu temple in Bombay and American Hindu temple.

Vinay Kumar ’01, history and science; ideological shift from Western paternal models of aid in India.

Jonathan Shapiro ’01, social anthropology; study of community of exiled Burmese student democracy activists in New Delhi.

Summer Language Grants (Reischauer Institute)

Wiebke Denecke, East Asian languages and civilizations; attend “Reading Kambun: Heian Courtier Journals” workshop at Cornell University.

Amy Stanley, East Asian languages and civilizations; study Kambun in Tokyo.

Karen Thornber, East Asian languages and civilizations; study of Korean language in Korea.

Supplementary Dissertation Grants (Reischauer Institute)

Barbara Ambros, East Asian languages and civilizations; the Oyama Cult in early modern Japan.

Noel Howell Wilson, history and East Asian languages; Fukuoka Domain in the Meiji Restoration: a diplomatic history of domestic politics in late Tokugawa Japan.