Asian studies centers, institutes name fellows

The Asia Center, the South Asia Initiative, the Fairbank Center, the Korea Institute, and the Reischauer Institute have announced their award recipients for this summer and the upcoming academic year.

The undergraduate Asia Center fellows are as follows:

Christina Angelides ’06, social studies: Research public health, health rights, and community financing of rural healthcare

Nana Ayensu ’07, engineering: Japanese language study

Merritt Baer ’06, social studies: Effects of development and modernization on gender power relations in Bhutan, specifically the legalizing of marriage

Supriya Balsekar ’08, economics/psychology: Chinese language study

Neeraj Banerji ’06, economics: Distortion of firm behavior in India by rigid labor regulation

Manav Bhatnagar ’06, government/South Asian Studies: Analysis of the Kashmiri separatist movement and state response

Kevin Ching ’06, social studies/East Asian studies: The effect of legal reforms on NGO progress, operation, and efficacy in China

Corinne Dillon ’07: East Asian studies/English: Chinese language study

Mina Dimitrova ’06, economics: The effects of armed conflict on women’s social status as measured by their labor force participation

Emily Dubner ’06, social studies: The intersection of China’s HIV/AIDS epidemic with youth risk behavior

Clifford Emmanuel ’06, social studies: Relationship between media and migrant labor in Beijing focusing on dissent

Yui Hirohashi ’06, sociology: Japanese senior high school students’ sexual health knowledge and sources of sex information

Pippi Kessler ’06, religion/East Asian studies: Ethnographic study of two Chinese Buddhist youth camps

Malgorzata Kurjanska ’06, social studies: Role of traditional healers as possible sources of stabilization in post-conflict Cambodia

Roland Lamb ’06, special concentration: Major trends in the dominant philosophical traditions of Eurasia

Michelle Lim ’08, East Asian studies: Chinese language study

Lewis Liu ’08, physics/visual and environmental studies: Chinese language study

Zhenzhen Lu ’06, anthropology/East Asian studies: Development, ethnicity, and historical preservation in a small town in western China

Aidan Madigan-Curtis ’07, government: Chinese occupation of Tibet and its effects on the Tibetan people

Sophia McKinley ’06, neurobiology: Korean language study

Adam Miller ’07, biology: Chinese language study

Alexandra Muñoz ’07, literature: Sustainable arts education program by researching religious culture specific to Mussoorie

Soojin Nam ’06, social studies, women and conflict resolution: Case study of the North Korean-South Korean conflict

Davina Pike ’06, social anthropology: Linguistic approach to understanding Thai and American concepts of business

Tony Qian ’08, literature: Chinese language study

Aroonsiri Sangarlangkarn ’06, economics: Evolution of Thailand’s health program and its effect on income distribution

Yuen-Ting Tsang ’06, government: Relationship between rural-urban migration and development through the lenses of social identities of migrant workers

David Wilson ’06, East Asian studies/economics: Corporate governance in Hong Kong corporations

Michael Wu ’06, economics/East Asian studies: Cost-benefit analysis – international workplace standards certification and sustainability among China’s small/medium-size apparel companies

Hui-En Yeo ’06, government: Interviews with civil society activists to trace their experiences with civic education and perspectives on civic engagement

Wing Yeung ’08, economics/East Asian studies: Chinese language study

Lan Zhou ’08, economics/East Asian studies: Chinese language study

Peter Zuckerman ’07, economics: Chinese language study

The graduate Asia Center fellows include the following:

Sebastian Bauhoff, Kennedy School of Government: Old-age security for the elderly in rural China

Karen Hwang, history of art and architecture: Study of the murals of 9th and 10th century Dunhuang cave shrines

Rusaslina Idrus, anthropology: Impact of the use of litigation in the struggle over natural resource rights between the Orang Asli and the Malaysian state

Melissa Inouye, East Asian languages and civilization (EALC): Christian congregations in Beijing

Andrew Kennedy, government: Chinese foreign policy under Mao, specifically with respect to nuclear weapons

Hoi-eun Kim, history: Dr. Erwin Baelz’s anthropological expeditions to Korean between 1901 and 1905

Jungwon Kim, EALC: Dissertation research at the Kyujanggak archives in Seoul, Korea

Tae Yang Kwak, EALC: Korea’s participation in the Vietnam War

Sukhee Lee, EALC: The rise of elite culture in local society in the 12th-14th centuries

Alexander Liebman, government: Relationship between Chinese energy and foreign policy

Peter Lu, physics: Examine spiral jade rings; locate source rock for neolithic sapphire-bearing axes

Stanislav Markus, government: Political functions of Western-style stock exchanges in China

Eva Shi, regional studies-East Asia: Re-assessment of poverty alleviation in China

Karen Teoh, history: History of female education among ethnic Chinese of Malaysia and Singapore, mid-19th to mid-20th centuries

Karen Thornber, EALC: Complex relationships among Korean and Taiwanese colonial, Chinese semi-colonial, and Japanese literature, 1895-1945

Akiko Walley, history of art and architecture: Research for qualifying paper in libraries and museums

Joseph Wicentowski, history: A history of the “hygiene police” in colonial- and nationalist-era Taiwan, 1895-1955

The undergraduate South Asia Initiative fellows include the following:

Krishna Aragam ’05, biochemical sciences: Research on the impact of changing lifestyles on the development of chronic, non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease within the Indian population, under the auspices of the PURE study

Merritt Baer ’06, social studies: Effects of development and modernization on gender power relations in Bhutan, specifically the legalizing of marriage

Neeraj Banerji ’06, economics: Distortion of firm behavior in India by rigid labor regulation

Todd Bartels ’06, religion: Interaction between Tibetan medicine and Ayurvedic medicine in historical and contemporary context

Manav Bhatnagar ’06, government/South Asian studies: Analysis of the Kashmiri separatist movement and state response

Nicholas Boylston ’07, Sanskrit/Near Eastern languages and civilizations: Sanskrit language study (American Institute of Indian Studies)

Anindita Deb ’06, neurobiology: Organization of the Missionaries of Charity to understand the care available for the poor in the city of her ancestral heritage

Mina Dimitrova ’06, economics: The effects of armed conflict on women’s social status as measured by their labor force participation

Saritha Komatireddy ’05, government: Research tsunami reconstruction efforts and create documentary

Roland Lamb ’06, special concentration: Major trends in the dominant philosophical traditions of Eurasia

Danielle Li ’05, mathematics/history and science: Village-level health interventions via the use of randomized trials

Alexandra Munoz ’07, literature: Promote sustainable arts education program by researching religious culture specific to Mussoorie

Manisha Munshi ’06, social studies/women, gender, and sexuality studies: How sexual violence has informed post-insurgency women’s activism in Kashmir

Shankar Nair ’05, religion/Sanskrit: Hindu-Muslim conflict in relation to historical and modern Muslim intellectual interpretations of Hinduism

Rowena Potts ’06, comparative study of religion: Urdu language study (American Institute of Indian Studies)

Anjali Salooja ’06, social studies: Female engagement in textile production effect on traditional gender roles in India

Vanashree Samant ’06, applied mathematics/economics: Microfinance operations in India and incentives for private banks to offer micro-loans

Ali Sethi ’06, South Asian studies: Comparative analysis of Persio-Turkic, Mughal, and post-Mughal depictions of courtesans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The graduate South Asia Initiative fellows include the following:

Sana Aiyar, history: Relationship between the South Asian diaspora in Kenya and the government of India

Faisal Chaudhry, history: Persian language study and archival work in national archives

Antara Datta, history: Nationalism and education in India

Jhumka Gupta, Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH): Health needs and barriers of female Nepali victims of sex trafficking

Zahra Jamal, anthropology: Voluntarism in South Asia to uncover religious and civic ideas of giving

Sebastian James, Kennedy School of Government (KSG): Measuring tax evasion in India using a policy experiment

Mari Jyvasjarvi, religion, Sanskrit language study

Samira Khan, KSG: Study of the role of religion, globalization, and governance with prominent human rights lawyer Sonia Khan

James McHugh, Sanskrit and Indian studies: History of aromatics in India

Manoj Mohanan, economics: Development of rural health insurance in Karnataka state

Sandhya Polu, history: How homeopathy stimulated Ayurvedic medicine’s revival and prevented allopathy’s dominance in 19th century Calcutta

Nirmala Ravishankar, government: Voting behavior in India

Harpreet Singh, Harvard Divinity School: Study of related textual sources on Hindu devotion in Braj and Sanskrit languages

The undergradute Fairbank Center for East Asian Research fellows include the following:

Emily Dubner ’06, social studies: The intersection of China’s HIV/AIDS epidemic with youth risk behavior

Zhenzhen Lu ’06, anthropology/East Asian studies: Development, ethnicity, and historical preservation in a small town in western China

Seamus McKiernan ’06, government: Immigration trends in China’s multiethnic Xinjiang province

Jannie Tsuei ’06, literature: Translations of English texts into Chinese in Taiwan; their contribution to an urban educated identity

The graduate Fairbank Center for East Asian Research fellows include the following:

Sei Jeong Chin, History and East Asian Languages (HEAL): Historical change in the practice of news-making and government policy-making process in the judicial branch on modern China

Douglas Gildow, regional studies-East Asia: Buddhist monasticism

Denise Ho, history: Making the case for the rule of law – urban intellectuals and local government in the republican and early communist periods

Loretta Kim, history: Migration as an instrument of incorporation and assimilation into a military system

Kristina Kleutghen, history of art and architecture: Archival research in China

Emer O’Dwyer, HEAL: Dalian under Japanese colonial rule, 1905-1937

Meg Rithmire, government: Survey and interview work to study relationships between minorities and state institutions in western China

Tian Yuan Tan, EALC: Study of sanqu and drama in 16th century North China

Lawrence Zhang, HEAL: System of purchasing government offices and titles in Qing China

Shufang Zhang, HSPH: How to effectively mobilize rural farmers to manage the Rural Mutual Health Care in China

The undergraduate Korea Institute fellow is Edward Y. Lee ’08, government: Human rights conditions of North Korean refugees in Jilin, China

The graduate Korea Institute fellows are as follows:

Hoi-eun Kim, history: Dr. Erwin Baelz’s anthropological expeditions to Korean between 1901 and 1905

Jungwon Kim, EALC: Dissertation research at the Kyujanggak archives in Seoul, Korea

Tae Yang Kwak, EALC: Korea’s participation in the Vietnam War

Karen Thornber, EALC: Complex relationships among Korean and Taiwanese colonial, Chinese semicolonial, and Japanese literature, 1895-1945

Jungmin Yoo, EALC: Chinese language study as a prerequisite language tool in understanding 17th-19th century Korean literature

A dissertation finishing grant goes to Tae Yang Kwak, EALC: “War and National Construction: Korean Participation in the Vietnam Way, 1965-1975”

The undergraduate Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies fellowship recipients include:

Yui Hirohashi ’06, sociology: Study of Japanese senior high school students’ sexual health knowledge and source of sex information

Roland Lamb ’06, special concentration in Chinese and Indian philosophy: Methodological problems in (Eurasian) comparative philosophy

2005-06 supplementary dissertation grant recipients (graduate) are as follows:

Raja Adal, history: “Aesthetic Consciousness and the Negotiation of Western Modernity: Fine Arts Education in Egyptian and Japanese Schools, 1870-1930”

Leif-Eric Easley, government: “Strategic Nationalism and Security Reliance in East Asia”

Katrina Moore, anthropology: “Masculinity and retirement: The Pursuit of Lifelong Learning in Japan”

Emer O’Dwyer, HEAL: “Modernization and Its Discontents in a Japanese Colonial City: Dairen, 1905 to 1937”

Yongwook Ryu, government: “Regional Order and State Identity: East Asian Territorial Disputes”

Jiyeoun Song, government: “Comparative Study of Labor Market Reforms in Japan and Korea during the Period of 1996-2005”

Amy Stanley, EALC: “Beyond the Floating World: Prostitution in Tokugawa Japan”

Joseph Wicentowski, history: “A History of the ‘Hygiene Police’ in Modern Taiwan, from Japanese Colonial Rule to Chinese Nationalist Rule, 1895-1955”

Summer research grant recipients are as follows:

Pär Cassal, history: Legal pluralism and extraterritoriality in 19th century East Asia.

Amy Catalinac, government: “Comparative Study of Sources of Change in Foreign Security Policy: Japan and New Zealand”

Xinyu Dong, EALC: “Finding Japanese Silent Film Comedy”

Yarrow Dunham, Graduate School of Education: “A Developmental Inquiry into Interdependence: Japanese Children and Adults’ Use of Social Group Information”

Andrew Eggers, government: “Politics of Global Taxation in Japan”

Hoi-eun Kim, history: Erwin Baelz’s “anthropological” expeditions to Korea and his theory of the racial similarity of the Japanese and Koreans

Regan Murphy, committee on the study of religion: Translation and article on Shingon monk Jiun

Hiromu Nagahara, history: “‘Onna-shishõ’ and the Making of Traditional Femininity in Modern Japan”

Izumi Nakayama, HEAL: Labor science and menstruation leave in Japan

Emer O’Dwyer, HEAL: Study tour of Dalian and Changchu, China, for archival research

Yongwook Ryu, government: “Regional Order and State Identity: East Asian Territorial Disputes”

Karen Thornber, EALC: “Early 20th century East Asian literary struggles: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan

Fumitaka Wakamatsu, anthropology: “Making of Scientific Whaling in Japan: Ecology, Science, and Cultural Nationalism”

Akiko Walley, history of art and architecture: Change in Nanga landscape paintings in the late 18th and early 19th centuries

Thomas Glynne Walley, EALC: Research for dissertation topic on early 19th century Japanese novel “Nanso Satomi Hakkenden”

Joseph Wicentowski, history: “Hygienic Assimilation: The Hygiene Police in Modern Taiwan”

Recipients of summer language study grants for doctoral students:

Song Chen, EALC: Japanese language study (Princeton in Ishikawa Program)

Nick Kapur, history: Japanese language study (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama)

Jeffrey Kurashige, EALC: German language study (Harvard Summer School)

May-Yi Shaw, EALC: Japanese language study (Inter-University Center, Yokohama)

Kyong-Mi Danyel Kwon, EALC: Japanese language study (Harvard Summer School)

Andrew Eggers, government: Japanese language study (Japan)

William Fleming, EALC: Dutch language study (Dutch Language Union, the Netherlands).

Seng Kuan, committee on advanced degree in architecture, landscape, and urban planning: Japanese language study (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama)

Jeffrey Moser, EALC: Japanese language study (Inter-University Center, Yokohama)

Konrad Lawson, history: Korean language study (Seoul National University)

Craig Colbeck, HEAL: Korean language study (Seoul National University)

Yi-Chieh Lin, anthropology, Japanese language study (Inter-University Center, Yokohama)

Dissertation production grant awardees:

Daniel Aldrich, government: “Leviathan or Agile State? Toolkits and Strategies for Siting Public Bads”

Hiraku Shimoda, EALC: “Between Homeland and Nation”

Jun Uchida, history: “‘Brokers of Empire’: Japanese Settler Colonialism in Korea, 1910-1937”

Noell Wilson, HEAL: “The Kyushu Origins of National Defense: Fukuoka Domain in the Defense of Nagasaki, 1641-1868”

The following graduate students presented papers at academic conferences during this academic year:

Lily Chang, Regional Studies East Asia (RSEA): Presented “Contours of Change: Historical Representations and Historical Memory of Tôjô Hideki,” at the 14th annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia University, February 2005.

Fabian Drixler, history: Presented “The End of a Low-Fertility Regime: Population Policy and Discursive Change in a Japanese Domain,” at the 29th meeting of the Social Science History Association (SSHA) Conference, Chicago, November 2004.

Rustin Gates, HEAL: Presented “‘Scorched Earth’ Diplomacy: Uchida Kôsai, Manchukuo, and League of Nations” for panel (Culture and Identity in International Relations: Japan’s Diplomatic Path to Pearl Harbor) at the AAS Conference, Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2005.

Ivan Grail, EALC: Participated in Heike Monogatari Conference, Washington University, March 2005.

Natsuko Kuwahara, Graduate School of Education: Presented “Japanese Adult Sojourners’ Restructuring New English ‘Selves’ in the U.S.” at the Hawaii International Conference on Education (Honolulu, January 2005). Kuwahara will present “The Impact of Acculturation on Japanese Adult Sojourners in the U.S.” at the 12th International Conference on Learning, University of Granada, Spain, July 2005, and “Japanese Adult Sojourners’ Restructuring New English Selves in the U.S.: From a Second Language Acquisition Perspective” at the 14th World Congress on Applied Linguistics, Madison, Wis., July 2005.

Phillip Lipscy, government: Presented “Japan’s Quest for Leadership in the Bretton Woods Institutions: Conceptualizing International Institutions as Cooperative Standards” and “Interests, Institutions, and the Structure of Delegation: Reassessing the Effect of Divided Government on U.S. Trade Policy” (with Y. Kirpichevsky), at the International Studies Association (ISA) Convention, Honolulu, March 2005.

Izumi Nakayama, HEAL: Presented “Working Women and Menstrual Politics: A Japanese Experience,” at a conference titled “Gender Studies in Asia: People, Politics, and Power,” sponsored by the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, September 2004.

Yongwook Ryu, government: Presented “The Transformation of Japanese International Identity: Changing Role Conceptions in the 1990s,” at the Western Social Science Association Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., April 2005.

Glynne Walley, EALC: Presented “An Idiosyncrasy of My Ilk: Takizawa Bakin’s Account of His Journey of 1802,” in panel titled “Autobiographical Writings in Early-Modern Japan and Ryukyu” at the AAS Conference, Chicago, March 31-April 3, 2005.

Recipients of the Japan-America Student Conference 2005 fee awards

Anna Franekova ’05 (Leverett House), government; Yui Hirohashi ’06 (Mather House), sociology; Sheehan Scarborough ’07 (Dunster House), government