Asian studies centers, institutes name fellows and award winners for 2006-07

The Asia-related centers and institutes at Harvard University have announced the recipients of awards and fellowships for research, language study, internships, and volunteer work for students in all stages of their academic careers at the University. The Asia Center, the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, the Korea Institute, the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, and the South Asia Initiative have awarded 202 grants totaling more than $675,000 for summer 2006 and academic year 2006-07.

Asia Center undergraduate summer research grant recipients

Isha Agarwal ’09, biochemical sciences and women’s studies: “Combatting HIV/AIDS Through Women’s Empowerment: A Case Study of Adolescent Girls in New Delhi, India”

Edna Choi ’07, anthropology and economics: “The Implications of ‘Hallyu’ (Korean Wave) Tourism on the Korean National Identity”

Sarah Dickinson ’07, sociology: Gender and interpersonal boundaries in Japan

Kathryn Eidmann ’06, social studies: “Plural Legal Systems in India: Religious Family Law from a Women’s Human Rights Perspective”

Jennifer Gong ’07, anthropology: “Nutritional Differences and Gender in Pre- and Post-Agricultural China”

Mollie Kirk ’07, East Asian studies: “Lack of Traditional Masculinity in Contemporary Chinese Literature”

Stephanie Lee ’07, social studies: The woman’s niche in Korean society today

Edmond Levin ’08, Central and East Asian studies: Culture and disenfranchisement in Urumchi, China

Angela Makabali ’07, social studies and women’s studies: Filipina/American scholars’ role as knowledge producers within Asian-American studies

Kamilka Malwatte ’07, social studies: Examining the relationship between humanitarian aid and ethnic/communal conflict

Tien Anh Nguyen ’07: The interaction between French literature and Vietnamese early modern literature in 1930-1945

Hong Nhung Pham ’07, government: Comparative study of anti-corruption at the civil-society level in Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaysia

Ravi Ramchandani ’07, history: The transition to colonial rule in the Indian City of Madras in the late 18th century

Utpal Sandesara ’08, social studies: The social aspects of the 1979 Machhu-II dam disaster

Farhana Sharmeen ’07, psychology: A randomized controlled trial of the long-term effects of prenatal DHA on child development

J Stein ’07, anthropology: Drugs and detoxification in Thailand and beyond

Thomas Wooten ’08, social studies: Social aspects of the 1979 Machhu-II dam disaster

Abraham Zamcheck ’07, East Asian studies: Study of the use of unregistered land in an Anhui Province village

Fung Scholars (with the Office of International Programs), research

Jennifer Gong ’07, anthropology: “Nutritional Differences and Gender in Pre- and Post-Agricultural China”

Minyang Jiang ’06, literature: Lack of traditional masculinity in contemporary Chinese literature

Hong Liu ’09: Economics and the education system in China

John Passanese ’07, biochemistry: Integrative traditional Chinese and Western medicine for treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Frederick Reppun ’07, environmental science and public policy: New actions and reactions toward environmental education in China

Lulu Zhou ’08, anthropology: Kinship relations among Yiche minority group in Yunnan province

Fung Scholars, Chinese language study

Parker Barnes ’08, East Asian studies; Mary Brazelton ’08, history and science; Kelly Heuer ’07, philosophy; Norman Ho ’07, history; and Adam Yock ’08, chemistry and physics

Fung Scholars, internship and volunteer work

Colin Kelly ’08, East Asian studies: internship at Monitor Group; Jade Sabatino ’09: volunteer teacher at Learning Enterprises in Anhui Province; and Amy Wu ’09, biochemistry: HIV/AIDS lab and policy research internship at the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention in China

Undergraduate summer language grant recipients

Nhu-Quynh Dang ’09, English and American literature and language and East Asian studies: Vietnamese language study; Mathieu Desruisseaux ’07, government, Chinese language study; Jonathan Hyman ’08, computer science, Japanese language study; Marcus Janke ’08, East Asian studies, Chinese language study; Jeffrey Kwong ’09, government and East Asian studies, Korean language study; Jordan Lee ’07, government and East Asian studies, Chinese language study; Elissa Leechawengwongs ’09, economics and East Asian studies, Chinese language study; Andrew Miller ’09, social studies, Chinese language study; Emma Wu ’09, linguistics and biochemical sciences, Chinese language study; Isabel Yoon ’09, social studies, Korean language study; and Lauren Zletz ’09, economics, Chinese language study

Undergraduate study tour to Kyoto (with Reischauer Institute) graduate summer research grant recipients

Sei Jeong Chin, history and East Asian languages: “Negotiating Public Opinion: Law, Politics, and the News Media in China, 1931-1957”

Sue Jean Cho, history and East Asian languages: “Inventing Koreans Abroad: Diplomats, Immigrants, and Images of a People and a Nation”

Paul Cruickshanck, history of science: “Medicine, Cultural Identity, and Urbanization: The Creation of Hong Kong as ‘Satellite Modernity’”

Xinyu Dong, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Excavating Early Chinese Film Comedies, 1913-1949”

Pengyu He, sociology: “Land Laws and Rural Women’s Land Rights in China”

Denise Ho, history: “Building on Antiquity: Cultural Preservation in 20th-Century China”

Christopher Leighton, history and East Asian languages: “Liquidating Capitalism in China, 1949-57”

Darryl Li, Middle Eastern studies and anthropology: “Transnational Islamist Movements in the Soviet-Afghan War”

Jie Li, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution: A Song-and-Dance Epic about the Sent-Down Youth Movement”

Alexander Liebman, government: “PRC Signaling in Foreign Policy”

Peter Lu, physics: Archaeological research on spiral jade rings and sapphire-bearing axes from ancient China

Kris Manjapra, history: “International Nationalism: Indian Anti-Colonialism and German Radical Politics in Interwar Berlin

Matthew Mosca, history and East Asian languages: “Qing Perspectives on the Expansion of British India, 1750-1850”

Jeffrey Moser, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Archaeological and Art Historical Evidence for Ritual Practice in Song Dynasty China”

John Sniadecki, regional studies (East Asia): “No. 854 Farm,” a documentary on the legacy and collective memory of a region in rural China

Karen Teoh, history: History of Chinese women in English and Chinese girls’ schools, Malaysia and Singapore, 1850s-1960s

Conference attendance grants

Rusaslina Idrus, anthropology: Presented on the legal arena and indigenous rights in Malaysia at the 5th East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference in Hawaii, Feb. 16-19, 2006

Prista Ratanapruck, anthropology: Presenting on Caravan traders in port cities: Manangi trade diasporas in South and Southeast Asia at the 19th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Leiden, the Netherlands, June 27-30, 2006

Fairbank Center for East Asian Research undergraduate summer research grant recipients

Mollie Kirk ’07, East Asian studies: “Lack of Traditional Masculinity in Contemporary Chinese Literature”

Elise Wang ’07, women’s studies and study of religion: Approaches to gender-conscious historiography in women’s studies in Taiwan

Tina Wang ’07, social studies: Impact of international institutions on domestic actors in China’s international environmental policy

Michelle Wu ’07, economics: Beijing air pollution study

Fairbank Center for East Asian Research graduate summer research grant recipients

Jesse Heatley, regional studies (East Asia): “An Examination of Labor and Marriage Migration from Vietnam to Taiwan”

Alexander Liebman, government: “PRC Signaling in Foreign Policy”

Joseph Wicentowski, history: Policing health in modern Taiwan, 1895-1955

Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellows

Jundai Liu, sociology: “State in the Market Transition and Its Social Reaction: Land Acquisition in Contemporary Rural China”

Lawrence Zhang, history and East Asian languages: “Redefining Worth: Sale of government Office in Qing China”

The Korea Institute’s Min Young-Chul Memorial Summer Travel Fellows

Sue Jean Cho, East Asian languages and civilizations, doctoral dissertation research: “Inventing Koreans Abroad: Diplomats, Immigrants, and Images of a People and a Nation”

Hwansoo Kim, Committee on the Study of Religion, doctoral dissertation research: “The Relationship between Korean and Japanese Buddhism during the Colonial Period”

Young-suk Kim, Graduate School of Education: “Thesis Data Collection: Development of Phonological Awareness and Literacy Skills in Korean: Latent Growth Analysis”

Junghwan Lee, East Asian languages and civilizations, doctoral dissertation research: “The Value of the Korean Archives in Studying Zhu Xi, a Great Chinese Neo-Confucian”

Jae-ho Shin, regional studies (East Asia), M.A. thesis research: “Bibliographic and Comparative Research of Primary Materials on the Economy of the Koryo Period”

Min Young-Chul Memorial Dissertation Finishing Grant recipient

Jungwon Kim, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Quotidian Brand of Chastity: Revisiting Women’s Lives in the Late Choson Dynasty”

The International Communications Foundation’s (ICF) graduate student fellows in Korean literature

Kyong-mi Kwon, East Asian Languages and Civilization (EALC): “Beyond Korean Nationalism: Kim So-un and ‘Messages from the Roses of Sharon’”

Jungmin Yoo, EALC: Translation of K?mo Sinhwa, a story collection compiled by Kim Si-s?p in 15th century Korea

Min Young-Chul Memorial Summer Travel Fellowships, senior thesis research recipient

Stephanie Lee ’07, social studies: The woman’s niche in Korean society today

Summer internships

Kyoungwon Hong ’07, economics, Korean National Assembly (Seoul); and Jung Eun Hwang ’09, economics, Chosun Ilbo (Seoul)

Harvard Summer Study Program at Ewha University (Seoul, Korea)

Jon Choate ’07; Marie Kim ’08, psychology; Jeffrey Kwong ’09, government and East Asian studies; Eloise Quintanilla ’08, social studies; Omid Shahi ’09, psychology;

and Liang Yin ’08, computer science, East Asian studies

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, undergraduate summer travel grants for senior thesis research recipients

Michael Chow ’07, social studies: “The Mystery of Japanese Nonviolence”

Michael Collins ’07, history: History of the U.S. bases and their impact on local society in Okinawa and on U.S.-Japan relations in the postwar era

Sarah Dickinson ’07, sociology: “Gender and Interpersonal Boundaries in Japan”

Maya Frommer ’07, government: “What Explains Changing Attitudes in Japan Toward Depression and Suicide over the Past Five Years?”

Andrew Jing ’08, government: Exploration of the Yasukuni Shrine and smaller-scale war memorials in western Japan

Reischauer Institute undergraduate summer language study grant recipients

Eugene Beh ’09, chemistry and physical biology: Exploration of small fishing villages in Hokkaido

Jonathan Hyman ’08, computer science: Visit to a judo dojo, attend sumo tournament

May Luo ’08, East Asian studies: Visit to the Takarazuka Revue

Reischauer Institute summer interns

Jorge Abram Abugaber ’08, economics: Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (Tokyo)

Colleen Carlston ’08, biology: Okayama Science University (Okayama, Japan)

Kyle Foreman ’08, psychology: Riken Brain Science Institute (Saitama, Japan)

Maya Frommer ’07, government: Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (Tokyo)

Philip Hafferty ’08, East Asian studies: Rep. Nagashima Akihisa’s office, Democratic Party of Japan (Tokyo)

Yui Hirohashi ’06, sociology: MTV (Tokyo)

Bartholomew Horn ’07, physics: Nakashima Propeller Corporation (Okayama, Japan)

Corey Johnson ’07, English: Kobayashi Aikido Dojo (Tokyo)

Francis Kelly ’07, mathematics: J.P. Morgan (Tokyo)

Yutaro Komuro ’08, neurobiology: Riken Brain Science Institute

Shi Lin Loh ’09, East Asian studies: Chugoku Bank (Okayama, Japan)

Carina Martin ’08, psychology: Riken Brain Science Institute

Yoshitaka Yamoto ’08, comparative literature: Shinsei Bank, Ltd. (Tokyo)

Yuan Zhu ’09, economics: Tokyo Gas (Tokyo)

Undergraduate study tour participants (with the Asia Center)

Professor Mikael Adolphson’s freshman seminar (“Sin and the City: Historical Tales of Kyoto”) study tour to Kyoto, Japan, March 25-April 2, 2006.

McDonald Bartels ’09, government; Max Binder ’09, visual and environmental studies; Debbie Chiang ’09, East Asian studies; Andrew Durtschi ’09, government; Jessica Hightower ’09, history of science; Shi Lin Loh ’09, East Asian studies; Indira Phukan ’09, anthropology; John Selig ’09, East Asian studies; Alexander Solomon ’09, biochemistry; Rachel Staum ’09, East Asian studies; Alice Thieu ’09, East Asian studies; Shaunak Vankudre ’09, economics; Baillie Aaron ’07, psychology and economics; Sophie Brickman ’07, social studies; Margaret Klein ’08, social anthropology; Andrew Moore ’08, social studies; Sarah Sclarsic ’06, bioethics and public policy; and Diane Siegel ’09, human evolutionary biology

Supplementary dissertation grant recipients (for dissertation completion)

Rustin Gates, history and East Asian languages: “Defending Japan: Uchida Yasuya and Japanese Foreign Policy, 1865-1936”

Emer O’Dwyer, history and East Asian languages: “People’s Empire: The Mantetsu Employees’ Union and Democratic Imperialism in Manchuria, 1905-37”

Joseph Wicentowski, history: “Policing Health in Modern Taiwan, 1895-1955”

(for dissertation research)

Fabian Drixler, history: “Demographic Discourses and the End of the Low-Fertility Regimes in Japan, 1650-1900”

Hwansoo Kim, Committee on the Study of Religion: “The Relationship Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism During the Colonial Period (1910-1945)”

Hyojin Kim, anthropology: “From Heritage to People’s Life: Revitalization Movements of Traditional Kyoto-Style Townhouses and Changes of Kyoto’s Regional Identity”

Phillip Lipscy, government: “Policy Area Effects on International Organizations”

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

Sukhee Lee, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Negotiated Power: Elites and the State in 12th-14th Century Ningbo”

Matthew Mosca, history and East Asian languages, “Qing Dynasty Perspectives on the Expansion of British India”

Summer research grants for 2006

Christopher Callahan, Committee on the Study of Religion: “Re-presenting Shinran: Narrative, Ritual, and Material Practice in Medieval Shin Buddhism”

Amy Catalinac, government: Large-scale survey of Japanese attitudes towards foreign policy that tests the applicability of social identity in Japan and the impact of nationalism on foreign policy preferences

M.A. Mujeeb Khan, regional studies (East Asia): “Case of Beriberi Disease (kakke zumo) and Its Development During the Meiji Period”

Hyojin Kim, anthropology: “From Heritage to People’s Life: Revitalization Movements of Traditional Kyoto-Style Townhouses (Kyomachiya) and the Changes of Kyoto’s Regional Identity”

Jeffrey Kurashige, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Lord-Vassal Relationships and Other Issues Relating to the Economic, Social, and Ideological Characteristics of Warrior Organizations and Institutions”

Hwansoo Kim, committee on the study of religion: “Relationship Between Japanese and Korean Buddhism During the Colonial Period (1910-1945)”

Phillip Lipscy, government: “Japan’s Attempts to Change the Status Quo in International Institutions”

David Manny, regional studies (East Asia): “Youth Culture and Fashion in Contemporary Tokyo”

Motokazu Matsutani, East Asian languages and civilizations: “U.S. Occupation Impacts on the Development of Christianity in Japan and Korea”

Amanda Merryman, sociology: “Japan’s Non-Profit Sector: A Study of Organizational Network Ties and Cross-Sector Collaboration”

Hiromu Nagahara, history: “Defining Everyone’s Songs: Identity and the Politics of Popular Songs in Trans-War Japan”

May-Yi Shaw, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Voices of the Displaced: Research Project on the Diasporatic Sentiments of Literati in Colonial Taiwan and Japanese Writers in Wartime”

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

Fumitaka Wakamatsu, anthropology: “Japan’s Scientific Whaling: Ecology, Science, and Cultural Nationalism”

Summer language study grants for doctoral students (2006)

Mikael Bauer, East Asian languages and civilizations: Kambun Workshop (department of history and the Project for Premodern Japan Studies, University of Southern California)

Craig Colbeck, history and East Asian languages: Korean language study (Seoul National University)

Joshua Hill, history: Japanese language study (Hokkaido International Foundation program)

Jeffrey Kurashige, East Asian languages and civilizations: Early Modern Komonjo and Kuzushiji Workshop (University of British Columbia)

Jie Li, East Asian languages and civilizations: Japanese language study (Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Yokohama)

Eun Mi Mun, sociology: Japanese language study (Harvard Summer School)

Ying Qian, East Asian languages and civilizations: Japanese language study (Tokyo School of the Japanese Language)

Huicong Zhang, East Asian languages and civilizations: Japanese language study (Ritsumeikan University)

Yang Wei, East Asian languages and civilizations: Japanese language study (Harvard Summer School)

Jungmi Yoo, East Asian languages and civilizations: Japanese language study (Harvard Summer School)

Jennifer Yum, history and East Asian languages: Japanese language study (Inter-University Center, Yokohama)

Dissertation production grants

Evan Dawley, history: “Constructing Jilong: Identities and Taiwanese Ethnicity in a City on the Border of China and Japan”

Matthew Fraleigh, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Chinese Discouse in Modernizing Japan: The Case of Narushima Ryûhoku”

Jin K. Robertson, history and East Asian languages: “Legacy of Empire: Japanese Influence over the U.S. Army Military Government in Korea and Its Aftermath, 1945-1950”

Karen Thornber, East Asian languages and civilizations: “Cultures and Texts in Motion: Negotiating and Reconfiguring Japan and Japanese Literature in Polyintertextual East Asian Contact Zones”

Laura Wong, history and East Asian languages: “Cultural Agency: UNESCO’s Major Project on the Mutual Appreciation of Eastern and Western Cultural Values, 1957-1966”

Conference attendance grants

Katherine B. Curhan, Graduate School of Education (GSE), presented paper on “variation in models of well-being associated with nation (Japan and the United States) and with level of educational attainment (high school education and college education) within these nations” – 17th annual Japanese Developmental Psychology conference, Kyushu University (Fukuoka, Japan), March 2006

Yarrow Dunham, GSE, presented research comparing the development of Japanese and American children (focusing on children’s understanding of social groups like race, gender, and nationality) – universities of Tokyo, Kobe, and of the Sacred Heart (Tokyo), March 2006

Katrina Moore, anthropology, presented research on retired men and marriage in Japan – American Anthropological Association Conference, Washington, D.C., December 2005

Izumi Nakayama, history and East Asian languages, presented paper “Menstruation Leave in Early 20th century Japan” – annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies, San Francisco, April 2006

Karen Thornber, East Asian languages and civilizations, presented paper “Reconfigurating Japanese literature in Semicolonial China: The Enpon Boom, the Uchiyama Shoten, and the Growth of Transasian Literary Communities” – Association for Japanese Literary Studies Fourteenth annual meeting, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., October 2005

Akiko Walley, history of art and architecture, will present paper “Only a Paper Moon (?): The Mechanism behind ‘True View’ Paintings Seen Through Tani Bunchô’s Works” – postgraduate workshop in Japanese art history, Sainsbury Institute, U.K., June 2006

Kristin Williams, East Asian languages and civilizations, presented paper “Pilgrimage as Pretext in the Fiction of Ihara Saikaku” for panel “C/Overt Japan: Policy, Pilgrimage, Pedagogy” – Mid-Atlantic Regional Association for Asian Studies conference, Pittsburgh, October 2005

Japan-America Student Conference 2006 fee awards

Michael Collins ’07, history; Farhang Heydari ’06, government; and Sheehan Scarborough ’07, government

South Asia Initiative undergraduate interns

Nitesh Banta, social studies, Indicorps: feasibility study for Teach for India

Azzurra Cox ’06, social studies, BLESS: documenting the reconstruction of a village in Tamil Nadu

Francisco Perese ’09, environmental science and public policy and economics: BLESS, study of microcredit and its impact on nongovernmental organization members

Urvesh Shelat ’09, economics, Indicorps: feasibility study for Teach for India

Jonathan Siegel ’08, economics, BASIX: study of microfinance

South Asia Initiative undergraduate research grant recipients

Brian Coyne ’07, government: Evaluation of different approaches to development work using criteria of distributive justice

Jinu Koola ’07, social studies: Religious identity and remittance behavior of Indian emigrants to the Gulf

Kamilka Malwatte ’07, social studies: Examining the relationship between humanitarian aid and ethnic/communal conflict

William Parker ’07, visual and environmental studies: Ethnographic approaches to narrative with male sex workers in Mumbai

Priya Rajdev ’07, government: Democratizing effects of Third World multinational firms: India as a case study for development

Ravi Ramchandani ’07, history: The transition to colonial rule in the Indian City of Madras in the late 18th century

Utpal Sandesara ’08, social studies: The social aspects of the 1979 Machhu-II dam disaster

Thomas Wooten ’08, social studies: Social aspects of the 1979 Machhu-II dam disaster

South Asia Initiative graduate research grant recipients

Neil Aggarwal, Near Eastern languages and civilizations: Research on the construction of mental health in Ayurveda and Tibb

Sana Aiyar, history: Predissertation archival research on South Asian diaspora in colonial Kenya

Naila Baloch, divinity: Research on narratives of personal and religious identity among urban, middle-class, young, Muslim Pakistani women

Warner Belanger, inner Asian and Altaic studies: Archival research and Buddhist doctrinal textual study in Tibetan and Sanskrit for dissertation

Chanchal Dadlani: (dissertation research) “Architecture and Urbanism in the Late Mughal Empire”

Antara Datta, history: Research in India, Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom

Jason Lakin, social policy: (dissertation research) “The Politics of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) in India”

Kris Manjapra, history: Research on international nationalism: Indian anti-colonialism and German radical politics in interwar Berlin

John Mathew, history of science: Research on the fashioning of natural history in colonial India

Vipin Narang, government: Research on the relationship between different conceptions of Indian national pride between Congress and the BJP and variable strategic behavior

Nirmala Ravishankar, government: Research on the “anti-incumbency factor” in Indian elections

Stephanie Spray, religion: An ethnographic project with the Gaine of Nepal in the medium of digital video

Aniko Szatmari, Near Eastern languages and civilizations: (preprospectus and dissertation research) “The Heritage of Sufism in Kashmir”

Travis Zadeh, comparative literature: (dissertation research) “Study of Moghul and Deccan Qazwini Manuscript”