Asia-related student research projects are awarded funding

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 recently announced the recipients of student grants for summer 2008 and the 2008-09 academic year.

Recipients of Asia Center Undergraduate Summer Research Grants and Fung Scholarships for Research in China (through the Asia Center and the Office of International Programs), including their concentration, research, and travel destination, are as follows:

Danielle Alexander ’09, East Asian Studies (EAS), the works of contemporary artist Zhang Xiaogan

Mary Allison ’09, government, “The Politics of East and West: Irving Babbitt and the New Humanism Movement in the United States and China”

Megan Bartlett ’09, organismic and evolutionary biology, the effect of climate on plant evolution in Southeast Asian aseasonal rainforest (Malaysia)

Bhavnit Bhatia ’09, anthropology, “Stigma & Stories More Than Skin Deep: An Exploration of Vitiligo and Its Gendered Implications” (India)

Lewis Bollard ’09, social studies, militarization in the animal rights movement in America, Britain, and India

Amelia Chan ’10, economics, a case study on Capital Steel, the Chinese steelworkers company

Tzu-Ying Chuang ’10, chemical and physical biology, autoimmune regulation system analysis (Japan)

Nhu-Quynh Dang ’09, government and EAS, “Bowling with the Party: The Widened Associational Lane for Environmental NGOs in Vietnam”

Sonia DeYoung ’10, history and science, biodiversity conservation in Indonesia

Kyle Haddad-Fonda ’09, history, Sino-Arab relations in the 1950s

Ana Huang ’09, women’s studies, on relational subjectivity and the fluidity of gender roles in Chinese lesbian culture

Audrey Kim ’09, history, “Much Ado about Empire: Japan’s Entrance into Global Capital Markets” (United Kingdom)

Marie Kodama ’09, social studies, examining teacher use of Japanese high school history textbooks to understand China-Japan relations

Polina Krass ’11, government, women and microfinance in Cambodia

Jeffrey Kwong ’09, government, Chinese reception of Japanese and Korean pop culture products and its implications

Gee Hyun Lee ’09, social studies, “Halfway in Between: Korea’s Progress Toward Multiculturalism as Represented in Mass Media”

Shi Lin Loh ’09, EAS, “Nagasaki after the Atomic Bombing: Perceptions and Responses”

Eric Lu ’09, anthropology, “Substance Abuse and Recovery in Shanghai: An Ethnographic Perspective”

Laura Northrop ’09, social studies, the shifting sexual perspectives of Chinese youth

Lucas Paul ’09, social studies, impact of social change on civic education in China

Leila Perkins ’09, social studies, “The Rising Chinese Brand: What Trends Does Changing Chinese Consumption Reveal?”

Rachel Pollack ’09, history, “Une Revolution Culturelle: Maoist Intellectuals in post-’68 France” (France)

Geraldine Prasuhn ’09, EAS, government influence in China’s film and television industry and the Japanese resistance

Anna Ruman ’10, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology (OEB), “Biodiversity in Borneo” (Malaysia)

Aditi Sen ’09, social studies, “Image and Dwelling: World City and Slum in New Delhi”

Zeba Syed ’09, religion, study of the factors that account for either communal strife or harmony in Hyderabad, India

Kate Xie ’10, neurobiology, biolinguistics research, Japan

Yunxue Xu ’09, anthropology, ethnographic study of public health campaign to control lymphatic filariasis in Guizhou, China

Xu Yang ’09, EAS, “China Can Say No: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism in Flux”

Dian Yu ’11, history and literature, ethnographic study of historical memory of the Cultural Revolution in rural and urban modern China

Joyce Zhang ’09, government, “Asymmetrical Restrictions: Visa Policies and Trade Protectionism between Mongolia and China”

Weiqi Zhang ’10, social studies, environmental condition and societal reaction in the Beijing Olympics

Lauren Zletz ’09, social studies, conceptions of citizenship that underlie recent liberal arts education reforms in Chinese colleges

The recipients of the Fairbank Center Undergraduate Summer Research Grant are as follows:

Yunxue Xu ’09, anthropology, ethnographic study of public health campaign to control lymphatic filariasis in Guizhou, China

Lauren Zletz ’09, social studies, conceptions of citizenship that underlie recent liberal arts education reforms in Chinese colleges

The recipients of the Asia Center’s Undergraduate Summer Language Grants and Fung Scholarships for language study (through the Asia Center and Office of International Programs) are as follows:

KOREAN LANGUAGE STUDY
Amy Bond ’10, government; Angela Chong ’10, EAS

CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDY
Joo Lee ’11, EAS; Gibran Minero ’09, neurobiology; Kelly Diep ’10, history and science; Linda Ge ’11, economics; Yuhki Yamashita ’11; Kerry Yang ’11, social studies; Jieliang Hao ’11, economics; Elias Berger ’11, Daniel Metzel ’11, Chemical and Physical Biology (CPB); Trung Nguyen ’11, economics; Lucy Zhang ’11; Kathleen Brady ’11; Adam Lathram ’10, economics; Tice Brown ’10, CPB; Matthew Setless ’10, history; Shuqun Fang ’11; and Shanshan Wang ’11

The recipients of Fung Scholarships for Internships and Volunteer Work in China (through the Asia Center and Office of International Programs) are as follows:

Erin McCreary ’09, psychology, internship with Baoji Children’s Home in Shaanxi Province, China

Hoi Yung ’09, history and science, Uyghur-Han Chinese reconciliation with InterVarsity Global Project in Xinjiang, China

Brett Thomas ’10, economics, internship with Joint U.S.-China Cooperation on Clean Energy

Jackie Hsieh ’10, human and evolutionary biology, volunteer work introducing arts, performance, and communications to underprivileged youth in Taiwan

Mengyuan He ’11, engineering sciences, political economy of global Asia internship with Learn Live Intern in China Program (University of Hong Kong)

Rachel Mak ’10, environmental science and public policy, internship with environmental sustainability companies in Taiwan

Asia Center Graduate Summer Research Grant recipients include:

David Brophy, inner Asian and Altaic studies, research on early 20th century history of Xinjiang in the Jarring Collection in Sweden

Joohang Cha, East Asian languages and civilizations (EALC), process by which Korea adopted neo-Confucianism

Jade D’Alpoim Guedes, archaeology, the origins of agriculture and the use of medicinal plants in the Chengdu plain

Aryo Danusiri, visual anthropology, visual and aural investigation into memory, place, and identity of Acehnese exile community in Pennsylvania

Li Hou, urban planning, the history of Daqing as a national model in China for two decades

Youn-mi Kim, history of art and architecture (HAA), “Chaoyang North Pagoda: Buddhist Cosmology, Rituals, and Interfusion of Buddha Bodies”

Kristina Kleutghen, HAA, Chinese and Japanese paintings created under Jesuit supervision

Tang Kun, population and international health, community health reform process in Shanghai

Joo A. Lee, regional studies — East Asia (RSEA), “China’s Strategic Energy Assistance to North Korea: Implications for the Six-Party Talks and Energy Security”

Jie Li, EALC, archival research of documentary cinema of the Second Sino-Japanese War and their postwar circulation and reappropriations

Ren-Yuan Li, history and East Asian languages (HEAL), book culture in 19th century China

Katherine Mason, social anthropology, ethnographic investigation of the rebuilding of China’s disease control system in the wake of SARS

Johan Matthew, history, trade, and cultural linkages between British India and the Persian Gulf in the early 20th century

John Matthew, history of science, the study of zoological natural history in British India in the 19th and early 20th centuries

Allison Miller, EALC, what shifts in design and contents of tombs can reveal about ideas of death and burial in the Western Han

Jeffrey Moser, EALC, examination of Song Dynasty ritual vessels in Sichuan and Hunan, China

Andrea Murray, social anthropology, relationship between tourism industry and climate change on two ecologically vulnerable islands in Okinawa

Jonathan Schlesinger, HEAL, how China’s elites in the Qing Dynasty instigated, understood, and embodied environmental change in Manchuria

Meredith Schweig, music, research at the CHIME and Sinological Institute Libraries in Leiden, Netherlands

Sandra Sequeira, public policy, experimental study of the impact of rural roads on livelihoods in India

Brian Skerrat, EALC, modern and contemporary Chinese poetry

Claudio Sopranzetti, social anthropology, the role of European-inspired architectonic aesthetics on the politics of public space in contemporary Bangkok

Stephanie Spray, social anthropology, ethnographic project in Nepal employing media to critically engage with questions of representation, temporality, and anthropological discourse

Kyoko Takehana, social anthropology, ideologies of conflicts for urban Vietnamese youths

John Wong, history, collection of genealogies and correspondence of the Guangdong Hong merchants of Early Qing

Akiko Yamagata, regional studies — East Asia (RSEA), tea sweets’ role in defining communities of tea practitioners in 17th century Japan

Jeremy Yellen, history, Japanese wartime internationalism and the Greater East Asia Conference of 1943

Jennifer Yum, HEAL, changing perceptions of medicine, the body, sexuality, and mental illness in colonial Korea

Min Zhou, sociology, exploration of whether the 2005 anti-Japan movement in China was mobilized by grassroots organizations

Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies Graduate Summer Research Grant recipients include:

Jade D’Alpoim Guedes, archaeology, the origins of agriculture and the use of medicinal plants in the Chengdu plain

Tang Kun, population and international health, community health reform process in Shanghai

Jonathan Schlesinger, HEAL, how China’s elites in the Qing Dynasty instigated, understood, and embodied environmental change in Manchuria

Summer foreign language and area studies award recipients (through the Asia Center and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences):

Lucas Bender, divinity, Chinese language study; Sheena Chestnut, government, Chinese language study; Ariel Fox, EALC, Japanese language study; Christina Kilby, divinity, Tibetan language study; Kristen Looney, government, Korean language study; and Audrey Patten, RSEA, Korean language study

Graduate summer languages grant recipients (through the Asia Center, Fairbank Center, Korea Institute, and Reischauer Institute):

CHINESE LANGUAGE STUDY
Zachary Barter, government, Joohang Cha, EALC; Satoru Hashimoto, EALC; Jonathan Service, EALC; Lina Verchery, divinity; Oriana Walker, history of science; Shirley Ye, history

GUJARATI LANGUAGE STUDY
Ketaki Pant, social anthropology

JAPANESE LANGUAGE STUDY
Phillip Bloom, HAA; Yun-Ru Chen, law; Thomas Hoyt, RSEA; Evan Ingram, EALC; Macabe Keliher, EALC; Han Sung Kim, RSEA; Natalie Koehle, EALC, Adam Lyons, divinity; Arthur McKeown, Sanskrit and Indian studies; Dmitry Mironenko, EALC; Max Oidtmann, EALC; Steffen Rimner, history; Victory Seow, EALC; and Xiaoxuan Wang, EALC

MALAY LANGUAGE STUDY
Rheanna Parrenas, social anthropology

TIBETAN LANGUAGE STUDY
Cuilan Liu, Sanskrit and Indian Studies; Elizabeth Monson, religion

THAI LANGUAGE STUDY
Claudio Sopranzetti, social anthropology

UYGHUR LANGUAGE STUDY
Travies Pierce, RSEA

UZBEK LANGUAGE STUDY
Eitan Plasse, RSEA

The 2008 Harvard China Fund Student Internship Program recipients are as follows:

Mercedes Bent ’10, economics, China Universal Asset Management (Shanghai)

Ieva Chaleckyte ’08, economics, Huiyuan Juice (Beijing)

Ruben Davis ’10, EAS, Shanghai TV / Shanghai Media Group (Shanghai)

Michael Goldfarb ’10, economics, China Universal Asset Management (Shanghai)

Priya Gupta ’10, social anthropology, Shanghai TV / Shanghai Media Group (Shanghai)

Bob Hamlin ’10, social studies, China Universal Asset Management (Shanghai)

Jim Huang ’09, social studies, PriceWaterhouse Coopers (Qingdao)

Ben Jaffe, economics ’11, Huiyuan Juice (Beijing)

Ted Kirby ’09, history, McKinsey & Company (Shanghai) and CCTV (Beijing)

Kevin Lin ’11, economics, CDC Software (Shanghai)

Shreya Maheshwari, economics ’10, China Universal Asset Management (Shanghai)

Cyrus Mossavar-Rahmani ’09, economics, Vanke (Shanghai)

LeVan Nguyen ’10, applied mathematics and economics, Hay Group (Beijing)

Ming Ong ’11, economics, Shanghai TV / Shanghai Media Group (Shanghai)

Halle Phillips, economics and psychology ’11, Hay Group (Beijing)

Julie Vodhanel ’09, history and EAS, CDC Software (Shanghai)

Bret Voith ’11, economics, McKinsey & Company (Shanghai)

Katherine Williams, economics ’09, Hay Group (Shanghai)

Wendy Ying ’10, molecular and cellular biology, Vanke (Shanghai)

Dian Yu ’10, economics, Hay Group (Shanghai)

Anna Zhang ’10, economics, CCTV (Beijing)

2008 Korea Institute Summer Research Travel Fellowship recipients (undergraduate):

Jeffrey Kwong ’09, government, Chinese reception of Japanese and Korean pop culture products and its implications

Gee Hyun Lee ’09, social studies, “Halfway in Between: Korea’s Progress toward Multiculturalism as Represented in Mass Media”

Graduate:

Joohang Cha, EALC, process by which Korea adopted neo-Confucianism

Youn-mi Kim, HAA, “Chaoyang North Pagoda: Buddhist Cosmology, Rituals, and Interfusion of Buddha Bodies”

Joo A Lee, RSEA, “China’s Strategic Energy Assistance to North Korea: Implications for the Six-Party Talks and Energy Security”

Jennifer Yum, HEAL, changing perceptions of medicine, the body, sexuality, and mental illness in colonial Korea

LG Yonam Fellowship for Korean Language Study

Audrey Patten ’09, RSEA

Harvard Summer School — Korea Institute Scholarships

Angela Chong ’10, EAS and economics; Steven Lau ’11;

Monica Lee ’10, English and American literature and language; Yuan-Shuo (Alice) Wang ’10, engineering sciences

Harvard Summer School — Korean Alumni Scholarship

Louis Choi ’11

Korea Institute Summer Undergraduate Internships in Seoul, Korea

Eric Beck ’10, economics, McKinsey & Company (tbd); Louis Choi ’11, applied mathematics in economics, ROK National Assembly (tbd); Angela Chong ’10, EAS and economics, LG Electronics (tbd); Will Guzick ’11, economics, World Bank (tbd); Claire Huang ’11, economics, Procter & Gamble (tbd); Hyunjin Kim ’10, social studies, Seoul Metropolitan Government, Office of the Mayor (tbd); Steven Lau ’11, EAS and economics, Korean Broadcasting System (tbd); Juhyun Park ’09, English, Chosun Ilbo; Kevin Porter ’10, government, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and Isabelle Yoon ’09, sociology, ROK National Assembly

Korea Institute Supplementary Dissertation Research Grant

Kyong-mi Kwon, EALC, “Emergence of Modern Melodramatic Readers: A Study of Ch’unhyang chon, 1912-1941”

Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies 2008 Grants and Support for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

UNDERGRADUATES:
RIJS HENRY ROSOVSKY UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANT
Shi Lin Loh ’09, EAS and history, Nagasaki after Atomic Bombing: Perceptions and Responses”

RIJS UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS
Emily Bruemmer ’09, EAS, “Japanese Colonization and the Formation of Modern Korean Civil Society”

Marie Kodama ’09, social studies, teacher use of Japanese high school history textbooks to understand China-Japan relations

Jeffrey Kwong ’09, government, Chinese reception of Japanese and Korean pop culture products and its implications

RIJS UNDERGRADUATE SUMMER LANGUAGE GRANTS
Tobyn Aaron ’11, Hokkaido International Foundation (HIF); Peter Bernard ’11, Princeton in Ishikawa (PII); Chelsea Glover ’11, HIF; Jacqueline Li ’11, EAS, PII; Yifan Li ’11, PII; Kevin Martinez ’11, anthropology and EAS, PII; Hillard Pouncy ’10, economics, HIF; Brittany Turner ’10, history and literature, HIF

RIJS JAPAN SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM
Ning Ai ’09, economics, Shinsei Bank (Tokyo); Alex Chang ’10, computer science, Aon Group Japan (Tokyo); Tzu-Ying Chuang ’10, CPB, RIKEN Research Center for Allergy and Immunology (RCAI, Yokohama); Brandon Eum ’09, engineering sciences, Tokyo Gas (Tokyo); Zachary Frankel ’11, Bandai Corporation (Tokyo); Lauren Fulton ’10, government, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo); Shiv Gaglani ’10, engineering sciences, NanoJapan Program (Tokyo); Katherine Gunn ’11, Showa Women’s University (Tokyo); Daniel Haas, computer science ’10, Jyukankyo Research Institute (Tokyo); Kyle Hecht ’10, government, Institute of Developing Economies (Chiba); Iddoshe Hirpa ’11, RIKEN RCAI (Yokohama); Emily Hsu ’10, economics, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO; Tokyo); Aleksandra Kuczmarska ’10, psychology, Temple University (Tokyo); Erik Kuld ’10, MCB, RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology (CDB; Kobe); Taro Kuriyama ’09, comparative literature, Chiba Lotte Marines baseball (Chiba); Alessandro La Porta ’09, computer science, Toei Animation (Tokyo); Nicholas Moy ’10, economics, Institute for Global Environmental Studies (Hayama, Kanagawa); Jon-Mark Overvold ’09, literature, JETRO (Tokyo); Palmer Rampell ’10, English and American literature and language, Booz Allen Hamilton (Tokyo); Kareem Shuman ’09, HEB, Sanyu Clinic (Tokyo); Sadie Ariel Stoddard ’10, economics, Chugoku Bank (Okayama); JiaChen Sun ’09, economics, JP Morgan (Tokyo); Kaoru Takasaki ’10, chemistry, Japan Anti-Tuberculosis Association (Tokyo); Keito Uchiyama ’11, Kanru Maru (Tokyo); Joseph Vitti ’10, philosophy, Harvard Club of Japan and Shinsei Bank (Tokyo); Ran Wang ’10, English and American literature and language, JETRO (Tokyo); Jeremy Warshauer ’08, chemistry, Keio University School of Medicine, Shima Clinic (Tokyo and Kyoto); George Xu ’10, biomedical science and engineering, Tokyo University of Science (Tokyo); Rose Yan ’10, applied mathematics, Waseda University (Tokyo); Hann-Shuin Yew ’10, MCB, RIKEN CDB (Tokyo);

RIJS HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL AT RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE, WAKO-SHI SAITAMA
Jannis Brea ’10, neurobiology; Kunal Raygor ’10, neurobiology; Joseph Stujenske ’10, neurobiology; Kate Xie ’10, neurobiology; Elizabeth Zhang ’10, neurobiology

RIJS HARVARD SUMMER SCHOOL AT WASEDA UNIVERSITY, TOKYO
Svyatoslav Andriyishen ’10, history; Shani Boianjiu ’11; Jonathan Cheng ’11; Ani Childress ’10, HEB; Sonia Coman ’11; John Patrick Coyne ’08, history and literature; Kerry Goodenow ’11; Tabare Gowon ’10, engineering sciences; Amanda Klimczuk ’10, HEB; WonWoo Lee ’11; Alan O’Donnell ’08, physics; Lukens Orthwein ’10, economics; Patrick Quinn ’10, computer science; and Joel Sng ’08, economics

RIJS ACADEMIC YEAR STUDY ABROAD
Debbie Chiang ’09, EAS, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies; Jaeyoung Jeong ’07, government, Harvard-Yenching Institute Student Fellowship; Amy Klein ’07, English, Gardner Fellowship; Alice Thieu ’09, EAS, Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies; Taro Tsuda ’07, government, Mitsubishi Trust Yamamuro Memorial Scholarship, Kyoto University

RIJS STUDY TRAVEL
Seema Amble ’09, economics, Harvard College in Asia Project (HCAP); Danielle Charlap ’10, history, HCAP; Rebecca Cooper ’10, literature, HCAP; Andrei Cristea ’10, economics, HCAP; Jorge Escobedo, anthropology ’08, HCAP; Tyler Goin ’09, social studies, HCAP; Gee Hyun Lee ’09, social studies, HCAP; Lara Markstein ’10, English and American literature and language, HCAP; Kevin Martinez ’11, anthropology, HCAP; Allen Pope ’08, chemistry, Earth and planetary sciences, Kawamura Fellowship; Allegra Richards ’09, English and American literature and language, HCAP; Jakub Scholtz ’08, physics, HCAP; Dmitry Taubinsky ’09, applied mathematics, HCAP; Maya Tsukernik ’08, economics, Kawamura Fellowship; Lekha Tummalapalli ’09, MCB, HCAP; Christina Ward ’09, EAS, junior thesis research; Jean Won Yang ’11, environmental science and public policy, HCAP; and Bernard Zipprich ’09, economics, HCAP

RIJS SUMMER LANGUAGE STUDY GRANTS FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS
Lindsey Aakre, comparative literature, HIF; Philip Bloom, HAA, HIF; Yun-Ru Chen, law, Harvard Summer School (HSS); Evan Ingram, EALC, HIF; Macabe Keliher, EALC, HSS; Natalie Koehle, EALC, International Christian University; Katherine Lee, music, HSS; Arthur McKeown, Sanskrit and Indian Studies, HSS; Jonathan Service, EALC, Keats School (China); Shirley Ye, history, ICLP, National Taiwan University; Min Zhou, sociology, PII

RIJS SUPPLEMENTARY DISSERTATION COMPLETION/RESEARCH GRANTS FOR 2008-09
Raja Adal, history, “Negotiating the Aesthetics of Western Modernity: Art Education in Egyptian and Japanese Government Schools, 1872-1950”

Natsuko Kuwahara, Harvard Graduate School of Education, “Gendered Adjustment: Life Satisfaction, Well-Being, and Social Support Network of Japanese Graduate Students in the U.S.”

Kyong-Mi Kwon, EALC, “Emergence of Modern Melodramatic Readers: A Study of Ch’unhyang chon, 1912-1941”

Eunmi Mun, sociology, “Formalized Performance Evaluations and Gender Equality in Japanese Organizations”

Regan Murphy, religion, “History as Karma: Reevaluating the Buddhism-kokugaku Dichotomy”

May-yi Shaw, EALC, “The Reworking of Cultural and National Identity Among Chinese and Japanese Writers During the Second Sino-Japanese War”

Akiko Walley, HAA, “The Reconstructed Horyuji Examined through Buddhist Ideology in Seventh to Eighth Century Japan”

Thomas G. Walley, EALC, “‘I would rather be a faithful dog than an uprighteous man’: Virtue and Vice in Kyokutei Bakin’s ‘Nanso Satomi hakkenden’”

RIJS SUMMER RESEARCH GRANTS
Mikael Bauer, EALC, doctrinal and institutional history of the Hosso School

Ethan Bushelle, RSEA, waka as religious praxis in medieval Japan

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

Mark Erdmann, HAA, “Towards a ‘Unified Theory’ of Azuchi: Reconstructing and Reconceptualizing Oda Nobunaga’s Azuchi Castle and Its Artistic/Architectural Program”

William Fleming, EALC, popular literature and the study of nature in 18th century Japan”

Kathryn Handlir, RSEA, “Painting Couture: The Artist as Textile Designer in Early Modern Japan”

Iman Khosrowpour, RSEA, “Toru Takemitsu: Expanding Musical Boundaries and Defining Cultural Trends in Post-War Japan”

Jie Li, EALC, “Between Propaganda and Testimony: Contested Visible Memories of the Second Sino-Japanese War”

Regan Murphy, religion, “Karma as History: Reevaluating the Buddhism-kokugaku Dichotomy”

Andrea Murray, anthropology, “Eco-Footprints in Paradise: Tourism, Development and Climate Change in Okinawa”

Esra-Gokce Sahin, anthropology, “Humor and Laughter in Japan: Manzai as a Genre in Japanese Humor”

Yuki Takagi, government, “The U.S.-Japan Alliance as a Credible Threat to North Korea”

Akiko Yamagata, RSEA, “Tea, Taste, and Patronage: The Role of Tea Sweet in Defining Aesthetic Communities”

Liu Yang, RSEA, ethnographic research on Japan’s trainee program and disguised foreign unskilled laborers in Japan

Jeremy Yellen, history, “In the Service of Empire: Japanese Wartime Internationalism and the Greater East Asia Conference of 1943”

Jennifer Yum, EALC, “Symptoms of Modernity: Depression, Homosexuality, and Venereal Disease in Colonial Korea”

RIJS GRADUATE CONFERENCE ATTENDANCE GRANTS
Heather Blair, religion, American Association of Religion, San Diego

Amy Catalinac, government, East-West Center Grad Student Conference, Hawaii, and Japanese Politics Colloquium, Oxford, England

Hansung Kim, RSEA, Columbia University Grad Student Conference, New York

Di Yin Lu, history, Association for Asian Studies (AAS), British Columbia

Andrea Murray, social anthropology, Science and Technology Leadership Association, Tokyo

Regan Murphy, religion, AAS, Atlanta

Yongwook Ryu, government, School of Foreign Affairs, Beijing

May-yi Shaw, EALC, AAS, Atlanta

RIJS DISSERTATION PRODUCTION GRANTS
Yoichi Nakano, EALC, “Negotiating Modern Landscapes: The Politics of Infrastructure Development in Modern Japan”

Emer O’Dwyer, EALC, People’s Empire: Democratic Imperialism in Japanese Manchuria”

Fabian Drixler, history, “Infanticide and the Fall and Rise of Fertility in Eastern Japan: Discourse and Demography, 1660-1880”

2008 South Asia Initiative Summer Grants for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

TATA STUDY GRANTS: GRADUATE
Anthony Acciavatti, architecture, “Hydraulic Pastoralism: Transects of the Ganga-Jamuna doab in northern India”

Anjali Adukia, “Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education, Latrines for Learning: The Causal Impact of Toilets on Educational & Health Outcomes in Rural India”

Hunt Allcott, public policy, household energy demand in India and the welfare impacts of energy subsidies

Sharon Barhhardt, public policy, “Experimental Approaches to the Study of Public Housing Programs in Urban India”

Faisal Chaudhry, history, “Case Law Jurisprudence in British India: Late 19th Century and Early Calcutta Supreme Court”

Chanchal Dadlani, HAA, “‘Twilight’ of the Mughals? Architecture and Aesthetics in the Late Mughal Empire”

Johan Matthew, history, “Steamships, Dhows and Routes on the Arabian Sea”

John Matthew, history of science, “To Fashion a Fauna for British India”

Dinyar Patel, history, Parsi involvement in the Indian nationalist movement and Hindi language study

Sandra Sequeira, public policy, “The Road Out of Poverty: An Experimental Study of the Impact of Rural Roads on Livelihoods in India”

Harpreet Singh, religion, Sanskrit language study

Anil Somani, economics, “Inquiry into Traditional Marwari Bahi-Khata Accounting System”

Anand Vaidya, social anthropology, scientific expertise and notions of the natural in the Bombay Natural History Society’s conservation

Jeremy Yellen, history, “In the Service of Empire: Wartime Japanese Internationalism and the Greater East Asia Conference”

SAI STUDY GRANTS: GRADUATE
Sana Aiyar, history, South Asian diaspora in colonial Kenya and postcolonial Britain

Garga Chatterjee, psychology, faith, identity, and coexistence in Chitpur Road, Kolkata — amodern multiculturalisms

Alison Comfort, health policy, evaluating household spending patterns for health and non-health goods

Jessica Corsi, HJD, “Human Rights Law Network: Assessing the National Anti Domestic Violence Law”

Antara Datta, history; war, violence, and displacement during the 1971 Bangladesh war

Ujala Dhaka, anthropology, spaces of multireligious engagement in the city of Mumbai

Supriya Gandhi, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), “Mughal Writings on Indic Religions: Dara Shukuh and His Milieu”

Sadaf Jaffer, NELC, “The Obscenity Trials of Ismat Chughtai and Saadat Hasan Manto”

Bilal Malik, HGSE, “‘Tradition,’ ‘Modernity’ and Islamic Education: The Case of a ‘Modern Madrasa’ in Pakistan”

Ketaki Pant, social anthropology, an ethnography of Gujarati Commerce in East Africa

Daniel Sheffield, NELC, “Sacred Narratives of Zarathustra in Medieval and Early Modern Zoroastrianism”

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

Zubin Shroff, population and international health, “BRAC Bangladesh: A Financially Sustainable Healthcare Model”

Stephanie Spray, anthropology, “Reflections on the Seasons,” a series of ethnographic and poetic video works

Julia Stephens, history, “Competing Legalities: Colonial Law and the Faraizi Movement in Bengal, 1830-1857”

Gitanjali Surendran, history, “Kutiyattam, Kathakali and Tullal: Caste, Gender and the Many Meanings of Performance in Kerala”

SAI RESEARCH TRAVEL GRANTS: GRADUATE
Naomi Krieger, economics, “Policy Analysis Exercise with TechnoServe”

Matt McClelland, HKS, “Policy Analysis Exercise with TechnoServe”

Lana Dinic, public health, “Examining the Health System and Reforms in Kerala”

Suvranil Majumdar, HKS, public policy research

Tariq Omar Ali, history, economic ideas in agrarian East Bengal

TATA STUDY GRANTS: UNDERGRADUATE
Vinita Andrapalliyal ’09, “Maoism Reconsidered: An Examination of the Senderista and Naxalite Thought”

Natalie Bau ’09, research at the Centre for Micro Finance

Catherine Bevilacqua ’09, “Indian Outcaste Women and the Outcaste Human Rights Movement”

Bhavnit Bhatia ’09, “Stigma and Stories More Than Skin-Deep: Vitiligo and Its Gendered Implications”

Rachel Carpentier ’10, advanced Tamil language study

Alexander Fabry ’09, history of Indian institutions for fundamental research in physics

Peter Ganong ’09, “Researching Informal Markets and Social Trust in India”

Spenta Kutar, Parsi merchants in the 19th century opium trade with China

Maria Larsson ’09, architectural style of Le Corbusier

Benjamin Schoefer ’09, “Socio-Cultural Context, Social Learning, and Technology Diffusion: the Indian Green Revolution”

Aditi Sen ’09, “Image and Dwelling: World City and Slum in New Delhi”

Madeleine Shapiro ’09, teaching health at Asha

Matthew Smith, Bangla language study

Zeba Syed ’09, a study of the factors that account for either communal strife or harmony in Hyderabad

Eleanor Wilking ’09, exploring effects of trade liberalization on community and nation in Mumbai and Kaladera region

Erin Yu ’10, microfinance study at Mimo Finance

SAI STUDY GRANTS: UNDERGRADUATE
Lewis Bollard ’09, “Militarization in the Animal Rights Movement in America, Britain, and India”

Michael Kapps ’11, “Economic Development of Mauritius: Past, Present, and Future”

SAI SERVICE IN INDIA INTERNSHIPS
Valerie Chadha ’11, Mimo Finance; Amardeep Grewal ’11, Asha Community Health and Development Society; Mihir Gupta ’10, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare; Tess Hellgren ’11, global crossroad; Chiara Kovarik ’10, cross-cultural solutions; Danielle Lee ’11, India Schoolhouse Fund; Spencer Livingston ’10, Grama Vidiyal Microfinance; Laura Nicholson ’09, Christian Medical College; Manisha Pandita ’10, Panchayat Raj Engineering Department; Gary Pelissier ’11, India Schoolhouse Fund; Katherine Tygielski ’10, Tamil Nadu Orphanage; John Zermeno ’09, Child Family Health International