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