2017-2018 Student Grant Recipients
Robert M. and Ellen E. Boyd Memorial Fund
Mustafa Bal, B.A. Candidate, Department of Computer Science, Harvard College, The impact of current day technology on the growth & decline of folk religions in Japan and Vietnam
William E. Braden 1941 Travel Fund
Seth Soderborg, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Government, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Mobilizing Votes Under Uncertainty in Indonesia
Courtney Wittekind, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Myanmar's Transition at the Margins
Rachel Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Jakarta, Sinking City: Ecologies of Belonging in a Flood-Prone Metropolis
Bradley Bolman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Science, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Metformin Imaginaries: Transcolonial Biomedicine and Global Knowledge in the Philippines and Morocco
Cresa Pugh, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Becoming Rakhine: A field study of religious and ethnic violence in Rakhine State, Myanmar
Reza Idria, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Emerge from the Shadow: Being Gay under Sharia Law in Aceh, Indonesia
Roger A. Brooks Japan Travel Fund
Manuel Azuaje-Alamo, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature,The translation and reception of world literature and Latin American literature by writers of China, Korea and Japan
Richard M. Cashin Fund
Seung Hee Oh, Ph.D. candidate, History of Art and Architecture, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Dream, Illusion, and Anxiety in the Illustrations of The Story of the Western Chamber edited by Min Qiji (1640)
Kristen Zipperer, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, We are all actors in the performance: Power, law, and the media in the India-Nepal borderland
Aniket De, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Lived Boundaries: Travel, Pilgrimage and National Borders in Modern Asia
Natasha Murtaza, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, State-Building after Democratization: The Effect of Competition on Governance
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund
Rui Hua, Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Frontier Cultures of Legality and the (Un-)Making of Transnational Manchuria, 1900-1957
John Hayashi, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Channeling Global Engineering Networks in Colonial Taiwan
Christopher Carothers, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Corruption Control Before and After Democratization:,A Comparative Study of South Korea and Taiwan
Yookyeong Im, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Legal Movements and the Language of Human Rights in Queer Activism in South Korea
Austin Strange, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Confronting the World Economy: Maritime Trade Policies in Late Imperial China
Victor and William Fung Foundation Fund
James Bedford, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, Harvard China Fund Internship
Canghao Chen, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, Harvard China Fund Internship
Sasinat Chindapol, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, A Comparative Study of the Human - River Relationships in East and Southeast Asian Global Cities
Haozhou Gu, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, Harvard China Fund Internship
Raquel Leslie, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, Senior Thesis on the CCP’s Promotion of an Illiberal Alternative in the Developing World
Jennifer Li, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, China’s role in bringing North Korea to the nuclear negotiations table and how it has changed in the post - Col d War period
Jerrica Li, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, Harvard China Fund Internship
William Morris, B.A. candidate, Harvard College, Harvard China Fund Internship
Mikaela Allen, M.A. candidate, Harvard Divinity School, Chinese language study
Eyck Freymann, M.A. candidate, Regional Studies—East Asia, China’s “One Belt One Road” international infrastructure development project
Boya Guo, M.A. candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Developing a Basis for a Speculation on Comparing Traditions of Copying and Their Modern Spatial Isomorphism in China and Japan
Tenzin Tselha, M.A. candidate, Harvard Divinity School, Chinese language study
Narusa Yamato, M.A. candidate, Regional Studies—East Asia, Chinese language study
Aurélien Bellucci, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, East and South Asian Theater and Performance Fieldwork
Fangdai Chen, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Japanese language study
Szu-Chiao Chen, Ph.D. candidate, Committee on the Study of Religion, Tibetan language study
Joshua Freedman, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Chinese language study
Bing Huang, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Mechanized Worldview in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Art
Charles Jordan, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Government, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Chinese language study
Shijung Kim, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Chinese language study
Raphael Koenig, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Art Therapy Workshops in China and Japan: A Comparative Study
Lingling Ma, Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The Transnational Flow of "Life" Across Japanese and Chinese Modernities
Huijun Mai, Ph.D. candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Su Shi (1037-1101) in Circulation: An Eleventh Century Chinese Cultural Icon in Japan
Michael O’Krent, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Chinese language study
Benjamin Shaffer, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Art Therapy Workshops in China and Japan: A Comparative Study
Jesus Solis, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Chinese language study
Bohao Wu, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Living with Enemies: Life, Work, and Reorientation in Soviet Occupied Dalian, 1945-1955
O’ Friel Fund
Crystal Ward, Doctor of Education Leadership Candidate, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Comparing the Educational Impact of National Values, Family Engagement, and Government Oversight in Japan and Thailand
Mustafa Bal, B.A. Candidate, Computer Science and Linguistics, Mythology in the Information Era: Comparing the Impact of Technology on the Growth & Decline of Folk Religions in Japan and Vietnam
Stephen A. Orlins Fund
Yong Han Poh, B.A. Candidate, East Asian Studies and Anthropology, Co-Ethnicity, Xenophobia and Competing Nationalisms: The Case of New Chinese Migrants in Singapore
William H. Overholt Fund in Honor of Ezra Vogel
Jared Perlo, B.A. Candidate, History of Science and Global Health & Health Policy, Harvard College, Documenting how three Indonesian communities have engaged with public health issues (focus: HIV)
Mustafa Bal, B.A. Candidate, Computer Science and Linguistics, Harvard College, Finding Oneself in the Digital Age: Comparing the Effects of Technology on Religion and Spirituality in Japan and Vietnam
Daniel Wood, B.A. Candidate, Anthropology and Psychology, Harvard College, “Rohingya,” “Muslim,” or “Bengali?”: Media, Power and Public Opinion in Myanmar
Lindsay Bu, B.A. Candidate, English, Harvard College, English senior thesis: non-fiction work examining family history & Asian-American cultural barriers (travel to South Korea)
Jessica Huang, Ph.D. candidate, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Water treatment and health education pilot with Rohingya families in Bangladesh
Justin Stern, Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Planning, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Global Outsourcing, Local Transformations: Business Process Outsourcing, Urban Restructuring and the Scrambling of Time in the Philippines
Rachel Thompson, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Jakarta, Sinking City: Ecologies of Belonging in a Flood-Prone Metropolis
Catherine Hartmann, Ph.D. Candidate, The Study of Religion, Harvard Divinity School, To See the Invisible Wonders: Vision, Place, and Writing in Tibetan Pilgrimage Literature
Jack C. Tang Fund
Ziliang Liu, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Secret Apparatus of the Eastern Garden: Mortuary Mask in Western Han Dynasty
Bing Huang, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Machine Consciousness: the Art of Automata in 18th Century China and Japan
Yung-chang Tung, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fact-Check the Information from a Foreign Land: Japanese Reception of Song China (690-1276) Written Notes
Tao & Cheng Travel and Research Fund
Manuel Azuaje Alamo, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Literature, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, A comparative study of the translations and reception of world literature and Latin American literature in East Asia
Keung Yoon Bae, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Film policies enacted across the Japanese empire, focusing on the period of World War II (1939-1945)
Haruka Umetsu Cho, Ph.D. candidate, Religion, Gender, and Culture, Harvard Divnity School, Researching Kirishitan and Christian Feminist Archives in Tokyo and Attending the 5th Annual Christian Forum for Reconciliation in Northeast Asia in Kyoto
Graeme Reynolds, Ph.D. candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Compiling Consciousness: The Production and Circulation of Court Histories in early Choson Korea
Amy Zhang, M.A. candidate, Regional Studies—East Asia, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Japanese language study
Ezra F. Vogel Fund
Damina Khaira, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Storytelling and Nostalgia: The Experiences of Being and Belonging in a Longhouse Community
Munjed Murad, Doctor of Theology Candidate, Harvard Divinity School, The "Secrets of the Gnostics" of Hamzah al-Fansuri