Taiwan Studies Lectureship Graduate Fellowship
Spencer Chen, Anthropology (Summer 2016)
Project title: “Capitalizing Language and Pride: Negotiations of Lingua-cultural Identities between Taiwanese Guides and Mainland Chinese Tourists”
Matthew Fox, Sociology (Summer 2016)
Project title: “In the Aftermath of Scandal: A Comparison of the Construction of Ethics Laws in Taiwan and the United States”
Andrew Le, Sociology (Fall 2016)
Project title: “Taiwan’s Role in Global Migration and the Creation of an ‘Accidental’ Community”
Toulouse-Antonin Roy, History (Fall 2016)
Project title: “Primitive Accumulation Camphor Capitalism and the Conquest of Aboriginal Taiwan 1895-1915”
Taiwan Studies Lectureship Faculty Travel Grant
Bin Wong, History (Summer 2016)
Project: Research using late Qing Ministry of Commerce archives and collection of statecraft writings
Partner institution: Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Stephen Acabado, Anthropology (September 2016 and January 2017)
Project title: “Dynamic Spatial Governance in the Mountain Social-ecological System: Case Study of the Tayal Communities in the Watershed of Shih-Men Reservoir”
Partner institution: National Chengchi University
Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Graduate Fellowship
Kathryn Cai, English
Project title: “Everyday heath in contemporary China: narratives of wellbeing in bodily practice fiction news media and popular culture”
Kevin Shih, Sociology
Project title: “Where is China's Facebook? Comparing the popularity and growth trajectories of Internet brokers in the US and China”
Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Faculty Grant
Katsuya Hirano, History
Project title: “Third Trans-Pacific Workshop: Politics of Life/Death”