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2009-2010 Asia Institute and Wagatsuma Fellowships Awarded

Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Fellowships and Asia Institute Graduate Fellowships

Asia Institute Graduate Fellowships


The Asia Institute Graduate Fellowships are awarded to UCLA graduate students whose research focuses on focuses on an Asian topic or incorporates Asia in comparative or regional perspectives or methodologies. The 2009-2010 awards are granted to two advanced graduate students in recognition of their demonstrated achievement and the potential of their research and their promise as scholars.

Leslie Barnes, French and Francophone Studies
Colonial Encounters and Literary Innovation in the Works of André Malraux, Marguerite Duras, and Linde Lê

Rajashree Mazumder, History
Indian Diaspora in British Burma, Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century: Nationalism, Ethnicity and Violence

Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Fellowships

Hiroshi Wagatsuma Memorial Fellowships are awarded to UCLA graduate students working on a dissertation or comparable research project with a substantial cross-cultural or comparative dimension, preferably one concerning Japan or other Asian country and North American comparison. Five UCLA graduate students received awards in 2009-2010.

Winifred Chang, History
Marshalling Culture: Strategies of Japanese Mobilization in Taiwan, 1920-1945

Jaeeun Kim, Sociology
Transborder National Membership Politics in Korea

Lujing Ma, Asian Languages and Cultures
Oshikawa's "Buky" and Modern Chinese Martial Arts Fiction

Jae Hyeok Shin, Political Science
Electoral System Choice and Personalistic Parties in New Democracies

Christen Sasaki, History
Pacific Confluence: Negotiating Nationhood in 19th Century Hawai'i

 

 

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Date Posted: 10/8/2009