Graduate Research and Travel Awardees

Andre Gray (Economics) – “Traditional Medicine and the Demand for Modern Healthcare”

Andrea Del Carmen Gaspar (Ethnic Studies) – “Comparative Indigenous Boarding School Study to Trace

a Genealogy of Transborder Indigenous Resistance”

Araz Majnoonian (School of Public Health) – “Addressing Post-Conflict Gender-Based Violence Issues in Armenia: A Community Based Participatory Research Approach”

Bahar Abdi (Literature) – “The Making of Public Space: Performance and Protest in Post-revolutionary Iran”

Claudia Duarte-Borquez (Linguistics) - “San Juan Piñas Mixtec (Tò’ōn Ndā’ví) language documentation”

Damini Pant (Anthropology & CGS) – “Desiring Nature: Infrastructure & Ecological Work”

Elizabeth Frost ( School of Public Health) – “Economic empowerment and menstrual hygiene needs

among young women in Nigeria”

Felicitas Hartung (History) – “Dear Professor Einstein” Early Cold War Visions for a World Government and the Politization of Science”

Fulvia Budillon (Economics) – “Traditional Medicine and Demand for Modern Healthcare”

Guilherme Sena de Assunção (History) – “The “ashamed right” and the rise of neoliberalism in post-authoritarian Brazil”

Hagyeong Shin (Linguistics) – “Evaluating Large Language Models for the Korean language”

Jordan Buchanan (History) – “Coexisting: Urban and Social Environments During Mexico’s

Neoliberal Transition, 1982-1994”

Mohammad Khamsya Bin Khidzer (Sociology) – “The Cultural Production of Intellectual Property: The Case of Temasek Rice”

Muhammad Karim (Economics) – “The role of credit and grants in adaptation and resilience to floods”

Niall Chithelen (History) – “Concrete and the Construction of China: The Environmental History of “Building Socialism,” 1949-1976”

Robert Nixon (History) _ “Experiencing Authoritarianism: Television, Film and Radio in Syria During the Rise of the Ba’th”

Tony Cho (Communication) – “Abandoned Bases: Traces of Occupation in South Korea”

Yaohan Wu (Anthropology) – “Pandemics in the past: exploring the relationship between animal-human

interactions and zoonotic diseases in prehistoric Northwest China”

Yeilim Cheong (Political Science) – “Voice, Exit, or Loyalty? Economic Opportunity, Exit Viability, and Political Dissent in North Korea”

Yixue Yang (History) – “project: “Embroidering New China: Gender, Trade, and Internationalism in Rural Yangzi Delta 1950s-80s”

Ziwen Zu (Political Science) – “Safeguarding Autocracy: Lawyers and Democratization in China”

Hyangseon Ahn (Sociology) - "Contested Meanings of Reparation: A case of Jeju 4.3 Incident"

Yuan Chai (Linguistics) - "Preserving endangered indigenous culture through linguistic documentation: Yateé Zapotec"

Vivian Chih (Literature) - " “Her” Stories in Cultural Memory Reconstruction: Female Images and Subjectivity in the Restored Arts of Modern Taiwan"

Nancy (Turteltaub) Donald (Anthropology) - "Carreteras y Corredores: The Infrastructures of Conservation in Patagonia"

Weiai Fang (Sociology) - " Configuring “Ideal” Citizens: The Acquisition of Subnational Citizenship in China"

Adam Fefer (Political Science) - "Ethiopia's Authoritarian Transition and the Future of Federalism"

Arianna Garvin (Anthropology) - "Comparing Societal Resilience in the Chicama Valley:
El Niño and Chimu Subsistence Adaptations"

Geoffrey Hoffman (Political Science) - "China’s Internet Firms and Global Internet Freedom"

Yen-Ting Hsu (Sociology) -"Neoliberal Urban Redevelopment and Resistance Over Land Use: The Urban Politics of Heritage Production in 21st -Century Taipei"

Syeda ShahBano Ijaz (Political Science) - "Aid and Accountability in Pakistan"

Weiyue Kan (History) -"The World of Care: Managing Disability in the Qing China(1644-1911)"

Benjamin Kletzer (History) -"China's Dream of the Red Railway: Professional Railroaders and the Making of an Industrial Power, 1945-1976."

Dasom Lee (Sociology) -"Migration Industry and Migrant Incorporation: Workers, Marriage
Migrants, and Students from Vietnam to South Korea"

Hyesong Lim (History) -“Revisiting Ungrievable Deaths in the Cold War Islands: The Case of 4.3 Massacres in Jeju Island, South Korea”

Rachel Miles (Linguistics) -"Language emergence among deaf students in Vanuatu"

Maria Fernanda Urrutia Osorio (SIO) -"Application of drones to document the impact of whale-watching boats on the behavior of gray whales (Eschrichtius robustus) in a nursing lagoon of Baja California"

Sabareesh Ramachandran (Economics) -"Impact of land titling on economic well being of the urban poor"

Nithyanand Rao (Communication) -"Emplacing “Indian science”

Joe Riley (Visual Arts) -“From Subalpine to Submarine: Narratives, Ecologies, and Politics of Inland and
Coastal Waterbodies”

Sevin Sagnic (Sociology) - "Foreign Policy and Refugee Governance in the Middle East: A comparative historical analysis"

Bolun Zhang (Sociology) - "From Reform to Platform: the evolution of the GeTiHu (self-employed) category in China's neoliberal reform"

Teresa Diaz De Cossio (Music) - "Listening for Alida Vázquez, A life in Electronic Music Between Migration, Race and Gender"

Noelle Sepina (Ethnic Studies) - "“Philippine Cinema and Transnational Collaborations in the Marcos Era” 

Jaeyoung Ha (History) - "'Blood, Sweat, and Tears': South Korea’s Mountain Enclosure Campaign, 1945-1980"

Parla Buyruk (Cognitive Science ) - “Do language influence eye-witness testimony, blame, and punishment?” 

Nese Demir (Linguistics) -“Pursuing Language Change in the Laz Community of Turkey” 

Melina Economou (Anthropology) - “Creating Space: Community and Wellbeing among Refugees in Greece” 

Erica Ferrer (SIO) - “Informing Marine Conservation in Northwest Mexico”

Sam Gaffney (Communication) - “Extractive Infrastructures: Exerting Power and Making Political Claims Through Networks of Coal Technologies in Australia” 

Lauren Gilbert (Political Science) - “Perception Of And Attitudes Towards LGBT People in Kenya”

Yaqian Huang (Linguistics) - “Research Project Description: Documenting Hengyang, An Under-Studied Dialect in China” 

Syeda ShahBano Ijaz (Political Science) - “Votes for Access: Foreign Aid and Accountability in Developing Democracies”

E,Frances King (Anthropology) -“Archival Suffering: Anglican Missions, Violence, and Refugees”

David Lindstrom (Anthropology) - “Honduran Migration: An Interdisciplinary Approach”

Chuncheng Liu (Sociology and Science Studies Program) - “Seeing like a Social Credit System: The Construction of an algorithmic surveillance infrastructure”

Ke Nie (Sociology) - “Regulating Culture: A Study of the Hip-Hop Censorship in China”

Camila Gonzalez Paz Paredes (Sociology) - “Lynching in Contemporary Mexico: Histories of Collective Violence”

Ivana Polic (History) - “The (Re) Making of Young Patriots: Children and Nation Building in Wartime Croatia (1990-1995) “

Ana Lopez Ricoy (Sociology) - “Globalizing Feminicidio: How Local Movements Shape Global Understandings of Violence Against Women”

Joseph Riley (Visual Arts) -“How do we see the Sea?”

Rachel Schoner (Political Science) - “Repressive Regimes and Individual Petitions in the Human Rights Committee”

Verónica Uribe del Águila (Communication) – “Managing the Financial Risk of Being a Maker: Standardization, Desire and Labor in Latina American Prototyping Culture”

Juan Villa (History) - "Spanish Exiles lived experiences: in France and Mexico"

Marina Vlahaki (History) – “Interweaving Worlds: The Poetics and Politics of Hair in African Literature”

Hyandgseon Ahn (Sociology)- “Putting Price Tags on Collective Suffering and Harm”

Mariana Barbosa (Political Science)- “The Political Economy of Assassinations”

Morgen Chalmiers (Anthropology)- “Reproductive Decision-Making after Displacement: An Interdisciplinary, Ethnographic Investigation among Transnational Syrian Refugee Families”

Jose Guererro (Linguistics)-“Documenting Surprise in the Cho’ol Language”

Ying Guo (Literature)- “Iconography of Ethnic Female and Transnational Collective Memory”

Shah Syeda Ijaz (Political Science)- “Governance in the Shadow of Foreign Aid”

Nicole Theresa King (Visual Arts)- “The Post-Oasis—Uncovering Utopia in the Landscape”

Eun Hee Kwon (Sociology)- “Temporary Migrants’ Stratified Sense of Belonging: the Case of Textile Markets”

Nicole (Kimiko) Leneave (History)- “Rhythms of the Revolution: Sociopolitical Intersections of Music in the Cuban Cold War”

Yiqing Li (Visual Arts)- “From Paris to Shanghai: Modern Abstract Painting in Transcultural Context”

Jiaqi Liu (Sociology)- “Constructing Sojourner Returnees: The Local Politics of Return Migration and Citizenship in China”

Kevan Malone (History)- “The Magnetic Frontier: Urbanization, Political Ecology, and the Making of the Tijuana-San Diego Border, 1920-1999”

Patricia Marcos (History & Science Studies)- “Political Medicine: The Sciences of power Prosperity and Population in the Portuguese Atlantic, 17115-1808”

Angela (Yoonjeong Choi) McClean (Sociology)- “Contemporary Politics of Refugee Acceptance and Resettlement in South Korea”

Lauren Nippoldt (Anthropology)- “Personal and Community Transformation through Sikh Seva”

Junghun Oh (Sociology)- “Constructing the Meaning of Care Work in South Korea”

Adam Soliman (Economics)- “Role of Technology and Informal Sector in Public Service Delivery”

Yasemin Taskin- Alp (Sociology)- “Islamic preschools in Istanbul, Turkey”

Duy Trinh (Political Science)- “Perception of Political Factions and Factional Identity in Hanoi, Vietnam: A Conjoint Experiment”

Xinyang (Shane) Xuan (Political Science)-“Governance and Accountability in Southeast Asia”

Michael Berman (Anthropology) - "Spatializing hope: forming communities in post-disaster Japan"

Szu-Chin (Vivian) Chih (Literature) - "The renaissance of Taiwanese opera and glove poetry"

Haley Ciborowski (Family Medicine & Public Health) - "Migration, cultural change, and mental health among indigenous Mayans in the rural Guatemala highlands"

Christina Cottiero (Political Science) - "Staying alive: the strategic use of regional integration organizations by vulnerable elites in Africa"

Matthew Crum (History) - "Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey"

Semih Gokotalay (History) - "Chambers of commerce and the making of modern business in the Middle East (1882-1939)"

Hee Eun Kwon (Sociology) - "Temporary migrants stratified sense of belonging: the case of textile markets in Dubai, United Arab Emirates"

Chuncheung Liu (Sociology) - "The construction of gay men's cooperative identities under the global health programs in China"

Charles McClean (Political Science) - "Youth underrepresentation in political institutions in Japan"

Jessica Ng (SIO) - "Paleo-water table depths as indicator of mining impacts in the Salar de Atacama, Chile"

Ly Thuy Nguyen (Ethnic Studies) - "The politics of returning: exchange education, differential diaspora and Vietnamese identities"

Michael Obiri-Yeboah (Linguistics) - "Documenting Gua, an endangered language of Ghana"

Junghun Oh (Sociology) - "Skilled care work of an unpaid caregiver? Mothers of children with developmental disabilities in South Korea and a family caregiver support program"

John Porten (Political Science) - "Civil society, civil war: the use and abuse of community networks in conflict zones - the case of Nepal"

Dimitrios Stergiopoulos (History) - "Christians of the Ottoman Empire: loyal subjects of the Sultan or agents of imperial demise?"

Sindhu Thirumalaisamy (Visual Arts) - "FOAM: experimental film and essay - Bangalore, India"

Trisha Tschopp (History) - "Examining Arab technoscientific expertise in Mandate Palestine (1920-1948)"

Hua (Miranda) Wu (Anthropology) - "Where do I place my body and heart? - Shanghai and Changsha, China

Haleh Yazdi (Psychology) - "A cross-cultural study of how children in India, Iran and the U.S. develop ingroup and outgroup biases"

Bolun Zhang (Sociology) - "Capturing economy: China's piece work wage policy 1949-1966"

Abuelhiga, Soraya (Literature) "Staged-Social Drama, cultural performance and conflicting…"

Barbosa, Mariana Carvalho (Political Science) "Urban violence and political participation"

Boston, Martin (Ethnic Studies) "The Role of Mobility and Expressive Culture in US and South African Studies"

Braden, Peter (History) "Did Animals Have a Chinese Revolution?"

Fauvelle, Mikael (Anthropology) "Connecting the Global and the local at Fraccion Mujular"

Gismero, Paloma Checa (Visual Arts) "Biennial places. Authenticity and the expansion or the contemp art industry"

Gray, Taylor (History) "State and Private Collaborations"

Jung, Youngoh (History) "Bounded by Opposing Empires"

Marcos, Patricia Martins (History) "Health politics-Medical reform and Imperial Rehab"

Merritt, Seth (Sociology) "Epistemic Infrastuctures"

Ng, Jessica (SIO) "Collaborative Sustainability Science with Indigenous Latin American Communities"

Polic, Ivana (History) "The (RE) Making of young patriots"

Ribeiro, Germano (Sociology) "Tax reforms and economic elites in Mexico"

Rivera, Edwin Lopez (History) "Public health, social expenditure, and the Colombian state 1802-1930"

Sanchez, Dinorah Lille (Anthropology) "Embodiment of risk in the US-Mexico border"

Sherman, Stephanie (Visual Arts) "The Freudian Slip"

Wanke, Che (Public Health) "Epidemiology of commercial motorcycle crash…"