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China Studies Program Fellowships

The annual China Studies Program Fellowship competition, conducted during Winter quarter, is by nomination. All applicants are nominated by members of the China Studies Program Faculty. Recipients are typically contacted in late March/early April.

Gordon C. Culp Recruitment Fellowship Dedicated by The Jackson Foundation in Chinese Studies [not to be offered in 2009]

The Culp-Jackson Recruitment Fellowship is open to any graduate applicant who are US citizens, will employ Chinese language materials in his/her research, and whose main advisor will bea member of the China Studies Faculty. Preference is given to the most promising incoming PhD students. The fellowship includes tuition, student medical insurance, and a stipend of $15,000 for the nine-month academic year. It is renewable once, on evidence of satisfactory academic performance, and contingent upon availability of funding. In addition, recipients should not accept work as a teaching or research assistant. The fellowships are funded by a grant provided by The Henry M. Jackson Foundation.

China Recruitment Fellowship [not to be offered in 2009]

The China Recruitment Fellowship is open to any graduate applicant who will employ Chinese language materials in his/her research and whose main advisorwill be a member of the China Studies Faculty; preference will be given to the most promising incoming PhD students and is open to both US citizens and non-US citizens. The fellowship includes tuition, student medical insurance, and a stipend of $15,000 for the nine-month academic year. It is renewable once for a second year, on evidence of satisfactory academic performance, and contingent upon availability of funding. The fellowship is funded by the China Program endowment.

China Program Fellowship

The China Program Fellowship is open to any graduate student who will employ Chinese language materials in his/her research and whose main advisorwill bea member of the China Studies Faculty; preference will be given to continuing students at the PhD level engaged in fieldwork or advanced coursework though students writing their dissertations will also be considered. MA students, US citizens, and non-US citizens are eligible to be nominated. The fellowship may cover tuition, stipend, fieldwork expenses, and/or student medical insurance. If the nominee has been writing a dissertation, she/he must submit an outline and chapters of the dissertation, finished or in progress. The fellowship is funded by various endowments.

Hsiao Fellowship

The Hsiao Fellowship is open to any advanced PhD student pursuing research on pre-twentieth-century China; preference will be given to students at the dissertation writing stage, not including fieldwork; and whose main advisor will be a member of the China Studies Faculty. This fellowship may be used to cover tuition, stipend and medical insurance. If the nominee has been writing a dissertation, she/he must submit an outline and chapters of the dissertation, finished or in progress. The fellowship is funded by the Hsiao Endowment.

Small Grants for Doctoral Research [not to be offered in 2009]

The China Studies Program will offer a limited number of small grants with the maximum amount of $2,000 on a competitive basis to support graduate students who are currently registered in a UW graduate degree program doing research on China related to their dissertation work during the academic year (including the summer). Grant funds are intended mainly to cover research travel in China, but they may also be used to cover related research assistance, acquisition of research materials, supplies, and other research costs. The student's main advisor will be a member of the China Studies Faculty. Normally the project should be completed within 12 months. Funds are not to be used as a stipend or for living costs in Seattle, or for a computer, tuition for language study, conference travel, or registration fees. Applications may not include overhead costs.

The nomination package should include a supporting letter from the nominating faculty, a proposal by the student explaining the research project (single spacing, font 12, two pages max) with a one-page budget, and a current transcript (unofficial is okay). There is no restriction as to the discipline or citizenship. Equal consideration will be given to students who are seeking funding for their doctoral research (those who have successfully defended their proposal) and to those planning pilot projects leading to doctoral research. Preference will be given to those students who have not received prior funding from the small grants program.

Funds are paid in US dollars to the individual conducting the research. Grant payments can only be made while the student is registered at UW. For research requiring Human Subjects Review, students may apply while their approval is still pending but formal approval must be in hand before the funds will be disbursed.

Students are required to file a summary report in the range of 1,500-2,000 words describing their research findings within one month of the conclusion of the research. Applicants are also encouraged to apply to the AAS small grants program. If awardees receive funding from another source (such as NSF, CSCC or Wenner-Gren), they are obligated to report this to the China Program so that the award can be reallocated to other applicants in need of funding. In cases where the applicant has received an additional small grant (totaling $5,000 or less), this reallocation should not be necessary.

Renewals

Students who hold fellowships that need to be renewed are required to submit the following materials by the last Friday of February:

Contact Information

China Studies Program Office
308 Thomson Hall
Box 353650
Seattle, WA 98195

Questions may be addressed to the Asian Studies Program Coordinator at 206-543-4391 or chinast@u.washington.edu.

China Program Fellowship

 

Christopher Heurlin is a PhD candidate in Political Science. Christopher Heurlin received his BA in Political Science from Carleton College. In his dissertation, he explores the causes, dynamics and consequences of land disputes in rural China. His work focuses on property rights activism with a particular emphasis on the petitioning system, collective protest and legal mobilization. Christopher has previously received the China Recruitment Fellowship, the FLAS for Chinese Language and is a current recipient of the China Program Fellowship. In 2009 he will be a visiting scholar at Zhejiang Gongshang University in Hangzhou.

 

Kuang-ting Huang is a PhD candidate in Built Environment at College of Architecture & Urban Planning. He received his M.S. from Graduate Institute of Building and Planning at National Taiwan University. With his master thesis focused on the institutional dynamics of urban renewal in the case of Zhenjiang city (China), he now turns his research interests to the changing role of China’s modern planning and seeks to explore the ongoing process of its professionalization in his dissertation project.

Hsiao-chi Hsu is a fifth-year PhD student in the Department of Political Science. She received her BA in Political Science from National Chengchi University in 1998, and MA in Chinese Studies from National Taiwan University in 2003. Her research interests focus on international environmental politics, Chinese foreign policies, and cross-Strait relations. She is currently working on her dissertation that explores how international factors influence China’s atmospheric policymaking.

 

China Program Research Assistant

 Lindsay Butt is a second-year master's student in the China Studies Program at the Jackson School of International Studies. She is interested in architectural preservation in the Chinese urban environment and the effects of globalization on Chinese urban design and planning. She taught English for two years in JiangXi province before moving to Seattle to pursue her academic interests.

 
 

 Changdong Zhang is a 3rd year Ph D student in the Department of Political Science at UW. He got his BA and MA and worked for two years in China before came to UW. His research interests are political economy of development and the transforming state-society relation in China.

 

 


 
China Recruitment Fellowship

 Yongxi Wu is a first-year Master’s student in the China Studies program at the Jackson School of International Studies. She is interested in the social and cultural transition from the Republic China to the establishment of PRC, especially people’s everyday life in the urban areas. She is also interested in the writing conditions of Chinese writers in diaspora, and she keeps writing short stories herself.

 

 

Xiaolin Duan is a first-year master's student in the Department of History at the University of Washington. She received her BA in History and a double degree of Sociology from Peking University in China in 2008. She also plans to pursue the PhD here. Her interest focuses on social-cultural history in Pre-Modern China, especially the Song Dynasty. Currently working under the tutelage of Professor Patricia Ebrey, she hopes to explore into popular-culture in traditional society by using interdisciplinary approach.

 

Current Gordon C. Culp Fellows

 Chad Garcia is a second-year doctoral student in the University of Washington’s Department of History. After obtaining a BA in History from Brigham Young University in 2005, Chad moved to Bloomington, Indiana to begin his graduate study within Indiana University’s Department of Central Eurasian Studies. He completed his MA program at Indiana University where he specialized in Mongolian language and history and wrote his thesis on frontier dynamics surrounding Chinese immigrant communities living under Mongol rule during the 16th century. His research focuses on the pre-modern frontiers of East Asia, with an emphasis on identity formation and perception along cultural-political frontiers. He is currently working under the tutelage of Patricia Ebrey and is investigating political relations between the Song, Jin, and Liao courts in the years immediately prior to the Jurchen invasion of North China. In addition to Mongolian, he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and has now completed his second year of Japanese.

Anne Greenleaf is a first-year doctoral student in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington. She graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College, Columbia University, 2004. Anne majored in Political Science with a secondary focus on East Asian Languages and Literature. At Barnard, she studied with Chinese politics expert Professor Xiaobo Lü and spent a semester in Yunnan, China, with the School for International Training. Her experience in Yunnan led her to merge her interest in political economy and ethnic conflict to write her senior thesis, “Tourism South of the Clouds: Development and Ethnicity in Yunnan, China.” The fieldwork for her senior thesis was funded by a 2004-2005 Fulbright Fellowship. Anne worked with Professor Li Wei and two graduate students at Yunnan Normal University to carry out her fieldwork. After completing her Fulbright project, Anne moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked as a paralegal for the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. Her experience reviewing mergers and acquisitions in the finance and technology industries led to her current interest in legal reform in China, particularly the reform of market regulation law. During her first year in the University of Washington’s Political Science PhD program, Anne will be working on the completion of requirements for her Master’s degree including required courses in social science methodology, core courses in comparative politics and international relations, and Chinese language classes. Anne is currently applying for a two month intensive language program run by the University of California-Berkeley at Tsinghua University in Beijing. She plans on completing her Master’s requirements during her second year at the University of Washington.

 C. Michelle Kleisath is a second-year doctoral student in Sociocultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington. She graduated with highest honors from her Bachelor's Degree program in Spanish and Gender Studies from the University of California, Davis, in 2003. From 2003-2007, she taught Sociology at Qinghai Normal University in Xining, China, where she co-founded and directed Shem Women's Group (www.shemgroup.org), the first Non Governmental Organization in China run by and for Tibetan women. Shem focuses on increasing the well-being of people in impoverished communities by providing access to basic needs such as water, fuel, electricity, health care, and basic education. The organization fulfills its mission by training educated Tibetan women to design, implement, and manage sustainable grassroots development projects that will successfully alleviate the problems that their communities face. Upon returning to the United States in 2007, she founded Shem Women's Group USA, a California based 501(c)(3) charity whose mission is to empower and support Tibetan women’s leadership within the People’s Republic of China. As an anthropologist, she hopes to use critical race theory to investigate the effects that white privilege and racial politics have on collaborative transnational NGO work in Tibetan parts of China.

Katherine Alexis Siemon is a second-year master's student in China Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington. After receiving her undergraduate degree in Linguistics and East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, she moved to Shanghai to teach at Xiehe Bilingual School, an experimental primary school that combined Chinese and international curricula, and was one of the teachers chosen by Xiehe to study new phonics education methods in the Philippines. Her research interests include religious practice and society in modern China, particularly Islam. She is also interested in grassroots movements and Chinese law. She is currently studying Mandarin Chinese and speaks Japanese as well. After graduation, she plans to pursue a career with the Foreign Service.

Michele Statz is a first-year graduate student in the University of Washington’s Department of Anthropology. She is pursuing a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology, with a focus on Environmental Anthropology and East Asia. Michele ultimately hopes to research the ways in which cultural identity is negotiated or affected by changing land-use practices in nomadic regions of Western China.

Originally from Wisconsin, Michele received a BS from Loyola University Chicago in 2005. At Loyola, she double-majored in Anthropology and International Studies and minored in Asian Studies. In 2003, Michele participated in a language-intensive study abroad program in Chengdu, PR China. She returned to Sichuan Province upon graduating and volunteered with Alpha Communities International, a non-profit organization that works in partnership with rural community members to implement long-term, sustainable development projects. Upon her return to Wisconsin in 2006, Michele founded a US branch of Alpha Communities. She currently serves as president of AC-US, and the office has grown to include five volunteer staff.

In order to better examine complexities of land management and cultural preservation in Western China, Michele began studying Tibetan at UC Berkeley in 2007. She completed Intermediate Tibetan at SASLI (South Asian Summer Language Institute) this past summer, and is currently studying Mandarin Chinese at the UW. She hopes her research will incorporate a variety of voices and be of use to the communities in which she has shared.

K.C. Hsiao Fellowship

 Hsiao-wen Cheng is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of History at the University of Washington. She received both her BA and MA in Chinese Language and Literature from National Taiwan University. She is currently completing her dissertation on representations of the gendered body and women's participation in medical and religious practices in 10th-13th century China.

 

 

 Lin Deng is a PhD candidate in Chinese Linguistics in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature. She received her MA in Chinese Linguistics from Peking University in 2001. Her research interests include dialectology, historical phonology and grammar of Chinese with a special focus on approaching historical linguistic issues from comparative perspective. Her dissertation studies the development of demonstratives revealed in the Oracle Bone Inscriptions and the Bronze Inscriptions and in transmitted texts that are allegedly contemporary with these two texts. 

Haeree Park

Sumei Yi

Small Grant for Doctoral Research

 Jaime Kelly is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography completing dissertation research on hotel workers in Beijing. In 2000, Kelly received a Joint BA in Anthropology and Political Science from McGill University and in 2005 received both a Master's of International Relations and a Master's of Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Currently her research focuses on discourses of modernity, worker subjectivities, and conditions of employment for those in luxury service industries in China.

Vincent H. Gowen Scholarship in China Studies

 Timothy Conbere's interests in history and politics drew him to the International Studies program. Tim plays piano and is working on a minor in music. Prior to attending Bainbridge High School, Timothy lived near Naples, Italy for five years. He is an Eagle Scout.

 

 

 
 

Jack Dull Graduate Conference Travel Fund

Hsiao-wen Cheng, Department of History Yang Li, Department of Asian Languages and Literature

Trang Ta, Department of Anthropology

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