Justice and Asia Grants
The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies recently approved four Justice and Asia grants to faculty and students to carry out projects that support to the institute’s organizing theme of justice in relationship to Asia. The recipients are:
- Victoria Hui, faculty: “Struggle To Preserve Identity When ‘Home’ Is Lost and Justice is Denied—Twice”
- Carter Powers, undergraduate: “Carbon Credits and Climate Justice: Analyzing the Efficacy of Japan's Carbon Reduction Policies”
- Isa Sheikh, undergraduate: “Surviving in the Valley: Tagore, Yeats and Imperial Margins and Centers”
- Yeonhee Yoon, faculty: “An Analysis of North Korea's Political Oppression System through Michel Foucault’s Panopticon—Focused on Censoring and Penalizing the Consumption of South Korean Popular Culture”
Faculty Grants
- Aidan Seale-Feldman, research: “Fragments of a Transient Affliction: The Discourse of “Mass Hysteria” among Teenage Girls in Nepal”
- Chengxu Yin, conference presentation: “Exploring ChatGPT’s Role in Automated Feedback for CFL Instruction”
- Congcong Ma, conference presentations: “Enhancing Chinese Language Teaching Through the Integration of Fluency-Oriented Activities” and “A Case Study of a Newly Designed Business Chinese Course in College”
- Jincheng Liu, conference presentations: The role of grammatical aspect markers in Chinese
- Julia Kim, research: “Nativeness in English as a Foreign Language Teacher Recruitment: Changing ‘Terms’ and Conditions in Korea Job Recruitment Postings”
- Santosh Kumar, research: “Effects of Nutritional Intervention on Anemia and Cognitive Development among Preschool Children: Field Experiments in India”
- Sharon Yoon, conference presentation: African transnational marriages in Korea
- Xian Wang, research: “The Lure of Labor: How Chinese Art and Literature Romanticized Work in the Socialist Era”
- Krupali Krusche, research, Mumbai waterfront architectural project
Student Grants
India Summer Program
For the first time ever, Notre Dame students will travel to Mumbai, India for a three-week, three-credit summer course to learn about Indian culture, history, politics, and society both in the classroom and through a variety of cultural activities and excursions led by Liu faculty fellow Susan Ostermann, assistant professor of global affairs and political science. The following undergraduate students received travel funding for this inaugural session:
- Jonathan Granda Acaro
- Calvin Bacall
- Brooke Borton
- Andrea Ferreira
- Guadalupe Nunez
- Cate Porter
Undergraduate Language Study
The Liu Institute supports undergraduate student study of Asian languages through the Center for the Study of Languages and Cultures’ Summer Language Abroad Grant. The following students received funding for summer 2024:
CHINESE
- Tori Banda
- Rocío Colón Cotto
- Luke Donoghue
- Eric Scharpf
- Lara Victor
JAPANESE
- Janet Federici
- Owen Roesch
- Alyssa Vasquez
KOREAN
- Faiza Filali
- Kristin Park
Liu Institute Student Grants
The following students received funding for summer 2024 for research, conferences, internships, service, and study abroad:
Undergraduate Student Awards
- Karita Nguyen, Beijing Summer Study Abroad
- Jamie Reintjes, Global Professional Experience in Hong Kong
- Maria Kangpadan, research project, “The Passage of Women in the Liturgical and Para-Liturgical Traditions of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church”
- Grace Kurzweil, research project, “The Changing Roles of Women in Two Medieval Islamic Societies: A Comparison of the ‘Abbasid and Seljuq Periods’”
Graduate Student Awards
- Poulomi Ghosh, research, "Cybersecurity dimensions of the India-China rivalry"
- Anni Gu, research, “Living In-Between: Chinese Immigrants’ Pursuance for a Safe Space and a Safe Identity”
- Jongsoo Hwang, research, “Korean Requiem”
- Adam Matvya, research at the collections in London: British Library’s India Office Collection and the National Army Museum
- Inha Park, research, “Korean Neorealism, Refuge City, and Artist Refugees during the Korean War”
- Sunghyun Park, research, “Sustainability and Collapse in the Korean Bronze Age: An Archaeological and Climatic Study”
- En-Ya Tsai, research, “Transforming Globally: How a Chinese Transnational Evangelical Network Expands and Negotiates with Locals in Taiwan and Thailand”
- Yun Xie, research, “Retouching the Image of Chinese Women: Portrait Beautification Technology and the Virtual Embodiment of Womanhood”