Funded Projects
2024–25
“Characterizing the Asia Pacific’s Leadership in Climate Justice Advocacy for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation”
Elsa Barron, Peace Studies and Political Science PhD student
“Hongkongers in Exile: Resisting Repression from Home Government and Surviving Anti-Immigration in Host Country”
Victoria Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science and Liu Institute Faculty Fellow
“Illustrating Climbing Gold Mountain: An Illustrated History of the Chinese Experience in Montana”
Mark Johnson, Associate Clinical Professor, Institute for Educational Initiatives, and Liu Institute Faculty Fellow
“Exploring ‘Justice’ in Decolonial Activism in Central Asia: Case Studies from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan”
Rustam Mukhamedov, Master of Global Affairs student
“Uncovering the Archive of Indentured Labour: Understanding the Cultural Lives of Chinese and Indian Migrants in 19th Century Guyana”
Helen Quah, English Master of Fine Arts student
2023–24
“Struggle To Preserve Identity When 'Home' Is Lost and Justice is Denied--Twice”
Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor of Political Science and Liu Institute Faculty Fellow
“Analyzing International Blue Carbon Management: Comparing the Ideographs, Innovation Styles, and Co-Impacts of Japanese Blue Carbon Projects to Western Countries”
Carter Powers, Environmental Engineering and Asian Studies undergraduate
“Surviving in the Valley: Tagore, Yeats and Imperial Margins and Centers”
Isa Sheikh, History and Political Science undergraduate student
“An Analysis of North Korea's Political Oppression System through Michel Foucault's Panopticon — Focused on Censorship and Penalization of South Korean Popular Culture”
Yeonhee Yoon, Teaching Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
2022–23
“Un(ful)filled Hopes: Ward-level Empty Electoral Quota Seats for Women and Marginalised Communities in Nepal”
Benjamin Francis, Peace Studies and Political Science PhD student and Shana Scogin, Political Science PhD student
“Environmental Activism and Legal Action: Holistic Climate Justice in the Philippines”
Diane Desierto, Professor of Law and Global Affairs, and Garrett Pacholl, History and Global Affairs undergraduate student
“Learning from the Struggle for Wage Justice in Bangladesh”
Daniel Graff, Director, Higgins Labor Program; Clemens Sedmak, Professor of Social Ethics; and William Purcell, Director of Catholic Social Tradition, Institute for Social Concerns
“Narrative Justice: When All is Lost” (Hong Kong)
Victoria Tin-bor Hui, Associate Professor of History
“Embodied Justice: Mediating Asian Trauma and Memory through Performance” (Multiple regions)
Anton Juan, Professor of Theatre, and Tarryn Chun, Assistant Professor of Theatre
“Decent Work, Environmental Justice, & Fukushima”
Jessica McManus Warnell, Teaching Professor, Management and Organization; Noriko Hanabusa, Teaching Professor, Japanese; Anna Geltzer, Associate Director, Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; and Sisi Meng, Assistant Teaching Professor, Economics and Technology for Development
“Internal Democratization: Explaining the 2018 Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Merger in Pakistan”
Susan Ostermann, Assistant Professor of Global Affairs, and Isa Sheikh, History and Political Science undergraduate student
“Voices of ‘Comfort Women" in China
Xian Wang, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures
2021–22
“Law, Justice, and Empire in Comparative Perspective” (China)
Liang Cai, Associate Professor, History
“The Racialization of African Migrants in South Korea”
Sharon Yoon, Assistant Professor of Korean Studies
2019–20
“Theatre for Justice in Asia: Past, Present, Future” (Multiple regions)
Anton Juan, Professor of Theatre, and Tarryn Chun, Assistant Professor of Theatre
“Energy, Justice & Fukushima: A Multidisciplinary, Multi-sector Collaboration”
Jessica McManus Warnell, Teaching Professor, Management and Organization; Noriko Hanabusa, Teaching Professor, Japanese; Kevin Walsh, Associate Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences; and Anna Geltzer, Associate Director, Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
2018–19
“‘Comfort Women’ and Their Right of Recognition: Remedial Responsibility of the South Korean Political Community”
Jeong Hwan Bae and Minju Kwon, Political Science PhD students
“Energy, Justice & Fukushima: A Multidisciplinary Faculty Collaboration”
Jessica McManus Warnell, Teaching Professor, Management and Organization; Noriko Hanabusa, Teaching Professor, Japanese; Kevin Walsh, Associate Teaching Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences