The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies

Harvard University

2012 - 2013 Grant Recipients

The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies is pleased to announce the following award recipients for Summer 2012 and Academic Year 2012-13
An Wang Post-doctoral Fellows
Meina Cai, Ph.D., 2012, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Political Science

Xiaojue Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Princeton-Harvard China-and-the-World Post-doctoral Fellows
Alanna Krolikowski, Ph.D., 2012, University of Toronto, Political Science

Courtney Richardson, Ph.D., 2012, Tufts University, International Relations
East China Normal University - Harvard - Berkeley
Advanced Research Workshop on Contemporary Chinese History

Robert Cliver, Assistant Professor, Humboldt State University; Harvard PhD 2007, History


Denise Yuet-Shu Ho, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky; Harvard PhD 2009, History


Christopher Leighton, Assistant Professor, MIT; Harvard PhD 2010, History


Victor Kian Giap Seow, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, History and East Asian Languages


Xiaoxuan Wang, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, East Asian Languages and Civilizations


Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellows
Daniel Koss, Government, “Making Leviathan Work: Bureaucratic Legacies, Party Organization and State Extractive Capacity in China”

Jennifer Jie Pan, Government, “Authoritarian Governance: Explaining Variation in Social Welfare Provision among Chinese Localities”

Graduate Student Associates
Ariel Fox, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, “Southern Capital: Enacting Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou”

Hsuan-Ying Huang, Anthropology, “Psycho-boom: A Movement of Learning Psychotherapy in Urban China”

Ren-yuan Li, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, use of textual materials in Chinese villages in the late imperial period

Max Oidtmann, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, “Adorning the Crown of the Emperor: Reincarnate Lamas, Manchu Officials, and the Transformation of Tibetan Society Under Qing Rule, 1792-1912”

Meredith Schweig, Music, “The Song Readers: Rap Music and the Politics of Storytelling in Taiwan”

Xiaosu Sun, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, performance literature of late imperial China

Xiaoxuan Wang, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, “‘Superstition’ as Negotiation Zone—Religion and State Agents in Southern Zhejiang, 1949-1976”

Shirley Ye, History, “Transforming the Port City: State, Business and Environment in Germany and China, 1850-1950”

Kwanghoon Yu, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, “The Military System of Mongol Empire in Yuan China and Ilkhanid Iran”

Graduate Summer Research Grants
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Anthropology, “Locating Shanghai: Globalization, Heritage Industry, and the Political Economy of Urban Space”

Andrew Conning, Graduate School of Education, measuring the cultivation of independent thinking and global consciousness in China’s new liberal arts programs

Ariel Fox, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, “Southern Capital: Enacting Commerce in Seventeenth-Century Suzhou”

Macabe Keliher, History and East Asian Languages, “The Board of Rites and the Making of Qing China, 1631-1690”

Natalie Koehle, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, “The Development of the Concepts of Phlegm and Fire in Chinese Medicine from ca. 200 AD – 1800”

Daniel Koss, Government, comparative research on contemporary county governance in Hubei, China

Max Oidtmann, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, reading and researching 19th-century Tibetan chronicles in Amdo

Wei Ren, History of Art and Architecture, “The Graphic and Typographic Turn: Book Cover Design in Republican China, 1910s to 1930s”

Shirley Ye, History, “Transforming the Port City: State, Business, and Environment in Germany and China, 1850-1950”
Graduate Summer Language Grants
Non Arkaraprasertkul, Anthropology, Chinese language study

Lucas Bender, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Chinese language study

Florin Stefan Morar, History of Science / Regional Studies - East Asia, Chinese language study

Undergraduate Language Grants
Catherine Brown, Government and East Asian Studies, Chinese language study


Additional graduate and undergraduate language grant recipients were funded by the Harvard University Asia Center, Korea Institute, and Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies.



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