The Illinois Global Institute and its centers and programs award as much as $3,500 to support research travel outside of the United States. The aim of the award is to support seed research contributing to the development of a dissertation or thesis project that draws on international research. This year, Illinois Global Institute has six new Summer Research Fellows who will be traveling to different countries to research Anthropology, Religion, Cultures, Linguistics and Social Work.
Lundi Wu
Lundi Wu will be traveling to Changchun, the Capital city in the Chinese province of Jilin. Wu is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology and will be working on her project titled '“Women Hold Up Half the Sky”: A Documentary on Female Workers’ Voices in Collective Memory in Dongbei(Northeast China).'
Hanuel Choi
Hanuel Choi will be traveling to Seoul and Busan, South Korea. Choi is a PhD student in the Department of Linguistics and will be working on her project titled 'The Acquisition of Russian Ditransitives by L1 Korean Learners of Russian.'
Yating Li
Yating Li will be traveling to Shanghai and Nanjing, China. Li is a PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and will be working on her project titled 'Pathologizing the Womb: Medical knowledge, the Female Body, and Mirage of Health in China (1900s-1940s).'
Hsu Sun
Hsu Sun will be traveling to Taiwan. Sun is a PhD student in the School of Social Work and will be working on their project titled 'Drafting Gender: Transnormativity, Biopolitics, and Civil Defense in Post-Cold War Taiwan.'
Woohui Park
Woohui Park will be traveling to both Tokyo, Japan, and Seoul and Daejeon, South Korea. Park is a PhD and Teaching Assistant in the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and will be working on her project titled 'Evidencing Truth: Law, Judgment, and Proof in Modern East Asia, 1876–1946.'
Siti Rahmatullaili
Siti Rahmatullaili will be Izutsu Bunko (Izutsu Library) in Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. Rahmatullaili is a M.A. Student in the Department of Religion and will be working on her project titled 'The Tao of Amar Ma’ruf: Reconstructing the “Organic Weltanschauung” of Islamic Ethics.'