Please join us in congratulating our seven travel grant awardees for the fall semester. Five students will be traveling to present papers at various conferences, and two will be traveling to South Korea and Pakistan for their dissertation research. Best of luck to you all!
Graduate Student Conference Research Travel Grants
Hwajung Kim
Ph.D. student, Dept. of Anthropology
"From Materials to the Landscape in Conflict Zones: A Spatial and Temporal Expansion of Interpretations in the South Korean Border Area”
CHAT Botxo - Bilbao, Spain
Rhonda Ran Huo
Ph.D. student, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
"Imperial Projects and Individual Research: Studies of Mongolia and Xinjiang by Han Chinese from 1700 to 1850”
Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference - Vancouver, Canada
Tianhong Yin
Ph.D. student, Dept. of Political Science
“Victimhood and Violence: The Impact of Nationalist Mentalities on Interstate Conflict”
International Studies Association 2026 Conference - Columbus, OH
Yingzhi Lu
Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
"Time is Death: Dialogic Nostalgia, Death, and Future in Ōe Kenzaburō’s Changeling (2000)”
Association for Japanese Literary Studies (AJLS) 33rd Annual Meeting - Chicago, IL
Ruoyi Bian
Ph.D. candidate, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures
“Gender Performativity and Postcolonial Critique: Reimagining Dongfang Bubai in Hong Kong Cinema”
2026 Modern Language Association Convention (MLA) - Toronto, Canada
Graduate Student Dissertation Research Travel Grants
Jiwon Oh
Ph.D. student, Institute of Communications Research
“Technomasculinity and Gendered Harms in South Korea’s AI Futures”
Seoul, South Korea
Shuyan Huang
Ph.D. student, Dept. of Political Science
“Chinese Aid Regime and Its Narrative”
Islamabad, Pakistan