Greetings COM Community! We have the honor of sharing great news about achievements of our graduate students.
Alicia Manno has received a Fulbright-Hays scholarship to study Mandarin Chinese under the auspices of the American Council's Taiwan Intensive Summer Language Program. Alicia will shortly be travelling to Hsinchu, Taiwan to study at Tsinghua University. Congratulations and safe travels, Alicia!
Elmira Louie has received a UC Humanities Consortium Graduate Fellowship, which she will use to attend the Ottoman Summer School at Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey. She will also present a paper on magical realism as a genre of borderlands at the European Conference of Iranian Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands. Kudos and best wishes for a great summer, Elmira!
Ben Fong, Kyle Proehl and Ruinong Yin have each received a UCD Letters and Science Dean’s Graduate Summer Fellowship Award.
- Ben will use his award to fund his participation in the Cornell University School of Criticism and Theory summer session.
- Kyle’s award will help support his work on his dissertation, New York Ruin, Oaxaca Commune, Santiago Explosion: Social Form and Latent Content in the Graffiti of Late Capitalism.
- Ruinong will use her award to attend the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institute in Persian. She will combine the Dean’s summer fellowship with an Institute scholarship and a Dr. Joseph Suad research grant.
Congratulations to Ben, Kyle, and Ruinong!
Jala Alarja, Sicily Lerner, Elmira Louie, Alicia Manno, Manasvin Rajagopalan, Song Shao, Mingrui Wen, and Ruinong Yin have all received summer funding from COM's Graduate Program Summer Academic Initiative Awards. These awards are made in support of language training, archival work, and summer research projects. These students will present on their summer work at a colloquium early in fall quarter 2023. Congratulations to all!
And speaking of 2023-24: Xuesong Shao has been awarded the American Region Doctoral Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation. This award will support Song’s work in 23-24 on her dissertation, Feeling the Rural: Politics and Affect in Chinese Literature and Film from the Reform Era. Here is more information about the CCK Foundation and its grant recipients. Great work, Song!