Sigur Research and Language Fellows
Fellowship Overview
Thanks to our generous private and public donors, the Sigur Center for Asian Studies is able to financially support GW students and affiliated faculty with summer and year-round research via the:
- Summer Grant for Asian Language Study in Asia
- Summer Grant for Asian Field Research
- Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship for East Asia
- Department of Education’s Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Academic Year Fellowship for East Asia
- Faculty Research Grants to Asia
Take a look at what our summer fellows have been up to!
The Sigur Center prides itself on providing intellectual leadership on Asia at large. To accomplish this goal, the Center and its generous donors have awarded over $3 million to 300+ GW student and faculty grantees since 2003 to study abroad, conduct field research, and complete language programs through its summer grants and the Department of Education’s Foreign Language Area Studies award.
The 2025 Sigur Summer awardees are:
Field Research
- Wajahat Ahmad, Ph.D. Anthropology, Indian diaspora
- Ananya Bharwadj, Ph.D. English, Bangladesh and India
- Shikuang Han, Ph.D. History, China
- Liya Lin, Ph.D. Anthropology, China
- Damhee Shin, Ph.D. History, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan
The 2025 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellows are:
Summer 2025
- Nazia Kazi, M.A. Asian Studies, South Korea
- Grace Smith, M.A. Asian Studies, South Korea
- Saha Vishwanath, M.A. Asian Studies, South Korea
- Oliver Zulick, B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature and Political Science, Taiwan
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