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 2024 Sigur Summer awardees are:
Field Research
- Wajahat Ahmad, Ph.D. Anthropology, Indian diaspora
- Mayuko Maeda, Ph.D. Political Science, Japan
- Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, Ph.D. Political Science, Thailand
- Diya Mehta, B.A. International Affairs, India
- Waleed Mir, Ph.D. History, Pakistan
- Aishwarya Nagabhushan, B.A. International Affairs, India
Language
- Cole Rubin, M.A. in Asian Studies, Chinese, Taiwan
The 2024 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellows are:
Summer 2024
- Megan Delaney, M.A. International Affairs, Japan
- Alexander Stump, M.A. Asian Studies, Taiwan
- Grant Smith, M.A. Asian Studies, Taiwan
- Catherine Stauffer, B.S. International Affairs, Taiwan
- Bianca Trifoli, Ph.D. History, Korea
- Amy Chen, B.A. International Affairs, Taiwan
- Brendan Barry, M.A. International Affairs, Domestic Program
Academic Year 2024-25
- Erin Naumann, (M.A. Asian Studies), Chinese
- Alexander Hancher, (M.A. Asian Studies), Chinese
- Santiago Ravello, (M.A. Asian Studies), Japanese
- Isabel Zangoglia, (M.A. Global Communication), Japanese
- Jayden Thomas, (M.A. Asian Studies), Japanese
- Venesia Delancy, (M.A Asian Studies), Korean
- Samantha Guidice, (M.A. Asian Studies), Korean
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