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

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.

Yellow map of Asia with red pins for award destinations, which are listed in blue text

The 2023 Sigur Summer awardees are:

 

Field Research

  • Injung Cho, Ph.D. Education, Indonesia
  • Prerna Dokania, Ph.D. Economics, India
  • Jittip Mongkolnchaiarunya, Ph.D. Political Science, Thailand
  • Jingwen Zheng, Ph.D. Public Policy and Administration, Hong Kong

Language

  • Simran Bhattal, B.A. International Affairs, Punjabi, India

The 2023 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellows are:

 

Summer 2023

  • Rachel Hsu, BA International Affairs, Domestic Program
  • Douglas Vantran, PhD Political Science, Taiwan
  • Amica Rapadas, MA International Development Studies, Online Program
  • Jayden Thomas, MA Asian Studies, Japan
  • Bianca Trifoli, PhD History, Korea

Academic Year 2023-24

  • Augustus Lee, (MA Asian Studies), Chinese
  • Grant Smith, (MA Asian Studies), Chinese
  • Linda (Tze-Yao) Yang, (MA Asian Studies), Japanese
  • Benjamin Pappas, (MA International Affairs), Japanese
  • Claire Callahan, (MA Asian Studies), Korean
  • Samantha Guidice, (MA Asian Studies), Korean

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