Luce/ACLS Early Career Fellowships in China Studies – Long-Term
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Selda Altan
Year:
- 2013
- 2022
Randolph College
A Sisterhood to Save China: Women’s Leadership and Labor in the “Gung Ho” Industrial Cooperatives (Indusco), 1938–1952
Long Term
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Kyoungjin Bae
Year:
- 2013
- 2022
Kenyon College
Guangdong’s Flowing Mechanism: Furniture, Craft, and Artisans across Early Modern Borders
This long-term award is made possible with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Samuel Bass
Year:
- 2024
The Bound Steppe: Slavery and Family Strategies in Qing Mongolia, 1770–1880
Long-term
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Max Bohnenkamp
Year:
- 2021
Turning Ghosts into People: The White-Haired Girl and the Politics of Aesthetics in Revolutionary China
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Darren T. Byler
Year:
- 2014
- 2021
Simon Fraser University
Thinking with Violence: Narratives of Reeducation Camps & Infrastructural State Power in Northwest China
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Jianqing Chen
Year:
- 2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Put Down the Hoe, Pick Up the Smartphone: The Emergence of Rural Internet Influencers in Contemporary China
Long Term
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Jiayi Chen
Year:
- 2024
Washington University in St. Louis
The Early Modern Ludic: Gaming and Literary Culture in China
Long-term - NYU Shanghai Visiting Residency
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Shiau-Yun Chen
Year:
- 2024
Ball State University
Legal, Moral, and Manly: Circumscribing Womanly Violence in Ming China, 1368–1644
Long-term - NEH
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Yige Dong
Year:
- 2021
University at Buffalo, State University of New York
The Fabric of Care: Women’s Work and the Politics of Livelihood in A Chinese Mill Town
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Chloe Estep
Year:
- 2023
University of Pennsylvania
Print Classicism: Poetry, Politics, and Media in Republican China, 1911-1949
Long Term
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Anne N Feng
Year:
- 2021
Boston University
Aqueous Visions: Water, Meditation, and Mural Painting in Medieval China (618-907 CE)
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Xiangjun Feng
Year:
- 2024
University of British Columbia
Radio Culture in Modern China, 1923-1949
Long-term
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Adam K. Frost
Year:
- 2023
Copenhagen Business School
Reimagining Informality: A Microhistorical Study of Shifting Formal/Informal Boundaries in Post-Socialist China
Flexible
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Xiaofei Gao
Year:
- 2014
- 2023
University of Colorado Denver
The Blue Revolution: Maritime Connections and Coastal Communities in Modern China, 1910-2010
Long-term
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Mariachiara Gasparini
Year:
- 2021
University of Oregon
Across the Tuyuhun-Tubo Kingdom: Visualizing Material Culture from Dunhuang to Sichuan between the 6th and 9th centuries.
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Yidong Gong
Year:
- 2023
New College of Florida
On the Fringe of Care: The Terrain of China’s Medical Engagement in South Sudan
Long-term
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Guangtian Ha
Year:
- 2022
Haverford College
From Baghdad to Canton: Sailors, Slaves, and Global Blackness in Medieval Maritime Asia
Long Term
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Zhuqing Samie Hu
Year:
- 2022
University of California, Berkeley
The Emperor’s Extractive Ears: Music, Empire, and Empiricism in Early Modern China
Long Term
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Leif Johnson
Year:
- 2022
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
“Young men don’t want to do this work”: Generational change and men’s labor in and beyond the urban construction industry
Flexible
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Carl Ernest Kubler
Year:
- 2017
- 2021
- 2024
Carnegie Mellon University
Beyond Conflict: Global Trade and Everyday Relations between China and the West, 1780-1860
Long-term - NEH
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Ulug Kuzuoglu
Year:
- 2014
- 2017
- 2024
Washington University in St. Louis
Cang Jie: Artificial Intelligence and Pseudoscience in the Sinosphere
Long-term - NEH
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Ja Won Lee
Year:
- 2023
California State University, East Bay
Culture on Display: Collecting and Representing Chinese Antiquities in Korea, 1700–1910
Long Term
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Jialin Li
Year:
- 2022
Monmouth College
Identities and Scientific Practices of Traditional Chinese Medicine Doctors in (post)-pandemic China
Flexible
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Lin Li
Year:
- 2023
University of St. Thomas, MN
Fighting the Memory War in China and Beyond: A Transnational History of Remembering "Comfort Women"
Flexible
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Yifei Li
Year:
- 2023
New York University Shanghai
Environmentalism Of, By, and For the Chinese State
Long Term
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Jue Liang
Year:
- 2016
- 2019
- 2023
Denison University
A Library of Her Own: The Literary Everyday of Tibet’s First Female Philosophers
Flexible
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Jiacheng Liu
Year:
- 2021
University of Northern Colorado
Flirting with Modernity: Actresses and Urban Publics in Early Republican Beijing
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Yun-chen Lu
Year:
- 2023
DePaul University
Paths to Artistic Eccentricity: Artists with Disabilities and Their Art in Eighteenth-Century Yangzhou
Flexible
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Xuefei Ma
Year:
- 2022
Kennesaw State University
Stop Sexual Violence!: Popular Culture and Female Bonding in China's Pandemic Era
Flexible
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Xu Ma
Year:
- 2023
Lafayette College
Boudoir, Buddha, and Body: Re-Imagining Social and Religious Spaces for Women in Late Imperial China
Long-term
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Irene Pang
Year:
- 2021
Simon Fraser University
Infrastructure of Resistance: Rights Contestation among Construction Workers in Beijing and Delhi
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Xiao Rao
Year:
- 2022
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Tales of Wit and Enlightenment: Buddhism and Literati Humor in Song Dynasty China
Long Term
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Elizabeth Joy Reynolds
Year:
- 2019
- 2022
Washington University in St. Louis
Tibet Incorporated: Institutional Power and Economic Practice on the Sino-Tibetan Borderland 1930-1950
This long-term award is made possible with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Jesse G Rodenbiker
Year:
- 2022
Cornell University
Ecological States: Environmental Governance, Urbanization, and Inequality in China
Flexible
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Guldana Salimjan
Year:
- 2022
Simon Fraser University
State of Dispossession: Voices of Belonging & the Colonial Politics of Land in Pastoral Xinjiang
Long Term
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Kyle D. Shernuk
Year:
- 2024
Georgetown University
Sinoscapes: Ethnicity, Language, and Chineseness in Contemporary Chinese Language Literature
Long-term
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Joohee Suh
Year:
- 2015
- 2022
Xavier University
Unruly Dead Bodies: Delayed Burial and the Change of Qing Death Ethics
Long Term
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Christopher K. Tong
Year:
- 2021
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Torrents of Revolution: Representation and Environmental Disasters in Early 20th-Century China
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Chelsea Zi Wang
Year:
- 2023
Claremont McKenna College
Logistics of Empire: Governance and Spatial Friction in Ming China, 1368-1644
Long-term
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Xin Wen
Year:
- 2021
Princeton University
Capital of the Past: Urban and Cultural Transformations of Chang'an, 900-1400
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Matthew West
Year:
- 2023
George Mason University
Written Property, Public Secrets, and the Re-Making of Global Flows: The Production of Taiwanese Semiconductor Patents between the United States and China
Long Term
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Andrew Womack
Year:
- 2023
Furman University
The Tao River Archaeological Project: Mapping Proto-Silk Road Interactions in Northwestern China
Long-term
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Anna Yu Wang
Year:
- 2024
Princeton University
A Thousand Transformations and Ten Thousand Fantasies: Musicality, Worldmaking, and Music Theory in Sinitic Opera
Long-term
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Hong Zhang
Year:
- 2023
Harvard University
Chinese State Capital and Global Infrastructure Development
Flexible