Current Program Fellows
Program Fellows: Summer 2023
The 2023 ASIANetwork Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program (SFF) was funded by the Freeman Foundation to support undergraduate projects in East and Southeast Asia. Summer 2023 teams included some whose projects were postponed in 2020 and 2021. ASIANetwork is grateful to the Freeman Foundation for its extraordinary commitment to supporting this program. We also thank all applicants and recipients this year and in the past for their interest and support for the SFF program.
SFF Mentors and Projects
2023
Bucknell University
Women’s Leadership in Japan: Promoting gender awareness and diversity in wildlife conservation
Mizuki Takahashi, Associate Professor of Biology and Animal Behavior
Coastal Carolina University
Covid 19, Hallyu, soft power, and destination resilience
Bomi Kang, Professor of Marketing, Hospitality and Tourism Management
Hope College
Intercultural Art Practice in South Korea
Leekyung Kang, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History
Monmouth College
Gender, Carework, and Globalization: Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore
Marlo Marie Beard, Professor of English, mmb@monmouthcollege.edu
Jialin Li, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology
Roanoke College
The Legacy of American Protestant Missionaries in Contemporary South Korea
Whitney Leeson, Professor of History and Anthropology
Stella Xu, John R. Turbyfill Professor of History
Skidmore College
Remittances to North Korea and Transborder Kinship
Joowon Park, Assistant Professor of Anthropology
The University of Findlay
DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) in Japan: Old and New Issues
Hiroaki “Hiro” Kawamura, Associate Professor and Director, Area of Modern Languages
2021
Denison University and Kenyon College
The Aspirations of Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Labor Migrants, and Immigrants in Japan
Taku Suzuki, Professor of International Studies, Denison University
Sam Pack, Professor of Anthropology, Kenyon College
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Envisioning post-pandemic tourism through Japanese history
Lisa Yoshikawa, Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies
Scripps College
The Three-Ringgit Opera: Participatory Action Research Theatre Creation of a Contemporary Ballad Opera in Malaysia, in the time of COVID
Anne Harley, Associate Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Humanities
2020
Berea College
Sacred Geography and Environmental Change in the Mekong River provinces in Vietnam
Jarrod W. Brown, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Bucknell University
Epistemology of Primatology in Japan and the U.S.
Regina Paxton Gazes, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Animal Behavior
Eckerd College
Sociocultural Impediments to Ending Child Sex Trafficking in Cambodia
Nancy Janus, Professor of Human Development
Lake Forest College
“Doing Business in Taiwan”: Investment Opportunities and Challenges under the Current Economic Environment
Dimitra Papadovasilaki, Assistant Professor of Finance
Ying Wu, Assistant Professor of Chinese
Randolph College
From “Maiden Aunts” to “Virtuous Renouncers”: Changing Opportunities for Buddhist Nuns in Nepal
Suzanne M. Bessenger, Associate Professor & Chair of Religious Studies
Warren Wilson College
A Study of Agriculture, Marketing and Environmental Practices of Rural Communities in Taiwan
Dongping Han, Professor of Political Science