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Julia Hicks has been selected to receive a 2016-17 Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship. This fellowship provides on semester of full support during the 2016-17 academic year.

Beverly Sears Graduate Student Research Grants for 2016/2017 have been awarded to Brendan Buzzard, Katie Clifford, Sierra Gladfelter, Daniela Marini, Galen Murton and Kyle Rodman. These grants are competitive awards sponsored by the Graduate School that support the research, scholarship and creative work of graduate students from all departments. All...

Katie was awarded a Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council

Xi was selected to receive a Center for Asian Studies Summer Language Fellowship for Summer 2016. This award is intended to support intensive language study for Chinese Language Studies in Beijing, China.

Barbara 'babs' Buttenfield was reappointed to CSAC by the Director of the Census Bureau for a second three year term. CSAC members advise the Census Bureau director on the uses of scientific developments in statistical data collection, survey methodology, geospatial and statistical analysis, econometrics, business operations and computer science as...

Rupak will receive a $1000 CARTSS Award for preliminary research, titled 'Citizenship-in-Exile: Exploring ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Nationalism and Resistance in the Himalayas'. The project primarily explores how ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½s-in-exile negotiate, navigate and perform citizenship, nationalism, and resistance in Nepal, against the backdrop of China's increasing politics of development. The grant is funded by...

Brendan will receive a $1000 CARTSS Award for preliminary research, titled 'The Political Ecology of Protected Area Planning and Management: Conservation and Governance in Kenya’s Conservancies.' The grant is funded by The Center to Advance Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences at the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½.

Yang Yang has been awarded an inaugural Jean Bovard Sanville Graduate Fellowship in the Social Sciences for her dissertation research on the changing nature of Islamic urban space in China.

John O’Loughlin has become the first foreigner in more than 100 years to win the Semenov-Tyan-Shansky gold medal for research on Russia. It is the highest research award of the Russian Geographical Society typically targeted toward Russian and, previously, Soviet scholars working in the area of the former Soviet Union...

Amy has been selected to participate in the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholars Program for 2015-16. The U.S.-Korea NextGen Scholars Program is an initiative by CSIS Korea Chair and USC Dornsife Korean Studies Institute with support from The Korea Foundation to help raise the next...