The East Asia Institute is pleased to announce the selection result of “Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia” for the academic year 2013-2014, with generous support from the Japan Foundation, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange of Taiwan, and YBM/KIS, an education institute of Korea. The EAI Fellows Program brings non-Asian based East Asia specialists with cutting-edge expertise in political science, international relations, and sociology for an international exchange program with the goal of encouraging interdisciplinary research with a comparative perspective in the study of East Asia.

 

This year the Selection Committee, consisting of the representatives of the five Participating Institutions, chose five EAI Fellows. The following lists the five recipients of EAI Fellowship, with their affiliations and project titles.

 

Ka Zeng, Professor, University of Arkansas

Toic: “Domestic Politics and U.S.-China Trade Disputes over Renewable Energy”

 

Fiona Yap, Associate Professor, Australian National University

Toic: “When Do Citizens Demand Punishment of Corruption in Government? Experimental Analyses of the United States, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea”

 

Ji-Young Lee, Assistant Professor American University

Toic: “The Chinese World Order in Practice: Symbolic Domination and Hierarchy in Early Modern East Asia”

 

Matthew A. Shapiro, Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology

Toic: “International Collaboration and Green Technology Generation: Assessing the East Asian Environmental Regime”

 

Sheng Ding, Associate Professor, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Toic: “A Diasporic Modernization: Chinese Diaspora and the Globalization of Chinese Politics in the Age of China’s Rise”

 

EAI Fellows visit East Asia for over two weeks to present papers at seminars and give lectures, based on an unpublished article on current issues submitted solely for the purpose of the EAI Fellows Program, at two or more of the Participating Institutions: East Asia Institute in Seoul, East China Normal University in Shanghai, Keio University in Tokyo, National Taiwan University in Taipei, and Peking University in Beijing.

 

For further information, please visit us online at EAI Fellows Program, or contact fellowships@eai.or.kr.