Center for East Asian Studies Faculty Grants

Small grants (up to $500) and large grants (up to $5000) are available for regular Stanford faculty in East Asian Studies for research projects on China, Japan, and Korea. For details concerning grant application timeline and procedures, and for "Guidelines for Faculty Grants Policies and Procedures." please contact,
Connie Chin, csquare@stanford.edu

Deadline: January 25

CEAS grants have supported faculty research by providing supplementary funds for fieldwork, travel, conference participation, research assistance, audio transcription, indexing, acquisition of photos and illustrations, and other activities. Below are the projects supported in recent years.

2006-2007

Harumi Befu, Anthropology
“Minorities in Japan as Seen through the Lens of Resident Koreans” panel participation, conference travel.

Melissa Brown, Anthropological Sciences
“Girls’ and Women’s Labor and Household Production in China’s Economic Transformation,” fieldwork in China.

Peter Duus, History
“Divided Memories” history textbook project, research travel.

Yoshiko Matsumoto, Japanese Linguistics
Discursive practices of elderly Japanese women, audio transcription.

Fabrizio Pregadio, Religious Studies
Daozang jiyao (Essentials from the Daoist Canon) research project, travel, research assistance, and materials.

Karen Seto, Geological and Environmental Sciences
Spatial and temporal patterns of urban development in China and their causes, satellite images.

Richard Vinograd, Art History
 “Founding Paradigms: The Art and Culture of the Northern Song Dynasty,” conference travel.

Xueguang Zhou, Sociology
Ethnographic research on institutional changes in the bases of governance in rural China, fieldwork in China.

2005-2006

Steven Carter, Japanese Literature
“Householders: The Reizei Family in Japanese History” book manuscript for Harvard Council on East Asian Studies, acquisition of illustrations.

Gordon Chang, History
Chinese American reactions to the Korean War, research assistance.

Indra Levy, Japanese Literature
“Sirens of the Western Shore: the Westernesque femme fatale, translation, and vernacular style in modern Japanese literature” book manuscript for Columbia University Press, indexing.

Wan Liu, Chinese Literature
“The Sense of Community:  Poems Carved on the Walls at the Angel Island Immigration Station,” research in China; “Silk-cloaked Poetry: Self-scripting Women in Tang China,” book manuscript, Chinese character word processing.

Yoshiko Matsumoto, Japanese Linguistics
Discursive practices of elderly Japanese women, research travel.

Matthew Sommer, History
Sex, Law, and Society in Late Imperial China (Stanford University Press, 2000), Chinese translation, research assistance.

Chaofen Sun, Chinese Linguistics
Historical development of Chinese locative particles, conference travel.

Richard Vinograd, Art History
Twentieth-century Chinese landscapes, conference and research travel; Qing dynasty court art, research travel.

Karen Wigen, History
Native-place education and regional economy in Nagano Prefecture, late Edo to the modern period, research assistance; cartography in the Edo period, translation of Japanese monograph.

Michael Zimmermann, Religious Studies
Buddhism and violence, materials and research assistance.