Pacific Rim research program awards grant money
The University of California Pacific Rim Research Program is pleased to announce its 2010-11 grants. The
Pacific Rim Research Program promotes the study of the Pacific Rim as a distinctive region. Founded in 1986,
PRRP is housed at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and supported by funding from the UC Office of the
President.
The states and nations bordering the Pacific Ocean are densely linked by patterns of historical contact, geology,
trade, investment, international agreements and conflicts, migration, environmental and disease vectors, and the
incessant flow of ideas and cultural practices. The program places priority on research that is new, specific to
the region and collaborative — reaching across national boundaries and bridging academic disciplines. Proposals
may come from any discipline in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, public health or some
combination thereof. Research may focus on humans in relationship to the built or natural environment,
transcultural and historical constructions of the human, human-nonhuman interactions, cultural geography,
transnational migrations, economic expansion, regional agricultural development, environmental health and
human disease or other themes.
Awards are made by a committee of faculty from across the UC system. This year, the program made grants
totaling $504,414. Faculty were awarded grants in two categories: Initiative Grants (a new category this year)
and Research/Planning Grants. Four Initiative Grants in economics, anthropology, history, and sociology will
support the work of faculty on the topic “Responses to Crisis in the Pacific Rim.” Six Research/Planning Grants
were awarded to faculty in medicine, community health, sociology, anthropology, and history. Eighteen
graduate students won Advanced Graduate Research Fellowships to support a year of research. A complete list
of recipients follows below.
Initiative (faculty/professional)
Jorge Aguero, UC Riverside, economics
The Permanent Effects of Economic Crises on Child Health in Latin America
Awarded: $33,561
Shankar Aswani, UC Santa Barbara, anthropology
A Socioeconomic Analysis of Large Scale Environmental Disturbance: Implications of the 2007 Solomon
Islands Tsunami for the Pacific Islands
Awarded: $30,000
David Biggs, UC Riverside, history
War in the Narrow Strip: Environmental and Social Responses to Militarization in Thua Thien — Hue Province,
Vietnam
Awarded: $35,920.00
Cameron Campbell, UCLA, sociology
Social and Demographic Impacts of Climate Shocks in 18th and 19th century China, Japan and Korea
Awarded: $30,280
Research and Planning (faculty/professional)
Wei Ai, UCSF, medicine
Clinicopathological studies of Epstein-Barr virus-associated diffuse large B cell lymphoma
Awarded: $20,000
Julia Faucett, UCSF, community health systems
International Collaborative for the Occupational Health of Nurses (ICOHN): Planning Meeting
Awarded: $20,000
Andrew Noymer, UC Irvine, sociology & public health
Tuberculosis in epidemiologic transition: A gendered and comparative analysis of early 20th century USA and
early 21st century Thailand
Awarded: $12,000.00
Christina Schwenkel, UC Riverside, anthropology
Revitalizing the City: Socialist Architecture, Postwar Memory, and Urban Renewal in Vietnam
Awarded: $20,000
Alice Yang, UC Santa Cruz, history
Eternal Flames: Living Memories of the Asia Pacific War
Awarded: $20,000
Advanced Graduate Student Fellowships
Nellie Chu, UC Santa Cruz, anthropology
Designing the World’s Runways: The Emerging Culture of Fast Fashion in Guangzhou
Awarded: $10,000
Adam French, UC Santa Cruz, environmental studies
Water is Life: Climate Change, Globalization, and Adaptive Resource Governance on Peru’s Pacific Slope
Awarded: $7,700
Ling Han, UC San Diego, sociology
Practicing Women’s Human Rights: The Implementation of Women’s Rights Advocacy Programs in China
Awarded: $19,459
Andrew Hao, UC Berkeley, anthropology
Chinese Ethical Capitalism: Business Ethics, Managerial Rationality, and Global Flows between Post-socialist
China, Singapore, and Taiwan
Awarded: $20,000
Zhengzheng Huangfu, UC San Diego, history
Discovering the West: Chinese Ambassadors in European Society, 1876-1893
Awarded: $20,000
Wonju Hwang, UCSF, community health systems
Cardiovascular Disease risk in Korean Blue Collar Workers: CVD actual risk, risk perception, and risk reduction
behavior
Awarded: $18,744
Jessica Jordan, UC San Diego, history
Narratives of Japan in the Northern Mariana Islands: Relating to Experiences of Multiple Pasts
Awarded: $19,459
Miri Kim, UC Irvine, history
Military Education and Modernity in Northeast China, 1920s to 1930s
Awarded: $20,000
Kah-Wee Lee, UC Berkeley, architecture
Betting on the Future: Politics of risk and participation in Singapore and Sydney’s casino competitions
Awarded: $19,625
Peter Leykam, UC Santa Cruz, anthropology
Markets and Meaning in China
Awarded: $19,141
Andres Moya, UC Davis, agricultural and resource Eeconomics
The Long Run Economic Consequences of Civil Conflicts: Income Dynamics and Induced Changes in Risk
Aversion and other Behavioral Parameters
Awarded: $20,000
Kaewkamol Pitakdumrongkit, UC Santa Barbara, political science
East Asian Financial Cooperation
Awarded: $17,970
Magali Rabasa, UC Davis, cultural studies
Making Books Public: Collective-Presses & Intellectual-Political Networks in a “Continent in Movement”
Awarded: $19,990
Steven Rodriguez, UCLA, history
Whose Paradise? The Dilemma of Conflicting Models of World Heritage Parks in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Awarded: $6,381
Nicole Starosielski, UC Santa Barbara, film and media studies
Re-Mapping Transpacific Communication: The Cultural Geography of Undersea Cables in Fiji, New Zealand,
and Guam
Awarded: $12,115
Elena Shih, UCLA, Sociology
Globalizing Morality and Justice: Local Orientations Towards Women’s Work in Faith-Based and Rights-Based
Organizations in the Transnational Anti-Trafficking Movement
Awarded: $20,000
Amanda Shuman, UC Santa Cruz, history (declined to accept another extramural award)
The Politics of Socialist Athletics in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1976
Yulian Wu, UC Davis, history
Scholar-Merchants: Huizhou Salt Merchants and Material Culture in Eighteenth-Century
China
Awarded: $12,069
(Source: University Of California)
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