Luce Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship for Southeast Asian Language Study
2017-18
Romel Gaspar (BS, Travel Industry Management) – Tagalog
Dylan Lee (BA, Theatre) – Vietnamese
2016-17
Faith Hall (BA, Anthropology) – Indonesian
Evan Rabanal (BS, Public Health) – Tagalog
Terry Joan Salaga (BA, Philippine Studies) – Vietnamese
Luce Graduate Research Fellowship
2019
R.L. Hughes (MA student, Second Language Studies) Project: Spending Summer 2019 working under the tutelage of Muhammad Yasir and Professor Saut Situmorang, both authors and activists, to pursue a passion for Indonesian language, literature, and future teaching.
Benjamin Moseley (PhD student, Southeast Asian History) Project: Fieldwork in Maluku, East Indonesia, focusing on the historical relations between local communities, Catholic missionaries, and Portuguese administrators and colonists, throughout the eastern Malay-Indonesian Archipelago during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
2018
A. L. Blake (PhD, Linguistics)
Project: Documenting the botanical language of the Abui people of Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia
Brendan Flanagan (MA, Anthropology)
Project: Forest use strategies of the Karen people in the Kamoethway River valley, southern Myanmar
2017
Phoebe France (PhD, Anthropology)
Project: Archaeological field research in the Angkor region of northwest Cambodia
Dylan Beatty (PhD, Geography)
Project: Field research on endangered fishing communities in the Philippines
Hawaiʻi/Wisconsin LUCE Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Fellowship
2017
Faculty Mentor
Professor Jonathan Padwe, UHM Department of Anthropology
Collaborating students:
William Shattuck (Phd student, Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Phianpachong lntarat (MA student, Anthropology, University of Hawai’i at Manoa).
Research Project
Covering Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos to assess the problems of landscape change with a focus on the issues of access to land and social marginalization occasioned by the rapid transformation of the region’s rural political economy.