A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
ASIANetwork Freeman Foundation
Student-Faculty Fellows Program
for Collaborative Research in Asia
Program Overview:
ASIANetwork, through the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, will continue to run the Student-Faculty Fellows Program during the summers of 2011 and 2012. The initial program cycle, run during the summers of 1998, 1999, and 2000, supported the research of thirty teams (a faculty mentor and one student researcher) in Asia, sixty “Fellows” in all. Beginning in 2001, the program expanded on this model, allowing each faculty mentor to take up to five students to Asia, to conduct research. When the summer 2010 program is completed, the program will have provided 146 grants to 633 student-faculty fellows from 89 different colleges to undertake research in a wide range of topics throughout East and Southeast Asia. The most recent $866,000 grant from the Freeman Foundation will support from 10 to 14 faculty mentors to take up to five students to Asia each summer in 2011 and 2012.
See former program director Teddy Amoloza’s retrospective on the history and the impact of the Freeman Program in the Spring 2004 issue of ASIANetwork Exchange.
Teddy Amoloza Convening Freeman Info Session at 2004 Conference (Photo by Chia Ning)