The Center for International Social Science Research announces its 2025-26 Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Field Research Grant Fellows

The Center for International Social Science Research announces its 2025-26 Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph Field Research Grant Fellows whose projects continue the legacy of fieldwork research pioneered by Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph, exemplifying the variety of geographic, disciplinary, and methodological strengths from across the Social Sciences Division. 

Awards cover expenses associated with original fieldwork, archival research, and more, deepening understanding and improving research. 

The following students have projects that focus on East Asia:

Ryan Dai 
China’s Rural-Urban Educational Divide: Disparities in Family, School, and Peer Environments

Yuchen Jin
Cultural Scripting of Kinship Term Acquisition: A Field Study of Mandarin Speaking Children in Urban China

Ruiling Xue
Vernacular Culture and Social Formation of Value in the Late Imperial China Materi

Wei Zhou
Energy Transition in Colonial Manchuria, 1934 -1944

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