The Center for Global and Regional Studies offers current juniors the opportunity to apply for the annual CGRS Junior Fellowship, which aids students with work that deepens their understanding of local, regional, national, or international issues. CGRS particularly is interested in students who wish to further projects undertaken during an OCS program and especially when the work feeds into their comps.
During the 2022-2023 academic year, CGRS awarded two Junior Research Fellowships to Ammy Lin and Scott Hudson.
Ammy Lin (‘24) is a Chinese and Mathematics major with a minor in Music Performance. Ammy received the Junior Research Fellowship in collaboration with a Professor Qiguang Zhao Fellowship for Summer Study in China fellowship through the Office of Off Campus Studies. The title of her project was, ‘Anthropology, History, and Politics: How National Identity is Reflected in Taiwanese Cuisine’. In her work, Ammy focused on how Taiwanese cuisine, shaped by a long history of immigration and colonization has become increasingly prominent on the global stage due to factors such as the government’s gastro-diplomacy campaign and the “rise” of soft power. However, questions have been raised about the uniqueness and authenticity of Taiwanese cuisine because of its similarity to neighboring cuisines and whether this negatively affects their campaign. Ammy investigated the culinary influences of Taiwanese cuisine from a historical and anthropological perspective to understand what makes it unique. From this research and focus, Ammy then evaluated how it factors into national identity and Taiwan’s gastro-diplomacy campaign.
Below are images Ammy shared from her time abroad and throughout her time spent further researching her fellowship topic.
Scott Hudson (‘24) is a History major with minors in both European Studies and Digital Arts and Humanities. The title of his project was, ‘Exploring Interwar Film Censorship in Nazi Germany and the Irish Free State Through the Work of Marlene Dietrich’. In his work, he researched the motivations and outcomes of interwar censorship in Nazi Germany and the Irish Free State through three 1930s Hollywood films starring Marlene Dietrich. The two nations saw some of the strictest censorship laws in Europe at a time of global moral alarm. Dietrich’s films in particular came under fire because her overt on-screen sexuality and independence clashed with Nazi-prescribed gender roles in Germany and Catholic morality in Ireland. Comparing the two censorship contexts illuminated both nations’ ideas of acceptable female behavior as well the similarities between censorship in authoritarian and democratic states.
Below are images Scott shared from his time abroad and throughout his time spent further researching his fellowship topic.
Both CGRS Junior Research Fellowship recipients also participated in the 2023 Undergraduate Research and Internship Symposium, where they were able to share their topics and research, as well as share the experiences that were had during their time abroad in other countries.
Congratulations to both Ammy Lin and Scott Hudson!