PACIFIC RIM RESEARCH PROGRAM
2003-2004 GRANTS

The Executive Committee of the Pacific Rim Research Program awarded 35 grants in the 2003-2004 competition.  Principal investigators and project titles are listed below. 
 
 BERKELEY

Chris Berry Department of Film Studies
Can Filmmaking Be a Public Sphere? Documentary Film and Video in East Asia as Social Practice
   
Peng Gong Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Detecting Forest Cover Changes in Laos' Border Forests - a Case Study of the Impact on its Forest Resource from the Timber Trade with China
   
Daromir Rudnyckyj (Graduate Student) Department of Anthropology
Islamic Networks and the Politics of Privatization: Spiritual Economy in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Faculty Adviser: Professor Aihwa Ong
   
Harry Scheiber Earl Warren Legal Institute
Regional Cooperation Against Illegal Fishing in the Pacific Ocean: Policy Options and Implementation Strategies for Sustainable Use

 DAVIS

Mark Carey (Graduate Student) Department of History
Grappling with Glaciers: Climate Change and Society in the Andes, 1941-2003
Faculty Adviser: Professor Charles F. Walker
   
Mark Francis Department of Environmental Design
Constructing Communities in the Face of Change: Workshop on Community Design and Social Change in the Pacific Rim
   
Sheldon Lu Department of Comparative Literature
"Literary Studies in the Age of Globalization": An International Conference
   
Jeanine Pfeiffer (Graduate Student) Department of Pomology
Cultures of Grass: The Historical Ecology and Biocultural Diversity of Traditional Cultivars and Their Cultivators Across the Pacific Rim
Faculty Adviser: Professor Daniel Potter
   
Li Zhang Department of Anthropology & Institute of Governmental Affairs
The Social, Cultural, and Political Implications of Privatization in China

 IRVINE

Kenneth Chew Department of School of Social Ecology
Documentary Clues About Clandestine Migration: Steamship Passenger Manifests and the Chinese American Diaspora, 1882-1943
   
Raul Lejano Department of Urban & Regional Planning and Department of Social Ecology
Institutions for Regional Governance: Options for Collaborative Management of the SULU-SULAWESI Marine Ecoregion
   
Anne Walthall Department of History
Palace Women and Court Life Across the World
   
Feng Wang Department of Sociology
Organizational Change and Income Inequality: Urban China and the United States
   
Charles Wheeler Department of History
Maritime Southeast Asia: The Sea as Center

 LOS ANGELES

Christina Firpo (Graduate Student) Department of History
Understanding Race: Civil Rights in Colonial Saigon
Faculty Adviser: Professor Geoffrey Robinson
   
John Froines Department of School of Public Health
Environmental Pollution, Genetic Susceptibility Genes, and Risk of Lung Cancer Among Chinese Female Non-Smokers in Taiyuan China
   
JoAnna Poblete (Graduate Student) Department of History
Conflicting Interests: Colonial and Expansionist Impact on Migration and Labor in Hawai'i from 1900 to 1946
Faculty Adviser: Professor Henry Yu
   
John Swain (Graduate Student) Department of Theatre
Zainichi-Koreans and Contemporary Japanese Theatre: Nomads Still
Faculty Adviser: Professor Carol Fisher-Sorgenfrei
   
Mariko Tamanoi Department of Anthropology
How to Envision the Global Ecological Interdependence? Tracking Wastes in the Pacific Rim Region

 RIVERSIDE

Larissa Dobrzhinetskaya Department of Earth Sciences
Diamond Discoveries Among Pacific Rim Neighboring Countries- Evidence of Deep Recycling of Carbon at Active Continental Boundaries and Its Implication for Earth's Geodynamics
   
Alison Lee (Graduate Student) Department of Anthropology
Transnational Migration and Ecological Transformation: The Impact of Rapid Social Change on Natural Resource Management in Rural Sending Communities, Puebla, Mexico
Faculty Adviser Professor: Tom C. Patterson

 SAN DIEGO

Yu-Fang Cho (Graduate Student) Department of Literature
Women's Rights, Racialized Labor, and the Rhetoric of Insurmountable Differences: American Women's Work of Benevolence and the Emergence of Chinese Modernity in Trans-Pacific Relations, 1870s - 1910s
Faculty Adviser: Professor Lisa Lowe
   
Wayne Cornelius Department of Political Science
The International Migration of "Traditional Women": Migrant Sex Workers, Domestic Workers, and Mail-Order Brides in the Pacific Rim
   
Gail Heyman Department of Psychology
Culture and Honesty: American and Chinese Children's Concept and Moral Judgment of Truth- and Lie- Telling
   
Carla Kirkwood (Graduate Student) Department of Theatre and Dance
Intercultural Negotiation: China Meets America in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Faculty Adviser: Professor James Carmody
   
Miriam Padolsky  (Graduate Student) Department of Sociology and Science Studies
Speaking for Science and Nature: The Climate Change Campaigns of Australian and Canadian Environmental Groups
Faculty Adviser: Professor Steven Epstein

 SAN FRANCISCO

Jyu-Lin Chen Department of Family Health Care Nursing
Predictors of Changes in BMI Among Taiwanese Children 
   
Ricardo Muñoz Department of Psychiatry
Pan American Smoking Cessation Trials via the Internet

 SANTA BARBARA

Jessica Chapman (Graduate Student) Department of History
Propaganda and the Public Debate Over Nationalism, Unification, and Modernization in South Vietnam, 1954-1960
Faculty Adviser: Professor Fredrik Logevall
   
Claire Conceison Department of Dramatic Art
Telling Ying Ruocheng's Story: A Collaborative Autobiography of Eminent Chinese Artist, Statesman, and Cultural Ambassador
   
Hillary Haldane (Graduate Student) Department of Anthropology
Multicultural Approaches in the Treatment of Domestic Violence: A Comparative Analysis of New Zealand's Asian, Maori, Pacific Islander, and Pakeha Shelters
Faculty Adviser: Professor Alexander F. Robertson
   
Raymond Wong Department of Sociology
A New Breed of Chinese Entrepreneur in the Pacific Rim? Culture, Organizational Imperatives, and Globalization

SANTA CRUZ

Diane Gifford-Gonzalez Department of Anthropology
International Workshop on Northern Fur Seal Ecology, Biogeography, and Management in Historic Perspective
   
Sudarat Musikawong (Graduate Student) Department of Sociology
Mediating Memory of the 1970s in Thai Cinema
Faculty Adviser: Professor Herman Gray
   
Yen-ling Tsai  (Graduate Student) Department of Anthropology
Configuring "Chinese Ethnicity" in Post-Suharto Indonesia
Faculty Adviser: Professor Anna Tsing

 

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