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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Mark Francis |
Department of Environmental Design |
| Constructing Communities in the Face of Change:
Workshop on Community Design and Social Change in the Pacific
Rim |
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| Sheldon Lu |
Department of Comparative Literature |
| "Literary Studies in the Age of Globalization":
An International Conference |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Anne Walthall |
Department of History |
| Palace Women and Court Life Across the World |
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| Feng Wang |
Department of Sociology |
| Organizational Change and Income Inequality: Urban
China and the United States |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| John Swain (Graduate Student) |
Department of Theatre |
Zainichi-Koreans and Contemporary Japanese Theatre:
Nomads Still
Faculty Adviser: Professor Carol Fisher-Sorgenfrei |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Gail Heyman |
Department of Psychology |
| Culture and Honesty: American and Chinese Children's
Concept and Moral Judgment of Truth- and Lie- Telling |
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| Carla Kirkwood (Graduate Student) |
Department of Theatre and Dance |
Intercultural Negotiation: China Meets America
in Uncle Tom's Cabin
Faculty Adviser: Professor James Carmody |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Claire Conceison |
Department of Dramatic Art |
| Telling Ying Ruocheng's Story: A Collaborative
Autobiography of Eminent Chinese Artist, Statesman, and Cultural
Ambassador |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Sudarat Musikawong (Graduate Student) |
Department of Sociology |
Mediating Memory of the 1970s in Thai Cinema
Faculty Adviser: Professor Herman Gray |
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| Yen-ling Tsai (Graduate Student) |
Department of Anthropology |
Configuring "Chinese Ethnicity" in Post-Suharto
Indonesia
Faculty Adviser: Professor Anna Tsing |
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