Harvard-Yenching Library
Travel Grant Program
The Harvard-Yenching Library’s Travel Grant Program is designed to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of Harvard-Yenching's collections for research. Priority consideration is given to those at institutions where there are no or few library resources in the East Asian languages, and no major East Asian library collections are available nearby.
For the 2008-2009 academic year, there will be seventeen grants of $400 each (six in Chinese studies, six in Japanese studies, and five in Korean studies) to be awarded on a merit basis to faculty members and to graduate students engaged in dissertation research. Each grantee will also be provided with the privilege of free photocopying of up to 100 sheets.
Please note that the awards must be used before August 1, 2009. Recipients are usually notified by early January.
The grants are open to citizens of any country. However, because the program is supported by funds from a Title VI grant from the U.S. Department of Education, all travel to and from the library must be via U.S. carriers.
Applications for the travel grant for the 2008-2009 academic year must be received by Monday, December 1, 2008. Applications should include a letter, a brief description of the research topic, and an estimated budget, and should be addressed to:
James K. M. Cheng
Librarian
Harvard-Yenching Library
Harvard University
2 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
Fax: (617) 496-6008
E-mail
Harvard-Yenching Library 2006–2007 Travel Grant Awardees
Chinese Studies
Shuhua Fan, Marshall University
Yonglin Jiang, Oklahoma State University
Richard G. Wang, University of Florida
Japanese Studies
Masako Endo, Binghamton University
Laurence Fouraker, St. John Fisher College
Hidetoshi Hashimoto, University of Tennessee
Noriko Manabe, CUNY
Korean Studies
Hwisang Cho, Columbia University
Robert Oppenheim, The University of Texas at Austin
