A Consortium of Liberal Arts Colleges to Promote Asian Studies
ASIANetwork
Freeman Foundation
Student-Faculty Fellows Program
for Collaborative Research in Asia
Program Overview:
ASIANetwork, through the generous support of the Freeman Foundation, commenced a fourth three-year cycle of the Freeman Student-Faculty Fellows Program to be run during the summers of 2008, 2009, and 2010. The initial program cycle, run during the summers of 1998, 1999, and 2000, supported the research of thirty teams (a faculty mentor and one student researcher) in Asia, sixty “Fellows” in all. The next two three-year cycles expanded on this model, allowing each faculty mentor to take up to five students to Asia, to conduct research. The current cycle, continues this model, with support available for 10 to 12 faculty mentors to take up to five students to Asia each summer. As of 2009, 133 grants have been given to 566 “Student-Faculty Fellows” from 84 different colleges and universities who have undertaken research in a wide range of disciplinary studies throughout all of East and Southeast Asia.
See former program director Teddy Amoloza's retrospective on the history and the impact of the Freeman Program in the Spring 2004 issue of ASIANetwork Exchange.
Teddy Amoloza Convening Freeman Info Session at 2004 Conference (Photo by Chia Ning)