Wanjing Chen

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography

Proposal Title: In the Shadow of Spectacular Chinatown: Realigning Socialist Wetland with Capitals in Vientiane, Laos

Yiqing Li

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Department of Visual Arts

Proposal Title: Shanghai Abstract Art: Re-visualizing the Urban Culture from the 1920s to 1980s

Shrobona Karkun

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography and Urban Studies

Proposal Title: The impact of Delhi Metro infrastructure on the urban development of the Central National Capital Region, India

Yiwen Liu

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History of Art

Proposal Title: Becoming an Art Space—Daxin Huating and Exhibition Culture in Republican Shanghai (1912-1949)

Soyoon Choo

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Sol Price School of Public Policy

Proposal Title: Regenerating as a Creative Just City: socially engaged artists in Seoul’s urban planning and development

Jeffrey Guarneri

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History

Tierney Brown

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Conserving Values: Bhutanese Scientific Work in Heritage

Oxana Rakova

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Cultural Anthropology

Proposal Title: Designing for Social Change in Seoul: - Citizen Participatory Design through the lens of actor-networking -

Souvanik Mullick

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology

Proposal Title: Transport Democracy: Small-Scale Transport Operators and Political Action in Delhi

Michael Hawkins

Proposal Title: From Colonial Cargo to Global Containers: Contestations over waterfront labor, space and time in the port of Manila (1898-2020)

Marie Kim

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, History, Saint Cloud State University

Proposal Title: History Is Not Destiny: Reframing Japan-South Korea Relations through the Rule of Law

Cindi SturtzSreetharan

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University

Proposal Title: Obesity anxieties: Comparing the lived experience of weight-related policy for Japanese and US men

Aya Kimura

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Sociology, University of Hawaii

Proposal Title: Agrobiodiversity protection and landraces: policies, alternative agrofood networks, and commodity chains in Japan and the US

Kaoru Kurusu

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University

Proposal Title: Research on UN Member States' Perceptions on Human Security in View of Exploring Possibility of Transnational Cooperation

Sachiko Masuda

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: Human genetic information for medical innovation: Examining policy issues related to domestic and cross-border sharing and ensuring control

Atsushi Miyawaki

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow, Department of Public Health, University of Tokyo

Proposal Title: Less Is More: Comparing Low-Value Care in Japan and the United States

Zheng Wang

Competition: Abe Fellowship 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Professor and Director, Center for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS), Seton Hall University

Proposal Title: The Rise of Populism and Nationalism and the Changing US-Japan-China Triangle Relationship

Christine Ro

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist, Freelance

Proposal Title: As heatwaves intensify, how is Japan coping?

Michael Ives

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Freelance Journalist, New York Times

Proposal Title: How Cool is Japan?

Karina Piser

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Fellow, Recipient of reporting fellowship in France, Institute of Current World Affairs

Proposal Title: Between Solitude and Empowerment: Women and Japan's Loneliness Epidemic

Masako Takuma

Competition: Abe Fellowship for Journalists 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Senior Science Communicator, Department of Museum Operations, Miraikan- the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation

Proposal Title: Establishment of rules for the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing

Njoki Wamai

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): United States International University

Proposal Title: Redefining Justice, Security and Citizenship after the International Criminal Court(ICC) Intervention in Kenya .

Gideon Van Riet

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): North-West University

Proposal Title: Transitional injustice: The spatial politics of crime in contemporary South Africa

Justice Richard Kwabena Owusu Kyei

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Proposal Title: Institutionalization of Political Vigilantism in Ghana’s Democratic Governance: Conflict, Violence and Peacebuilding

Onyinyechukwu Onyido

Competition: Individual Research Fellowships 2019

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): University of Port Harcourt

Proposal Title: CEXPERIENCES AND COPING MECHANISMS OF WOMEN IN POST-CONFLICT NIGER DELTA COMMUNITIES: AN INTERSECTIONAL APPROACH