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Yoonmee Chang Dissertation Fellowship

The Yoonmee Chang Dissertation Fellowship, awarded annually, supports a final year of dissertation writing for a sixth-year Ph.D. student, with preference for students working in Asian American and Asian diasporic studies. The fellowship consists of a standard 10-month stipend at the university minimum, tuition, fees, and health insurance.

This endowed fellowship honors the late Professor Yoonmee Chang (1970-2018), a poet and scholar of Asian American diasporic literature and culture and disability studies, who earned her Ph.D. at Penn English in 2003. While at Penn, she was an instrumental leader in the founding of the Asian American Studies Program. 

Professor Chang was Associate Professor of English at George Mason University and previously taught at Indiana University. She was the author of Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Enclave (Rutgers University Press, 2010). At the time of her death at age 48, she was writing a book on the zainichi, Koreans in Japan from the colonial period and their descendants. 

For more information on Professor Yoonmee Chang and her legacy, please see: https://www.thedp.com/article/2018/01/upenn-penn-asian-american-studies-...

The Graduate Office will solicit applications to the Yoonmee Chang Dissertation Fellowship in the spring semester.