Yoonmee Chang Research Travel Fellowships

The Yoonmee Chang Research Travel Fellowships support domestic and international research travel related to Asian American and Asian diasporic Studies. Funds may be used to advance a dissertation, a publication, or a scholarly research project with a detailed plan for dissemination. The availability of the fellowships and their amounts each year varies depending on endowment performance.

These endowed research fellowships honor 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 Research Travel Fellowships and announce award amounts in the spring semester.