The Dorothy Borg Research Program of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute was established to prepare scholars for the challenge of studying transnational issues involving the United States and East Asia and to explore new conceptual strategies and themes for understanding the study of US – East Asia. A central goal of the Program is to encourage and support those who might work primarily in either the United States or East Asia to broaden their scope to focus on the transnational and global linkages and facilitate areas of convergence that can be drawn between the fields of East Asia and the study of the United States through postdoctoral training opportunities, graduate fellowships, collaborative grants to support inquiry that crosses geographic, temporal, or disciplinary boundaries, and the launch of four new research projects. The Dorothy Borg Research Program also supports various initiatives such as the Weaving Knowledge workshop, which was held in 2017 and 2019. The next installment will take place in 2021.
The Program is named in honor of Dorothy Borg (1902 – 1993), a historian of United States-East Asia relations whose influence on political scientists like Gerald L. Curtis, Andrew Nathan, Robert Jervis, historians like Carol Gluck, and many others helped to bridge the work of history and contemporary analysis
Research Projects:
- America and East Asia: Past and Present
- The Making of the Modern Pacific World
- Global Circuits, US-EAST Asian Archives, Curricular Development and Future Directions
- The United States & Southeast Asia: Past Legacies, Present Issues and Future Prospects
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
2019-2020 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the United States and East Asia
2017-2018 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asia and the Americas
2016-2017 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast Asian Studies
2016-2017 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Making of the Modern Pacific World
2016-2017 Dorothy Borg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Japanese Politics
