The Chin Hua Hsieh and Yun Mei Lee Hsieh Undergraduate and Graduate Research Awards
Thanks to the generosity of Frances Shih Fen Hsieh, an Ohio resident since 1979 and Columbus resident since 1992, the Asian American Studies Program offered the Chin Hua Hsieh and Yun Mei Lee Hsieh Undergraduate and Graduate Research Awards from 2006-2008 and 2010-2011.
2005-2006
Graduate award:
Vivian Li, “The Art of Re(Presentation)”
Undergraduate award:
Victoria Reyes, “Filipina Military Brides: Negotiating Assimilation and Cultural Maintenance within a Bicultural Setting”
2006-2007
Undergraduate award:
Joslyn Reedy, “The Mental Health Conditions of Cambodian Refugee Children and Adolescents”
2007-2008
Graduate award:
Joseph A. Orser, “American Family, Oriental Curiosity: The Siamese Twins, Their Children, and Nineteenth-Century U.S. Society”
Undergraduate award:
Tiffany Salter, “News Media Representation in Hagedorn’s Dogeaters and Dream Jungle”
2010-2011
Graduate awards:
- Kimberly McKee, “Constructing a Sense of Self: The Autobiographical Practices of Adoptees”
- Tiffany Salter, “‘they say . . .’: The Gender/Politics of Tsismis in Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters”
Undergraduate award:
Yuri Doolan, “The Korean Brides of U.S. Soldiers: A History of Names and Gender in Post-War South Korea”
Undergraduate honorable mention:
Ronald Holgado, “Asian American Male Masculinity in Contemporary Cinema” (digital narrative)
Asian American Studies Research and Service Awards
2018-2019
Undergraduate Research Award:
Melinda Dang, “Why Chris Brown’s ‘Fine China’ is Not Fine, At All”
Graduate Research Award:
Eunice Uhm, “The Subversive Possibilities of Diaspora”
2019-2020
Undergraduate Research Awards co-winners:
- Mia Bowman (Cariello), “Assimilation and Transracial Transnational Asian Adoptees”
- Molly Jasina, poems, “Empty vaults,” “Break from reality,” and “My identity is a potted plant”
- Matthew Urwin, “Multiculturalism and the Problem that White-Filipino Americans Pose to a Post-Racial America” (honors thesis)
Graduate Research Award:
Julianna Crame, “Confronting Miseducation: Second-Generation Filipino American Education in One Tribe”
Service Award:
Jian Neo Chen
2020-2021
Undergraduate research award co-winners:
- Diana Miguel, “Delicious, Delightful, and Dangerous”
- Elizabeth Roka and Adesh Labhasetwar, “How Race Works: A Historical Analysis of the Hypersexualization of Asian Women in Media”
Graduate research award:
Naomi Johnson, “Becoming More-Human Human Beings”
Service awards:
- Sophia Antoun, Intercultural Specialist, APIDA Student Initiatives at the Multicultural Center; Office of Diversity & Inclusion
- Bailee Burgard, Undergraduate Assistant, Center for Ethnic Studies
- Meow Hui Goh, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures
- Namiko Kunimoto, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art & Director of Center for Ethnic Studies
- Alice Phan, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art
- Joe Ponce, Associate Professor of English
These awardees represent students, staff and faculty whose efforts were crucial to the work of Asian American Studies after the Atlanta spa shootings on March 16, 2021.
2021-2022
Asian American Studies Undergraduate Award:
Lizzy Roka
2024-2025
Undergraduate Research Excellence in Asian American Studies:
Bhada Han
Graduate Research Excellence in Asian American Studies:
Jessica Tjiu