ORIENT: Faculty Researchers Win Grants!

[John Makeham]

Congratulations to the following colleagues who were successful in their 
applications to the Competitive Seed Funding Grants Program in the 
inaugural Faculty of Asian Studies Research Grants Scheme. Strong 
interest in the Scheme bodes well for its continuation and expansion in 
2009.

Tomoko Akami, A Quest for a Soft Power Empire: News propaganda and the 
national news agency in the Japanese imperial foreign policy, 1909–45

Ruth Barraclough, Korean Literature and Socialist Modernity Research

Simon Creak, Competing physical cultures in the colonial encounter: 
Sport in 1920s Laos

Bina D’Costa, Strangers Within Our Borders: Human (In)Security in South Asia

Amy Holmes, Defining Peripheral Power: Exploring the History of the 
Kingdom of Lhathog, Eastern Tibet

Shunichi Ishihara, Towards greater realism in testing forensic speaker 
recognition

Geng Song, Constructing Consumerist Masculinities: Men’s Lifestyle 
Magazines in Contemporary China

Katerian Taeiwa, Visual and print archives of Banaba/ Ocean Island held 
in Australia


Faculty Research Committee