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U.S. Students

Rebecca Ash-Cervantes
Home Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Host Institution: 
The Hopkins-Nanjing Center
Field of Study: 
Migration Studies
Project Title: 
Study at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced Studies Hopkins-Nanjing Center

Cathie Carrigan
Home Institution: IUPUI
Host Institution: 
Beijing Normal University/Zhejiang Gongshang University
Field of Study: 
Philanthropic Studies
Project Title: 
The Internationalization of Chinese Giving: Perspectives of Donors to U.S. Universities 

Allegra Fonda-Bonardi
Home Institution: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Host Institution: 
New York University, Shanghai
Field of Study: 
Accounting/Finance
Project Title: 
China’s Global Tech Cultures: Carbon Neutrality and Financial ESG Factors in China’s Listed Firms

Attyat Mayans
Home Institution: Boston University
Host Institution: 
East China Normal University
Field of Study: 
Anthropology
Project Title: 
Middle Class Aspirations and English Language Learning in Urban(izing) China

Shayan Momin
Home Institution: New York University
Host Institution: New York University, Shanghai
Field of Study: Anthropology
Project Title: Hengdian Dreams: Labor and Chinese Media Worlds

Yasser Nasser
Home Institution: University of Chicago
Host Institution: 
University of Chicago Center in Beijing
Field of Study: 
History
Project Title: 
Creating ‘New Asia’: Sino-Indian Friendship and its Global Afterlives, 1947-1962

Hanna Pickwell
Home Institution: University of Chicago
Host Institution: University of Chicago Center in Beijing
Field of Study: Anthropology
Project Title: Retro Enchantments and Secondhand Ghosts: The Lively Afterlives of Old and Used Goods in Beijing

Roman Shemakov
Home Institution: Henry Luce Foundation
Host Institution: 
Zhejiang University
Field of Study: 
Urban Studies
Project Title: 
The Political Economy of Digitized Cities: Building Lasting China-U.S. Collaboration

Miranda Smith
Home Institution: Northwestern University
Host Institution: 
Qinghai University for Nationalities
Field of Study: 
Religious Studies
Project Title: 
Who is That Strong One Who Can Lift Half the Sky? Poetry by Laywomen and Nuns in East Tibet

James Watson-Krips
Home Institution: Princeton University
Host Institution: 
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Field of Study: 
History
Project Title: 
A Republic on the Road: Traveling by Bus and Truck in Modern China, 1911-1949

Eric Zheng
Home Institution: Michigan State University
Host Institution:
Bard College
Field of Study:
Music
Project Title:
The Saxophone’s Adaptability in Traditional Chinese Music Through Erhu Study

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