The Global Asias Initiative is offering Undergraduate Research Fellowships for students and Course Expansion Grants for faculty!

Applications for this coming Fall 2024 are due May 3, 2024. Application & more information can be found at bit.ly/UMBCglobalasias

Course Expansion Grants

The Global Asias Initiative at UMBC is offering Course Expansion Grants once per semester up to $2000 to fund curricular innovations especially around the incorporation of a public humanities or community-engaged component into existing courses that serve the Asian Studies program, the Asian American studies minor and fit within the field of Global Asias. The course expansion grants are intended to support the development of Global Asias courses that centralize diasporic, transnational, and ethnic studies approaches.

Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Global Asias

The Global Asias Initiative at UMBC is offering an undergraduate research fellowship in Global Asias in the amount of $500 where students will work with faculty and community partners on an independent study in the field for a period of one semester. The fellowship supports a research project supervised by a UMBC faculty member working in the field of Global Asias. The project should explore a topic in the field of Global Asias: broadly construed to include Asian American studies, Asian studies, or Asian diaspora studies in global context. 

UMBC Global Asias is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation