EAC Visiting Fellowships

The Center welcomes applications from scholars in any discipline working on East Asia to spend a period of three to twelve months as a Visiting Fellow of the East Asia Center (EAC). Visiting fellows will be provided with office space and a computer at the EAC and with UCSB library privileges. During their stay they will be invited to present a seminar on their work to the East Asian Studies Research Focus Group. The fellowships do not carry stipends and fellows will be responsible for providing their own health insurance and for finding housing in Santa Barbara. It is recommended that a contact is established with a faculty member whose work relates to or overlaps with that of the applicant.

Applicants should complete the application form on the EAC website at (click here) describing their research project, explaining why UCSB is a suitable place to pursue it, specifying the proposed dates of their stay as well as the sources of financial support for their visit, submitting a letter of support from a UCSB faculty member at the department that best represents the applicant's discipline and/or research project, and providing a curriculum vitae together with the names and addresses of two external referees.

Most UCSB departments are able to offer suitably qualified visitors temporary affiliate status during their stay, and applicants are encouraged to contact one or more UCSB faculty members working in related fields to explore the possibilities of such a sponsorship. Applicants might want to consult the list of EAC affiliates. Such affiliations do not include teaching responsibilities.

The EAC welcomes applications from university faculty and qualified independent scholars. In exceptional cases the EAC also will consider applications from ABD graduate students. UCSB is able to assist with visas for overseas scholars.

Deadlines for applications are 15 September and 25 February.

Visiting Fellows

Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University) | 251060tom580715gill@ytv.home.ne.jp

Tom Gill is an anthropologist and professor in the Department of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Yokohama, Japan. He is a EAC visiting fellow of 2007/08. While at the EAC he is pursuing a project on homelessness in a number of cities in Japan, the United States, and Britain. Gill is the author of Men of Uncertainty: The Social Organization of Day Laborers in Contemporary Japan. The State University of New York Press, 2001, and editor (with J. S. Eades and Harumi Befu) of Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan. Melbourne: Trans Pacific Books, 2000.

Emily Zeamer (Harvard University) | zeamer@fas.harvard.edu

Emily Zeamer, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology and a Weatherhead Center Graduate Student Associate at Harvard University, is a EAC visiting fellow of 2007/08 through 2008/09. She is particularly interested in narrative and visual cultures, modernity, religion, gender and class, meida publics and consumption practices. While at the EAC she plans to complete her dissertation, Considering the Sacred in Small Things: Formations of Buddhism in Modern Thailand.

Minoru Kiyama (Kansai Gakuin University) | kiyama@kwansei.ac.jp

Minoru Kiyama is a professor of history in the Department of Commerce at Kansai Gakuin University. He has carried out extensive research in business history and economic policy in early Meiji era Japan. He has published numerous articles on general trading corporations and in particular on Mitsui Bussan. He was the EAC visiting fellow from 2005--2007.

Dr. Qin Zhou (University of Guam) | qzhou@eac.ucsb.edu

Qin Zhou, a professor of philosophy at the University of Guam, was the EAC's first visiting fellow for the academic year 2004/05. Her book project, Cosmic Order and Moral Autonomy: The Rise of Confucian Ethics in Axial Age China, aims at articulating the long ignored connection between the religious traditions of the pre-Confucian age and the rise of Confucian ethics. It argues for the significance of cosmological conceptions within Chinese moral philosophy and highlights the continuity, rather than the gruptureh in Jaspersian theory, within Chinese civilization during its axial age.