The UMBC Global Asias Initiative’s student research fellowship program is proud to have supported the following students & projects:
Fall 2024: Tazmira Sultana ’25 – MA in Public History. The fellowship supported Tazmira’s work conducting oral history interviews with Bangladeshi diaspora in New York as part of her thesis project “Between Two Shores: A Historical Analysis of Bangladeshi Diaspora, Identity, and Influence in the United States”
Spring 2025: Grace Reeb ’25 – MA in Master’s in Texts, Technologies & Literature. This fellowship supported her thesis work on “Han and Disability in Korean American Women’s Memoir” which applies a Critical Disability Studies lens to Literary Analysis of Korean American Women’s Scholarly and Adoptee Memoirs.
Fall 2025: Jenny Zhao – PhD Candidate in Clinical-Community Psychology. The fellowship is supporting Jenny’s qualitative research on the well-being of Rohingya women in the United States and their post-settlement adaption.