Evan Dawley receives Fulbright Award

Evan Dawley, Ph.D., associate professor of history at Goucher College, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award in history to go to Taiwan for the 2024-25 academic year. The prestigious award is supported by the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Dawley will be conducting research for what will eventually be a book project on China and its diplomatic relations from the 1920s to the 1970s, “a time in which the Republic of China had to redefine itself and its citizens several times,” he said. His project examines the history of Chinese nationalism, the intersections of national identity with race and gender, and the complex process of nation-building through international relations across the 20th century.

“I am looking generally at China’s foreign relations and specifically at its interactions with national and colonial governments about Chinese communities overseas,” said Dawley. The overseas communities include Chinese and Taiwanese diasporas living in the U.S., Japan, Singapore, and Vietnam.

“This Fulbright Fellowship is essential for me to carry out this research in Taiwan, where most of my sources are held in archives and libraries,” said Dawley. “I have been working on this project for eight years—since my last year of leave in Taiwan—and this is the first opportunity that I will have to focus entirely on it.”

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