IU’s East Asian Studies Center has been selected to host a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence from Singapore to instruct and conduct research during the 2023-2024 academic year. Dr. Roslynn Ang, an expert in cultural anthropology, was selected for the Fulbright award by the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
The Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Program brings visiting scholars from abroad to U.S. colleges and universities, helping the institutions internationalize their curricula, campuses and surrounding communities, and diversify the educational experiences of their students, faculty, staff, and stakeholders. Dr. Ang is one of more than forty-five Fulbright Scholars-in-Residence, and among 1,000 outstanding foreign faculty and professionals who will teach and pursue research in the United States for the 2023-2024 academic year through the worldwide Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program.
Dr. Ang will be joining the EASC as a researcher and instructor focused on indigeneity in East Asia. Dr. Ang will be teaching "Indigenous Cultures in Settler-Colonial East Asia". This 300-level course will explore Cultural anthropology's study of the Native, as well as the disciplines complicit in legitimizing forms of violence against Indigenous Peoples. Dr. Ang's research and instructional focus will allow students at Indiana University to utilize historical and contemporary case studies in East Asia in order to examine the interconnections of settler colonial structures across discourses on development and the frontier, settler state policies, migration, citizenship and sovereignty, Indigenous activism in media and art, as well as gender and resistance.
During her time with us, Dr. Ang will also engage with the East Asian Studies Center’s initiatives involving indigeneity in East Asia. The East Asian Studies Center is honored to welcome a scholar whose work focuses on topics of indigeneity in East Asia. With Dr. Ang's expertise our center will be better prepared to introduce this important topic to the University Community.
The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program and is supported by the people of the United States and partner countries around the world. It is funded through an annual appropriation from the U.S. Congress to the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). Participating governments and home and host institutions, corporations, and foundations around the world also provide direct and indirect support to the Program, which operates in over 160 countries worldwide.
Since its inception in 1946, over 400,000 people from all backgrounds — students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals — have participated in the Fulbright Program and returned home with an expanded worldview, a deep appreciation for their host country and its people, and a new network of colleagues and friends. Fulbright alumni have become heads of state, judges, ambassadors, cabinet ministers, CEOs, and university presidents, as well as leading journalists, artists, scientists, and teachers. They include 62 Nobel Laureates, 89 Pulitzer Prize winners, 78 MacArthur Fellows, and thousands of leaders across the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
ECA sponsors the Fulbright Program, and several non-profit, cooperative partners implement and support the program on the Bureau’s behalf. For further information about the Fulbright Program or the U.S. Department of State, please visit https://fulbrightprogram.org or contact the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Press Office by e-mail: ECA-Press@state.gov.
