Center for Chinese Studies

CCS Working Group Applications due by January 23, 2023

November 17, 2022

The Center for Chinese Studies is currently accepting new applications for the working group program in the AY2022-23 in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences. This program will provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research...

CCS Working Groups

The Center for Chinese Studies Working Group program is in support of research in the humanities and the social sciences, and provide opportunities for smaller groups of Berkeley faculty and advanced graduate students to share their research in progress, garner thoughtful and detailed feedback on papers or grants, brainstorm new projects, and discuss the latest published research related to their working group.

The Working Group awards range from $250-$750 for the academic year. New Working Groups have one full year to use the award funds. The funds can be used...

Skye VanValkenburgh

Program Coordinator
Center for Chinese Studies

Skye VanValkenburgh (吴思凯) manages all aspects of the Visiting Scholar Program at CCS. She earned her B.A. in Chinese from San Francisco State University and is an alumni of the Chinese Language Flagship Program. As part of the Flagship Program, Skye studied Chinese language and culture intensively at National Taiwan University, conducted several summer internships in Taiwan, and completed a yearlong intensive language capstone at Nanjing University, which included a six-month internship as the Program Assistant for the American Councils Chinese Language Flagship Nanjing Center. She...

Yingying Rao

CCS Undergraduate Student Liaison

Yingying Rao (饶迎迎) is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley intending to major in History. Her academic interests include Chinese history, philosophy, literature and intellectual history overall.

Aihwa Ong (Emerita)

Anthropology

Global technologies, modes of governing, technoscientific assemblages, and citizenship in particular Asian contexts of emergence.

Xin Liu

Anthropology

Social/cultural anthropology, history and/of anthropology, contemporary trends in social theory, development and social change, China/East Asia