"My involvement in the CKS community over the course of my graduate career has been integral to my success as a doctoral student. The collegiality and camaraderie gave me a place to meet, collaborate with, and learn from other Korean studies scholars. The generosity and support from CKS has enabled me to travel to Korea and beyond for fieldwork, research, and symposia, helping reach my goals as an emerging scholar."
Kira Donnell
Ethnic Studies
2018 Travel Grantee
"Funding from CKS allowed me to focus on my dissertation research and writing on transnational Korean Christian churches at a critical stage in my graduate study. This support has enabled me to complete my dissertation, to publish and share my research internationally, and to successfully embark on a post-graduate career in the anthropology of Korea."
Heather Mellquist Lehto
Anthropology of Religion
2018 CKS Fellow
"I can't imagine my graduate experience at Berkeley without CKS. The organization has provided opportunities for me to connect with faculty and with other students across campus who focus on Korea. CKS has also provided critical funding for fieldwork and collaborative projects throughout my time in graduate school."
Bridget Martin
Geography
2019 CKS Fellow
"The CKS fellowship helped me to carry out a survey experiment on South Korean attitudes towards North Korean refugees. So far, I have presented the findings at the Midwest Political Science Association and Association for Asian Studies annual meetings. In addition, I'd like to emphasize that the CKS community provided many opportunities to discuss the paper with the faculty and graduate student affiliates."
Jae Yeon Kim
Political Science
2018 CKS Fellow
"CKS has been a vital part of my academic life. I've received generous support in the form of research fellowships, travel grants, and graduate student workshops, enabling me to develop my work on postcommunism, political sovereignty, the aesthetic experience of state power, borders and the imagination as it unfolds in the DPRK, ROK, DMZ, and the Sino-Korean border."
Lisa Sang Mi Min
Sociocultural Anthropology
2017 Travel Grantee
"The CKS award allowed me to actualize an ambitious project on transboundary pollution issues in the Northeastern Asian region. Without the support, I would have been unable to pursue the issue and investigate the extent to which neighboring countries harm the public health of South Korean people. I am enormously grateful for the CKS fellowship that supported my research and motivated me to focus on the study during the COVID-19 situation."
Jaecheol Lee
Agricultural and Resource Economics
2020 CKS Fellow
