About the Harvard-Yenching Institute
Our mission
The Institute is an independent foundation dedicated to advancing higher education in Asia in the humanities and social sciences, with special attention to the study of Asian culture.
About the Institute
The Institute offers fellowship programs to faculty members and doctoral students at leading East, Southeast, and South Asian universities in all fields of the humanities and social sciences.
The Institute also supports several publication series at Harvard and in Asia, publishes a book review series and working paper series, and provides support for the Harvard-Yenching Library as well as other research initiatives.
Facts & Figures
60+
Partner Institutions across Asia
1928
Year founded
1.9k+
Fellowships granted to faculty and grad students in Asia
Our People
To date nearly 1200 faculty and over 600 graduate students from Asia have received Institute fellowships, including over 400 doctoral and M.A. students who have received their degrees with Institute support.
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Alumni Spotlight
Vietnam National University-Hanoi
Doctoral Scholars, 2009 - 2012
Nguyen Vu Hoang received his Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Toronto in 2017. His dissertation is focused on Vietnamese Americans and their relations with the homeland. He is currently a faculty member and vice-dean of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi. Previously, he was with the Institute of Cultural Studies (2019-2020) and the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology (2005-2019) at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Hoang received a Master’s Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Vrije... Read More
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Partners in Asia
The Harvard-Yenching Institute currently enjoys partnerships with more than sixty universities and research centers in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and India.