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 for overseas study and research to doctoral students and younger faculty members 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
1.8k+
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
Yonsei University
Associate, 2019 - 2020, 2012 - 2013, 2003 - 2004
Joon-Hwan Kim is a Professor of English Literature at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. He teaches twentieth-century poetry written in or translated into English, alternative modernities and modernisms, and modern & contemporary world poetry. His research fields are twentieth-century poetry in English, Korean modernist poetry, (post)modernism, (post)colonialism, and global modernisms. He has been working on Korean modernists’ critical and creative adaptation of Anglo-American modernist poetry during the colonial period, especially in the 1930s and 40s. As an editor of the Korean biannual journal Global World Literature, he introduces diverse contemporary... 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.