Kim Lacey Awarded Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant

Kim Lacey, doctoral candidate in historical past at WashU, has been awarded a Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant to help archival analysis in early Twentieth-century Japanese-language sources concerning the Russian borderland area. This analysis will strengthen a chapter in her dissertation, “Koreitsy: Koreans in the Former Soviet Republics, 1863–Present,” and contribute to her second ebook mission, “Border Crossers and the Making of the Russian Far East.” She is one among 10 students in North America chosen for this merit-based award this 12 months.

About the Grant

The Harvard-Yenching Library awards a number of grants annually to assist students from the U.S. and Canada journey to Cambridge to make use of our collections of their analysis.

These merit-based awards are open to non-tenured college, dissertation-writing Ph.D. candidates (or ABDs), and unbiased students. Priority consideration can be given to candidates from establishments with restricted or no East Asian language library sources, and people with out main East Asian library collections close by.

For 2026, 10 grants of $2,000 can be found. Grant purposes are due by January 31, 2026 and awards have to be utilized by August 31, 2026.

This is a aggressive, merit-based grant awarded to solely 10 students per 12 months in North America. 

More details about this system could be discovered right here: https://library.harvard.edu/grants-fellowships/harvard-yenching-library-travel-grant