A. T. Steele Faculty Grant
The Asia Center at ASU invites competitive proposals from ASU faculty seeking to fund travel to Asia to conduct research. The travel grants had been paused in cent years due to travel restrictions and the Center is pleased to be able to resume this decades-long tradition awarding travel funds supported by the A.T. Steele Endowment. This year, awards of the A.T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant will range up to $4,000 each. Submissions are due Jan. 15, 2024.
All ASU faculty conducting research in Asia are eligible to apply. The Center’s affiliated faculty are strongly encouraged to apply.
You may read the awardees’ project abstracts by clicking on their name and title.
If you wish to apply for A.T. Steele Faculty Grant: Please click on the link below for the form.
A. T. Steele Travel Grant Proposal 2024
Please submit the form to Asia@asu.edu by Monday, Jan. 15, 2024 at 11:59 p.m. The Travel funds will be available to use in 2024-2025 Fiscal Year. The recipients will be announced after Feb. 19, 2024.
Past recipients
2023 recipients of the A.T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Dr. Natasha Behl, Associate Professor, School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Dr. Huaiyu Chen, Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
- Dr. Sookja Cho, Associate Professor, School of International Letters and Cultures
- Dr. Hue-Tam Jamme, Assistant Professor, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
- Dr. Hjorleifur Jonsson, Professor, School of Human Evolution and Social Change
- Dr. Daniele Lauro, Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
- Dr. Andrew Le, Assistant Professor, School of Social and Family Dynamics
- Dr. Linh Vu, Assistant Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies
2021 recipient of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Dr. Uttaran Dutta, Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
2020 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Dr. Deepak Chhabra. Associate Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions
- Dr. Youngju Shin, Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication
2019 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Dr. Wei Li, Professor, School of Social Transformation - Skilled Migration to China: Chinese Returnees and U.S. Migrants
- Dr. Youngju Shin, Associate Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication - Interracial Marriage in South Korea: From Immigrant Mothers' Perspective
- Dr. Heewon Kim, Assistant Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication - Promoting Voice of "Frontline" Workers: Organizational Justice, Psychological Safety, and Burnout in the South Korea Care Industries
2018 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Dr. Huaiyu Chen, Associate Professor, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies- Buddhist Monumentality and Its Paradox: The Rise and Fall of Stone Lanterns in Medieval China
- Dr. Heewon Kim, Assistant Professor, Hugh Downs School of Human Communication- Unleashing Voices through Anonymous Communication: Power Disparities, Workplace Freedom of Speech, and Organizational Dissent in South Korea
- Dr. Aaron Moore, Associate Professor, Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies- Engineering Development: The Cold War and Japanese Post-colonial Power in Asia
- Dr. Indulata Prasad, Assistant Professor, School of Social Transformation, Women and Gender Studies- Women in the Bodhgaya land movement: mainstreaming gender in social mobilization in Bihar, India
2016 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Dr. Deepak Chhabra, Associate Professor and Senior Sustainability Scientist, School of Community Resources and Development Retro Branding of Khadi: A Sustainable Heritage Tourism Marketing Perspective
- Dr. Aaron S. Moore, Associate Professor, History, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies Legacies of Japanese Engineering in Northeast China
- Dr. Peter Suwarno, Associate Professor of Indonesian, School of International Letters and Cultures Local Performances of Dakwah: A Case of Islamization of Java, Javanization of Islam
2015 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Professor Hjorliefur Jonsson “Seeing Thai: Interethnic relations in popular culture and ethnography in Thailand, 1950-2014”
- Professor Shair-Rosenfield “Overcoming Uncertainty in New Democracies”
- Professor Alexander Henn “Religion and the Conquest of India”
- Dr. Ralph Gabbard “The Myanmar Training Consortium”
- Professor Sookja Cho “Utopian Imagination and Intellectual Quests: Landscaping Korean Literature, 13-17th Century”
2014 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Professor James Eder “Converting to Islam in the Christian Philippines: Some Motives and Consequences”
- Professor James Rush “Faith vs. Poverty: Tony Meloto and Gawad Kalinga”
2013 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Professor Wei Li “Chinese Diaspora: Return and Onward Migrations and Their Impacts”
- Professor Aaron Moore “Technologies of Asian Development:” Japan’s Overseas Technical Assistance Projects, 1945-1975”
- Professor Megha Budruk “Understanding visitors at a World Heritage Site: The Kaas Plateau in India”
2012 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Professor Peter Suwarno “Success and Challenges of CLS Malang 2010-2012”
- Professor Huaiyu Chen “Buddhism and Christianity along the Silk Road”
2011 recipients of the A. T. Steele Faculty Travel Grant
- Professor Christopher Duncan “Moving Beyond Missionaries”
- Professor Sookja Cho “Around the Sacred and the Secular”
- Professor Pauline Cheong “Mediating Religion and Spirituality”
- Professor Aaron S. Moore “Technologies of Asian Development”
- Professor Prasad Boradkar “The Practice of Craft and Design in Western India”
- Professor James Rush “Seeking the Common Good in Asia”