Kim Lacey, graduate student in History at WashU, has been awarded a Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant to support archival research in early 20th-century Japanese-language sources.
Kim Lacey, doctoral candidate in history at WashU, has been awarded a Harvard-Yenching Library Travel Grant to support archival research in early 20th-century Japanese-language sources regarding the Russian borderland region. This research will strengthen a chapter in her dissertation, "Koreitsy: Koreans in the Former Soviet Republics, 1863–Present," and contribute to her second book project, "Border Crossers and the Making of the Russian Far East." She is one of 10 scholars in North America selected for this merit-based award this year.
About the Grant
The Harvard-Yenching Library awards several grants each year to help scholars from the U.S. and Canada travel to Cambridge to use our collections in their research.
These merit-based awards are open to non-tenured faculty, dissertation-writing Ph.D. candidates (or ABDs), and independent scholars. Priority consideration will be given to applicants from institutions with limited or no East Asian language library resources, and those without major East Asian library collections nearby.
For 2026, 10 grants of $2,000 are available. Grant applications are due by January 31, 2026 and awards must be used by August 31, 2026.
This is a competitive, merit-based grant awarded to only 10 scholars per year in North America.
More information about the program can be found here: https://library.harvard.edu/grants-fellowships/harvard-yenching-library-travel-grant
