Amy Tsang has been awarded the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. During her fellowship year, Amy will be conducting dissertation field work in China on how city residents understand place identity and territorial belonging in the context of large-scale migration and urbanization.

The Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship supports graduate students undertaking social science research projects in China. Harvard doctoral candidates from any school within the university specializing in a field of the social sciences are eligible, with preference given to students of government, public policy, public administration, economics, law, and sociology.

Past Recipients of the Desmond and Whitney Shum Fellowship:
2006-07: Jundai Liu