YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at 91亚色 on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and language studies. In each Update over the summer, we will introduce the 2020 winners.
In this issue, we congratulate Heather Evans (Gender, Feminist and Women鈥檚 Studies), this year鈥檚 recipient of the Dr. Sangdeok Woo and Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Memorial Graduate Award. Their dissertation research draws on transnational feminist theory and memory studies to critically examine how militarized sexual harm and racialized, gendered resistance are constructed through the memorialization practices of the transnational 鈥渃omfort women鈥 movement. This project is informed by Heather鈥檚 13 years of experience as an activist, researcher and educator with the 鈥渃omfort women鈥 movement in the South Korean and Canadian contexts as well as nearly a decade of academic and organizational research on post-conflict memorialization landscapes, 鈥渟exual slavery鈥 discourses, and human trafficking discourses and policies.
The Dr. Sangdeok Woo and Mrs. Kwisoon Lim Woo Graduate Award was created by the Woo family to support graduate students聽undertaking research on the topics of Korean history, culture or society.
More about YCAR鈥檚 awards can be found .
The next deadline for YCAR-administered award applications is 9 February 2021.