Asia
Responsive Grants
Recent Grants
Luce Archaeology Initiative
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 		Asia Responsive Grants provide opportunities to improve understanding between the United States and the Asia-Pacific region. These grants typically support research, create new scholarly and public resources, or promote the exchange of ideas and information between Americans and Asians.

Asia Responsive Grants are limited to work in the humanities and social sciences concerned with Northeast and Southeast Asia, typically for longer-term programs or projects that respond to the needs and priorities of the Asian studies field and benefit a wide range of scholars and institutions. Most awards are made to colleges, universities and organizations based in the United States.

Recent grants have included but are not limited to support for:
  • Asian studies at the undergraduate level
  • Language training
  • Library and resource development
  • Southeast Asian studies
  • Asian art history studies and art exhibitions
  • Faculty development
  • Leadership and scholarly exchange
  • Policy studies
  • Research on the history of Christianity in China and other parts of Asia
  • Underrepresented and newly emerging fields of inquiry
Examples of programs supported by the Foundation include: ASIANetwork, a consortium of liberal arts colleges in the U.S. which works to improve the study of Asia by undergraduate students; the Asian Studies Development Program, a joint program of the University of Hawai'i and the East-West Center which increases American understanding of Asia through college and university faculty development; the Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute, a nine-week intensive language training program for undergraduate and graduate students and professionals, offering instruction in Burmese, Hmong, Indonesian, Javanese, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese; and the China Historical Geographic Information System, an international collaboration creating a digital database that can be used to collect and share Chinese historical information with a spatial element and examine change across time.

The Foundation's guidelines and resources do not allow the inclusion of South or Central Asia. Also, there is no separate category of support for travel, publications, translation or individual research, and funding is not generally provided for conferences.

Requests for funding may be submitted at any time during the year, beginning with a brief letter of inquiry which should include: a description of the project and its significance, participants, the timeframe, the project's total budget and the amount requested from the Foundation, and other existing or potential sources of funding.

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