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  • 1998-1999 Luce Scholar Joshua Kurlantzick’s new book, The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War, was released in November. For a preview of the book, which explores a key Cold War episode that is still playing out today, read his piece in Foreign Policy, “The End of the Innocents: How America's longtime man in Southeast Asia, Jim Thompson, fought to stop the CIA's progression from a small spy ring to a large paramilitary agency -- and was never seen again.” A former foreign correspondent and journalist, Josh spent his Luce year working for the Bangkok Post in Thailand, and is currently a fellow for Southeast Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His book, Charm Offensive: How China's Soft Power Is Transforming the World, was nominated for CFR's 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award.


  • 1996-97 Luce Scholar Frederick F. Wherry is the author of two books published this year, The Culture of Markets and The Philadelphia Barrio: The Arts, Branding and Neighborhood Transformation, and co-editor of a third, The Cultural Wealth of Nations. He is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Michigan, and has investigated market phenomena in Philadelphia, Costa Rica, and Thailand (where he spent his Luce Scholar year). Another book, Global Markets and Local Crafts: Thailand and Costa Rica Compared, was published in 2008.


  • The 2010-2011 class of Luce Scholars had their wrap-up meeting in New Zealand July 13-20. The 17 Luce Scholars, who had spent their Luce year in 11 different countries in East and Southeast Asia, first gathered at the foot of Mt. Hutt, near Christchurch, to make presentations and share highlights of their experiences with each other. The group then traveled to Wellington, where they had an engaging roundtable discussion with 15 young Kiwi professionals, visited the Parliament, met with the Maori Language Commission, and had a farewell dinner at the official residence of the U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, David Huebner. Ambassador Huebner, a former Luce Scholar placed with the Japanese Diet in Tokyo in 1984-1985, spent a day with the Scholars, and reported his impressions in his blog.



    Thanks to 2010-2011 Luce Scholar Ted Alcorn for contributing to this album.

  • Our 17 Luce Scholars from the 2011-2012 class gathered in New York and San Francisco for their orientation June 21-29. They have now arrived at their individual destinations in 13 countries in Asia, including India for the first time in the history of the program. After two months of intensive language training, the new Luce Scholars will begin their professional placements in September. For bios of the new Scholars, click here.



  • Two 2010-2011 Luce Scholars have new publications in the public health field. Ted Alcorn, based in Beijing, has three articles in The Lancet, a prestigious peer-reviewed medical journal. The articles cover China’s organ transplant system, a review of China’s health reform process, and Mongolia’s struggle with liver cancer. Rayden Llano, based at Tokyo University’s Center for Global Health Policy, has contributed an Expert Brief on “Japan’s Evolving Role in Global Health” to the National Bureau on Asian Research. He is also a lead author in a Lancet series on Japan: Universal Health Care at 50 Years, to be published on September 1, 2011.

  • 2010-2011 Luce Scholar Shira Milikowsky, based in Seoul, has been invited to present two projects at this summer’s Tumen River Festival, an inter-disciplinary arts festival that will take place this August in Tumen City, China, on the border between China and North Korea. One project, Jesse’s Diary, is a new musical about the Korean independence movement in the 1930s and 1940s, based on the book of the same name. The second project is a Korean adaptation of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle, re-set in Korea in 1953. The play, which takes Brecht’s play about compassion and generosity and re-imagines it as a Korean folk tale, was created collaboratively by Milikowsky and a team of 30 students and designers.

  • 2010-2011 Luce Scholar Julia Simon has recently reported several stories for NPR’s “Marketplace.” These stories have explored HOV lanes in Jakarta, Indonesia; American wheat in the Middle East; and Egypt’s crackdown on foreign workers. To read about Julia’s year as a Luce Scholar, click here.

  • 2010-2011 Luce Scholars, who arrived in their countries of placement in early July 2010, share their experiences in Asia.



  • Four months into their language studies and placements throughout East and Southeast Asia, 2010-2011 Luce Scholars had a mid-year gathering in Hong Kong November 2-6, 2010.



  • Two former Luce Scholars have been appointed 2010-2011 White House Fellows: Harley Feldbaum, a 1995-96 Scholar in Chiang Mai, Thailand with the Office of Communicable Disease Control, and Jeffrey Prescott, a 2001-02 Scholar in Shanghai, China who taught at Fudan University School of Law. During their year as White House Fellows, Harley will be at the U.S. Agency for International Development, working on foreign policy issues regarding global health and development; Jeff will be working in the Office of the Vice President on national security and foreign policy issues. See http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/fellows/2010-2011 for the Fellows’ bios.



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