NEWS: BUCSA Researcher Grant Rhode awarded Taiwan Fellowship

The Center for the Study of Asia congratulates BUCSA Visiting Researcher Grant F. Rhode, who has been awarded a Taiwan Fellowship to research and write on Taiwan’s approach to disputes in the East and South China Seas.  The fellowship will support four months of research in Taiwan from June through October, 2015.  While in Taiwan, Dr. Rhode will be affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the National Taiwan University

Dr. Rhode has been a BUCSA Visiting Researcher since 2012, has organized several activities and events with the Center and in collaboration with BU faculty on campus and beyond. While affiliated with BUCSA, Dr. Rhode has conducted research on Asian maritime issues and on China educational exchange.

He has taught within the Pardee School of Global Studies’s Division of International Studies, and more recently has divided his time between his research at BU and the US Naval War College in Newport, RI, where he has been a Visiting Professor during Spring 2015.

He holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford in the social anthropology of China and a doctorate from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Asian diplomatic history and foreign policies.  In addition to being a Visiting Researcher at the Boston University Center for the Study of Asia, he is an Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University.