Undergraduate Students Solomon Shuangyu Liang and Rownyn Curry Receive Research Accolades
History major Solomon Shuangyu Liang received an Outstanding Student Researcher Award from UROP for his research on Christianity in modern China on behalf of the BU DH project China Historical Christian Database (CHCD), conducted during Summer 2020 with a UROP Humanities Grant under the direction of Professors Eugenio Menegon (History, CAS) and Daryl Ireland (Center for Global Christianity and Mission, BU School of Theology). All outstanding student awardees will be featured in the UROP Symposium booklet and will be celebrated on the UROP website in November. Shuangyu has taken several courses with Professor Menegon over the years, and received so far four UROP grants for this project. Currently he is also training in CHCD data input methods two MA students from the Institute of Qing History at Renmin University of China (Beijing), a partner of the CHCD. He will assist in the upcoming CHCD Zoom workshop “Mapping Christianity in China, 1550-1950” on November 19-21, 2020.
International Relations and Korean Language major Rownyn Curry received the inaugural CAS “Social Sciences Undergraduate Internship in Social Justice and Sustainability” to help Professor Menegon on a research project on “Religious Toleration in China and Korea, Past and Present. The Case of Christianity. ” Rownyn, among other tasks, will be a research assistant for the upcoming workshop “Toleration in Comparative Perspective: Concepts, Practices and Documents” (January 19-23, 2021), organized by the Center for Democracy, Toleration and Religion(CDTR) at the University of California at Berkeley, and the nonprofit ResetDOC (Reset Dialogues on Civilizations). Prof. Menegon is scheduled to present on historical toleration of religions in Chinese history at the Workshop.