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Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award

The UC Irvine Libraries is pleased to offer an award annually of $500 to one individual to use the research collections in the Southeast Asian Archive, part of the UC Irvine Libraries Special Collections and Archives. The award is intended for a researcher who lives outside of Orange County and is not affiliated with UC Irvine.

The Libraries are grateful to an anonymous donor for establishing the award. The award is named in honor of Anne Frank, the founding librarian of the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive, who retired from the UCI Libraries in 2007 after spending over 20 years building the Archive into a nationally known resource dedicated to preserving the history and culture of the new ethnic communities that have arisen as a result of the post-Vietnam War diaspora from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam.

Call for Applicants for 2011-2012
Previous Recipients
Faculty, students, and independent researchers are encouraged to apply. Research should be conducted between June 2011 and March 2012. Shortly after visiting the Southeast Asian Archive, the recipient must provide a one-page statement of his or her research findings, which may be edited and used in the UC Irvine Libraries' publications. The award is intended to generally defray expenses for traveling to Irvine and conducting research in the Southeast Asian Archive. Funds will be distributed in two installments, before and after the completion of the research project.

The application deadline is May 2, 2011. Applications will be judged according to the relevance of the proposal to holdings of the Southeast Asian Archive, the proposed outcome of the research, and the qualifications of the applicant. The recipient will be notified during the week of May 16.

This award is in honor of Anne Frank, the librarian who founded the Southeast Asian Archive. A generous gift from an anonymous donor has made this annual award possible.

 Send the following information to spcoll@uci.edu.
  1. Applicant name
  2. Email address
  3. Title of project
  4. Brief description of proposed research (no more than 500 words)
  5. Collections or items that you anticipate using and how they are relevant to your proposed research (no more than 500 words). Make sure to check out our collections’ strengths.
  6. Proposed outcome of the research (no more than 500 words)
  7. Up-to-date resume or CV with current contact information
  8. Proposed dates for visiting the Southeast Asian Archive
  9. One letter of reference from someone familiar with your research

More information about traveling to the UC Irvine campus is also available.  For more information about the Southeast Asian Archive and the award, please contact Christina Woo, Southeast Asian Archive Librarian, at cjwoo@uci.edu.