Richard Straus Travel Bursary Recipients

Read about the dissertation titles and travel destinations of past recipients of this generous bursary

2023-24 Academic Year

Julianna Castro (MA in Modern History) 

Dissertation title: "The Material Basis of Society: Identity formation and the construction of new rural towns in Cuba, 1959–1974."

Travel destination: Nottingham (UK), Miami (USA), and Gainesville (US)


Yuyang Chen (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University) 

Dissertation title: "Struggle and Adaptation: Identity Shifts of Chinese ‘Returnees’ from Indonesia in the 1950s and 1960s."

Travel destination: Beijing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou (China); Taiwan


Yihwan Cho (MSc Theory and History of International Relations)

Dissertation title: "Silverstar: North Korea’s Go AI Program in the International Arena, 1985-2018."

Travel destination: South Korea


Lisa Dudek (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University)

Dissertation title: "Bern 1964:  The role of secret negotiations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People’s Republic of China."

Travel destination: Berlin and Koblenz (Germany)


Rowan Ley (MA in Modern History)

Dissertation title: "Ghosts of Vienna: The Memory of the 1814-15 Congress of Vienna at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference."

Travel destination: Paris and La Courneuve (France)


Jason Ma (MSc in International and Asian History)

Dissertation title: "Imagining Opium: The Commission of Enquiry into the Control of Opium-Smoking in the Far East and colonial Taiwan."

Travel destination: Nantou County (Taiwan)


Romario McCalla St Luce (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University) 

Dissertation title: "State Capture: An analysis of domestic and foreign institutions in post-independence Jamaica."

Travel destination: Kingston (Jamaica)


Thomas Mitchell (MSc in International and Asian History) 

Dissertation title: "From Unequal to Equal Treaties? Soviet diplomacy with Asian Neighbours: A Comparative Analysis (1920-23)."

Travel destination: Moscow (Russia)


Midori Oasa (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University) 

Dissertation title: "Japanese Diplomacy during the First Oil Crisis - The Major Shift in Japanese Foreign Policy in 1973."

Travel destination: Tokyo (Japan)


Lai Yang Tang (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University) 

Dissertation title: "British Decision-Making on Sino-British Relations, 1943-1946: The Question of Hong Kong."

Travel destination: Hong Kong


 

Collin Teo (MSc in International Affairs - LSE and Peking University) 

Dissertation title: "Beyond the Battlefield: The Economic and Socio-Political Impact of the Vietnam War on Singapore-US Relations, 1965-1968."

Travel destination: Singapore; Maryland (USA)