Feb. 18, 2011
Andrew Yeo, assistant professor of politics, has been awarded a fellowship from the East Asia Institute to participate in the Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia. Yeo is one of five recipients in 2011 from an international pool of applicants.
The fellowship program targets East Asian specialists with expertise in political science, international relations, and sociology for an international exchange program with the goal of encouraging interdisciplinary research with a comparative perspective in the study of East Asia.
"I was thrilled when I first received the news," says Yeo. "I'm branching out into new research areas related to East Asia, so the fellows program provides an excellent opportunity to travel to that part of the world and present some of my preliminary work in front of a number of experts from China, Japan, and South Korea."
"The awarding of this fellowship to Professor Yeo is a major recognition," says L.R. Poos, dean of CUA's School of Arts and Sciences. "It confirms his growing stature in the field of East Asian policy and government studies, and it will also give him a unique opportunity to develop his next major research project through dialogue with experts in the region."
The program provides up to $10,000 for each of the fellows to present seminars and lectures based on an unpublished manuscript at two or more academic institutions in East Asia. Professor Yeo's proposed research, "Institutions, Political Order, and the Rise of a Northeast Asian Community," explores whether multilateral institutions in Northeast Asia can form the basis of peace, cooperation, and security in the region.
He will present his research at Peking University in Beijing; Keio University in Tokyo; and the East Asia Institute in Seoul, South Korea, most likely during the fall semester.
Yeo has been an assistant professor at CUA since 2008 and is the author of the forthcoming book Activists, Alliances, and Anti-U.S. Base Protests with Cambridge University Press. He received his doctoral degree in politics at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., in 2008.
The East Asia Institute was established as an independent think tank dedicated to developing ideas and formulating policy recommendations on the main challenges facing the region, according to its website.