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Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme (HSSPFS)
Year   Principal Investigator Project Title Amount (HK$)
2021/22
(12 months)
  Professor Julia Kuehn

Geopoetic Enquiries: Travel, Text and the Spaces of Writing

372,000 
2021/22
(12 months)
  Dr Olga Zayts ‘Talking Genetics’: Intersections of Language, Culture and 
Genetic Literacy in Intercultural Genetic Testing and 
Counselling Contexts
272,000
2020/21
(12 months)
  Professor Janny Leung Digital Speech, Public Discourse, and Criminality 400,000
2019/20
(12 months)
  Professor Kendall Johnson The Extraterritorial Print Adventures of Early American 
Missions to China: The Cultural Origin and Diplomatic 
Legacies of American Evangelism during the Opium Wars
471,700
Faculty Conference Support Scheme
Year   Principal Investigator Project Title Amount (HK$)
2019/20   Professor Kendall Johnson Exodus and Exile: Migrants, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and the Problem of Slavery in the Pacific and Atlantic Worlds, 1750-1850
(Event Dates: Dec 10 – 11, 2020)
100,000
2018/19   Professor Adam Jaworski  Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 (SS23)
(Completion Date: Jul 31, 2020)
125,000
2018/19   Professor Julia Kuehn Coalition of English Departments in Asia (COEDA): Second Annual Postgraduate Conference
(Completion Date: Nov 30, 2019)
100,000
2018/19   Dr Jessica Valdez Nineteenth-Century Formations
(Completion Date: Jan 31, 2020)
96,200
2017/18   Dr Otto Heim The Space Between: A Symposium on Creativity, Performance, and Impact in Contemporary Island Societies
(Completion Date: Jan 31, 2019)
100,000
Hsu Long-sing Research Fund
Year   Principal Investigator Project Title Amount (HK$)
2017/18   Professor Adam Jaworski 'Unsettling Language': Sociolinguistics Symposium 23, 9-12 June 2019
(Completion Date: Jul 31, 2020)
116,550
2017/18   Professor Kendall Johnson Rev. David Abeel's Residences in Batavia and Singapore as Prelude to His Residence in Amoy (Xiamen) after the First Opium War and W.A.P. Martin's Beijing Redux of Woodblock Printing in the Translation and Publication of Henry Wheaton's *Elements of International Law*
(Completion Date: Jun 30, 2019)
104,200