Sasaki Wins Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship

Lindsey Sasaki, a third-year doctoral student in the International Education Program in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, was recently awarded a Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Summer Fellowship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. Sasaki, whose research interests include cross-cultural exchange and training, globalization, and international migration, is particularly interested in Latin America. Her dissertation involves research related to the Japanese diaspora in Peru and Brazil and subsequent migrations back to Japan. The FLAS Summer Fellowship will allow her to strengthen her Portuguese language skills in Sao Paulo, Brazil, this summer.

Sasaki is also the recipient of a scholarship from the Japanese American Association Honjo Foundation. The scholarship will allow her opportunity to travel to Japan to study Japanese-Brazilian and Peruvian communities there, with an emphasis on how migration patterns shape their ethnic identity, how they readapt to Brazil and Peru, and what influence this migration has on the groups' future aspirations.