Cornell doctoral students researching China's Han Clothing Movement, population policies in China and Japan, and contemporary art and artists in urban South Vietnam and Cambodia have each received 2010 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships.

The fellowships, for students planning to pursue a teaching career, are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and provide support for six to 12 months of dissertation research in a foreign country. They are intended to increase U.S. understanding of the languages and cultures of non-European countries through the exchange of people, knowledge and skills.

The graduate students and their dissertation topics are:

Cornell's Fulbright-Hays Program is administered by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.