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2026 Dr. Keelung Hong Grant for
Graduate Student Travel

The NATSA Graduate Student Travel Award is awarded to selected graduate students and junior scholars (undergraduate or recent master’s graduates) whose papers have been accepted by the NATSA Conference Committee to the NATSA 2026 conference. The 2026 NATSA Graduate Student Travel Award is generously sponsored by Dr. Keelung Hong (see Dr. Hong’s bio at the end of this post). 

 

The goal of the award is to support graduate students who have outstanding academic records and/or community engagement to attend the upcoming NATSA conference at Indiana University Bloomington from June 26 to June 28, 2026. Selected applicants will typically receive a travel grant ranging from $50 to $400, based on their itinerary/institutional affiliation.

 

Application 

  • For assured consideration, the following application materials must be completed by Sunday, April 19th 11:59 pm Pacific Time. 

  • Decisions will be sent to individual applicants by Friday, April 24. The number of awardees and the amount that individual awardee receives are subject to NATSA finances.

 

Policies

  • To be eligible for payment, awardees must

  1. attend the conference in person

  2. email an electronic copy of proof of travel itinerary and payment (must include awardee’s full name, payment method and amount) by June 5, 2025 to secretary@na-tsa.org

  3. sign a receipt.

 

Payment 

  • Depending on individual awardee’s preference, payment could be made in cash at the conference front desk or via Zelle/Venmo transfer. Alternative arrangements may be made upon request in advance.

 

*NOTE: The policies, regulations, procedures, and fees in this announcement are subject to change with prior notice.

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About Dr. Keelung Hong

 

A native of rural Taichung, Dr. Hong was educated at Taiwan Cheng Kung University, the University of Texas at El Paso, and the University of California at Berkeley. From the last he earned a Ph.D. in chemistry. He went on to do postdoctoral research at Stanford University and was a research scientist at the University of California, San Francisco for twenty years. He has published over one hundred research papers. Dr. Hong founded Taiwan Liposome Company in Taiwan and Co-founded Hermes BioSciences in the United States. TLC went public in Taiwan in December of 2012. Subsequently TLC was dual-listed in NASDAQ in November of 2018. In the year of 2022 a new company, TLC Biosciences, Inc. has been established in the USA via consolidation and privatization of previous TLC branches.  He currently serves as Chairman & CEO of TLC.

 

Although trained as a natural scientist, Dr. Hong has been a keen observer of the burgeoning field of Taiwan studies. In collaboration with the late Dr. Stephen O. Murray, he co-authored two monographs and numerous articles examining and critiquing research on Taiwan conducted by U.S.-trained anthropologists and sociologists. Their major works include Taiwanese Culture, Taiwanese Society: A Critical Review of Social Science Research Done on Taiwan (University Press of America, 1994) and Looking through Taiwan: American Anthropologists' Collusion with Ethnic Domination (University of Nebraska Press, 2005).

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