Fan to Travel to Taiwan as US Fulbright Scholar
Anthropology Professor Elsa Fan will travel to Taiwan this spring as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She was awarded the prestigious scholarship to study cross-cultural differences in the prevention, treatment and care of breast cancer among Chinese women. Her research will focus on how Taiwan鈥檚 landscape of care shapes women鈥檚 experiences with illness.
鈥淚鈥檓 incredibly grateful and honored to receive this award,鈥� Fan said. 鈥淚 hope this research will not only advance anthropological knowledge, but also aid the medical community in developing more socially and culturally appropriate programs to address breast cancer in Chinese American populations.鈥�
This project builds on Fan鈥檚 previous work on HIV and how global health practices travel across social and cultural contexts. Her findings were published in Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (University of Minnesota Press).
Read the full story of Fan鈥檚 selection in the Webster Today newsroom article.