Yu Wang, a Ph.D. candidate in Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, has been awarded the Spencer Dissertation Fellowship for the 2025 academic year from the National Academy of Education.
Wang is researching Chinese international student activism and interactions between minority groups. She previously earned a doctorate in Chinese literature and taught in China for over a decade. She is currently a teaching assistant in the Department of Asian American Studies.
The NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellowship encourages a new generation of scholars from a wide range of disciplines and professional fields to undertake research relevant to improving education. This fellowship supports candidates whose dissertation projects bring innovative and insightful approaches to the history, theory, analysis, or application of formal and informal education.
As a highly competitive initiative, this fellowship annually identifies and supports 35 exceptional researchers conducting dissertation studies relevant to education.
