NEWS | Thelma Wang awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Thelma Wang awarded Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

Fourth-year HASTS PhD candidate Thelma Wang has been awarded a 2025 Dissertation Fieldwork Grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Based in New York, the private Wenner-Gren Foundation has been funding innovative research in all four sub-fields of anthropology since 1941.

Currently, Wang is completing ethnographic fieldwork for her HASTS project “Seeking Care Elsewhere: Trans Medical Mobility across China and Thailand.”

The HASTS community warmly recognizes Thelma for her receipt of this prestigious grant.