Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata

Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata, third-year UCI global and international studies graduate student with designated emphases in Asian American studies and medical humanities, has received a Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship.

The $50,000 award supports his project, "Reimagining Care: Aging, Retirement and Neoliberal Governance in the Philippines," in which he examines the evolving dynamics around care, aging, and retirement amidst sustained labor migration, globalization, and the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines.

"My work asks, if Filipinos are caring for the world, then how is the Philippines dealing with its own care crisis - meaning who is taking care of elders who are left at home?" he says. Through a combination of oral histories, story mapping, and autoethnography, his work uses Digital Humanities methods to highlight an emerging eldercare economy and the lives of older Filipinos globally as they deal with the demands of aging and retirement to answer urgent questions around care that have only been exacerbated by the pandemic.

Nadurata earned his bachelor's in ethnic studies and political science at UCSD, and his master's in Asian American studies at UCLA.

The Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship is a new program that supports doctoral students in the humanities and interpretive social sciences as they pursue bold and innovative approaches to dissertation research. The fellowships are designed to intervene at the formative stage of dissertation development and promote research methodologies, project formats, and areas of inquiry that challenge traditional norms of doctoral education. The program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation and administered by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), the leading representative of American scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences.

Nadurata is one of 45 awardees, selected from a pool of nearly 700 applicants through a rigorous, multi-stage peer review. The $50,000 award consists of a $40,000 stipend for the fellowship year; $8,000 for project-related research, training, professional development, and travel; and a $2,000 stipend to support external mentorship and advising that offers critical perspectives and expertise on the fellow’s project.

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