Political science prof to be Fulbright Scholar in China

First, she has been selected to go to Austria in December as a Salzburg Seminar Presidential Fellow to take part in a session titled “China: The New Global Economic Engine?”

Then, in March, she will travel to Renmin University in Beijing for a year's stay as a 2006-07 Fulbright Scholar, an award given by the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES). The council helps administer the Fulbright program, “the government's flagship academic exchange effort,” on behalf of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

Ba's research interests focus on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), East Asian and Asian Pacific regionalism and international relations, as well as Chinese-ASEAN relations.

“I am excited and honored to have been chosen as a Fulbright Scholar. The focus of my research in China will be the improved relationship between China and ASEAN, which includes such countries as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and others,” Ba said. “I am interested in studying the processes and dynamics that have brought this improvement about.”

She said she plans to talk to a variety of people, including academics and officials, who have been involved in discussions and interaction between China and ASEAN and are in positions to be informed about the issues.

A graduate of Pomona College, Ba received her master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Virginia. She has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Malaysia and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Indonesia. She is co-editor of a book, Contending Perspectives on Global Governance: Coherence and Contestation. In 2005, she and co-investigator David Pong, professor of history, received a $170,000 grant from the Department of Education for UD's East Asian Studies Program.

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