Becky Butler helps secure $900,000 grant for Southeast Asian studies

Becky Butler helps secure $900,000 grant for Southeast Asian studies

Becky Butler and an interdisciplinary team of UNC researchers have won a $900,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for “Bringing Southeast Asia Home,” an initiative that will expand the study of Southeast Asia and its languages at UNC-Chapel Hill and the UNC System. The grant proposal was led by principal investigator Christian Lentz (Department of Geography), Becky Butler (Department of Linguistics, Carolina Asia Center), Angel Hsu (Department of Public Policy), and Noah Kittner (Gillings School of Global Public Health).

More coverage of the grant can be found here: https://global.unc.edu/news-story/carolina-secures-900000-grant-to-advance-the-study-of-southeast-asia/