Fan to Travel to Taiwan as US Fulbright Scholar

Anthropology Professor Elsa Fan will travel to Taiwan this spring as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar. She was awarded the prestigious scholarship to study cross-cultural differences in the prevention, treatment and care of breast cancer among Chinese women. Her research will focus on how Taiwan’s landscape of care shapes women’s experiences with illness.

“I’m incredibly grateful and honored to receive this award,” Fan said. “I hope this research will not only advance anthropological knowledge, but also aid the medical community in developing more socially and culturally appropriate programs to address breast cancer in Chinese American populations.”

This project builds on Fan’s previous work on HIV and how global health practices travel across social and cultural contexts. Her findings were published in Commodities of Care: The Business of HIV Testing in China (University of Minnesota Press).

Read the full story of Fan’s Fulbright Scholar selection in the Webster Today newsroom article.