Two St. Norbert College Professors Awarded Prestigious Franklin Research Fellowship

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From St. Norbert College, April 3, 2023
by Mike Counter, mike.counter@snc.edu, 920-403-3089

St. Norbert College professors Abigail Trollinger and Anh Sy Huy Le, were selected as the recipients of this year's Franklin Research Fellowship, which is funded and administered by the American Philosophical Society (https://www.amphilsoc.org/).

The fellowship provides the financial support needed to conduct humanistic and social scientific research on topics that have conventionally been omitted from public understanding and to contribute to the advancement of academic knowledge. Usually, between 80 to 90 scholars nationwide are selected to receive the fellowship. To have two faculty historians chosen from the same institution is significant.

“I think, really, it speaks to the quality of research work conducted by our esteemed faculty and to a St. Norbert College education as a whole,” said Le.

Trollinger and Le will be using the fellowship to research and write books this summer. Le is a historian of East Asia and Trollinger is a historian of the 20th-century United States.

Anh Le bio:

Anh Le is a social and political historian of modern Vietnam and Sino-Southeast Asian relations. His research explores the interlinked dynamics and tensions between migratory networks, colonial capitalism and urbanization. He has published on topics ranging from trans-Pacific Chinese migration to the roles of Chinese rice commerce in the transformation of southern Vietnamese port cities. Le studied Chinese at Fudan University in China and Middlebury College as a Kathryn Davis Fellow for Peace.

From 2016 to 2020, he conducted archival research in China, Taiwan, Singapore and Vietnam with the support of the SSRC-Andrew Mellon Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Lee Kong Chian Fellowship from the National Library of Singapore.


Abigail Trollinger bio:

Abigail Trollinger studies American urban and social welfare history, especially the ways that reformers and workers articulated their beliefs and goals to impact social welfare policy. She is also interested in the relationships between social workers and their “clients,” which were multifaceted and often highly contested.

Trollinger teaches courses on poverty and social welfare policy, immigration and women’s and gender history. She is also a firm advocate of bringing research and teaching into conversation with practice, so she teaches a methods course that includes archival research and several courses that include community engagement.