Taylor Fravel awarded prestigious Carnegie fellowship
MIT political scientist Taylor Fravel has been named to the Andrew Carnegie Fellows Program for the 2016-17 academic year, a prestigious award he will use to extend his studies of Asia’s ongoing maritime disputes. Fravel told MIT News he was “thrilled, humbled, and honored” to be receiving the fellowship, which is worth up to $200,000. The award, announced today by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, supports “research and writing aimed at addressing some of the world’s most urgent challenges to U.S. democracy and international order,” and focuses on scholars in the social sciences and humanities. “It is tremendous to have this opportunity to research and write,” says Fravel, who will be on leave from MIT during the forthcoming year. Fravel is an expert on China’s military strategy and the country’s post-World War II history of conflict resolution. His first book, “Strong Borders, Secure Nation: Cooperation and Conflict in China's Territorial Disputes,” published...