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This
special endowment was established through an anonymous
bequest in honor of Rev. Edward J. Malatesta, S.J.,
founding director of the Ricci Institute. The funds
are to be used in support of the education and scholarly
activities of students-scholars of Asian descent to
promote cross-cultural exchanges and friendship between
China and the West. Fellowship or scholarship support
based on merit for outstanding graduate and undergraduate
students enrolled in degree programs at the University
of San Francisco.
Some
of the activities supported by this special endowment
include scholarship in support of graduate studies at the
Master
of Arts in Asia Pacific Studies (MAPS) at the
USF Center for the Pacific Rim and Chinese Christian Studies Project.
Ms. Ahn Jung Won is a native of Korea and a doctoral candidate at the University of Tokyo in Japan. Funded by the Ricci Asian Endowment, she visited USF as a research fellow at the Ricci Institute in the summer of 2005. While at the Institute, she developed her research on comparative studies of women and marriage in Catholic communities in sixteenth and seventeenth century China, Japan, and Korea. A Jesuit's Views on Chinese Marriage: Manuel Dias, S.J. (1559-1639), is an English excerpt from Shigaku 7:2 (June 2003) written by Ahn.
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