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Lu Sun

Lu Sun is a Ph.D. candidate studying Cold War American foreign relations under the supervision of Dr. Schwartz. Originally from China, Lu is current writing a dissertation on Korean War POW’s, Cold War and psychological warfare. Before Vanderbilt, Lu earned a Master’s degree in American History from Peking University, where her research focused on American images of China during the Korean War. Lu has been accepted by the 2013 U.S. Foreign Policy Colloquium for a three-day conference in May 2013 in Washington, D.C. to discuss issues of U.S.-China relations and foreign policy. Lu has been awarded a research grant (Nov. 2012) by The Committee on Research, Scholarship and Education of the Harry S. Truman Library Institute, and, a travel grant from The Eisenhower Foundation (Nov. 2012). Lu recently attended 2012 Summer Institute for Conducting Archival Research which was held in George Washington University. Along with the Freeman Foundation Fellowship and Weaver Travel Grant, Lu also received the Vanderbilt Graduate School Summer Travel Grant, which funded her research trips to the National Archives of the United States, the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C, and the Chinese Foreign Ministry Archives in Beijing. Lu has been a member of SHAFR (Society of Historians of American Foreign Relations) and previously presented in SHAFR twice. Lu has been nominated as SHAFR Graduate Representative for 2012-2013.