UCI Libraries are seeking applications for the 2024 Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award. This year, two individuals will be awarded $1,000 each to use the research collections in the Southeast Asian Archive (SEAA), part of the UCI Libraries Special Collections and Archives.

The award is intended for a researcher who lives outside of Orange County and is not currently affiliated with UC Irvine. Award recipients will receive $1,000 to defray the cost of traveling to Irvine, California to conduct hands-on research within the archive.

Faculty, students, and independent researchers (including filmmakers, scriptwriters, playwrights, biographers, novelists, and others) are encouraged to apply. Applications are due on April 19, 2024 and will be judged according to the relevance of the proposal to the Southeast Asian Archive collections, the proposed outcome of the research, and the applicant’s qualifications.

To learn more about the award and to apply, see the Anne Frank Visiting Researcher application guidelines.

About the Anne Frank Award

Established in 2017 to commemorate the UCI Libraries Southeast Asian Archive’s 30th anniversary, the Southeast Asian Archive Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award is given annually to individual researchers who live outside of Orange County. The endowment fund was established to provide ongoing support for generations of future scholars to visit the SEAA.

Named in honor of Anne Frank, the archive’s founding librarian who retired in 2007, the award has helped support independent writers, filmmakers, and researchers. See the list of previous award recipients to learn more.

About the Southeast Asian Archive

Founded in 1987 at UCI Libraries, the SEAA was created to support the documentation and preservation of the history of Southeast Asian diaspora. Consisting of a vast collection of photographs, oral histories, newspaper and journal articles, newsletters, and ephemera (fliers, brochures, pamphlets, programs, etc.), the archive’s collections are broad and interdisciplinary in documenting the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic life in the Laotian, Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Hmong communities.

As of 2015, the archive has existed as part of the Libraries’ Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive (OC&SEAA) Center, which supports research on underrepresented groups in Orange County and Southeast Asian American experiences.

For more information, see the SEAA research page; SEAA finding aids, which can help guide information search; and SEAA digital collections.