Tricia Wang - ethnographer and researcher of technology usage in low-income communities (China and Mexico) funding

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Research Grant for Chinese families: purchasing decisions within families. Nokia Research Labs, (2009), $12,000Research Grant for Chinese Urban Migrants in the Information Age: Intensive Technology and Politics of Digital Space. University of California Pacific Rim Research Fund (2009), $15,000Research Grant for Chinas Internet Policy and Digital Network Architecture: Information Communication Technology (ICT) Practices among Youth and Migrant. National Science Foundation (NSF), (2009), $6,000Research Grant for Appropriate networks: Developing appropriate communication technologies for rural & international links. Redes adecuadas: Desarrollo de tecnologías de comunicación adecuadas para fortalecer vínculos entre comunidades rurales transfronterizas. University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) (2008-2009), $20,000Research Grant for Preliminary Field Site Exploration for Researching Information Communication Technology Among Urban Chinese Migrants in Shanghai and Beijing. University of California Pacific Rim Research Fund (2008), $4,000Research Grant for The Impact of Cellphones on How Informal Laborers Share Job Information: Undocumented Mexican Laborers in the Informal Economy. University of California Labor and Employment Research Fund (LERF) (2008), $4,000Travel Grant for fieldwork on Data Collection of ICT-based communication between San Diego, CA and Oaxaca, Mexcio. Sociology Department, UC San Diego (2008), $600Research grant for Data Collection on ICT-based communication between low-income Oaxacan migrants in San Diego County and their families in the Mixteca region of Oaxaca. University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) (2007-2008, research assistant), $1,500