David Chen ('24) Awarded Hoopes Prize

The Department of Anthropology at Harvard University is pleased to share that David Chen (’24) has been awarded a Hoopes Prize.

David shares with us:

I am deeply grateful to the Joan Andrea Kleinman Travel and Language Fellowship for funding the unfolding of my research, which bloomed into a close ethnographic study into emergent care practices of terminal illness in Yangquan, Shanxi, China. I thank my mentors, Dr. Arthur Kleinman, Dr. Damina Khaira, Dr. Davíd Carrasco, Parker Hatley, Andrew Bair, and wonderfully supportive staff at Tozzer for polishing the mirror of my heart. 

David, a Leverett senior studying Anthropology, was recently featured for his experience as a 2023 award recipient of the Joan Andrea Kleinman Travel and Language Grant. His project was titled "Looking for Palliative Care at Friendship and Love Hospital.” To learn more, visit our previous article.

The Hoopes Prize provides undergraduate prizes to be given for the purpose of “promoting, improving, and enhancing the quality of education . . . in literary, artistic, musical, scientific, historical, or other academic subjects made part of the College curriculum under [f]aculty supervision and instruction, particularly by recognizing, promoting, honoring, and rewarding excellence in the work of undergraduates and their capabilities and skills in any subject, projects of research in science or the humanities, or in specific written work of the students under the instruction or supervision of the [f]aculty.”

To learn more about the Hoopes Prize, visit the Prize Office page here.