Julia M. Famularo is a Research Affiliate at the Project 2049 Institute and a doctoral student in Modern East Asian Political History at Georgetown University, with a research field in U.S.-East Asia Relations. She is the 2009-2010 Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Ms. Famularo has lived and traveled extensively in the People's Republic of China, ethnographic Tibet, and Taiwan. She received a 2007-2008 United States Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research on the historical development and rise of ethno-nationalism in Taiwan and its impact on electoral politics. In 2005, Columbia University awarded her a Weatherhead East Asian Institute summer training grant to study at Tibet University in the PRC. She received a Chinese Scholarship Council grant to study political science at the Beijing University School of Government Management from 2002-2003. Ms. Famularo earned her M.A. in East Asian Studies from Columbia University in 2005. She graduated from Haverford College in 2002, with a B.A. in East Asian Studies and Spanish Literature. She has studied a number of East Asian languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Tibetan, Taiwanese, and Japanese.