After graduating from Tulane University on Saturday, May 19, Ryan Judd ’08 certainly will know what it means to miss New Orleans. The native New Orleanian has received a Fulbright research grant to study gender roles in China for 10 months. He became fascinated by Chinese culture after watching the 2008 Beijing Olympics on television the summer before he entered college.
With the Fulbright grant, Judd plans to study how watching television and other Western influences have had an impact on modernization of traditional gender practices in Chinese rural villages. He will look at romance, dating, marriage and child-rearing traditions among Chinese ethnic minorities.
