Abroad: Oxford, England, A/Y 2024-25
Jun Wei Lee is a junior from Singapore studying history and philosophy with minors in philosophy, politics and economics. His research focuses on the history of the Indian Ocean world, with a special focus on Indian migration to colonial Southeast Asia. Lee is working with Professor Paul Ocobock to conduct archival research on Kenyan governmental records at the Weston Library at the University of Oxford. Lee has previously received summer research grants from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts for his research on Indian migration history. Following these grants, he presented his research at the 2024 Nanovic Undergraduate Research Conference, and Notre Dame's 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and 3MT Competition respectively. Currently, Lee is also an Ethics Research Fellow for Notre Dame's Institute for Ethics and the Common Good, where he is examining the ethics of indentured labor in the British Empire.