Julia M. Famularo is a Research Affiliate at the Project 2049 Institute and a fourth-year doctoral student in Modern East Asian Political History at Georgetown University. She is also a 2012-2013 United States Boren Fellow. Ms. Famularo served as the 2009-2010 Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She has lived and traveled extensively in the People's Republic of China, ethnographic Tibet, and Taiwan. She previously received a 2007-2008 United States Fulbright Fellowship to research electoral politics in Taiwan. Columbia University awarded her a 2005 Weatherhead East Asian Institute summer training grant to study at Tibet University. 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 and a B.A. in East Asian Studies and Spanish Literature from Haverford College. She has studied a number of East Asian languages, including Mandarin Chinese, Tibetan, Taiwanese, and Japanese.