"The APS/British Academy grant to conduct research in London was tremendously helpful.  I was able to obtain rare and difficult-to-find materials from the Royal Asiatic Society library's collection of Malay materials, and I had a productive summer reading in the East India Company archives at the British Library.  This grant will have a significant impact on the book I'm currently writing."  Su Fang Ng's book, Global Renaissance: Early Modern Empire and Classicism from the British Isles to the Malay Archipelago, examines how Greco-Roman models of empire became part of native histories of early modern island kingdoms in the far west and the far east--the British Isles and island Southeast Asia--and in turn, how these claims to classicism shaped English relations with Southeast Asians in the early modern East Indies spice trade.  Dr. Ng is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. (Franklin Grant)