In2 Academia
This year, to underscore our mission, we are launching our flagship In2Academia research program, which offers a pioneering course curriculum to initiate students into academia through 8-10 structured workshops, designed by student researchers and experts. Students receive 1-on-1 guidance and tailored feedback from an assigned expert research mentor.


Curriculum
Lessons are split equally between lectures and 1 to 1 mentor tutorials
WEEK 1: January 16th
What is research and why do we do it?
Identify and discuss your interests and potential research topics
WEEK 2: January 23rd
How do we formulate research questions?
Turn your brainstormed topics into a research question
WEEK 3: February 6th
Thesis and Proving your Claims
Review and edit your thesis draft
WEEK 4: February 13th
Introductions
Review introduction drafts.
WEEK 5: February 20th
Body Paragraphs and Citations
Evaluate sources
WEEK 6: February 27th and WEEK 7: March 6th
Working lessons
WEEK 8: March 13th
Editing
WEEK 9: March 20th
Conclusions, Abstract
WEEK 10: March 27th
Formatting, Proofreading


Meet Your Mentors

Roye Ganju
Roye served as Anthropy’s Head of Outreach from September 2023 to June 2024. He currently serves as a member of the Executive Academic Mentorship team. Roye’s academic interests span the world of international relations, history, and the social sciences with a specialisation in the Middle East and South Asia. His research into Pakistan’s intricate system of civil-military relations has been previously published by the Centre for Land Warfare Studies, New Delhi as a Manekshaw Paper, part of the Centre’s series of prestigious occasional papers. Roye has also conducted research into defining the political centre in Israel and authored a reinterpreted historical narrative of Lebanon’s Shi’ite community between the years 1943 and 2000. In his spare time, Roye is an avid reader and foodie who also enjoys collecting records.

Marcus Lu
Xiaoyao was Co-Chair of Anthropy from 2023–4, and is drawn to the histories of queerness and homophobia in Confucian societies. He has published work about the Western influence on the heterosexualisation of dan in the Peking Opera (Swarthmore Undergraduate Journal of History), and the manifestation of Confucian anxieties in Chinese queer literature. Normally, people can find him taking long walks, haranguing existentialists and writing poetry (@couscous_cooking).
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Haoyang Shi
Haoyang served as Anthropy's Head of Writing from 2023–24, and is an alumnus of the Yale Young Global Scholars humanities programme. His research interests include history and comparative literature, with a focus on 20th-century musicology in authoritarian states. Additionally, he is an instructor with Timor-Leste Youth for Peace and Cahaya Surya Bakti, and leads fundraising for the LaValla Camp for Cambodian children with disabilities. He is a gourmand, train enthusiast, and numismatist.
Our sincerest gratitude to the following contributors for their guidance and insights into the Into2Academia course curriculum design:
Danielle Zheng, Barnard College, Columbia University
Theodurus Ng, Tufts University
Anoushka Rao, George Washington University
Dr. Michael O’Shanassy, United World College of Southeast Asia
Tim Davies, United World College of Southeast Asia

