Recipients of the Davenport Study Grants Program
ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-24
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Caroline Asnes | The Question of Distance: Traumatic Memory and the Emotional Significance of the Ethnostate for the American Zionist Jew |
| Willem Averill | The History of Salvadoran Migrants in the DC Metropolitan Areain the Years After the Civil War and the Effects of Party Politics on Salvadoran Migrants |
| Maryam Badr | The Hollowing Out of South Korea's Healthcare System: Trouble for the Elderly |
| Violet Becker | US Democratization Efforts in the Arab World: Democracy versus Security in Egypt and Jordan |
| Pema Cunnyngham-Mansfield | Putting Environmental Theory into Practice: Using Dance Methodologies to Address the Climate Crisis |
| Alek Czereszkiewicz | A Game-Theory Assessment of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum |
| Gage Dado | The Right's Lens: Redefining Franco's Legacy in the 21st Century |
| Michael Fadugbagbe | Fela and Yoruba, Nigeria's Critical Neocolonial Influence through Afrobeat(s) |
| Sophie Fetter | Priming Social Trust and Subsequent Welfare Attitudes |
| Isaiah Fraley | How Do We Grieve the Heroes We Never Knew?: Public Grief as an Act of Reckoning |
| William Gannon | 1640: Exploring the Origins of Catalan Nationalism in the 17th and 18th Centuries |
| Kseniia Guliaeva | Russian Opposition: The Challenges and Risks of the Formation of a Government in Exile |
| Xingyan Guo | Folding Chinas Elsewhere: The Semiotic, Politics, and Economy between Differentiated Chinese Diasporic Food-place Makings in Mexico City |
| Shihyun Lee | Consequences of the Economic Miracle: Examining the Dynamics and Perseonal Narratives of Elderly Poverty in South Korea |
| Allie Pae | "The Land of Smiles:" The Development of American Tourism in Thailand |
| Priyanshu Pokhrel | Enhancing Menstrual Health Education and Access in Nepal: Pyari |
| Ben Sheriff | A North American Great Game: The Pig War and the Dynamics of Antebellum Frontier Diplomacy |
| Eli Siegel-Bernstein | Formations of Postcoloniality and Resistance on the Borderlands of Northern Morocco and Beyond |
| Sahib Sohal | A Nation in Pain: An Exploration of Sikh Collective Memory Regarding the Events of 1984 |
| Phoebe Stein | Movement and Communitas in that High Lonesome Sound: Contemporary Bluegrass Identity as Formed by Rural-Urban Migration in the Post-War Southeast |
| Tracy Wu | Modernity at Confucius' Birthplace: The Future-Making of Youth in Shandong, China |
| Czarina Yuffa | Lost in Transmission: American Propaganda in Soviet Central Asia |
ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-23
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Hazel Allison-Way | Epistemologies of Truth-Seeking and the Construction of State-Sanctioned LGBTQ+ Identities in the Dutch LGBTQ+ Asylum Apparatus |
| Tiger Bjornland | Justice No Longer Sold Here: A Case Study of Public Financing in West Virginia's Judicial Elections |
| Dean Bogner | Occupation, and the Sharing of Space in Naples, Italy |
| Dylan Campos | Food Insecurity in Buenos Aires from the 1970s to the Present |
| Ruby Clarke | Point Reyes Station: A Case Study of Race and 'Becoming a Local' |
| Margot Deguet Delury | Theorizing Reproductive Justice: Lessons from the Tourangelle Association for Liberty of Abortion and Contraception |
| Ethan Geiger | Conservative Political Parties and the Queer Community: A Comparative Analysis of Attitudes and Evolution in the US and UK |
| Debbra Goh | Care in Singapore through Traditional Ecological Knowledge |
| Jo Harkless | (Under)development in the Modern Neoliberal State: Economic Justice Through Black Feminist Practice |
| Anton Lulgjuraj | The Kosovo Question: The Path to EU Membership |
| Linda Lu | Three Feet Above, Six Feet Under: Funerals and Graves on the Verge of Modernity |
| Alise Mackey | "Disorderly Conduct": A Study of Pulic Disturbance, Gendered Moralism, and Dual Arrest |
| Asija Qyteza | Control of the Albanian Diaspora in the United States by the Albanian Communist Regime (1944-1990) |
| Gemmarosa Ryan | Feuding Fusions: On a Resurgence of Gastronationalism in the 21st Century |
| Reed Schwartz | Ending Honest Graft: Henry George, Tammany Hall, and the 1897 New Yor Mayoral Election |
| Eugenia Shakhnovska | Looking Back at Chornobyl: The Political Implications of the Chornobyl Disaster |
| Lera Svirydzenka | Life in Emigration: Challenges, Changes and Hopes of Belarusian Political Refugees |
| Emilia Thornton | Mathematics and Climate Modeling: The History of How We Calculate and Present Measurements of Climate Risk |
| Diana Venus | Soviet Architecture in Bishkek: Kyrgz Nation-Building through Post-Socialist Urban Planning/Resistance |
| Lucia Voges | Wesleyan University: Perception vs. Reality of Higher Education in the United States |
| Arlo Weiner | The Texas City Oil Curse |
| Eva Weintraub | In the Name of Economic Growth: What Ongoing "Redevelopment" Means for Black Middletown |
ACADEMIC YEAR 2021-2022
| Recipient Name | Project Title | |
| Sofia Aslan | The Identity of a Nation: Examining the Effects of Colonialization in Nineteenth Century Argentine Nation Building | |
| Amina Cecunjanin | Mini Russia: Serbia's Backslide from Democracy and the Implications on the Balkans | |
| Emily Chen | Historical Resistance: Race, Empire, and Asian American Studies Student Activism at Wesleyan University, 1980-2022 | |
| Flora Gu | Application of the Labor Market Segmentation Model in China's Graduate Crisis | |
| Leila Henry | The Medicalization of Aging and the Geriatric Caregiver - Patient Relationship | |
| Yiwen Huang | Inert Explosiveness: Fireworks, Youth, and Rural-Urban Relationships in China's Pyrotechnic World | |
| Charissa Lee | The Kanapathippillai Family: The Creation and Evolution of the Jaffna Tamil Diasporic Identity in Malaysia | |
| Madeleine Levinsohn | Liberating Sex: Exploring Sexual Moralism and Subjection | |
| Liam Murray | The Contemporary Political Application of 'Self-Care' in Foucault | |
| Jake Neuffer | The Possibility of a New Arsenal of Democracy | |
| Jadwiga Parker | Reimagining Community and Urban Spaces: The Case of San Francisco's Western Addition Redevelopment | |
| Briana Rodriguez-Castillo | Invisible Women: Understanding the Lives and Impact of Undocumented Immigrant Women Providing Child Care Services in the United States | |
| Celine Rogers | Caste, Race, and South Asian Critical Thinking | |
| Ruby Smith | Remorse and Justice | |
| Lera Svirydzenka | How to Use the Media for Political Goals: Comparison of Democratic and Governmental Methods on the Case of Belarus | |
| Xiran Tan | Where the Heart Settles: Reflection on How Homes are Made through Writing Family History of Migration between China and North America | |
| Shaoxuan Tian | Worlds Beyond Clock Time: Restoring Care, Agency and Communal Identity Among New Immigrants in Contemporary Dali, Yunnan, China | |
| Alex Trufinescu | Romanian Identity Formation and Community Building in the Post-World War II United States | |
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ACADEMIC YEAR 2020-2021
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Sarah Backer | Exploring the Public Backlash Against Pax Americana: How Globalism Divided |
| Harry Bagenstos | The Remington Rand Strike |
| Alexandra Banach | Negotiating National Identity through Clothing in the United States and Japan |
| Romina Beltran Lazos | Revolutionary Repertoires: An Exploration of the Sonic Landscapes of Young Women in Guadalajara through Photography |
| Maren Beriss | Reimagined Communities: Queer Women in the Nation |
| Shirmai Chung | The COVID 19 Pandemic's Impact on Democracy Around the World |
| Joseph Cohen | "Opacity of the Other": California in Ontological Crisis |
| Maya Gomberg | Mutual Aid's Pandemic Growing Pains: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Shifted Propensity Toward Revolutionary Ideological Metamorphosis |
| Tashfia Jilu | Unseen and Unheard: Exploring Healthcare in the US from the Lens of Bangladeshi Immigrants |
| Magdalena Kisielska | Moral Foundations of Nationalism and Attitudes Towards Globalism |
| Christina Lu | "Neutered Women" in China's Ten Years of Chaos: How Rural China Grappled with Revolutionary Gender Policies During the Cultural Revolution |
| Emily McEvoy | Big Fish in a Small Pond: Neoliberal Institutions, Grassroots Organizations, and University Interventions in Connecticut |
| Jack McEvoy | Specialists in Failure: The Capitulation of American Conservatism |
| Emmett Nunes | National Authenticity: The relations of people and place on Monhegon Island |
| Katelin Penner | Vacant Lots, Vast Futures: Reimagining Development, Land Ownership, and Housing in North Brooklyn |
| Shiva Ramkumar | Echoes of Caste in the Musical Life of Indians in Singapore |
| Natalie Selfe | Measuring the Impact of the Availability of Psychiatric Counseling Services on Undergraduate Well-Being |
ACADEMIC YEAR 2019-2020
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Benjamin Cahill | Project: Mapping the Middle Ground: Natural and Constructed Environments in NewFrance 1541-1763 |
| Elisa Chi | The China Model: State Regulation in the Free Market |
| Mary Johnson | Constructing Homes, Constructing Value: Tracing Processes of Valuation Through Language at Habitat for Humanity |
| Madeleine Matz | Grieving Home: Gentrification, My Mother’s Political Legacy and the Radical Resilience of UnhousedPeople in Contemporary San Francisco |
| Rosa Munson-Blatt | Indelible in the hippocampus was the laughter: The Cultural and Psychological Context and Consequences of the Kavanaugh Hearings |
| Hayate Murayama | Toyko Domoi: Memory of Japanese Prisoners of War in the Soviet Union |
| Tara Nair | The Creation of the "Banana" Republic: The Impact of English on the Private Sphere in Singapore |
| Sadie Robb | Scapegoats: Environmental Decision-Making in the Time of the Anthropocene, A Senior Thesis in Anthropology |
| Jonah Skolnik | In the Shadows of Jackson-Vanik: Comparative Frameworks for U.S. Foreign Economic Policy Decision Making |
| Claudia Stelgoff-Belfort | The Bio-economy of Pitocin: Non-consensual Drug Administration During Labor and Delivery |
| Catherine Xi | The Role of Key Stakeholder Groups in Energy Governance and the Renewable Energy Transition |
| Xinyue (Cynthia) Zhang | Yearning for Cultural (Re)Awakening: The Politics of Cultural Conservatism in May-Fourth Era China and Beyond |
ACADEMIC YEAR 2018-2019
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Julia Adler | The Gatekeepers of Middletown |
| Yasmeen Alshabasy | De-Colonizing and De-Medicalizing Depression |
| Stephanie Aquino | The Power of Values: Exploring the Cooperative Economy of Emilia Romagna |
| Ahmed Badr | Reclaiming Displacement: Creative Agency and the Narratio Fellowship |
| Julia Boland | Gender and Political Advertising: Do Men and Women Campaign Differently? |
| Jonathan Canfield | Japan's Military-Industrial Paradox |
| Finn Collom | The Employment Investment Fund as a Model for Social Capital Ownership |
| Nathan Krieger | Explorientalism: Connections Between British Travel Writing and Imperial Policy in Asia |
| Alea Laidlaw | Images of the Unknown: Exploring the Production of Scientific Knowledge During the Anthropocene in Kauai |
| Sophia Law | Commercial Inflight Catering: Reframing Technologies of Aviation |
| Maxnio Lipman | Doing DNA: Re-Assessing Kinship in Argentina in the Age of Genetic Test |
| Michael Montoya | (Dis)Identifications and Nationality: Imagining the Early Colombian Nation |
| Ishika Mukhergee | The Roles of Naxal Women in a Gentlemen's Revolution |
| Fumiko Nago | A Historian's Struggle for Peace: Ienaga Suburo's Vision on Education and the Successes of Ienaga v. Ministry of Education |
| Sajirat Palakarn | Thai Sovereignty and the 1941 Japanese Invasion of Thailand |
| Alexandra Pendergast | Statelessness and Immigration Law: The United States' Obligation to Forgotten Amerasian Children |
| Leah Pensler | Climate Change: The Real National Emergency |
| Jan-Carlos Pinales | The Birth of Hip-Hop Culture in the Bronx as a Response to Segregationist Highway Development |
| Anushka Singh | Public Policy and Corporate Investment: Framing and Shaping the Colonial Narrative in Heritage Tourism in Old Havana |
| Weiliang Song | Nation-building in Transition: How Educational Reform Prepares for Economic Growth in Vietnam from the Early 2000's to Present |
| Madeline Wesley | The "Catch-All" Union: District 65 as an Alternative Model of Labor Organizing |
| Caleb Zakarin | Mugged by Reality: Neoconservatism in the Age of the Alt-Right |
| Harry Zhang | 1989 Tiananmen Student Movement, the Myth of Democracy, and Chinese Intellectuals |
ACADEMIC YEAR 2017-2018
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Emma Austin | Little Miss Shangri-La:Tibetan Beauty Pagents and the Fight |
| Zachary Bennett | The German Invasion and Occupation of Belgium During WWI: An Analysis of Historical Opinion from 1914 to Present |
| Mahalia Binstock | Locating African Women in the Rhode Island Slave Trade |
| Emma Rose Bozekowski | "Your ResLife Hat is Always On"; Undergraduate Student Residential Life Unionization |
| Jusin Campos | Violence, Security and the Politics of Memory: Fujimorismo and Its Lasting Impression on Peruvian Political and Social Movements |
| Selene Canter | Translating Neyrat: The Possibilities and Complicities of Language Morphology and Organization in Environmental Projects and Policy |
| Aaron Cheung | Reining in the President: Revisiting the 1973 War Powers Resolution |
| Ali Dawes | A Threat to White Male Australia: American Servicement During World War II |
| Eliana Donner-Klien | 'Doctor, I'm in Pain': A History of Pain Management and US Pain Legislation from 1970-2010 |
| Anna Fox | Becoming "Princesses": Sexuality, Assimilation, and the Jewish American Woman |
| Daphne Gampel | Know Wonder: A Cross-Theological Exploration of Perspectives and Religious Music |
| Maxine Gibb | The Last Generation: Female Youth Activism in the Final Stage of Apartheid South Africa |
| Mohamed-Dhia Hammami | Seeing the UGTT as a Quasi-Political Party |
| Azher Jaweed | Pictures of Paradise: The Role of Photographs in the Creation of Mega-dams in India |
| Sophie Martin | Transition and the Tank: How the Bulk Tank Changed Dairying in Vermont |
| Asa Mazor-Freedman | My Friends Are Many: Rural Political Machines in Democratic Taiwan |
| Fiona McLeod | Narratives of American Conservation: Indigenous Land Expropriation and the Dismantling of Bears Ears National Monument |
| Teresa Naval | Home is Where the Box Is: The Balkbayan Box and its Sociotechnical Networks |
| Lok Kwan Rosanne Ng | State Strength and Housing Affordability in Hong Kong and Singapore |
| Noa Street-Sachs | Female Education, Labor, and Empowerment in Jordan and Morocco |
| Emily Steckhan | The Role and Implications of Female Physicians Involved in Medicalized Murder through Akiton T-4 and Kindereuthanasie Under the National-Socialist Regime |
| Lindsay Zelson | Shock Value: A Scientific, Psychological, and Journalistic Historical Account of Stanley Milgram's 1963 Obedience Research |
ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017
| Recipient Name | Title |
| Allegra Ayida | Cosmopolitan Kings, Merchants, and the Itsekiri Aristocracy |
| Brook Burn | Theodicy to Biodicy: Sylvia Wynter and the Mythos of 'Human' as Biological Fact |
| Christopher Cepil | A Contemporary Worcester Moment? Scottish Identity Formation 1603- 1707 |
| Steven Chen | The Fruits of Victory: Food Conservation and Legislation During the Progressive Era Through WWI |
| Matthew Chun | Daehan Minguk: The Emergence of South Korean Nationalism and National Identity during the DMZ Era |
| Carter Deane | Between Pluralism and Leitkultur: Islamic Religious Education in German Schools |
| Yael Fisher | Beit Zera: A Case Study in Inevitability of Mass Economic Privatization Across Israeli Kibbutzim |
| Shizuha Hatori | Loneliness, Intimacy, and Dislocation: Japanese Hostess Clubs in New York City |
| Julian Johnson | Exploration of Shifting Landscapes in Shanghai, China through Environmental and Photographic Lenses |
| Talia Kaplan | "See Where It Takes You": Attitude Formation on USY Summer Experience Trips |
| Riyu Ling | The Second Sino-Japanese War and Rural Education in Cixi County, 1927-1949 |
| Joel Michaels | The Supermanager's Dilemma: Income-Leisure Preferences Among Top Earners |
| Lynx Mitchell | Swinging Out in Confined Liberation: A Biographical Exploration of the Limits to Connection at Boston Swing Central |
| Ilana Newman | You Are What You Eat: Community, Industry, Morality, and Health in the Graham Movement |
| Mihai Olteanu | The Continental System and Industrialization in Napoleonic France |
| Irvine Peck's-Agaya | The Sacred Wood: An Exploration of the Usage of Iboga in Gabonese Bwiti Rituals |
| Candance Powning | The Knights of Labor and Russell Manufacturing in 19th Century Middletown, CT |
| James Reston | The Last Generation: KGB Youth in the Final Decades of the Soviet Union |
| Alec Shea | Vacation Days Versus the Far-Right: Anti-Fascism and Economic Policy in Popular Front France |
| Juntai Shen | Modern vs. Rural: The Chinese Rural Modernization since 1978 |
| Monica Sun | Performance and Poetics: A Healing Practice Based in Heritage and Traditional Chinese Medicine |
| Sarasa Suzuki | Listening to Perceptions of Care Workers in Children's Homes in Japan |
| John Henry Vansant | This Land Was Not Made for You and Me: Sacred Land Jurisprudence and the Crisis of Religious Freedom in the United States |
| Benjamin Velaise | The Unique Politics of Contemporary Sovereignty: An Alaska Native Perspective |
| Grace Wong | Inspecting Freedom of Speech: Do All Groups Have an Equal Right to Protest? |
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2015-2016
| RECIPIENT NAME | TITLE |
| Anna Bisikalo | Investigating Women's Grassroots Activism in the Post-Soviet Sphere |
| Emma Broder | Who’s Lying about Lyme?: Cultural, Scientific, and Biomedical Meanings of Lyme Disease |
| Abigail Cunniff | Environmental Concerns in LA County Jail Expansion |
| Alyssa Domino | Indonesian Drug Policy in Theory and in Practice |
| Rachel Earnhardt | Rivers of Environmental Migrants: Consequences of Flood Displacement in the American South |
| Isabel Fine | Exclusion, Inclusion, and the Politics and Power: An Analysis of Sorority Rush |
| Ian Foster | Comparing Local Conceptions of Acadian Identity---Memory and History after Displacement |
| Rebecca Hutman | Why Build the City Without Slums?: The Effects of International Governance and Urban Competitiveness on the Implementation of Morocco's Slum Eradication Program |
| Jacob Karlin | The Current Argentine Jewish Experience After the Military Dictatorship of 1976-1983 |
| Mira Klein | Municipal Policy and Environmental Gentrification: Urban Green Space as a Political Tool |
| Drew Krinitsky | A History of Freedom of Speech at Wesleyan University: Speech Codes, Chalking, and the Organization of Public Space |
| Haenah Kwon | Exploring the Universality of Labor Rights |
| Courtney Laermer | The Influence of News Frames on Public Opinion of the Affordable Care Act |
| Caitlin O'Keeffe | Confronting War Crimes |
| Sadie Renjilian | The Role of Art in Social and Political Change: A Study of Feminist Art of the 20th Century in the United States |
| Elizabeth Shackney | Un centre-ville pour tous: Understanding Multiculturalism and Integration in Marseille |
| Jenna Shapiro | The Facts of Life: U.S. Sex Education & The Cold War |
| Casey Smith | Collective Memory of Palestinian Migration and the Future of Syrians in Jordan |
| Eva Steinberg | A Transgenerational Approach to Southern Farmers and Their Seeds |
| Nathaniel Warner | From the Parachurch's Ramparts: Faith-Based Initiatives and the Church-State Relationship |
| Shoko Yamada | Self-Representation of Religion and "Religion" in Japanese Tourism Industry |
| Julia Yu | Hong Kong Culture in Face of Increasing Political Influence from Mainland China |
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2014-2015
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RECIPIENT NAME |
TITLE |
| Valere Demuynck | Public Health in French Colonial Algeria. |
| Deren Ertas | The Anatomy of a Social Movement: Occupy Gezi and Citizenship in Turkey. |
| Olivia Glick | Political Change Without Economic Change in South Africa: An Analysis of the Black Economic Empowerment Program. |
| Mike Greenwald | Cracks in the Pavements: The Street Population of Nepal. |
| Jiyoung Han | Regionalism and Conflict Political Polarization in South Korea. |
| Samuel Ingbar | Exploring Ritual Expressions of Dynastic Power: Donative Inscription in the Early Buddhist Monasteries of the Western Deccan. |
| Bulelani Jili | Citizening the Constitution: Deepening and Preserving our Commitment to Democracy Through Shared Public Dialogue. |
| Lynn Ma | Working Title: The Role of Political Comedy. |
| Kerry Nix |
Climate Club Creation in the World Trade Organization. |
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Maria Paterson |
The Mau Mau Rebellion: Understanding an Ethnonationalist Movement within a Nation. |
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Cole Phillips |
The Role of Arab and Islamic Tribes in Terrorism and Counterterrorism. |
| Eki Ramadham | Political Determination of Resources Nationalism: A Comparative Study of Mineral Governance in Indonesia and Malaysia. |
| Nina Stender |
Hong Kong's Dysfunctional Constituency: Local Economic Elite's Political Roles in Hong Kong as British Colony and Chinese Region. |
| Eva Weintraub | Social Barriers to Universal Human Papillomavirus Vaccination of Adolescents in the U.S. |
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David Whitney |
Theorizing the Standardization of Time in the United States. |
| Rebecca Winkler | Ecofeminist Intersectional Analyses of Human Elephant Interactions. |
| Li Zhong | The Dragon Traverses Eurasia: Gauging China's New Silk Road in Central Asia. |
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2013-2014
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RECIPIENT NAME |
TITLE |
| Aletta Brady | Negotiating International Watercourse Agreement: Why are the Nile River Basin States Unable to Collectively Agree on a Framework for Water Allocations? |
| Amy Cao | Culture and the Culture of Medicine in 19th Century Middletown, CT. |
| Talia DeRogatis | Whose Right to the City: The Contested Rhetoric of Urban Change in Brazil. |
| John DiCandeloro | To Print a Mirror: Print Networks and National Consciousness. |
| Alexander Donesky | A New Paradigm in Sustainable Development? An Inquiry into the Methods and Theories of Eric Mathis, Philosopher and Applied Sustainability Entrepreneur. |
| Gabriel Frankel | A History of British National Security and Counterterrorism in Palestine: Geographies of Violence and Security in the Twentieth Century. |
| Samuel Furnival | The Aam Aadmi Party: Deepening the Largest Democracy. |
| Emily Hoge | Invalidi and the Body Politic Russian Concepts of Disability Across the Collapse of the Soviet Union. |
| Orelia Jonathan |
Child Soldiers or Child Participation: A Historical Look at the Rite of Passage Ceremonies in South Sudan. |
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Qunita Jurecic |
Records of Anguish: The Obama Administration's Targeted Killing Program and the Myth of the Tragic Politician. |
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Gillian Mahoney |
The Palace and the Castle: A Study of Memory in Reunified Berlin. |
| Hibiki Mizuno | Alternative American Culture: Asian/Asian American Immigrant. Identity and Representation After the Immigration Act of 1965. |
| Zheyan Ni |
Liang Qichao and Dilemmas of Freedom, Citizenship and the Political Imagination in Modern China. |
| Avital Robbins | The Emergence of a Domestic Market for Specialty Coffee in Columbia. |
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Shourya Sen |
The Inland Fisheries of Bengal: Institutions and Development. |
| Max Shafer-Landau | The World is not Enough: How Powerful was the 16th Century's Most Powerful Person? |
| Samira Siddique | Between Coal and a Green Space: Ecotourism in Combating Bangladesh's Environmental Degradation. |
| Henry Sikes |
The Black Eagle and the Lone Star: A Cultural History of German Settlers and their Impact on Texan Identity. |
| Tanaya Srinivasakrishman | Diverging Legacies: Assessing Access to Urban Life for South Africans in Light of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. |
| Molly Steinfeld | Obesity Prevention: Forging Reform in the National School Lunch Program. |
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Elijah Stevens |
Local Actors, Global Citizens: Food Politics and Indigenous & Campesino Activism in Colombia. |
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Ariane Turley |
The Heart of Asia: Heritage Tourism and National Identity Formation in Taiwan. |
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JinGe Yu |
Bank-level Study into the Effects of Monetary Sterilization on Local Loan Rates. |
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-2013
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RECIPIENT NAME |
TITLE |
| Maxwell Bigman | Integrating Technology into the Classroom: A Report on the Cognitive Tool For Education Reform. |
| Sarah Dash | Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Implementation of Fascist "Italianita" Through Cuisine. |
| Benjamin Docter | The Democrats Of Education Reform. |
| Renee Dunn | Who are the Job Creators? The Implication of Educational Entrepreneurship Programs for Job Market and Societal Change in Kampala, Uganda. |
| Calvo Elhauge | Spain in the League of Nations: An Evaluation of Europe's First 'Intermediate Power'. |
| Allison Greenwald | Bambolse as Commodity: Understanding the Relative Social and Economic Motivations for Production of Wall Paintings in Sirigu, Ghana. |
| Ana Halsey | The Politics of Social Protection: The Political Origins of Universal Health Insurance in Indonesia. |
| Benjamin Jacobs | When Lambs Drink Wolf's Milk: Exploring Chinese National Identity Formation and Historical Narratives under Patriotic Education. |
| Mari Jarris | Rescuing the Concept of Freedom: The Frankfurt School's Critique of Idealist Philosophy from Kant to Sartre. |
| Hannah Korevaar | West Side Story: Race, Space, Religion and the Law in Salt Lake City. |
| Manon Lefevre | The Invasive Landscape: History, Ideologies, and Ecological Consequences of the New England Lawnscape. |
| Laura Munsil | National Memory and Cinema: The Spanish Civil War on Film. |
| Sophia Park | The Emerging Luxury Market in China: What Chanel and Gucci Means to China Today and Tomorrow. |
| Grace Powell | US Drone Strikes and IR Theory. |
| Tianyu Xie Rain | The Single Hope: Youth Civic Engagements in the Age of Individualization in China. |
| Chloe Rinehart | Conditional Cash Transfer Programs in Multiethnic, "Plurinational" States: The Case of Ecuador's Bono de Desarrollo Humano. |
| Madelene Smith-Huemer | Gendered Revolutions: The Role of Women within German Reunification. |
| Julian Theseira | Lu Zhengxiang: A Christian and Confucianist Chinese Diplomat and Modernizer. |
| Kelly Toy | The First Ladyship - Unelected, Unpaid, Unforgettable: A History of Women in America from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama. |
| Maxwell Votey | Cossack Identity and Paramilitarism in Early Post- Soviet Russia. |
| Sabina Wahl | Community Activism as Platform for Transformation: A Historical Study of Muslim Women in a Durban Township. |
| Shannon Welch | Jesus in the Wilderness: Jesuit and Protestant Competition for Abenaki Souls in the Anglo-French Northeast. |
| Aileen Yeung | Estonia: An Experiment in Economic Freedom. |
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012
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Recipient |
Title |
| Alam Zain | Dreams and Disappointment: India's Muslims, the Muhajir, and the Making of Pakistan |
| Dahila Azran | Memorials of the Holocaust: A Comparative Study of the Planning Process of Holocaust Memorials in the United States, Israel, German and China. |
| Katya Botwinick | The Universal Concrete Canvas: A Sociological Look into the Street Art Movement in Buenos Aires and New York City. |
| Emma Caccamo | Foreignness in American: Internal Conditions, International Relations, and the Treatment of German, Italian, and Japanese Immigrants, 1935 - 1945. |
| Sarah Cassel | The Proxy's Perceptions: Former Soldiers' Understandings of U.S. Involvement in the Civil Wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador. |
| Sarah Chrystler | Issues of Identity in Female Piracy: How Space and Material Culture Contribute to Transgression. |
| Aria Danaparamita | British Borobudur Buddha: Colonizing Culture from 19th Century Java to the Modern Museum. |
| Marjorie Dodson | Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity in Yunnan, Southern China. |
| Catherine Doren | Closing the Achievement Gap: Identifying its Origins and the Sources of its Perpetuation. |
| Jacob Eichengreen | Facilitating Sustainable Development: Assessing the Impact of Microfinance Programs on Social Capital in Uganda. |
| Alexandra Ellerbeck | Morales Mired: Indigenous Opposition to Bolivia's First Indigenous President. |
| Alexandra Galef | Reconstructing the History of Mimouna: An analysis of Jewish and Muslim shared identity and co-existence. |
| Maxwell Hellmann | Roads Less Traveled: Bringing Healthcare to the Rural Homeless. |
| Charlotte Heyrman | Post-Industrial Imaginations: Visions on Revitalization and Possibility in Detroit. |
| Stephanie Huezo | Breaking the Silence: Chile and El Salvador Commemorate Their Disappeared |
| Kim Ingerbritsen | Schooling Everyone's Children: Examining the IAF's Community Organizing Efforts in Education. |
| Leah Koenig | The Reproductive Health NGO in India: Addressing the GAP Between International Aid Institutions an their Target Populations. |
| Ka-Ya Lee | Paulo Freire and Soren Kierkegaard on Education Lens to Explore The Theory-Praxis Dynamics. |
| Kathryn McConnell | Conservation as Colonization?: Exploring the Contested Histories of Glacier National Park. |
| Joseph O'Donnell | The God Solution: Spirituality as a Coping Mechanism and Healing Tool for Mental Illness and Addiction. |
| Agueda Ortega | (Un) comfortable Intersections: A Comparative Study of Queer Latin American Identities an the New Left in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. |
| Gain Swee | Tay Teow Kiat: Chinese Music, Chineseness, and Singapore Society. |
| McNeil Taylor | Examining the Theosophical Society: A Methodology of the Supernatural in the Secular Age. |
| Nandita Vijayaraghavan | Eg'ao: The Power of Parody in Protesting China's Internet Censorship. |
| Elizabeth Waugh | Strangers in the Homeland: The Ethiopian-Israeli Search for Authenticity. |
| Elizabeth Williams | Who is The Other America?: A Study of the Political Identity and Efficacy of Americans in Appalachia. |
| Bingxin Wu | Spillover Effects of FDI in China: When BMW comes to Town. |
| Catherine Zhou | Grade School in Two Cultures: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Elementary Schools in the United States and China. |