Davenport Study Grants - Recipients

Davenport Study Grant

Successful proposals focused squarely on researchable questions, offered concrete plans for accomplishing realistic goals, and were supported by adviser whose letters indicated significant interest and prior interaction.  The committee congratulates the recipients, and wishes them all the best in their work.

RECIPIENTS OF THE DAVENPORT STUDY GRANTS PROGRAM
FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2011-2012

RECIPIENT NAME
 

TITLE
 

DEPT. MAJOR
 
Alam Zain Dreams and Disappointment:  India's Muslims, the Muhajir, and the Making of Pakistan CSS
Dahila Azran Memorials of the Holocaust:  A Comparative Study of the planning process of Holocaust Memorials in the United States, Israel, German and China. HIST
Katya Botwinick The Universal Concrete Canvas:  A Sociological Look into the Street Art Movement in Buenos Aires and New York City. SOC
Emma Caccamo Foreignness in American:  Internal Conditions, International Relations, and the Treatment of German, Italian, and Japanese Immigrants, 1935 - 1945. HIST/GOVT
Sarah Cassel The Proxy's Perceptions:  Former Solders' Understandings of U.S. Involvement in the Civil Wars in Nicaragua and EL Salvador. GOVT
Sarah Chrystler Issues of Identity in Female Piracy:  How Space and Material Culture Contribute to Transgression. HIST
Aria Danaparamita British Borobudur Budddha:  Colonising Culture from19th Century Java to the Modern Museum. HIST/FRST
Marjorie Dodson Biodiversity and Cultural Diversity in Yunnan, Southern China. EAST/ENVS
Catherine Doren Closing the Achievement Gap:  Identifying its Origins and the Sources of its Perpetuation. SOC/PSYC
Jacob Eichengreen Facilitating Sustainable Development:  Assessing the Impact of Microfinance Programs on Social Capital in Uganda. CSS
Alexandra Ellerbeck Morales Mired:  Indigenous Opposition to Bolivia's First Indigenous President. GOVT/LAST
Alexandra  Galef Reconstructing the History of Mimouna:  An analysis of Jewish and Muslim shared identity and co-existence. HIST
Maxwell Hellmann Roads Less Travelled:  Bringing Healthcare to the Rural Homeless. SISP/NS&B
Charlotte Heyrman Post-Industrial Imaginations:  Visions on Revitalization and Possibility in Detroit. ANTH
Stephanie Huezo Breaking the Silence:  Chile and El Salvador Commemorate Their Disappeared LAST
Kim Ingerbritsen Schooling Everyone's Children:  Examining the IAF's Community Organizing Efforts in Education. AMST
Leah Koenig The Reproductive Health NGO in India:  Addressing the GAP Between International Aid Institutions an their Target Populations. CSS
Ka-Ya Lee Paulo Freire and Soren Kierkegaard on Education Lens to Explore The Theory-Praxis Dynamics. CSS
Kathryn McConnell Conservation as Colonization?:  Exploring the Contested Histories of Glacier National Park. ANTH
Joseph O'Donnell The God Solution:  Spirituality as a Coping Mechanism and Healing Tool for Mental Illness and Addiction. CSS
Agueda Ortega (Un) comfortable Intersections:  A Comparative Study of Queer Latin American Identities an the New Left in Buenos Aires and Sao Paulo. SOC/LAST
Gain Swee Tay Teow Kiat:  Chinese Music, Chineseness, and SIngapore Society. HIST
McNeil Taylor Examining the Theosophical Society:  A Methodology of the   Supernatural in the Secular Age. HIST
Nandita Vijayaraghavan Eg'ao:  The Power of Parody in Protesting China's Internet Censorship. EAST
Elizabeth Waugh Strangers in the Homeland: The Ethiopian-Israeli Search for Authenticity. RELI/DANC
Elizabeth Williams Who is The Other America?:  A Study of the Political Identity and Efficacy of Americans in Appalachia. CSS
Bingxin Wu Spillover Effects of FDI in China:  When BMW comes to Town. CSS/FRST
Catherine Zhou Grade School in Two Cultures:  A Cross-Cultural Examination of Elementary Schools in the United States and China. SOC/SISP