Student
Honors, Awards, Publications, and Other Activities
As
of June 23, 2008
ANTHROPOLOGY
Raja Abillama (Anthropology) won a 2008-09 Mellon Dissertation Fellowship/The Center for the Humanities ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to pursue work on Secular Sensibilities: Articulations of Family Laws, Religion and Morality in Lebanon. (posted 5-08)
Alessandro Angelini, a doctoral student in anthropology, won an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) in the amount of $25,000 (funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) as well as a Wenner-Gren fellowship in the amount of $21,000. These fellowships will assist him in his dissertation research on favelas (squatter settlements) and the production of urban knowledge in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (posted 5-08)
Jessica Brinkworth, a doctoral student in anthropology,
won a 2008–09 NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement
Grant (15,000) and a 2008–09 Wenner-Gren fellowship
($22,959) to support her research on The
Evolution of the Human Immune System: Landscape Specific
Pathogen Exposure and Human AIDS. (posted 5-08)
Igor Argelino Rodriguez Calderon (Anthropology) was the recipient of a Smithsonian Latino Center Fellowship in Museum Studies in Summer 2008. (posted 10-08)
Lynne deSilva-Johnson, a doctoral student in anthropology, won a summer teaching fellowship and advisory position at the new Bard Urban Institute in New Orleans, where she will be working with undergraduates from all over the country and abroad on urban planning/theory, policy, social action, community service, as well as serving in a "theory-to-practice" advisement role. (posted 6-08)
Christine Folch, a doctoral student in anthropology, won an IIE Fulbright to support one year of research as well as a grant of $24,450 from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. These awards will support her dissertation research on Paraguay’s political culture, state formation, national identity, and geographic imaginary at the Triple Frontera, the border between Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina. (posted 5-08)
Sarah Freidline, a doctoral student in
anthropology, won a 2008–09 Sigma Xi Grant in Aid of
Research to support work on her dissertation and a two-year
fellowship from the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary
Anthropology to work in Leipzig with Katerina Harvati and
her colleagues. (posted 5-08)
Saygun Gokariksel, anthropology, is a recipient of a 2008–09 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pre-Dissertation Award from the Council for European Studies at Columbia University. The award in the amount of $4,000 will aid in research on accusatory practices and the lustration lawin postsocialist Poland. (posted 5-08)
Harmony Goldberg, a doctoral student in anthropology and a Chancellor’s Fellow for the past
two years, was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate
Research Fellowship. The award covers three years of tuition
and a living stipend, and allows her to concentrate on her
pre-dissertation studies and explore possibilities for future
research. (posted 5-08)
Christina Honjo Harris, a doctoral student in anthropology, received a B. Altman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000) for the academic year 2008–09. (posted 8-08)
Russell Hogg, anthropology,
has won a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Pathology
and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of
Medicine. (posted 5-08)
Ryan Mann-Hamilton, anthropology, won a highly competitive multiple year NSF
grant to support his doctoral studies. (posted 5-08)
Nathan Jones, a doctoral student in anthropology and a current holder of an International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) IARO fellowship in Russia, has won several awards to support his dissertation research during 2008–09: an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (average grant amount is $20,000) and an IIE Fulbright. He will use these grants to study how ethnic understanding and identity is produced and lived among people of German descent in Russia and Kazakhstan. (posted 5-08)
Tina Lee, anthropology, holds a 2008-09 American Association for University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship ($20,000) and a Sponsored Dissertation Fellowships ($18,000 + in-state tuition). These awards will help her on complete her dissertation: Stratified Reproduction and Definitions of Child Neglect: State Practices and Parents’ Response(posted 5-08)
Martha Lincoln, anthropology, has won a Social Science Research Council (SSRC) pre-dissertation summer research grant in the amount of $4,850 to support her research on climate change and public health in Vietnam. (posted 5-08)
Abraham Lotha, anthropology (cultural), published History of Naga Anthropology, 1832–1947 (Chumpo Museum Publication, Dimapur, Nagaland, 2007). This monograph, based on Lotha’s research for his master’s degree in cultural anthropology, deals with writings by British colonial administrators and ethnographers about the inhabitants of the far northeastern part of India. Nagas first came in contact with the British in 1832; the contact ended in 1947, the year the Raj dissolved and the British officially left the Naga Hills. Reviewing the book in The Morung Express on February 14, 2008, Paul Pimomo called Abraham Lotha “a meticulous scholar and a reliable commentator on Naga history and cultures.” He added, “The book is a must read for all scholars in Naga studies, not just Naga anthropologists. Its brevity does not take away from the merits of the book, chief of which is Abraham Lothas’ ability to condense a century’s worth of historical information into two chapters, followed by a critique of colonial anthropology and its legacy in contemporary Nagaland written with remarkable critical candor.” (posted 4-08)
Shea McManus (Anthropology) won a Kathryn Davis Fellowship for Peace to support his Arabic study at Middlebury College during Summer 2008. (posted 10-08) He also won a 2008–09 NSF Dissertation Improvement Grant. (posted 6-08)
Joshua Moses, a doctoral student in anthropology,
in 2006 won a three-year Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research
Service Award for Individual Predoctoral Fellows.
Andrew Newman, anthropology, won a 2008–09 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant to support his dissertation research. (posted 8-08)
Ceren Ozgul (Anthropology)
is a recipient of a 2008–09 Society for the Anthropology
of Europe (SAE) Pre-Dissertation Award in Anthropology from
the Council for European Studies at Columbia University.
The award in the amount of $4,000 will aid in research on religious
conversion to a minority religion in secular democracies
as part of her dissertation fieldwork entitled “From
Muslim Citizen to Christian Minority: Legal Implications
of ‘Double-Conversion’ in Turkey.” (posted
5-08)
Tara Peburn (Anthropology, 2008) is a postdoctoral student and lecturer, Department of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences, University of Missouri School of Medicine. (posted 10-08)
Gail Perry-Ryder (Anthropology) received a 2008–09 Public Humanities Fellowship from the New York Council for the Humanities; a 2008 Community Service-Learning Grant from Lehman College/CUNY and the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies at City College/CUNY; and a 2008 Faculty Development Grant from Lehman College Institute for Literacy Studies and the Carnegie Foundation. (posted 10-08)
Ted Powers (Anthropology) was affiliated with the Africa Program as a 2008 summer fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. His project is entitled “Producing Informality in a Post-Apartheid Township: An Investigation into the Relationship between HIV/AIDS and Informal Urban Settlements in South Africa.” (posted 10-08)
Jeremy Rayner (Anthropology), who currently holds a Wenner-Gren, has won an NSF in the amount of $1,640 to support his dissertation research on “The ICE is Not for Sale: Property, Value, and Telecommunications Privatization in Costa Rica.” (posted 5-08)
Jill Schennum, a doctoral student in anthropology, has won an NSF grant of $14,000 to support her dissertation on the topic of “Bethlehem Steelworkers: Working Class Families in a Post-Fordist City.” (posted 5-08)
Amy Schreier, anthropology, won a postdoctoral fellowship in the Duke University
Writing Program. (posted 5-08)
Amy Starecheski (Anthropology) published book reviews that appeared in Oral History Review (July, 2008) and The Public Historian 30.3 (Summer 2008), and has a review of an exhibit forthcoming in Journal of American History (June 2009). (posted 10-08)
Naomi Stone (Anthropology) received a fellowship from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to write poetry during Summer 2008. Her first book Stranger’s Notebook, a book of poems based on her fieldwork in a Jewish community in North Africa, is forthcoming (TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern University Press, 2008). (posted 10-08)
Victoria M. Stone, anthropology, won a 2008-09 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support her dissertation research: Social Impact of Transnational Migration and Remittances in Cañar, Ecuador. (posted 5-08)
Nelson Ting, a doctoral student in anthropology who graduated
on May 22, has accepted a position as a tenure-track assistant
professor in the department of anthropology, University of
Iowa. He will also be a principle investigator in the University
of Iowa Roy J. Carver Center for Comparative Genomics. He
will begin in the fall, and he received start up funds to
build a program in molecular anthropology. He will have a
genetics lab and will be conducting fieldwork. (posted
5-08)
Jose Vasquez, anthropology, is an adjunct lecturer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
His dissertation research will focus on the politics of veteran
status in contemporary American society. Currently, he is
working with Iraq Veterans Against the War on a campaign
called Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan (www.ivaw.org/winter
soldier), collecting veteran and civilian testimony. A conference
scheduled for March 13–16, 2008, at the National Labor
College in Silver Spring, MD, will highlight these testimonies
and illustrate how government and military policies are creating
the realities on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan. Soldiers,
veterans, and civilians will testify to atrocities they witnessed
and/or participated in. Vasquez is heading up the verification
team of the Winter Soldier organizing committee. (posted
1-08)
Analia Villagra, anthropology, has won an Social Science Research Council (SSRC) pre-dissertation summer research grant in the amount of $5,000 to support her research on human-animal interactions and the way conceptions of nature affect conservation practice. (posted 5-08)
Steven Wang, anthropology doctoral student and a holder of a 2008–09 Graduate Center sponsored
dissertation (writing) fellowship, won a 2007–08
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement
Grant ($11,690) and a Wenner-Gren dissertation grant ($15,705)
to support research on Testing the
continuity of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins in Asia. (posted 5-08)
Nathan Woods, anthropology,
has won two grants for the 2008–09 academic year:
$4,000 from the American Philosophical Society, and $15,000
from the National Science Foundation. They will support his
research on “Integrating Innovation: Academic Innovation,
Professional Networks and Scientific Regionalism in the Environmental
Sciences.” (posted 5-08)
Janette Yarwood (Anthropology) was selected as the 2008–09 Northeast Consortium for Faculty Diversity Visiting Dissertation Scholar at Monmouth University, an in-residence fellowship which provides $32,000, computer and library privileges, office space, and health insurance. There are no work or teaching
requirements, and she will have the opportunity to network
with fellows and faculty from other network schools (Northeastern,
Colgate, Allegheny, Middlebury, University of Vermont, University
of Rochester, and others). (posted 10-08)
Gabriela Zamorano, a doctoral student in anthropology, was awarded a post-doctoral grant at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris to develop her research project “An archaeology of ethnographic portraiture in South America (1841–1920).” (posted 8-08)
ART HISTORY
Margarita Aguilar (Art History), a vice-president at Christie’s, New York, published two articles in VEO, an Argentine magazine devoted to the arts and culture, and contributed to Christie’s International Magazine and Latin American Art sale catalogues. (posted 10-08)
Thomas Beachdel (Art History) is a 2008–09 CUNY Writing Fellow at Hunter College. (posted 10-08)
Raffaele Bedarida (Art History) is co-editor, with Ruggero Montrasio, of Christo and Jeanne-Claude (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2007). (posted 10-08)
Kris Belden-Adams (Art History) published articles this year on the theory and history of photography in various journals: Spectator: The University of Southern California’s Critical Studies Journal of Film and Television Criticism, Review Magazine, Exposure: The Journal for the Society of Photographic Education, and Artnet. (posted 10-08)
Taína Caragol (Art History) won a 2007–08 postdoctoral fellowship from England's Art and Humanities Research Council to work as a researcher on the project Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art and the UK: History, Historiography, Specificity (LAUK), led by University of Essex. (posted 10-08)
Elizabeth Cronin (Art History), recipient of a Fulbright Grant to Austria for 2008-09, published “Lost Somewhere on the Mountain: Wilhelm Angerer and Austrian Heimat Photography,” History of Photography 32:3 (Autumn 2008). Recipients of Fulbright awards are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. Cronin is one of over 1,450 U.S. citizens who will travel abroad for the 2008-2009 academic year through the Fulbright U.S. Student Program. (posted 10-08)
Elizabeth DeRose (Art History) contributed the essay "Carroll Dunham: Restating Positions" to Carroll Dunham Prints: Catalogue Raisonne, 1984–2006 (Addison Gallery of American Art and Yale University Press, 2008). (posted 10-08)
Roberto C. Ferrari (Art History) published Pierce (2007), a novel that was a finalist in the category of Men's Mystery for the 2007 Lambda Literary Awards. (posted 10-08)
Elena FitzPatrick (Art History) contributed entries to the Encyclopedia of South American Art (Facts on File Press, forthcoming). (posted 10-08)
Lucy Gallun (Art History), after spending several weeks in Berlin with a Doctoral Student Research Grant, began the Whitney Independent Study Program in September. (posted 10-08)
Karen Hellman, art history, won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowships ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support her work on Antoine Claudet and the ‘Spaces’ of Photography, 1839–67. (posted 5-08)
Keith Jordan (Art History) published “Surrealist Visions of Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and the Legacy of Colonialism: The Good, the (Revalued) Bad, and the Ugly,” Journal of Surrealism in the Americas (June 2008). (posted 10-08)
Lars Kokkonen (Art History) received a 2008–09 fellowship at the National Gallery. (posted 10-08)
Margaret Laster (Art History) was named the first Junior Fellow at the Center for the History of Collecting in America, Frick Art Reference Library, in Spring 2008. (posted 10-08)
Tetsuya Oshima (Art History) co-edited Poïétique of Painting (Nihon Bunkyo Shuppan, 2007) and translated a book into Japanese: Donald Wigal, Jackson Pollock (Nigen-sha, 2008). (posted 10-08)
Daniel Ricardo Quiles, art history, won a 2008-09 Milton Brown Dissertation Fellowship ($16,000 + in-state tuition) and a MAGNET supplement ($4,000) to support work on Toward a Counterpublic Sphere: Argentine Conceptual Art, 1966–76. (posted 5-08)
Jennifer Tobias (Art History) published "In Search of the Sexy Librarian," Sexy Librarian: The Novel; and “Artists' Books as Indie Publishing" in Ellen Lupton's Indie Publishing: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book (www.papress.com). (posted 10-08)
Midori Yamamura (Art History), a 2007–08 Mellon Dissertation Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, published “Yayoi Kusama’s Early New York Years: A Critical Biography” in Making A Home: Japanese Contemporary Artists in New York (The Japan Society and Yale University Press, 2007). (posted 10-08)
Hyewon Yi, art history, won a 2008-09 Leon Levy Center Fellowship for Biography ($22,000) to support work on "Photographer as Participant Observer: The Photographs of Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, Richard Billingham, and Nobuyoshi Araki." (posted 5-08)
AUDIOLOGY
Ilana Cellum, a doctoral student in the
inaugural class in audiology, was selected for a Summer 2008—Spring
2009 residency at New York Presbyterian Medical Center.
She also received a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her
proposal “The relationship between the magnitude of
distortion product otoacoustic emissions and acoustic-reflex
thresholds for broad-band noise.” (posted 2-08)
Karen Greer, a doctoral student in the
inaugural class in audiology, was selected for a Summer 2008—Spring
2009 residency at New York Eye and Ear Infirmary. In addition,
she was awarded a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her
proposal “Acoustic Radiation produced by bone vibrators
at 2000 and 4000 HZ in adults with moderate, bilateral sensorineural
hearing impairment,” a project she is working on with
fellow student Jessica Gordon. (posted 2-08)
Jessica Gordon, a doctoral student in the
inaugural class in audiology, was selected for a Summer 2008—Spring
2009 residency at New York Presbyterian Medical Center. She
is also a recipient of the Audiology Foundation of America's
Outstanding Second Year Au.D. Student Scholarship. In addition
she was awarded a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her
proposal “Acoustic Radiation produced by bone vibrators
at 2000 and 4000 HZ in adults with moderate, bilateral sensorineural
hearing impairment,” a project she is working on with
fellow student Karen Greer. (posted 2-08)
Allison Shapiro, a doctoral student in
the inaugural class in audiology, was selected for a Summer
2008—Spring 2009 residency at Weill Cornell Medical
Center. (posted 2-08)
Irina Shterenberg, a doctoral student in
the inaugural class in audiology, was selected to receive
a Doctoral Student Research Grant for her proposal “The
Relationship Magnitude of Hearing Loss and Ipsilateral Acoustic
Reflex Threshold Levels for 1000Hz.” (posted 2-08)
Rivka Strom, a doctoral student in the
inaugural class in audiology, was selected for a Summer 2008—Spring
2009 residency at Hackensack University Medical Center. (posted
2/08) She was awarded a Scholarship for Study of Communicative
Disorders by the Sertoma Foundation. The $1,000 grant is
for graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in audiology
or speech-language pathology from institutions in the U.S.
Sertoma provides more funds nationally for graduate level
study in communicative disorders than any other single organization. (posted
1-08)
Robin Warwick, a doctoral student in the
inaugural class in audiology, won a Doctoral Student Research
Grant for her proposal “In the Dog House: Effects of
noise-reduction upon human and animal populations in an animal
shelter.” (posted 2-08)
BIOCHEMISTRY
Catherine Bangeranye, a doctoral student
in biochemistry, has been awarded a 2007 United Negro College
Fund (UNCF) Merck Graduate Science Research Dissertation
Fellowship. The award consists of a $42,000 fellowship stipend
and a $10,000 research grant. Bangeranye’s studies
focus on a family of proteins involved in the expression
of genes found in mitochondria and that are essential for
cellular energy metabolism; malfunction of these proteins
causes a number of neurodegenerative disorders. She is conducting
her research under the mentorship of Professor Serafín
Piñol-Roma of the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical
Education.
BIOLOGY
Nat Bletter, a doctoral student in biology, can be seen extolling the virtues of his favority fruit, the Mangosteen, in a New York Times video posted in late April 2008: http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=f4e675205257da88c157d5d6228710df1cb18831 In addition, Chocolate in Mesoamerica:A Cultural History of Cacao (University Press of Florida, 2006), edited by anthropology alumna Cameron L. McNeil and to which he and Doug Daly contributed a chapter—“Cacao and its relatives in South America: An overview of taxonomy, ecology, biogeography, chemistry, and ethnobotany”—has won the Society of Economic Botany’s 2008 Mary W. Klinger Book Award, among the Society’s highest honors. (posted 5-08)
Jacob Samuel Edelstein, a doctoral student in biology, received a B. Altman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000) for the academic year 2008–09. (posted 8-08)
Lauren A. Esposito (Biology) won a 2008-09 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on "Revision of the New World Scorpion Genus Centruroides Marx 1980: Systematics and Biogeography." (posted 5-08)
Ratnakar Vallabhaneni (Biology) won a 2008-09 Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowships ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on "Natural Genetic Diversity as a Resource Towards Developing Metabolic Engineering Strategies to Improve or Modulate Maize Endosperm Carotenogenesis." (posted 5-08)
CHEMISTRY
Hanying Bai (Chemistry) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Fabrication of Metal or Semiconductor Nanowire in Uniform Length and Diameter by Using a New Modified Collagen-like Triple Helix Peptide as Biomineralization Template. (posted 5-08)
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
Monica Hanna (Comparative Literature) won a MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Resistance Histories: Contemporary Literary Reconstructions of National History. (posted 5-08)
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Can Baskent (Computer Science) was awarded a Summer 2008 grant from the "Institute for Anarchist Studies” for his research project “Conscientious Objection as a Human Right: A Logico-Anarchist Approach.” (posted 10-08)
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Kideste Mariam Wilder (Criminal Justice) won a 2008-09 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Building a Model for Policing Communities with Competing and Converging Interests. (posted 5-08)
EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Hun Bok Jung (Earth/Environmental Sciences) won a 2008-09 Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+in-state tuition) to support work on Geochemical and Hydrological Control of Immobilization of Arsenic through Groundwater Discharge in the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna River Delta (GBMD), Bangladesh. (posted 5-08)
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Mariya Shiyko (Educational Psychology)
won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowships ($18,000+in-state
tuition) to support work on Analyzing Ecological Momentary
Assessment Data Using Growth Mixture Modeling. (posted
5-08)
ENGLISH
Balaka Basu (English) won a 2008-09 Helaine Newstead Dissertation Fellowships ($18,000+in-state tuition) to support work on Sequels, Series and Shared Worlds: Constructing Fictional Realities in Children’s Literature and Popular Culture. (posted 5-08)
Kristen Case (English) won a 2008-09 Lane Cooper Dissertation Fellowship/CUNY Academy for the Humanities & Sciences ($17,000) to support work on ‘A Bird’s Life’: Pragmatism in the Field of Twentieth Century American Poetry. (posted 5-08)
Jeffrey S. Drouin (English) won a 2008-09 Martin M. Spiaggia Dissertation Award in Arts and Humanities ($5,000) to support work on Advanced Projects: The Modernist Novel and the New Physics, A Study of Genre. (posted 5-08)
Brooks E. Hefner (English) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on You’ve Got to Be Modernistic: American Vernacular Modernism, 1910–37. (posted 5-08)
Irwin Ramirez Leopando (English) won a 2008-09 Geoffrey Marshall Dissertation Fellowship ($16,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Meeting Marx and Christ on the Street”: The Convergence of the Sacred and the Secular in the Pedagogy of Paulo Friere. (posted 5-08)
Gary Lim (English) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Familiar Estrangements: Reading ‘Family’ in Middle English Romance. (posted 5-08)
Claudia Pisano (English) won a 2008-09 William Randolph Hearst Dissertation Award ($8,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Edward Dorn and Amiri Baraka: A Renegade Friendship. The Collected Letters. (posted 5-08)
Christopher Schmidt (English) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Waste Matters: Expenditure and Waste Management in 20th-Century Poetics. (posted 5-08)
Clifford Stetner, a doctoral student in English, is the winner of the 2007 Graduate Student Essay Prize in Renaissance Studies. The essay was judged on the criteria of potential contribution to Renaissance or Early Modern scholarship, originality of insight and research, clarity and eloquence, and effectiveness of documentation. (posted 6-08)
Karen Weingarten, a doctoral candidate
in English, is one of just seven 2008 Woodrow Wilson Dissertation
Fellows in Women's Studies. She was selected earlier in January
in a nationwide competition conducted by the Woodrow Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation and will receive an award
of $3,000 from the Foundation to be used for expenses connected
with completing her dissertations, such as research-related
travel, data work/collection, and supplies. The title of
her dissertation is “Reproductive Genealogies: Abortion
and the Limits of Life and Choice in Modern America.” The
Woodrow Wilson Women's Studies Fellowship, now in its 34th
year, remains the only national fellowship for Ph.D. students
writing on women's issues in various humanities and social
science fields. (posted 2-08)
FRENCH
Sophie Marinez, a doctoral student in French,
won a 2007–08 Carole and Morton Olshan Dissertation
Fellowship of $15,000 plus in-state tuition to support work
on “Exile, Castles and Utopias: Reconstructing Space
and Gender in the Works of Mlle. De Montpensier.”
HISPANIC AND LUSO-BRAZILIAN LITERATURES AND LANGUAGES
Tim Fujioka, a doctoral candidate in Hispanic
literature, won a fellowship from CSIC (“Consejo
Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas”) in Madrid.
He will spend a year gathering materials for his dissertation
in the National Library of Spain and other archival collections
in Madrid. He specializes in early modern Spanish literature,
and will write his thesis on the literary output of the seventeenth-century
writer Manuel de Villegas, in its relation to the development
of Baroque culture. (posted 1-08)
Constanza López (Hispanic/Luso-Brazillian) won a 2008-09 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) that will support work on Testimonial Narratives in Colombia: The Crisis of the 1980’s Through a Woman’s Gaze. (posted 5-08)
Miguel Martinez (Hispanic/Luso-Brazilian) won a 2008-09 Carell Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+ in-state tuition) that will support work on Imagining the Empire: Epic Discourse in Early Modern Iberia (1571–88). (posted 5-08)
Michael Predmore, a doctoral candidate
in Hispanic literature, won a two-year fellowship from CSIC
(“Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas”)
in Madrid to study issues of production and reception of
Spanish classical literature during the seventeenth and the
twentieth century. He will be working at the CSIC and at
the National Library in Madrid starting in the academic year
2008–09. (posted 1-08)
HISTORY
Carla J. DuBose (History) won a 2008-09 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowships ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on The ‘Silent’ Arrival: The Second Wave of the Great Migration, 1940-1954. (posted 5-08)
Ilan Ehrlich (History) won a 2008-09 Leon Levy Center Fellowship for Biography ($22,000) to support work on Eduardo Chibás Will Speak Tonight at 8PM: How a Charismatic Senator Transformed Cuban Politics and Committed Suicide. (posted 5-08)
David J. Fine (History) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on The Experience of Jewish Soldiers in the German Army in World War I. (posted 5-08)
Rachael Goldman, a doctoral student in
history, received $4,500 from the New York Classical Club
for her participation and acceptance into the Summer Classical
Session at the American Academy in Rome and $500 from the
Part Time Lecturers fund at Rutgers University. In December
2006, at the Athens International Education Research conference,
she presented a paper on
"Cultural Constructions of Colored Clothing in Classical
and Hellenistic Literature." (posted 11-07)
Kate Hallgren (History) won a 2008-09 Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Dissertation Proposal Award in American History ($2,000) to support work on The Nation’s Mothers Raise the Army: Mothers’ Activism, Popular Culture and the Great War in America, 1914–28. (posted 5-08)
Jessica Hammerman (History) won a 2008-09 Randolph Braham Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000) to support work on The Heart of the Diaspora: French Jewry in Conflict During the Algerian War, 1954-1967. (posted 5-08)
Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski (History) won a 2008-09 Helaine Newstead Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Learning to be Modern: Missionary Universities and the Formation of Secular Modernity 1860–1920. (posted 5-08)
Sara Pursley (History) won a 2008-09 Mellon
Dissertation Fellowship/The Center for the Humanities ($18,000
+ in-state tuition) to support work on “We Were
Racing Against Time”: Gender, Nationalism
and Development in Iraq, 1932–63.
(posted 5-08)
LINGUISTICS
Marisa Monteleone (Linguistics) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+) to support work on Effects of L1 Voicing Assimilation Rules on the L2 Perception of Obstruent Sequences by Polish and Hungarian Listeners. (posted 5-08)
MATHEMATICS
Joseph Hirsh (Pure Mathematics) was awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship ($121,500) which will provide support over three years of graduate study. (posted 5-08)
MUSIC
Michael Eisenberg (Music) was named one of the Houghton Library 2008–09 Visiting Fellows at Harvard University. (posted 10-08) He won a 2007–08 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship
of $18,000 plus in-state tuition to support research on “Keyboard Seconda
Pratica in Transmission: The Copper-Engraved Toccata
Publications of Girolamo Frescobaldi.” (posted 5-07)
Pedro Malpica, a doctoral student in music, won
the 2007 Robert Starer Composition Award for his composition “Taripakuy,” a trio
for flute, cello, and piano. (11-07)
Noriko Manabe, a Ph.D. candidate in music,
won the Social Science Research Council/Japan Society for
the Promotion of Science Fellowship for A.B.D.s and recent
Ph.D.s for 2007–08 to conduct work on Japanese popular
music. She was also chosen to be one of twelve participants
in the SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop in Monterey,
California. She won grants for 2007 from the Harvard-Yenching
Library (for Japanese popular music) and the Cuban Research
Institute of Florida International University (for Cuban
bolero). In addition, she has a number of essays and articles
forthcoming: "Going Mobile: Ringtones, the Mobile Internet,
and the Music Market in Japan" in the edited volume Internationalizing Internet
Studies, ed. Goggin, Gerard and Mark McLelland (Routledge,
2008); “New technologies, consumption, and the marketing
of music in Japan” in Asian Music (2008);
and “Reinterpretaciones del son: Versiones de Motivos
de son de Guillén por Grenet, García Caturla,
y Roldán” in Actos de II Congreso Internacional
de Música, Identidad y Cultura en el Caribe,
ed. Dario Tejeda (Santiago, Dominican Republic: 2007, forthcoming).
(11-07)
Jadranka Vazanová, a doctoral student in music, won the 2008 Barry S. Brook Dissertation Award for "Svadobné nôty: Ceremonial Wedding Tunes in the Context of Slovak Traditional Culture." (posted 8-08)
Cynthia Lee Wong, a doctoral student in music, won the 2008 Robert Starer Composition Award for “On Baldness and Other Songs” for soprano and orchestra. Excerpts from this work may be found at http://www.cynthialeewong.com. (posted 8-08)
PHILOSOPHY
Pierre Baumann, a doctoral student in philosophy,
won a 2007–08 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship of $20,000
plus in-state tuition for his research on “What Is
Said.”
Peter Langland-Hassan, a doctoral student
in philosophy, won 2007–08 Sponsored Dissertation
Fellowship of $18,000 plus in-state tuition to support work
on “Imagination: Psychology, Modality, Metaphysics.”
David Pereplyotchik (Philosophy) won a 2008-09 Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowships ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on The Psychological Reality of Grammatical Principles. (posted 5-08)
PHYSICS
Wei Dong (Physics) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Indirect Detection of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance via Long-Range Dipolar Interactions (posted 5-08)
POLITICAL SCIENCE
Nirit Ben-Ari (Political Science) won a 2008-09 Ford Foundation Research Award ($2.000) to support work on And Who Would Know if Abraham Was Not a Black Man? Hip-Hop Culture and the Discourse of Blackness in Israel. (posted 5-08)
Jennifer Hopper (Political Science) won a 2008-09 Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Conflicting Stories: The Presidency and the Media in Framing Crises. (posted 5-08)
Utku Sezgin, a doctoral student in political science, was awarded second prize in the graduate category in the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) essay contest, Changing Demographics: Migration Flow From and To Germany. His essay, "Going beyond Culture and Assimilating Immigrants: The Conversation that Germany Needs," was judged by an international panel of jurors (see www.daad.org/?p=essay. (posted 5-08)
Yu-Sung Su (Political Science) won a 2008-09 David Spitz Dissertation Fellowship ($16,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Remittances and Political Liberalization. (posted 5-08)
Sami Zeidan (Political Science) won a 2008-09 Athena Pollis Fellowship in Human Rights/Ph.D. Program in Political Science ($10,000) to support work on Navigating International Rights and Local Politics: Sexuality Governance in a Post-colonial Setting (Lebanon). (posted 5-08)
PSYCHOLOGY
Stephanie Assuras (Neuropsychology) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+in-state tuition) to support work on Biomarkers for Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. She was also awarded the 2007 New
York Neuropsychology Group (NYNG) Student Research Award.
The abstract she submitted in applying for the award was
judged based on originality and scientific value by the NYNG
Education Committee. Her achievement will be announced at
the annual Arthur L. Benton Lecture and she will present
the study on which the abstract was based at a subsequent
meeting in the NYNG Colloquium series. (posted 5-08)
Heidi Bender, a doctoral student in psychology/neuropsychology,
was awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service
Award for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows by NIH/AHRQ. The
award will fund her research project, "Test biases limiting
preoperative evaluation of Hispanic immigrants with epilepsy," for
the next three years (Sept 2007–Aug 2010) and will
allow her to continue her research at NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy
Center. (posted 10-07)
John Ferrera, a doctoral student in psychology
(neuropsychology subprogram), submitted an abstract to the
2007 annual meeting of the New York State Psychological Association
which has been selected as the winner of NYSPA's Neuropsychology
Division Student Fellowship award. He will be required to
briefly summarize his findings at a regularly scheduled meeting
of the Neuropsychology Division of NYSPA. (posted 11-07)
Jen Gieseking (Environmental Psychology) won a 2008-09 Harold M. Proshansky Dissertation Fellowship (18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Living in an (In)Visible World: Lesbians and Queer Women’s Spaces and Economies in New York City over Twenty-five Years (1983-2008). She was also one of just seven 2008 Woodrow
Wilson Dissertation Fellows in Women's Studies. She was selected
earlier in January in a nationwide competition conducted
by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Her
award will be used for expenses connected with completing
her dissertation, such as research-related travel, data work/collection,
and supplies. (posted 5-08)
Sarah Greathouse, a doctoral student in
the forensic psychology subprogram, received a Dissertation Improvement Grant in the amount of $10,200 from
the National Science Foundation. This grant will fund her
dissertation research, which examines the assumption that
cross-examination helps jurors determine whether witnesses
are deceptive. To date, her research has focused on issues
relevant to jury decision making and eyewitness identifi-cations. She
is also serving as the editorial assistant for Law and
Human Behavior, the official journal of the American
Psychology-Law Society. (posted 1-08)
Priya Lalvani (Developmental Psychology) won a 2008-09 Frances Degen Horowitz Dissertation Fellowship ($15,000) to support work on Ten Fingers and Ten Toes: Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome Constructing the Sociocultural Meaning of Disability. (posted 5-08)
Janice Lenzer, a doctoral student in psychology/neuropsychology, has won a prestigious national award from the Epilepsey Foundation for her project, “Long-terms effects of VEGF on seizure sequelae.” Ms. Lenzer works under the supervision of Dr. Susan Croll and is the fourth doctoral student in neuropsychology to win this fellowship, and the third from Dr. Croll's lab. The period of funding is July 1, 2008 – September 30, 2008. (posted 6-08)
Joey Trampush (Psychology/Neuropsychology) received a Young Investigator travel award to present a poster entitled "Neurocognitive Correlates of Catechol-O-Methyltransferase (COMT): Assessing the Tonic-Phasic Dopamine Hypothesis in ADHD" at the Ninth Annual Meeting of the ADHD Molecular Genetics Network in December, 2008. (posted 10-08) Working under the supervision of Jeffrey
Halperin, he won a prestigious travel award from the American
Psychological Association/American Psychological Foundation
Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Graduate Student Fellowship
fund in child psychology. The award will allow him to attend
and present research findings on how genetic factors influence
neuropsychological functioning in individuals diagnosed with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). (posted
3-08)
Stephanie Aoife Villafranca-West, a doctoral student in psychology, received a B. Altman Foundation Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000) for the academic year 2008–09. (posted 8-08)
SOCIOLOGY
Erynn M. Casanova (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Frances Degen Horowitz Travel Award ($2,000) to support work on Making Up the Difference: Ecuadorian Women Engaged in Direct Selling. (posted 5-08)
Tracy Chu (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowships ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on The Pathology of Victimhood: Mental Health and the Social Construction of “Trauma”Among Immigrant Survivors of Political Violence in New York City. (posted 5-08)
Martha Crum, a doctoral student in sociology, won a prestigious 2008–09 American Association for University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship of $20,000 to assist her in completing her dissertation “Public Opinion Formation and the Bush Tax Cuts:Information, Ideology, and Interests in the Public Sphere.” (posted 6-08)
Christopher Gunderson (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship ($12,000) to support work on Globalization and the Genesis of Neo-Zapatismo. (posted 5-08)
Doug Meyer (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Ford Foundation Research Award ($2.000) to support his work on Anti-Queer Violence at the Intersections of Race, Class, and Gender: The Experiences of LGBT Hate Crime Victims. (posted 5-08)
Megha Ramaswamy (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Ford Foundation Research Award ($2.000) to support work on Masculinity as Risk, Masculinity as Protection: Sex, Drugs, Violence and Recidivism Among Incarcerated Urban Adolescents. (posted 5-08)
Liza Reisel (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Ford Foundation Research Award ($2.000) to support work on Public Higher Education and Welfare State Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Social Stratification and Educational Outcomes in Norway and the United States. (posted 5-08)
Robert Winston Turner III (Sociology) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) with a 2008-09 MAGNET supplement ($2,000) to support work on Fifteen Minutes of Fame: The Life and the Mind of the NFL Athlete. (posted 5-08)
SPEECH—LANGUAGE—HEARING SCIENCES
Deena Wechsler-Kashi (Speech—Language—Hearing Sciences) won a 2008-09 Irving Hochberg Dissertation Fellowship ($16,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Lexical Processing in Hearing Impaired Children Who Use Cochlear Implants (CIs). (posted 5-08)
THEATRE
Kevin Byrne (Theatre) won a 2008-09 Carole and Morton Olshan Dissertation Fellowship ($15,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Greeting Change: U.S. Blackface and Minstrel Performance in the Early 1920s. (posted 5-08)
Bertie Coralie Ferdman (Theatre) won a 2008-09 MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Contemporary Site-Specific Theatre: Performance, the City, and Spatial Politics. (posted 5-08)
Kimberly Ramirez (Theatre) participated in the panel "Charting Cultural Spaces: Anarchists, dramatists, archivists—Luisa Capetillo, Papo Márquez, Carmen Rivera, and Doña Angélica Meléndez" at the 8thConference of the Puerto Rican Studies Association, Center for Advanced Studies of the Caribbean, in Old San Juan. His topic was award-winning playwright Carmen Rivera, the subject of his dissertation: “Carmen Rivera: Nuyorican Playwright Reclaims La Lupe and Celia Cruz.” (posted 10-08) She also won a 2008-09 Carell Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on The Lost Apple Plays: Performing the U.S.-Pedro Pan Exodus. (posted 5-08)
URBAN EDUCATION
Patricia Krueger, a doctoral student in urban education, won a prestigious 2008–09 American Association for University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship of $20,000 to assist her in completing her dissertation What's Your Secret? Student Navigation through Spaces of Schooling and Surveillance. (posted 4-08)
Jessica Ruglis (Urban Education) won a 2008-09 Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000 + in-state tuition) to support work on Retheorizing School Dropout: Implications for Health and Its Use as a Decolonizing Methodology. (posted 5-08)
Mayida Zaal, a doctoral student in urban education, won a prestigious 2008-09 American Association for University Women (AAUW) American Fellowship of $20,000 to assist her in completing her dissertation "Between Islamaphobia and Tolerance: Dutch Moroccan Youth in Search of Academic Support." (posted 4-08)
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