Yale Bulletin and Calendar

June 21-July 19, 1999

Volume 27, Number 34

Traveling fellowships are awarded
for students' research

Once again, several dozen Yale undergraduates will spend the summer before their senior year pursuing research projects in far-flung corners of the globe with the help of traveling fellowships from the University.

The Yale Summer Traveling Fellowships Committee has selected 33 members of the Class of 2000 to receive this year's awards. The fellowships will fund research on such diverse topics as Parisians' perception of jazz in the 1940s and 1950s, the evolution of education in South African schools, and the Brazilian colonies formed by expatriate Confederate citizens after the Civil War. The students' destinations include such locales as Istanbul, the Netherlands, India, Bermuda, Budapest and Taiwan.

The fellowships are made possible through the income of a fund endowed in the memory of Robert C. Bates, a former fellow of Jonathan Edwards College (JE) and a member of the Yale faculty, as well as through six additional funds administered by the committee on behalf of Yale College.

These additional funds are: the Hilgendorf Fellowship, in memory of William Hilgendorf Jr. '67; the Wagster Fellowship, a memorial to Rhea Plunkett Wagster; the Kilborne Traveling Fellowship, in memory of Robert Stewart Kilborne, for travel to England and studies in the arts, history or literature; the Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship, for studies in the fields of history, philosophy, the arts and letters; the David W. Baer Memorial Fellowship, for studies in architecture or design; and the John Boit Morse Memorial Fellowship, for art students.

All juniors in Yale College are eligible to compete for the fellowships, and this year there were 120 applicants. The committee that chose the winners included the master, dean and 14 fellows of JE. Through written proposals and interviews with the committee, the 33 winning student demonstrated that they had carefully worked out projects that they could complete within several weeks and that will contribute significantly to the development of their special education interests. In most cases, the students' experience abroad will enhance work leading to the completion of the senior essays or other individual
projects.

The names of the winning students and their descriptions of their projects follows:

Curtis Fellowships

Asad Ahmed of Saybrook College (SY) -- In Istanbul, translate and collate three manuscripts of the philosopher Ibn Sina's (d. 1037) short treatise "[On] the Celestial Soul."

Kimberley Skelton of SY -- Study the relationship between traditional forms of design and new architectural ideas through an examination of the buildings and drawings of Nicholas Hawksmoor (c. 1661-1736) in England.

William Taft of Calhoun College (CC) -- Investigate the early 20th-century peasant revolt in the southern Italian province of Apulia against inhumane labor practices imposed by wealthy northern landowners.

Hilgendorf Fellowships

Siddharth D'Souza of JE -- Conduct research in Mongolia on privatization and the effects of market transition on the nation's people.

Aaron Greenblatt of CC -- Study the Parisian reception and perception of jazz during bebop's heyday in the 1940s and 1950s.

Kilborne Fellowship

John Muse of Trumbull College (TC) -- Travel to Dublin and London to research the relationship between James Joyce and his editor, publisher, patron and confidant, Harriet Shaw Weaver.

Wagster Memorial Fellowships

Celine Mizrahi of JE -- In the Netherlands, examine the impact of the corporatist state on the labor force with particular attention to social equality and the role of female workers.

Tara Mohr of JE -- Investigate and experience how the Royal Shakespeare Company presents Shakespeare's works and makes them relevant to a contemporary, diverse
audience.

Baer Memorial Fellowships

Laura Crescimano of Branford College (BR) -- Trace the themes of nationalism, modernization and ideology in northern Italian architecture.

David Hecht of TC -- In Florence, examine the role of ornament in architecture and the influence that this architectural detailing has on public spaces.

Morse Memorial Fellowship

Peter Eleey of TC -- Travel to Paris, Padua and Assisi to examine color application and theory in the works of Vassily Kandinsky, and the effect of local landscape upon the color choices in Giotto's frescoes.

Bates Summer Traveling Fellowships

Erin Elizabeth Callahan of JE -- Research and document the syntactic and phonological structure of Guadeloupe Creole.

Artemis Christodulou of BC and Paulina Hatoupis of SY -- In Greece and Germany, study and create a documentary film on the struggle of Greek Gastarbeiterinnen, emigrants to Germany during the Greek military dictatorship of the 1960s and 1970s.

Corrine Chow of JE -- Research aspects of displacement that occurred after Chinese emigrants to Taiwan and Hong Kong fled the communist regime in the 1940s.

Serva Davis of SY -- Travel to Finland to study how the works of architect Alvar Aalto embrace their respective sites and embody the characteristics of the environments in which they stand.

Justin Florence of Timothy Dwight College -- Investigate how ordinary workers in both Paris and French provincial areas influenced the transformation of Jean Jaurès from moderate Republican to revolutionary Socialist and how he, in turn, gained their support for the Socialist movement.

Loren C. Goldman of JE --Examine the relationship between the Frankfurt School of German Political Philosophy and post-World War II radical German politics.

Heloisa Griggs of Davenport College (DC) -- Document the roles and perceptions of the participants, state authorities and the Catholic Church in the Santa Brigida messianic movement in Brazil.

Reena Gupta of SY -- Gain exposure to and access literature sources on rural public health and traditional ayurvedic medical practices in India.

Michael D. Gottlieb of TC -- In Budapest, conduct vowel harmony research and study inter-lingual auditory-visual speech perception using data from native Hungarian speakers.

Dalia Hochman of Pierson College -- Study the evolution of history education in South African schools since independence from Britain in 1948.

Erica Keen of JE -- At the Bermuda Biological Station, do biological research on northern and southern Atlantic sub-tropical flora and fauna.

So Young Kim of TC -- Conduct ethnographic and biocultural research at the Yayamama excavation in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia.

Autumn Leonard of JE -- In India, study the relationship between spirituality and artistic expression in a Hindu community.

Sung Moon II of BR -- Examine the ramifications of Saarland's monetary and de facto political union with France after World War II and its subsequent return to control by the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957.

Brent Ohata of TC -- Travel to Austria, Italy and France to research the 10th Symphony of Gustav Mahler (c. 1860-1911) through Mahler's manuscripts and letters.

Ari Shapiro of DC -- In Jerusalem, research ways of reducing the rate of infection among HIV-positive Ethiopian immigrants without further alienating this already marginalized population.

Julie Rose Simmons of Morse College (MC) -- Examine the Os Confederados colonies, formed after the South's loss in the Civil War when Confederate citizens left the United States to settle in Brazil.

Priscilla Song of MC -- Investigate how the Chinese cultural symbol of Ma Tsu, the Empress of Heaven, has been reconstituted in contemporary Taiwan.

Samuel Stubblefield of JE -- In Botswana, research and compare the methodology used by rural and urban health clinics in dealing with the country's HIV epidemic.

Alejandro Vega of BR -- Investigate the uprising of the residents of Guanajuato, Mexico, after the Spanish King expelled the Jesuit population in 1767.

Joseph Walline of Ezra Stiles College -- Travel to China to research the transfer of astronomical ideas and instruments that occurred between Islamic and Chinese civilizations during the Yuan and early Ming dynasties.

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