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March 29, 2002Volume 30, Number 23



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Students win travel fellowships
for summer research abroad

Members of the Class of 2003 will travel to points around the globe with support from Yale Summer Traveling Fellowships.

In most cases, the experience gained abroad will significantly contribute to completion of the students' senior essays or other individual research projects.

The awards were made possible through the income of a fund endowed in the memory of Robert C. Bates, one-time fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and member of the Yale faculty, and through six additional funds.

These additional funds, which are administered by the Yale Summer Traveling Fellowships Committee on behalf of Yale College, 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, in memory of Lewis P. Curtis, for studies in the fields of history, philosophy and the arts and letters; the David W. Baer Memorial Fellowship, for architecture or design; and the John Boit Morse Memorial Fellowship, for a traveling fellowship to an art student.

All juniors in Yale College were eligible to compete for the fellowships. This year, 100 students applied. Of these, the committee presented awards to 36 students who had demonstrated that they had carefully worked out projects that they can complete during the summer. All told, over $116,000 in fellowships were awarded, with the average grant totaling about $3,000.

Descriptions of the award winners, their travel destinations and their research projects follow:


Curtis Fellowships

Fasil Amdetsion of Berkeley College (Kampala,Uganda, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) -- examining ethnic conflicts and political freedoms in Uganda and Ethiopia.

Jacob Paul of Jonathan Edwards College (New Delhi, India) -- studying the culture and social customs of North Indian Protestant Christians and comparing mainstream and evangelical Protestantism.

Molly Worthen of Jonathan Edwards College (Tver, Russia) -- conducting research on Russian Orthodoxy and Freemasonry in the 18th century.


Hilgendorf Fellowships

Matthew Matera of Trumbull College (South Brent, England) -- investigating the causes behind the revolt of nuns in a 15th-century English monastery, Brigittine House.

Ja-Shukry Shia of Jonathan Edwards College (Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, Brazil) -- creating a documentary film on the development of Capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial and performance art.

Michael Wighton of Saybrook College (Japan) -- studying the growth of physical theater in Japan and its relation to international theatrical movements and Japanese
social changes.


Kilborne Fellowships

Rebecca Givens of Branford College (Oxford, England, and Monasterevin, Ireland) -- exploring the relationship between pre-Raphaelite painters/theorists and poetic movements, focusing on Ruskin and Hopkins.

Alice Wolfram of Morse College (Norfolk and Cambridge, England) -- examining female conduct in early modern England, as seen through depositions of church courts.


Wagster Fellowships

Beth Rubenstein of Calhoun College (South Africa) -- studying the virginity-testing movement among the Zulu peoples, particularly its connection to religious beliefs and to the AIDS crisis.

Julie Stein of Pierson College (Paris, France) -- investigating images of the corset and womanhood in popular French magazines of the early 20th century.


Baer Fellowships

Joshua Dunn of Jonathan Edwards College (Kuna Yala, Panama) -- examining the effect of tourism and modernization on artistic expressions of the indigenous Kuna people.

Sasha Waring of Saybrook College (Spain and Morocco) -- studying the integration of Islamic and Christian traditions in medieval Spanish architecture, as contrasted with Moroccan architecture

Meredith Whipple of Saybrook College (Norway) -- exploring the architectural effects of Christianity's absorption of paganism as seen in the stave churches of Norway.


Morse Fellowship

Anne Weber of Timothy Dwight College (Italy) -- retracing the steps and reinterpreting the landscapes of 19th-century French painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot in Italy.


Bates Fellowships

Brook Abdu of Timothy Dwight College (England) -- examining the British Library and other English holdings of ancient Ethiopic (Ge'ez) manuscripts from the Maqdala citadel.

Chirag Badlani of Davenport College (London, England) -- exploring motivations for the Simon Commission of 1927 and its effect on British policy in England, using reports of the commission's proceedings.

Ariel Bowman of Branford College (Buenos Aires, Argentina) -- writing and photographing in the contexts that influenced J. L. Borges.

Matthew Conaty of Ezra Stiles College (Seville, Spain) -- conducting research into the patronato, the cooperative relationship between the Spanish monarchy and the Jesuit and Franciscan orders, 1650-1715.

Louise Davis of Saybrook College (Madrid, Spain) -- investigating the causes and effects of educational inequality in Madrid's public schools

Anna Rachel Dolinsky of Jonathan Edwards College (England) -- exploring the role and effect of the 17th-century English media, both urban and rural, in publicizing the execution of King Charles I.

Shari Goldman Gottlieb of Pierson College (Spain) -- studying the oral traditions of Jewish history and folklore in various Judeo-Spanish communities.

Evan Gutman of Calhoun College (Buenos Aires, Argentina) -- examining Jewish prostitution in Argentina 1880-1920, including its causes and effects.

Thomas Rigo Haug of Trumbull College (Germany) -- conducting research on primary documents to show a connection between the growth of the medieval European postal system and the spread of epidemics.

Sara Hirschhorn of Jonathan Edwards College (Chile) -- exploring the nature of the relationship between the Jewish community in Santiago and Pinochet's regime, whether it was discrimination or favoritism.

Laura Horak of Calhoun College (Prague, Czech Republic) -- creating a short film in collaboration with a native Czech crew and the Czech film institute.

Andrew Hung of Timothy Dwight College (Madrid, Spain) -- conducting research on neurons and glia in the reproductive aging process at the Cajal Insitute.

Kathryn A.F. Kline of Berkeley College (Mexico) -- examining church, state and identity during the 1920s and 1930s in the western Mexican state of Michoacán.

Emily Kovich of Timothy Dwight College (Philippines) -- exploring the conflicts between government environmental regulations and local poverty in the southern
Philippines.

Erin Lewis of Jonathan Edwards College (Oaxaca, Mexico) -- learning about the lifestyle of Mexican women through social service work.

Allison Master of Jonathan Edwards College (Prague, Czech Republic) -- investigating the roots of homelessness in that nation through first-hand interviews in shelters.

Abhimanyu Sud of Timothy Dwight College (Himachal, India) -- studying the Soodi dialect of Hindi in North India, including its script, tankri.

Elizabeth Svoboda of Ezra Stiles College (Paris, France) -- examining manuscripts on the French Jewish experience during World War II.

Prateek Tandon of Pierson College (Tanzania) -- exploring the rise of the technology/software industry and government efforts to universalize access to electronic communications.

Danielle Tumminio of Silliman College (England) -- studying English church choirs including the question of girls' choirs vs. mixed gender groups.

Karen Weise of Pierson College (Azerbaijan) -- examining the architectural formation of refugee camps through a case study of an Azeri camp.

Amber Wheeler of Jonathan Edwards College (London, England) -- conducting research on the development of prostate cancer in mice at the Institute of Cancer Research.


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Academy pays tribute to noted Yale composer

Physicist's honor recognizes his research on quantum dots

New Drama Dean hails theater's ability to change lives

Non-native but common reeds in Connecticut are changing the state's . . .


MEDICAL SCHOOL NEWS

Robert C. Johnson, former dean of the Divinity School, dies

Students win travel fellowships for summer research abroad

Graduate student forum to explore 'the art of great teaching'

Health-care experts to discuss challenges and dilemmas of 'patient-driven care'

Hellenic studies program to host conference on modern Greece

Impact of new technologies on architecture to be explored

Conference will focus on the problem of illegal logging in tropical forests

Medical anthropologists to discuss their work

Notice from the New Haven Police Department

Yale Books in Brief

Campus Notes



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