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Undergraduate Grant Recipients

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2023-24 / 2022-23 / 2021-22 / 2020-21 / 2019-20 / 2018-192017-182016-17
2015-16 / 2014-15 / 2013-14 / 2012-13 / 2011-12 / 2010-11 / 2009-10 / 2008-09

2023-24

Ezra Chan
ezrachan@sas.upenn.edu
History / Health and Societies
Adviser: Andi Johnson
Project: “Menaces to Freedom: The Evolution of Health as National Security in Cold War America, 1953-1989”

Joey Jung
joeyjung@sas.upenn.edu
Urban Studies / Political Science
Adviser: Elaine Simon
Project: “David vs. Goliath: Can Community Benefits Agreements Protect
and Empower Communities Impacted by Development?”

Augustus Otto Kindel
aokindel@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Lee Cassanelli
Project: “Pragmatic Actors in the Ogaden from 1896 to 1935: Analyzing Ethiopian
Administration of the Ogaden Region Through Trade and Diplomacy”

Stacy Shimanaku
skshim@upenn.edu
International Studies and Business
Adviser: Rudra Sil
Project: “The Socioeconomic Inclusion of Migrant Workers in Japan”

Hertha Maria Torre Gallego
hertha@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Advisers: Amy Lutz and Sebastián Gil-Riaño
Project: “A Partial Revolution: Engaging with Realities of Abortion Reform in Argentina”

Plum Xu
plumx@upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Ramya Sreenivasan
Project: “Land, Labor and Water in Punjab, 1947”

2022-23

Hannah De Oliveira       
hdeo@sas.upenn.edu
History / Legal Studies and History
Advisers: Eiichiro Azuma  and Amy Offner
Project: “The Japanese American Citizens League and Internment During World War II”

Isaac Gateno
igateno@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Advisers: James Houghton and Duncan Watts
Project: “The Influence of Partisan Identity on Political Beliefs”

Mya Gordon     
myag@sas.upenn.edu
Urban Studies
Adviser: Ira Harkavy
Project: “Toward More Effective Democratic Civic University Community Engagement”

Jana Hayaly      
jhayaly@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Adviser: Douglas Paletta
Project: “Creating a Digital Platform for Impact Investing”

Cole McCann-Phillips    
colermp@sas.upenn.edu
History / Modern Middle Eastern Studies
Adviser: Eve M. Troutt Powell
Project: “Resistance in the Global Precariat: From Uncertain Futures to
Desperation, Migrant Domestic Workers in Lebanon’s Existential Crises”

Seoyoon Yang  
seoyang@wharton.upenn.edu
International Studies / Business Ethics and Legal Studies
Adviser: Marco Alves
Project: “Environmental Personhood in Ecuador: A Case Study of the Napurak
Achuar Indigenous Community”

2021-22

Maya Essimel
essimelm@sas.upenn.edu
Politics Philosophy and Economics
Adviser: Amy Sepinwall
Project: "A Reevaluation of Judicial Ethics in Light of Emerging Social Media Phenomena"

Ruijun (Sophia) Liu
sl9403@sas.upenn.edu
Communication
Adviser: Kimberly Woolf
Project: "Persuading Climate Skeptics with Causal Explanations:
Evidence from aLarge Survey Experiment"

Brendan Lui
blui@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Julia Lynch
Project: "Kept Down and Locked Out: Comparing the Exclusion of Racial and
Ethnic Minority Workers in the Skilled Construction Sectors of Denmark, Italy, and the United States"

Claire Nguyen
claireng@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Eiichiro Azuma
Project: "(Dis)placed: A History of Vietnamese Refugee Americans in San Jose, California, 1975-1999"

Chinaza Ruth Okonkwo
rokonkwo@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy
Adviser: Karen Detlefsen
Project: "Igbo Enwe Eze: Towards an Indigenous Igbo Conception of Democracy"

Kaitlyn Rentala
krentala@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy Politics and Economics
Adviser: Brian Berkey
Project: "Analyzing Modern Day Surveillance Capitalism Through the Rawlsian Basic Structure"

Denali Sagner
dsagner@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Brent Cebul
Project: "Defense, Capitalism, and the Cold War’s Fallout in Alabama’s 'Model City'"

Julie Sohnen
jsohnen@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Walter McDougall
Project: "More than Just a Spy: Jonathan Pollard and the “Special Relationship”"

Eden Vance
evance@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Peter Holquist
Project: "Evaluating The Legacy of the Boer Wars in Edwardian‐Era Reforms"

Nikki Zinzuwadia
nikitaz@sas.upenn.edu
Health & Societies
Adviser: David Barnes
Project: "Criminal Justice, Mass Incarceration, and COVID-19: Understanding
Prison Health and Prison Health Activism in the United States"

2020-21

João Campos
joaoc@sas.upenn.edu
International Relations
Adviser: David Bowden
Project: "International Intervention in Conservation Efforts in the Brazilian Amazon"

Sally Chen
salchen@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Jolyon Thomas
Project: "Is it All a Mirage? Examining Religious Freedom in America"

Carson Eckhard
eckhacar@sas.upenn.edu
History/English (majors)
Urban Studies/Africana Studies (minors)
Adviser: Mia Bay
Project: "Ragged Battalions, Plotting Liberty: the Convict Leasing System and the
Urbanization of Florida, 1870-1940"

Tat Hang Henry Hung
hung1999@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy
Adviser: Samuel Freeman
Project: "The Boundaries of Justifiable Disobedience"

Suchait Kahlon
sskahlon@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Sophia A. Rosenfeld
Project: "Abolition, Africans, and Abstraction: The Influence of the
'Noble Savage' on British and French Antislavery Thought, 1787-1807"

Angela Kumirai
akumirai@sas.upenn.edu
Chemistry
Adviser: Ann Greene Norton
Project: "An analysis of Universal Healthcare’s Impact on Health Delivery
and Access in Botswana, Ghana and Zimbabwe."

Anna Lisa Lowenstein
annalow@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Brent Cebul
Project: "Reconstructing the Right: American Conservative Ideology in the Vietnam Era"

Erin O'Malley
eomalley@sas.upenn.edu
Comparative Literature
Adviser: Rita Barnard
Project: "The Asian/Alien in American Legal Policy and Science Fiction"

Morgan Taylor
motay@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: Meghan Crnic
Project: "Black Female Maternal Mortality Crisis in the United States"

Alexandru Zanca
zanca@wharton.upenn.edu
Business Economics and Public Policy
Adviser: Melissa Teixeira
Project: "Inequality and Development under Democratic Neoliberalism: Case Study of Chile"

2019-20

Rebecca Alifimoff
ralif@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Sophia Rosenfeld
Project: "Political Postcards of the Dreyfus Affair"

Merobi Degefa
merobi@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: PhD. David Barnes
Project: "Perceived efficacy of foreign funded reproductive health programs in Ethiopia"

Michael John
mwjohn@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Project: "Understanding Notions of Ethnic Identity in the Caribbean"

Sophia Lindner
slindner@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology
Adviser: Hyunjoon Park
Project: "Navigation and Perception of Racial Discrimination in the
Cuban Tourism Industry of the 21st Century"

Stefan Ranoszek
ranoszek@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Project: "Decriminalising the Sale of Sex in Africa: An Abolitionist Legal Apparatus"

Alia Schechter
aliasch@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Yvonne Fabella
Project: "Mothers, Daughters and Most Importantly, Voters:
Transitions in Mexican Feminist Rhetoric, 1926-1953"

Samantha Stein
swstein@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Project: "Mapping Sociomedical Democracy: Community Consultation
and Public Disclosure in the Emergency Medicine Research Space"

Sherry Tseng
peits@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy
Project: "Normative Responsibility Towards Epistemic Injustice in Logical Constants"

Archana Upadhyay
archanau@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Amy Offner
Project: "A 'More Peculiar Peculiar Institution': Abolitionism
and British Perceptions of Slavery in the Ottoman Empire"

2018-19

Dillon Bergin
dbergin@sas.upenn.edu
Comparative Literature
Adviser: Rita Barnard
Project: "Fees Must Fall: Student Revolt in Post-apartheid South Africa"


Alexandra Breckenridge
abreck@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy Politics and Economics
Adviser: Srilata Gangulee
Project: "Activist Courts and Failures of Public Administration in South Africa"


Amanda Damon
adamon@sas.upenn.edu
Communication & Public Service
Adviser: David Eisenhower
Project: "Immigration Reform: A Modern Day Civil Rights Issue"


Eric Eisner
eeisner@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Beth Wenger
Project: "The Most Generous, Disinterested, and Philanthropic Motives:
Religion, Race, and the Maryland Jew Bill"


KaJaiyaiu Hopkins
kajh@sas.upenn.edu
Sociology
Adviser: Annette Lareau
Project: "Citizenship in the Refugee Camp: How Religion Organizes Social Life"


John Matthews
johnmat@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Eileen Doherty-Sil
Thesis Adviser: Dorothy Kronick
Project: "Democratic Engagement with Pre-Trial Detention Reform"


Kevin Myers
kevmyers@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy Politics and Economics
Adviser: Mary Frances Berry
Project: "Vote Lotteries and Increasing Voter Turnout"

Leah Sprague
leahsp@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: Kathy Peiss
Project: "The United States Government as a Source of Nutrition Expertise, 1945-1980"


Melanie Xu
melxu@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Kathleen Brown
Project: "Chattel Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: A Legal History"

2017-18

Parker Abt
abtp@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Daniel Richter
Project: “Federalism, Government Responsibility, and Citizenship in Texas Colonias"

Julia Becker
juliabec@sas.upenn.edu
Communication and Public Service
Adviser: Marwan Kraidy
Project: “Blogging on the border: Digital media use by transborder
citizens living in the U.S.-México border region"

Rive Cadwallader
rcad@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: David Barnes
Project: “Neoclassical Medicine in the 'Athens of America’: the Creation of
Professional Identity among Physicians in Late Eighteenth Century Philadelphia"

Jeffrey Careyva
jcareyva@sas.upenn.edu
English
Adviser: Max Cavitch
Project: “Kant and Derrida: Understanding Cosmopolitanism and Democracy to Come"

Madison Dawkins
dawkins@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Eileen Doherty-Sil
Project: “Mass Incarceration: A Human Rights Perspective in the 21st Century"

Alisa Feldman
alisafe@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Advisor: Adam Mohr
Project: “Be Fruitful and Medicalize: IVF Risk Communication and
the Politics of Assisted Reproduction in Israel"

Isabel Griffith
igrif@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: Ann Greene Norton
Project: “Understanding the Experience of Childbirth and Maternal Care
for Migrant Mothers within Costa Rica’s Public Healthcare System"

Amanda Nart
narta@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Amy Offner
Project: “An Endless Strategy of Concealment: State Violence,
Women, and Resistance in Cuba, 1952-1962"

Nubia Ortega
nubia@sas.upenn.edu
Medical Anthropology
Adviser: Brian Spooner
Project: “The Role of Ethnicity in the Distribution of
Type II Diabetes Care in Santiago Atitlán and Cobbs Creek“

Michael Torcello
torcello@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Dr. Eileen Doherty-Sil
Project: “The Promises and Perils of Direct Democracy” 

 

2016-17

Mary Cerulli
cerullim@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: Kimberly K. Trout
Project: Go Ask the Midwife: Understanding Public Maternity
Care from a Nursing Perspective in Cape Town, South Africa

Alexis Ciambotti
alexismciambotti@gmail.com
Classical Studies
Adviser: Jeremy McInerney
Project: Contextualizing the Law: The Effects of Conflict on Fifth-Century
Athenian Jurisprudence and Pericles' Citizenship Law of 451/450 B.C.

Benjamin Fogel
benfogel@sas.upenn.edu
History / Psychology
Adviser: Daniel Richter
Project: Fabius, or the forgotten Farmer: John Dickinson and the Debate for the American Mind

Anna Garson
garsona@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Brendan O'Leary
Project: Cushendall, Collins, Craig, & Churchill: Anglo-Irish Relations 1920-1922

Rebecca Heilweil
rebecca.heilweil@gmail.com
Political Science
Adviser: Marc Meredith
Project: First Amendment Media Coverage in the 20th Century

Jessie Lu
jessielu@sas.upenn.edu
Anthropology
Adviser: Adriana Petryna
Project: Healthcare Citizenship in the "Forgotten District" of Uganda

Samantha Rahmin
srahmin@sas.upenn.edu
History / Psychology
Adviser: Mary Frances Berry
Project: Who's Invited: A Story of Emory, Princeton, and Penn Admissions in the Wake of the Civil Rights Movement

Jordan Rosman
jrosman@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Eileen Doherty-Sil
Project: Robber Barons, Railroads, and Riots: A Comparative Analysis of Gilded Age and Modern Resistance Movements

Alec Ward
alecward@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: 
Project: Police Reform in Northern Ireland

Olivia Webb
oliviaw@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: Andi Johnson
Project: The Recent History of Legislation Targeting Homelessness in the City of Philadelphia

2015-16


Grace Choi

choigr@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science / Philosophy
Adviser: Rogers Smith
Project: Ethnic Self-Identification Among Cambodians, Laotians, Hmong, and Vietnamese



Sarah Engell
sengell@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Kathy Peiss
Project: Moral Education in Public Schools



Nicolas Garcia
nicolasg@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Advisers: Matthew Levendusky and John J. DiIulio
Project: "The Changing Faith of Latinos on American National Politics"



Marco Herndon
mherndon@sas.upenn.edu
Urban Studies
Adviser: Tamara Walker
Project: LGBTQ rights in Peru



Ethan LaFrance
letha@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science / Modern Middle Eastern Studies
Adviser: Ian Lustick
Project: "Constitutional Development & Conceptions of Citizenship in Contemporary Turkey"



Arjun Malik
arjunma@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science / Economics
Adviser: Robert Vitalis
Project: The Irreligious in Egypt (with Hani Warith)



Varun Menon
vmen@sas.upenn.edu
History / Premed
Adviser: Walter A. McDougall and Frederick R. Dickinson
Project: "Upstart Republic: The United States Congress in the Age of Democratic Revolutions"



Aaron Senior
asenior93@gmail.com
History / Political Science
Adviser: Michael Zuckerman
Project: "The American Reactions to the French Revolution and the Place of American Fraternity within the Early Republic"



Hani Warith
hwarith@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science / Philosophy
Adviser: Robert Vitalis
Project: The Irreligious in Egypt (with Arjun Malik)

2014-15

Claudia Acha
claudiaa@sas.upenn.edu
International Relations
Adviser: Isa Camyar, International Relations
Project: “International Drug Control Under Siege? Power Politics and Bolivia’s Nationalization of the Global War on Drugs”


Anwar Akrouk
akrouk@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Antonio Feros, History
Project: “The Relationship of Early Arab Nationalists with Ethnic and Religious Minorities within the Ottoman Empire, 1908-1918”


Dawn Androphy
dawnandr@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Kathy Peiss, History
Project: “Before Liberation: Political Ideology and Self-Expression in the U.S. Homophile Movement, 1950-1965”


Antonio Cotzias
acotz@sas.upenn.edu
PPE/Political Science
Adviser: Jeff Green, Political Science
Project: “On Exploring the Relationship between Tragedy and Democracy in the Classical Period”


Shuhao Fan
fansh@sas.upenn.edu
Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Adviser: Sumantra Sen, PPE
Project: “Bargaining and Influence in an Authoritarian Regime: The Case of China's Legislature”


Jessie Goldman
jessieg@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Walter Licht, History
Project: “The Decline of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America, 1945-55”


Abigail Koffler
akoffler@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Amy Offner, History
Project: “Pachakutik in the Classroom: Indigenous Revolt and Education Policy in Ecuador”


Kimberly Kolor
kimkolor@sas.upenn.edu
Religious Studies
Adviser: Justin McDaniel, Religious Studies
Project: “Muslims and Tamils in Sri Lanka: An Ethnography of Everyday Interactions”


Will Marble
marblew@sas.upenn.edu
Mathematical Economics/Political Science
Adviser: John Lapinski, Political Science
Project: “The Effect of Convenience Voting on the Behavior of Voters and Campaigns”


Madeleine Stevens
madste@sas.upenn.edu
Communications
Adviser: David Eisenhower, Annenberg School
Project: “Women Politicians in the U.S. and France: A Comparative Study of Media Coverage”

2013-14

Serena Covkin
scovkin@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Stephanie McCurry, History
Project: “Women’s Associations in the Civil War”

Shabnam Elahi
elahis@sas.upenn.edu
Biology
Adviser: Fran Barg, Medicine
Project: “Risk Communication and Asbestos Exposure”

Yessenia Gutierrez
yeg@sas.upenn.edu
Biology / Latino and Latin American Studies
Adviser: Emilio Parrado, Sociology
Project: “Becoming American: The Process of Belonging and Identity Formation in the Emerging Latin American Immigrant Community in Philadelphia”

Julia Kelsoe
jkelsoe@sas.upenn.edu
History
Adviser: Margo Todd, History
Project: “The Court of the Star Chamber”

Amanda Mauri
amauri@sas.upenn.edu
Health and Societies
Adviser: Arnold Rosoff, Wharton School
Project: “The Consequences of a Constitutional Right to Health”

Urja Mittal
urja@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science / Economics / Finance (Wharton)
Adviser: Marc Meredith, Political Science
Project: “Public Opinion and Political Accountability”

Sindhu Nandhakumar
sindhuri@sas.upenn.edu
Political Science
Adviser: Eileen Doherty-Sil, Political Science
Project: “The Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Committee in Sri Lanka and the Promotion of Democracy”

Mauricio Novelo
mnovelo@sas.upenn.edu
Comparative Literature / English
Adviser: Rachel Ellis Neyra, English
Project: “Latin American Indigenes and Representations of Citizenship in a Globalized World”

Elie Peltz
epeltz@sas.upenn.edu
Psychology
Adviser: Ian Lustick, Political Science
Project: “Civil Society Peacebuilding in Israel-Palestine and Northern Ireland”

Shawn Teo
shawnteo@sas.upenn.edu

Political Science
Adviser: Frederick Dickinson, History
Project: “The Development of National Identity in Singapore”

2012-13


Fatima Bhojani
Political Science
Adviser: Ian Lustick, Political Science
Project: "Arabs in East Jerusalem"

Robert Franco
History
Adviser: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History
Project: "El Parasio de Las Mujeres: Women's Suffrage in Ecuador, 1895-1929"

Stephen Fritz
History
Adviser: Thomas Sugrue, History
Project: "The South Carolina Progressive Democratic Party, 1944-1948"

Naomi Fujiki
History
Adviser: Vanessa Ogle, History
Project: "Human Rights Watch and the Helsinki Final Act: The Role of An American Human Rights Nongovernmental Organization At the End of the Cold War"

Michael Gutierrez
Hispanic Studies
Adviser: Rachel Ellis Neyra, Romance Languages
Project: "Democratic Spaces in Cuban Hip-Hop"

Ting Cho Lau
Political Science
Adviser: Jeffrey Green, Political Science
Project: "Derek Parfit, Moral Theory, and Political Communities"

Jun Youb Lee
History
Adviser: Walter Licht, History
Project: "The Great Peace March of 1986"

Lee Marcus
Health and Societies
Adviser: Xu Lan, Graduate School of Education
Project: "Social Position and Citizenship Identities Among Middle School Adolescents in a Higher Education Partnership After-School Program"

Laurel Ma
History / African Studies
Adviser: Lee Cassanelli, History
Project: "National Identity Construction in the Zimbabwean Crisis"

Kristin Zuhone
Political Science
Adviser: Brendan O'Leary, Political Science
Project: "Rioting in the Banlieues and Questions of Citizenship in France"

2011-12


Meghna Chandra
Political Science
Adviser: Tulia Falleti, Political Science
Project: “NGOs and Conceptions of Citizenship in Bogota, Columbia and La Paz, Bolivia"

Adam Croom
Philosophy/Linguistics
Adviser: Robin Clark, Linguistics
Project: “Game Theoretic Pragmatics and the Socio-Politics of Face”

John Gee
History
Adviser: Warren Breckman, History
Project: “An Intellectual Biography of Rawls’ Theory of Justice”

Melissa Goodman
Political Science
Adviser: Jessica Stanton, Political Science
Project: “Humanitarian Law and Foreign Policy in the Afghanistan War”

Meghan Hussey
International Relations
Adviser: Brendan O’Leary, Political Science
Project: “Criminals of Political Prisoners? The Management of the 1980-1981 Hunger Strikes in Northern Ireland by the Governments of the UK an Ireland”

Emily Kern
History (Diplomatic)
Adviser: Arthur Waldron , History
Project: “GI Jupp: German-American Identity and Citizenship in World War II”

Galileu Kim
Political Science and Economics
Adviser: Tom Callaghy, Political Science
Project: “The Paris Club: Politics and the Impacts of Debt Restructuring in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico”

Quratul-Ann Malik
Political Science
Adviser: Ian Lustick, Political Science
Project: “Does Pakistan Have a Tipping Point? An Agent-Based Modeling Analysis”

Michael Morse
Political Science
Adviser: Marc Meredith, Political Science
Project: “Political Impacts of Felon Disfranchisement”

Zachary Propert
Comparative Literature
Adviser: Lydie Moudileno, Romance Language
Project: “The Media War and Political Discourse in Mali”

Adam Saltzman
Philosophy
Adviser: Kok-chor Tan, Philosophy
Project: “When Is Terrorism Justified?”

Sarabeth Zielonka
Russian Languages and Literature
Adviser: Benjamin Nathans, History
Project: “The Sinyavsky-Daniel Trial and the Origins of Soviet Legalism”

2010-11


Eitan Adler

International Relations
Adviser: Ian Lustick, Political Science
Project: “Identity and tensions surrounding the accidental non-Jewish Russian population in Israel”

Stephen Childs
History
Adviser: Stephanie McCurry, History
Project: “Averting Crisis: The Washington Peace Conference of 1861 – Its Failure, and the Quandary of the Border-States”

Rose Espinola
Latin American Studies
Adviser: Ann Farnsworth-Alvear, History
Project: “A Neo-Movimiento?: Youth-farmworker solidarity among Latino activists”

Clare Foran
History
Adviser: Warren Breckman, History
Project: “The Construction of Memory in Postwar France: An Analysis of Antigone by Jean Anouilh and Les Mouches by Jean Paul Sartre"

Mary Ann (Molly) Mitchell
Adviser: John Jackson, Anthropology
Project: “Nigerian Videofilm as a Means for Democratic Interventions”

Sasha Riser-Kositsky
Political Science
Adviser: Devesh Kapur, Political Science
Project: “Are Smaller States 'Better' States? Development and Governance in Jharkhand and Uttarkhand”

W. Collin Schenk
Health and Society
Adviser: David Barnes, Health and Society
Project: “Voices from Kolkata: The Politics of Health in the Slums”

Vikram Vish
Wharton
Adviser: Henry Teune, Political Science
Project: “The Impact of Universities in Strengthening Citizenship and Democratic Competencies Among Undergraduate Students”

Alec Webley
Political Science
Adviser: Jeffrey Green, Political Science
Project: “The More Things Get Edited, The More They Stay the Same: Wikipedia and the Limits of Deliberative Democracy”

2009-10


Eric Augenbraun

History
Adviser: Thomas Sugrue, History
Project: “Tuskegee in Philadelphia: The Ideological and Institutional Foundations of Leon Sullivan's Opportunities Industrialization Centers”

Adrienne Benson
Political Science
Adviser: Jeffrey Green, Political Science
Project: “Deliberative Theory and Democratic Reality: What the 2008 Presidential Nominating Caucuses Mean for Deliberative Democracy”

Boyan Gerasimov
International Relations
Adviser: Mark Pollack, Liberal Arts, Temple University
Project: “Why Do Bulgarians and Romanians Trust the European Commission More than Their Own National Governments?"

George Karandinos
Health and Societies
Adviser: Philippe Bourgois, Anthropology
Project: “The Impact and Reproduction of Violence in North Philadelphia”

Andrew Kincaid
History / Hispanic Studies
Adviser: Ronald Granieri, History
Project: "Atlantic Piracy and the Rise of the Modern Age”

Elise Miller
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Advisers: Eranda Jayawickremeand and Martin Seligman, Psychology
Project: “Resilience in Rwanda: Exploring Post-Traumatic Well-being and its Implications for Democratic Development”

Mario Peia
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics / Psychology
Adviser: Tara J. Radin, Wharton
Project: “Businesses as Citizens: A Framework for Rights and Responsibilities in a Global Marketplace”

Aro Velmet
History
Adviser: Richard Leventhal, Anthropology
Project: “Remembering the Lost Decades: Identity Creation in Baltic Museums of Occupation”

Athanasia Vgontzas
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Adviser: Adriana Petryna, Anthropology
Project: “Health Inequalities among Rural and Urban Roman In Greece”

Chloe Wayne
Finance / Africana Studies
Adviser: Andrew Lamas, Urban Studies
Project: “ The Politics of Standard Deviation: Assembling Race, Ownership, and Citizenship from the Ruins of Property Crises"

2008-09


Adam Bartolanzo
Political Science
Project: “Faith-Based Initiatives in Philadelphia"

Barbara Coons
History / Biology
Project: “The Potential for Violence in 1990s Eastern Europe: Why Did Translyvania Simmer While Kosovo Boiled?"

Ani Gevorkian
International Relations
Project: “Failures of Democratization in Armenia"

Neel Lalchandani
Political Science
Project: “Afro-Centric Curricula and Citizenship in Philadelphia Schools"

Carlos Martinez-Ruiz
Cultural Anthropology
Project: “The Welfare State in Crisis: Citizenship and National Political Identity in the Mortgage Foreclosure Debacle"

Rahul Reddy
Political Science / Economics
Project: “India's 'Sons of the Soil' Movements and Intra-State Borders"

David Reinecke and Philip Rocco
Science, Technology and Society / Political Science,
Project: "Re-envisioning the Pan-European Polity: The Eurovision Song Contest and Techniques of Representation"

Priya Shankar
Political Science / South Asian Studies
Project: “Assuring Citizens Their Right to Food in India"

Sandra Zhao
History
Project: “Modes of Empowerment: Literacy and Democracy in India"