Graduate
Research Abroad Fellowships Recipients (Spring,
2006)
Harper,
Katherine
Department: AH
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: Fall
2006-Spring 2007
Project Statement: Utrecht,
Holland, London, England, Germany
To study the role of the reproductive print
in the context of the print market in Italy
and the Netherlands and the activity of
collecting in the seventeenth century, the
practice of the printmaking and draftmanship
among gentleman-amateurs.
McNally,
Tarra Kathleen
Department: AN
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: November
2005 - November 2006
Project Statement: Lesotho,
Africa
To research the prevalence of AIDS in this
region and help with CHIME to improve HIV/AIDS
health service delivery and increase community,
household, and family capacity to manage
HIV/AIDS in the predominately rural and
isolated Maluti Healtah service Area in
Lesotho.
Offutt,
Stephen
Department: SO
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: April
- September 2006
Project Statement: Durban,
South Africa and San Salvador, El Salvador
To evaluate how global evangelicalism impacts
society at both the macro and micro levels.
Parks,
Shoshaunna
Department: AR
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: May 2006
- July 2007
Project Statement: Santa
Cruz and Uxbenka
To look at the dynamic and complex relationships
among local communities, archaeological
sites, and ongoing excavation projects,
and to formulate and implement a plan for
"community based" archaeology
that fosters collaboration through open
dialogue.
Deese,
Richard Samuel
Department: HI
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: 2006-2007
Academic Year
Project Statement: UK,
France, and Switzerland
To compare the religious, social, and political
thought of Julian and Aldous Huxley and
their impact on Anglo-American culture and
politics, with a special emphasis on their
role as global activists who contributed
to the inception and growth of various transnational
organizations in the twentieth century.
Ewald,
Liana
Department: ML
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: July-August
2006
Project Statement: Madrid,
Spain
To analyze interrelated social, political,
and aesthetic problems explored in Spanish
realist narrative drama.
Ivanier,
Ariel
Department: PO
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: July
2006 - September 2006
Project Statement: Argentina
To study the impact of social activism on
the organization and policies of Bretton
Woods multilateral lending institutions.
Murata,
Satoru
Department: AR
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: May 15
- July 1 2006
Project Statement: Belize
To examine the Hector Creek site in Belize
that is believed to be a site of salt production
and pottery-making, (which is extremely
rare in Maya archaeology).
Pearl,
Jason H
Department: EN
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: June
5, 2006 - July 28, 2006
Project Statement: London
To go to the British Library to examine
a variety of important manuscripts in the
Hans Sloane Collection and to examine a
number of published travel account writing
in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth
centuries.

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