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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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