Graduate
Research Abroad Fellowships Recipients (Fall,
2006)
El-Sherif,
Ashraf
Department: Political Science
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: Fall
2007 - Spring 2008
Project Statement: Jordan
and Morocco
Consider the roll of three types of causal
variables in explaining the different doctrinal
/ institutional responses of Islamists in
the three countries: a) the political opportunity
structures, b) the strucure of the Islamic
movements themselves, and c) the characteristics
of the broader intellectual / ideological
marketplace.
Hou,
Xiaoshuo
Department: Sociology
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: January
- September 2007
Project Statement: China
To compare and contrast the Nanje Village
community with the Huaxi Villige and the
Shangyuan Villiage, and their forms of socio-political
and economic organization. To explore what
vrtiables may influence people's choices
of different paths to economic and social
development in local communities , as well
as the policy implications that this has
for transitional societies.
Lamothe,
Ron
Department: History
Req: LT/ST: LT
Period of Travel: October
2007 through December 2007 and January 2008-April
2008
Project Statement: England,
Egypt, Sudan
To highlight the experience of Africans
in the Nile Campaign, and the unique status
of the Sudanese infantry battalions, thereby
demonstrating how the lives and loyalties
of Sudanese soldiers were complex expressions
of the dialectical relationship between
Europe and Africa in the nineteenth century
Arcangeli,
Myriam
Department: Archaeology
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: November
2006-January 2007, Summer 2007
Project Statement: Guadeloupe,
Martinique and French Guiana
To analyze as many ceramics as there are
available from the 17th and 18 centuries
in the French Caribbean in order to shed
light on vital aspects of French Caribbean
colonial society and culture and how it
was connected to the Atlantic World.
Callahan
Jr., Edward M.
Department: Anthropology
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: December
5, 2006-May 5, 2007
Project Statement: Bishkek,
Kyrgyzstan
To research how Kyrgys household and kinship
organization intersect with economic power
(wealth in animals) to determine political
leadership among the Pamir Kyrgyz.
Gagel,
Mandy
Department: Editorial Studies
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: May or
June 2007
Project Statement: Florence,
Italy
Will visit archives for the purpose of transcribing
letters written by British art historian
and critical theorist Vernon Lee.
Li,
Dan
Department: Economics
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: Summer
07
Project Statement: Beijing,
China
Focuses on the economic impact of railroads
in China and, more specifically, various
aspects of railroads and development over
the period 1900-1933.
Lysiak,
Nadine
Department: Biology
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: March
5- March 25, 2007
Project Statement: Oslo,
Norway; York, England; London, England;
Edinburgh, Scotland
Using stable isotope analysis of right whale
tissue, specifically baleen, to determine
foraging and movement patterns of E. glacialis
Miller-Rushing,
Abraham
Department: Biology
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: December
7-23, 2006
Project Statement: Tokyo,
Japan
Analyze the records of bird migrations,
insect emergence and the flowering of over
100 species in Japan and how changes in
timing of these events are linked to climate
change.
Shelton,
China
Department: Archaeology
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: June
to mid-August, 2007
Project Statement: Sangro
Valley, Italy
To attempt to reconstruct the agricultural
subsistence strategies and land use patterns
for the ancient Samnite people, as well
as to identify potential environmental opportunities
and constraints that were both inherent
within the landscape and created by the
human population.
Shingiray,
Irina Lita
Department: Archaeology
Req: LT/ST: ST
Period of Travel: January
5-February 5, 2007
Project Statement: Moscow,
Russia
To do research at the Institute of Archaeology
at the Russian Academy of Science and submit
bone material for radiocarbon dating at
the Radiocarbon Dating Lab, Institute of
Geography in Moscow, in order to show the
politics of war, trade and religions between
the nomadic Khazars and the Islamic Caliphate
(7th to the 10th centuries AD), and its
impact on the emergence, development, and
collapse of the Khazar Empire in the western
Eurasian Steppe.
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