2007 Graduate Grantees

CES has awarded the following graduate students funding to pursue their dissertations.


Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowship Recipients

Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowships fund graduate students who plan to spend up to a year in Europe conducting dissertation research.

Sana Aiyar, G3
The South Asian Diaspora in Colonial Kenya and Post-Colonial Britain: Multiculturalism in two Milieus

Alex Csiszar, G3
Conventional Objects and Real Relations: Organization of Knowledge and Internationalism in Fin de Siecle Europe

Kenny Cupers, G3
Grands Ensembles, Expertise and the Everyday in Postwar France

Jennifer Ferng, G4
Nature's Objects: Architecture, Materiality, and Geology (1750-1850)

Crystal Fleming, G3
The Political Mobilization of Ethnic Minorities in French and American Spoken Word Venues

Samuel Goldman, G5
Grounding Freedom: The Politics of Being from Jacobi to Hegel

Paula Goldman, G4
From Margin to Mainstream: Culture, Mobilization, and the Jubilee 2000 Campaign in England

Vessela Hristova, G3
Accommodating Diversity in the Integration Process of the European Union

Brendan Karch, G3
Modes of Local Memory in Silesia (1740-1960)

Deborah Kully, G6
Speculating on Architecture: Morality, the New Real Estate, and the Borgeois Apartment Industry in 19th c. France


Graduate Dissertation Completion Fellowship Recipients

Graduate Dissertation Writing Fellowships are intended to support doctoral candidates as they complete their dissertations. The award allows students to spend a final year dedicated to writing.

Daniel Sussner, G5
Projections: The Visual Structure of French History

Lilith Mahmud-Abdelwahab, G5
The Brotherhood of Stone Sisters: Engendering the Freemasonry in Italy


Graduate Summer Travel Grant Recipients 2006

Graduate Summer Travel Grants fund summer research in Europe for doctoral students writing dissertations on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.

Darryl Li, G3
Transnational Islamist Movements and Bosnia Hercegovina

Stanislav Markus, G5
The neglected Roots of Capitalism: Corporate Political Alliances as Property Rights Insurance

George Soroka, G4
Leviathan's Revenge: Representative Governance and Electoral Accountability

Ward Penfold, G3
Jurisprudentia est vera Philosophia: Adventures in European Law from the Napoleonic Code to the Social Question, 1800

Maria Fabiola Lopez-Duran, G5
Eugenics in the Garden: Architecture, Medicine, and Landscape From France to Latin America in the Early 20th Century

Anders Engberg-Pedersen, G3
Epistemic Uncertainty, Knowledge and Narrative in the Early 19th Century

Evangelos Liaras, G7
The False Promise of Electoral Engineering in Northern Ireland

Paul Staniland, G3
Political Elites and Militant Groups in Northern Ireland 1969-94

Robin Schuldenfrei , G6
Luxury and Modern Architecture in Germany

Sabrina Peric, G2
Underground: Extracting Bones and Metals in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Shirley Ye, G2
Migration, Ethnic Nationalism and Economic Modernities in Germany and China, 1890-1949

Davide Cantoni, G2
Was Max Weber Right After All?

David Trippett, G3
Sirens of Music Drama: The Genesis and Prolepsis of Richard Wagner's "Lohengrin"

Timothy Dalrymple, G5
The Ladder of Thorns: Soren Kierkegaard on Suffering and Martyrdom