CES has awarded the following undergraduate students funding to carry out Senior Thesis research in Europe.
Undergraduate Summer Travel Grant Recipients
Undergraduate Senior Thesis Travel Grants fund summer research in Europe for juniors in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences preparing senior theses on political, historical, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual trends in modern or contemporary Europe.
Nora Bartosik (Music)The role of folk songs in Hasliberg, Switzerland and Swabia, Germany
Alexander Chase-Levenson (History & Literature)
A Study of Quarantines in the Mediterranean: sickness, health, and imaginative geography for western travellers returning from the "East"
Henry Cowles (Environmental Science and Public Policy)
Research on social trends in developing "natural history" movements in Victorian Britain
Eva Dickerman (History)
Article 80 of the Treaty of Saint Germain and its Aftermath: The construction of race, citizenship and national identity in 1920's Austria
Darja Djordjevic (Anthropology)
Ethnographic research with immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers at the Comite Medical Pour Les Exiles (Comede)
Adam Goldenberg (Social Studies)
An ethnographic examination of French national identity, citizenship and multiculturalism
Jaclyn Granick (Social Studies)
"Nothing About Us Without Us": Transnational grassroots organizing among people with disabilities
Elizabeth Grosso (Social Studies)
European party elites and activists and the development of transnational parties
Erika Helgen (Romance Languages & Literatures)
The Battle of Puebla: Liberation theology and the 3rd Latin American Bishops' Conference, 1979
Roumiana Ivanova (Government)
Exploring the differential expression of "soft power" in France, Britain, and the Netherlands
Olga Kamensky (Literature)
How Paris functions—in literature, history, and language—as a center of auto-translation
Christina Kozak (Government)
Women & Socialist Legacy: A study of women's participation in politics in Eastern and Western Germany
Alexandra Kukunova (Government)
Assessing the influence of international and domestic factors on the development of work-family reconciliation policies in France and Spain
Roland Lamb (Special Concentration)
Working with primary sources in Chinese and Sanskrit at the British Library
David Lebowitz (Government)
Archival research on Belgian colonial native policy in Rwanda
Paul Linden-Retek (Social Studies)
The extensive examination of the cultural and historical context of Vaclav Havel's political thought
Garrett Morgan (History and Literature)
Cinema and collective memory: postwar national consciousness in the BFI and cinematheque francaise
Evgenia Peeva (Social Studies)
Higher education transformations after the fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe
Noah Rosenblum (Social Studies)
Explore the impact of Simone Weil's work on the development of Camus' ethical thought
Meike Schallert (Government)
Up and down the Rhine: a study of environmental legislation in Imperial Germany
Samuel Scott (History)
Jews and the creation of race in the British Caribbean 1630-1830
Undergraduate Summer Internships
CES is sponsoring the following undergraduates to take part in summer internship opportunities. Alumni at the Harvard Club of the UK have worked with CES to provide opportunities in business, philanthropy, political analysis, marketing, media/publishing, research, and consulting. In Poland, students have the chance to teach through the WorldTeach summer program and in France, to learn about film production.
Olivia Benowitz, '09 (History & Literature)Value Retail, Oxfordshire
Rachel Bergmann, '08 (English)
University of Cambridge, Linguistics Department
Michelle Cronin, '08 (VES: film studies)
EO Productions, Paris
Anusha Deshpande, '09 (Film Studies & History)
Content Partners, London
Liz Doherty, '08 (English)
Corrour Estate, London
Florence Evina-Ze, '08 (Mechanical Engineering)
New Energy Finance, London
Arielle Fridson, '08 (Literature)
P3 Capital, London
Ashlyn Garry, '10
WorldTeach Poland
Ryon Hart, '08 (Economics)
Pell Frischmann Consulting Engineers, London
Sotonye Imadojemu, '08 (Biological Anthropology)
Slingshot Studios, London
Alyssa King, '08 (Social Studies)
Steptoe & Johnson, London
Annie Levine, '08 (Russian Studies)
Exclusive Analysis, London
Rory Malone, '08 (Social Studies)
MP for Cambridge, David Howarth, London
Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey , '08 (History & Literature)
Steptoe & Johnson, London
Shelley Ranii, '08 (Government)
MP for Doncaster North, Ed Miliband, London
Jakub Scholtz, '08 (Physics)
Durham University, Department of Physics, IPPP
Daniel Schuker, '08 (Social Studies)
The Arcadia Trust, London
Mary Caroline Szpak, '11
WorldTeach Poland
Adrienne White, '08 (Visual & Environmental Studies)
43 South Molton, London
Mandy Xu, '09 (Economics)
Comac Capital, London
Olga Zhulina, '09 (History & Literature)
43 South Molton, London