2007 Undergraduate Grantees

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