2008 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.

Pierpaolo Barbieri (History)
La Guerra Civil, La Guerra Financiara - Economic and Financial Determinants of the Spanish Civil War

John Dillon (Celtic Languages and Literature)
Attending a course at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and Trinity College Library

Claire Guehenno (Sociology)
French laicite in the Context of the European Union and European Identity

Anna Kendrick (History and Literature)
National Identity and Cultural Marginality: Migration in Contemporary Spanish Literature

Audrey Kim (History)
Much Ado About Empire: Japan’s Entrance into Global Capital Markets (1904-1920)

Leandra King (Economics)
Racial fragmentation and desire for redistribution in French Suburbs

Paul Jeffrey Leopando (Anthropology)
Ethnographic Research on Global Environmentalism in the Findhorn Ecovillage in Northern Scotland

Kelley McKinney (English)
The Impact of the Industrial Revolution and Scientific Discovery on the Body in the 19th Century Novel

Christopher Miller (History)
The Overend Crisis and the Lender of Last Resort: A Study in 19th Century Financial Liberalism

Leslie E. Nightingale (History and Literature)
Correlations Between Education and Prostitution in Victorian England

Victoria Phan (Government)
European Integration and Compliance: The Conflict Between National and EU Law

Rachel Pollack (History)
Une Revolution Culturelle: Maoist Intellectuals in Post-’68 France

Juliet Samuel (Sociology)
An Investigation into the Social/Cultural Impact of Factory Work Among French-Algerian Immigrants

Jan Straka (Sociology)
The Relationship Between Charter 77 and Ecological and Pacifist Movements in 1980’s Czechoslovakia

Giuliana Vetrano (History)
“The Gilded Belle Epoque:” Bourgeois Americans in France and Transnational Culture (1870-1914)

Anna Whittington (History)
From One Adopted Heimat to Another: German Emigration from the Soviet Union to Germany

Emma Winer (History and Literature)
Archival Research on World War One Memory in Anglo-Irish Literature and Film

Susan Yao (Sociology)
The Effects of Affirmative Action Policies on Individual Students in French Schools

Olga Zhulina (History and Literature)
Russian Immigrant Periodicals in Paris of 1930 as Vehicles of Franco-Russian Bilingual Literature




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 France, students gain publishing and legal experience; in Poland, students have the chance to teach through the WorldTeach summer program and in Spain, to learn about international education.

Ingrid Akerlind, '10 (Chemical and Physical Biology)
Pell Frischmann Consulting Engineers, London

Sophie Alexander, '10 (Literature)
WorldTeach, Poland

Matthew Basciotta, '09 (Biochemical Science)
WorldTeach, Poland

Courtney Blair, '10 (Economics)
Exclusive Analysis, London

Ekaterina Botchkina, '09 (Philosophy)
King’s College, University of Cambridge, UK

Ellen Bryson, '11 (History)
WorldTeach, Poland

Rebecca Cooper, '10 (Literature)
International Herald Tribune, Paris

Michelle Cronin, '09 (VES)
International Herald Tribune, Paris

Michela DeSantis, '10 (Economics)
Value Retail, UK

Kelly Gu, '10 (Economics)
Exclusive Analysis, London

Katherine (Kate) Harris, '10 (International History)
Parliamentary Internships, London

Antonio Hernandez, '10 (History)
Slingshot, London

Kavita Kannan, '09 (Government)
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool

Hunter Landerholm , '09 (History)
Corrour, Scottish Highlands / London

James Larkin, '10 (Social Studies)
Parliamentary Internships, London

Alexander Lavoie, '10 (Economics)
New Energy Finance, London

Holly Metter, '09 (History and Science)
Corrour, Scottish Highlands / London

Gillian Morris, '09 (Government)
Suffolk University, Madrid, Spain

Prathama Nabi, '11 (Neurobiology)
Worldteach, Bulgaria

Andrea Peterson, '09 (Physics)
Department of Physics, IPPP Durham, UK

Rachel Pollack, '09 (History)
Sherman and Sterling, LLP Paris

Nadim Rabaia, '10 (Economics)
Exclusive Analysis, London

Tejas Sathian, '10 (Economics)
Exclusive Analysis, London

Linnea Sundberg, '09 (Government)
Exclusive Analysis / Arcadia, London

Sarah Wang, '10 (Economics)
Comac Capital, London

Rui Wang, '11
WorldTeach, Poland

Yifan Zhang, '10 (Economics)
4Exclusive Analysis, London