2010 Undergraduate Grantees

CES 2010 Undergraduate Internships and Grant Awardees


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.


Katie Chang (History and Literature)
Hanging By a Thread: The Use of Cloth in John Singleton Copley's Revolutionary Portraits

Ivana Djak (Government)
Female Civil Society in Post World War II and Post Civil War Yugoslavia and Its Succesor Countries

Jessica Flakne (Social Studies)
Senior Thesis Research on T.G. Masaryk and the relationship between religion and Czech nationalism

Alice Gissinger (Social Studies)
The Separation in the eyes of French Catholics, 1905-1908

Anna Hopper (Government)
Federalism and the Effects of Devolution on Political Parties in the United Kingdom

Meghan Houser (History and Literature)
Belief on Trial: Skepticism, Wars of Religion and the Witch Craze in 16th-17th Century France

Stefan Mihaylov (Government)
Is the European Union a Strong Inducer of Domestic Change in Candidate and Member States?

Robert Nightingale (Social Studies)
Research into Advertising Aimed at Former GDR Citizens During German Reunification

Alexandra Perloff-Giles (History of Art and Architecture)
Research in Paris on Marcel Duchamp and Joseph Cornell

Katherine Savarese (History )
Economic Arguments About Executive Compensation Practices in the United States and the UK, 1890-1940

David Tao (Social Studies)
Thesis Research Studying African Immigrant Enclaves in Rome

Michael Yashinsky (History and Literature)
Thesis research in England on Anglo-Jewish Cookery of the 19th-20th Centuries



Undergraduate Summer Internships

CES is sponsoring the following undergraduates to take part in summer internship opportunities in four different European countries. Alumni at the Harvard Club of the UK have worked with CES to provide opportunities in business, philanthropy, political analysis, marketing, medicine, arts management, media/publishing, research, and consulting in the United Kingdom. In France, students gain experience in publishing and international arbitration; in Turkey, students learn about economic and political intelligence analysis; and in the Czech Republic, students learn about online publishing and media development in post-communist societies.



Manuel Antunes, 2011 (History)
Labour MP and Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, Ed Miliband, London, UK

Sarah Bakst, 2011 (Linguistics)
King's College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

Michael Barron, 2011 (Environmental Science and Public Policy)
Corrour Estate, Scotland

Laura Bassett, 2011 (History and Science)
Epsom General Hospital, Upper Limb Unit, Epsom, UK

Elizabeth Bloom, 2012 (Social Studies)
Oxford Business Group, Istanbul, Turkey

Dan Bratter, 2012 (Economics and English Lit)
Value Retail, Bicester, UK

Katie Coulson, 2011 (Chemistry)
Arcadia, London, UK

Bora Fezga, 2011 (Sociology)
Transitions Online, Prague, Czech Republic

Jessica Flakne, 2011 (Social Studies)
Oxford Business Group, Istanbul, Turkey

Marissa Glynias, 2012 (Archaeology and Music)
Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Liverpool, UK

John Henry Hinkel, 2012 (History and Literature of America)
Slingshot Studios, London, UK

Danielle Kim, 2012 (History)
Value Retail, Bicester, UK

James McAuley, 2012 (History and Literature)
International Herald Tribune, Paris, France

Jennifer McKee, 2011 (Government and Environmental Science and Public Policy)
Rolf's Farm / Wadhurst Park,

Elizabeth Pezza, 2011 (Sociology)
Liberal Democrat MP for Leeds North West, Greg Mulholland, London, UK

Michelle Quach, 2011 (History and Literature)
The Children's Society, London, UK

Travers Rhodes, 2012 (Physics and Mathematics)
Durham University, Department of Physics, Durham, UK

Aurelia Tichoux, 2012 (Social Studies)
Nectar Capital, London, UK

Aixin Wang, 2012 (Government and Economics)
Liberal Democrat MP Paul Rowen, London, UK

Emily Wang, 2011 (Economics)
Epsom General Hospital, Upper Limb Unit, Epsom, UK