Advanced Study Grant Recipients 2003
university fellowships committee
Recipient |
Project Proposal |
Faculty Adviser |
| Natalie Blazer | Among Builders for Peace To support language study, the study of conflict resolution, and community service in Bosnia. |
Angela Kachuyevski Political Science |
| Lan Chen | A Summer of Chinese Literature To support study of Chinese language and literature at Hua Zhong University, China. (declined due to SARS epidemic) |
James Najarian English |
| Cañon Cody | "There are No Prohibited Books" To support language study and research on the network of independent libraries in Cuba. |
Frances Restuccia English |
| Lana DeAngelis | Small Hands, Heavy Burdens To support language study, community service, and a study of orphaned children in the Dominican Republic. |
James Boettcher Philosophy |
| Colin Donohoe | High Tech in Old Munich To support language study and a summer scientific research internship in Germany. |
Michael Resler Germanic Studies |
| Suzanne Dupre | Sacred Song in the Modern Millennium To support research on the evolution of liturgical music since Vatican II. |
Michael Burgo Music |
| Kristen Faucetta | Learning to Serve, Bulgarian Style To support Bulgarian language study and community service in Sofia. |
Mariela Dakova Slavic Languages |
| Tara Foley | Journey to Morocco To support Arabic language study and cultural studies at Al-Akhawayn University. |
Elizabeth Chadwick A&S Honors Program |
| Meg Feist | A Comparative Study of Catholic and Islamic Spirituality and Sexual Ethics To support the study of Catholic ethics at the Gregorian University in Rome and summer research on Islamic ethics. |
Stephen Pope Theology |
| Scott Gentile | The Philosophical Grounding of Mathematics To support research on the foundations, historical development, and contemporary status of Logicism. |
Ronald Anderson, S.J. Philosophy |
| Danielle Granville | The Belfast Perspective To support summer study and research on conflict resolution in Northern Ireland. |
Donald Hafner Political Science |
| Timothy Henderson | Language and Culture of Japan To support language study and an internship with the Japanese-American Museum in Los Angeles. (declined) |
Paul McNellis, S.J. Philosophy |
| Benjamin Janse | A Summer of Discovery and Conservation To support an internship and field research on animal behavior in the National Parks of Alaska. |
David Krauss Biology |
| Kathryn Jefferis | Jennie Purnell Political Science | |
| Katharine Kreinbring | Through the Eyes of the Transcendentalists To support a photographic study of the literary landscape of Concord, Massachusetts. |
Mark O'Connor A&S Honors Program |
| Timothy McGrath | Wang Arts and Websites To support a study of online fiction writing and co-teaching of a fiction workshop for high school students at the Wang Center, Boston. |
Carlo Rotella English |
| Angela Mack |
Catholic Ethics and Bio-Ethics |
Stephen Pope Theology |
| Lauren Mounsey | Intensive Finnish in Jyvaskyla To support language study in Finland, as a foundation for the study of linguistics. |
Margaret Thomas Slavic Languages |
| Shannon Reece | The Study of Global Inequality from a Non-traditional Perspective To support language study and community service in Costa Rica. |
Laurie Shepard Romance Languages |
| Darcy Roberts | The Study of Science and the Teaching of Science To support an internship at the Museum of Science on the principles and practice of science instruction for elementary-school students. |
John Cawthorne Lynch School of Education |
| Regina Scott | Middle-Earth Linguistics To support a study of J.R.R. Tolkien's Elvish as examples of inventive linguistics. |
Michael Raiger Philosophy |
| Emily Stanger | Experiencing Ecuador's Developing Economy To support research into microfinance support of women's business enterprises in Ecuador. |
Robert Murphy Economics |
| Clara Velasquez | The Catholic Church in Twentieth Century Colombia To support research into the changing role of the Church in Colombia and residence in a religious community. |
Elizabeth Rhodes Romance Languages |
| Gregory Wiles | Rubinomics and the Current Political Debate To support research into the correlation, asserted by former Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, between government deficit spending and long-term interest rates. |
Richard Tresch Economics |