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Past Awards

Community of Scholars Graduate Student Fellowships

2008 Summer Fellowship Awardees

Alexandra Achen, Sociology and Public Policy
Students' Responses to Unexpected Grades: Explaining Gender and Race Differences in Attrition from Scientific Fields

 

Nicola Curtin, Women's Studies and Psychology
What Makes the Political Personal?: Women's Narratives of Identity, Connection and Activism

 

Jimmy Draper, Communication Studies
Discursive Constructions of Gayness and Masculinity in U.S. Men's Lifestyle Magazines, 1960-2007

 

Dagmar Francikova, Women's Studies and History
Complex and Complicated Matters: Inventing Women for the Czech National Movement, 1820s-1850s

 

Fetsum-Rahwa Haile, Public Health (Health Behavior and Health Education)
Pathologized Identities: Black MSM and HIV/AIDS in the Biomedical Imagination

 

Tayana Hardin, American Culture
Desire, Disdain and Dancing: Black American Vernacular Dance and the "New Woman" in Interwar Paris

 

Maria Johnson, Sociology and Public Policy
African-American Women and Their Fathers: Understanding the Influence of Fathers on Daughters' Conceptualization of Gender, Success, and Family Formation

 

Jennifer McFarlane-Harris, Women's Studies and English
Autobiographical Theologies: Subjectivity and Religious Language in Spiritual Narratives, Poetry, and Hymnody by African-American Women

 

Afia Amankwaa Ofori-Mensa, American Culture
Beauty, Bodies, and Boundries: Pageants, Race, and National Identity

 

Stephanie Osbakken, Sociology
The Social Behind the Science: Negotiating Gender and Other Boundaries in Interdisciplinary Research in the Health Sciences

 

Desdamona Rios, Women's Studies and Psychology
Socialization and the Academy: Identity Construction and Hidden Lessons in Socialization Practices

 

Ying Zhang, Women's Studies and History
The Self-Fashioning of the "Loyal Man:" Literati Masculinity and Political Culture of the Ming-Qing Transitional China, 1570-1700

2007 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Allison Abra, History
Now on with the Dance: Nation, Popular Culture, and Public Dancing in Britain, 1919-1945

 

Tamara Bhalla, English Language and Literature
Between Two Empires: Reading South Asian Diasporic Literature and Community

 

LaMont Egle, English Language and Literature
Genres of Gender, or How Masculinities Were Made in British Popular Fiction, 1820-1840

 

Carla Pfeffer, Sociology and Women's Studies
"What Does That Make Me?": Lessons about Gender, Sexuality and Identity from the Women Partners of Transmen

2007 Summer Fellowship Awardees

Corina Kesler, Comparative Literature
Kabbalistic Hieros Gamos: Gendering the Mystical Discourse of the Sabbath

 

Sharon Heijin Lee, American Culture
Between Commodities and Consumers: Entangled Narrations of Korean/American Women

 

Katherine Luke, Social Work and Sociology
Race, Gender and Heterosexuality in Campus Party Cultures: The Reproduction and Transformation of Social Identities and Social Inequalities

 

Elizabeth Meier, Social Work and Psychology
Conflict Escalation and De-Escalation Processes in Intergroup Dialogues

 

Sridevi Nair, English and Women's Studies
Mobile Lesbians: Disrupting the Heterosexual Economies of Immigration in the Works of Dionne Brand and Makeda Silvera

 

Alana Reid, Romance Languages and Literatures
Gender and Sexuality in Portrayals of Female Pirates

 

Kristin Sherrer, Social Work and Sociology
Negotiating Identity, Negotiating Desire: Coming to an Asexual Identity

 

Chad Thomas, English Language and Literature
Performing Queer: Contemporary Theatre and Early Modern Drama

2006 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Sundari Balan, Psychology
Transnational Motherhood among Asian Indian and Filipino Immigrant Women: Investigating Gender at the Intersections of Class and Ethnicity

 

Sarah Crymble, Communication Studies
Gender Identity Dissonance, Magazine Advertising, and the Female Consumer

 

Angela Dowdell, History
Real Men / Savage Nature: Manliness, Modernity, and African Big Game Hunting in Britain, 1800-1914

 

Robert Hill , American Culture
Gentlemen Deviants: Heterosexual Transvestism and the Contours of Cold War Gender and Sexuality

 

2006 Summer Fellowship Awardees

Juan Chen, Social Work; Political Science
Who Are Faring Better? Who Are Feeling Better? Gender Differences in Immigration Experiences, Employment Outcomes, and Perceived Social Mobility of Asian Immigrants in the United States

 

Emily Heaphy, Business Administration - Management and Organizations
The Embodiment of Everyday Work: The Case of Patient Advocates

James Leija, Art and Design
Forging Family: Queer Kinship in the 21st Century and Beyond

 

Emily Lutenski, English; Womens Studies
Where Indians Still Walked on Their Feet: Multiethnic Modernism and the U.S. Southwest

 

Marti Lybeck, History
Gender, Sexuality and Belonging: Female Homosexuality in Germany, 1890-1933

 

Mary OReilly, History
Fashioning the Modern German Woman: Female Journalists and Discourses of the Self in Interwar Germany

 

Justine Pas, American Culture
Relocating Babel: Translating the Holocaust and American Immigrant Literature

 

Rebecca Gershenson Smith, English
Framed: The Woman Artist-Observer in Modernity

 

2005 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Breanne Fahs, Psychology and Women's Studies
Competing Models of Internalized Sexuality: Channeling Function and Dysfunction in a Clinical Context

 

Ayesha Hardison, English

Writing "Little Sister": Sexual and Social Politics of the 1940s Black Female Protagonist  

 

Jill L. Lamberton, Education and English

Claiming an Education: The Transatlantic Performance and Exchange of Intellectual Identity in College Women's Writing, 1860-1900

 

Christina Mendoza, Sociology

Crossing Borders: Narrative Identities of Gender, Class and Citizenships among Domestic Workers on the U.S.-Mexican Border

2005 Summer Fellowship Awardees

Elizabeth Ben-Ishai, Political Science

Towards a Feminist Conception of Autonomy: A Harm Reduction Approach

 

Lindsay Benstead, Public Policy and Political Science

Gender Differences in Constituency Service and Representative Style among Algerian Legislators 

 

Cara Bergstrom, Sociology

Same Gender Couples Deciding Whether and How to Have Children 

 

Megan Biddinger, Communication Studies

Gender, Please and Resistance: Audience Responses to Contemporary Television Shows Featuring Witches and Magic

 

Susanne Cohen, Anthropology

Gendered Projects in Post Soviet Offices: Neoliberalism, Work, and Subjectivity in St. Petersburg

 

Emily Greenman, Public Policy and Sociology

Double Jeopardy or Compensating Disadvantage? The Interaction Effect of Gender and Race on Earnings in the U.S.

 

Cathleen Power, Psychology and Women's Studies

"Performing" Classed Emotions: How Affect Reinforces Social Inequality

 

Elisabeth Strunk, Art & Design

Constructing Spaces: A Visual

 

2004 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Nicole S. Berry, Anthropology

Emergency Obstetric Care Choice among Kaqchikel Maya Women

 

Tamar Carroll, History

Women's Activism, Social Change, and Identity Politics in NYC, 1955-1995

 

Erika Gasser, History & Women's Studies

The Afflicted Grew Presently Well: Witchcraft and Possession in Old and New England, 1580-1740  

 

Pavitra Sundar, English & Women's Studies

Marking Time: Gender, Sexuality, Nation, and Temporality in Hindi Film Music

2004 Four Month Fellowship Awardees

Jennifer Beckham, American Culture

Women in Motion: Technoogies of Mobility and Configurations of Identity in American Fiction

 

Isabel Cordova, History

Engendering a Modern Puerto Rico: Social Work Interventions in Juvenile and Family Crisis, 1950-1968  

 

Holly Dugan, English & Women's Studies

Making Scents: Perfume, Disease and Desire in Early Modern England  

 

Emanuela Grama, Anthropology & History

The "Nimble Fingers" of Eastern Europe: Defining Skill and Constructing Gender in Romania's Postsocialist Clothing Industry

Laura Halperin, Comparative Literature
Transgressive Turns: Deviance and Defiance in Comteporary Latina Literature

Julie Konik, Psychology & Women's Studies
Harrassment as a System of Policing Traditional Gender Norms: The Structure and Process of Sexual Harrassment and Heterosexist Harrassment

Bridget Love, Anthropology
Revitalization through "Farm Mother-Power": The Gendered Contours of Depopulation and Vitality in Japan's Rural Countryside
 
Emily Chivers Yochim, Communication
Extreme Sport/Expressive Art: Skateboarders' (Re)articulation of Masculine Subjectivities

2003 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Shauna Cooper, Developmental Psychology/Rackham

Insight into the academic values of African American boys and girls: A qualititative investigation into gender differentiation in racial and edicational socialization

 

Susannah Dolance, Sociology  

How to Attract Lesbians and Heterosexuals: The WNBA's Appropriation of Lesbian Culture 

 

Michelle Foster, Faculty of Law

Refuge from Deprivation: Non-foulement and Economic and Social Rights in International Law 

 

Christine J. Hartley, Philosophy

Justice for All: A Feminist Reconstruction of Contractualism

Ann-Elise Lewallen, Anthropology
Cultural Activism and Political in Japan: Ainu Women's Strategies of the 'Indigenious' in Hokkaido Prefecture

Nita Luci, Anthropology
Transistions and Traditions: Constructions of Gender, Nation, and Family in Kosova

Tasleem Juana Padamsee, Sociology
Medicine and Inequality in the Welfare State: AIDS Policy-Making in the United States and the United Kingdom
 
Karen Sanders, School of Art and Design Photography
Navigating Difference: Understandings of Sexual Identification between Black Women

2003 Four Month Fellowship Awardees

Lauren Caldwell, Classical Studies

The Female Transition to Adulthood in the Early Roman Empire

 

Kim Clum, School of Social Work Doctoral Program (Joint in Social Work and Anthropology)

Relying on Personal Connections: an ethnographic exploration of the role of social resources in the socio-economic moblity prospects  

 

M. Teresa Macedo Pool, American Culture Program

Behind the Chair: Women, Work Culture and Identity among Hairstylists 

 

Nicholas L. Syrett, American Culture 

Dangerous Brotherhood: College Fraternities and the Product of Masculinity, 1825-1995 

2002 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Sara Goodkind, Social Work and Sociology 

"Gender-Specific" Services: A Qualitative Examination of Programs for Young Women in the Wayne County Juvenile Justice System

 

Mandeep Grewal, Urban & Regional Planning 

Planning for Information Dissemination to Immigrant Women in the U.S.: The Case of Asian Indians 

 

Joel Purkiss, Sociology 

White Masculinities and Their Idealized Others: Mapping Representations of Men of Color in British and U.S. Boy Scout Handbooks, 1908-1939 

 

Shannon White, Slavic Languages & Literature 

A World All Their Own: Popular Literature and the Adolescent Girl in Late Imperial Russia 

2001 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Melanie Boyd, English Language and Literature
Writing in the Danger Zone: Contemporary Narratives of Father-Daughter Incest

Maureen McDonnell, English Language and Literature
Crossing the Line: Race, Nationalism, and the Rape Victim in South African Shakespeare
 
Kathi Miner-Rubino, Psychology
Intervening Factors in the Relationship Between Workplace Gender Compositions and Outcomes
 
Joan Sitomer, Political Science
Under Construction:  The Production of State Narratives of the Sexuality of Black and White Rape Complainants in the Late 19th Century United States

2001 Four Month Fellowship Awardees

Monika Cassel, Program in Comparative Literature
The Poetess Abroad; German and American Receptions of the British Poetess

Laura Citrin, Psychology
Disgust, Moral Bodies & Social Hierarchies

John Collins, Anthropology
Residences & Residents: Gendered Moralities, Racialized Authenticity, and Cultural Patrimony in Brazil

Naisargi Dave,  Anthropology
The New Politics of Sexual Politics in India

Corrine McConnaughy, Political Science
When Opportunity Knocks: Embedding the Story of Woman Suffrage Adoption in the Context of Political Opportunity Structures

LaTissia Mitchell, English Language and Literature
Making Blackness Mean:  Death, Reproduction, and Narratives of the Black Body in Contemporary African American & Caribbean Literature

Cynthia Ramirez, Clinical Psychology
The Effects of Domestic Violence on the Mental Health of Latinas in the U.S. & Chile

Katherine Robinson, School of Nursing
Ramadhan Fasting Among Pregnant Muslim Women

2000 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Catherine Daligga, American Culture
Dependent on the Quality of its Motherhood:  The City of Detroit and the Merrill-Palmer Institute, 1920-1980

Kate Masur, American Culture
Reconstructing the Nation’s Capital:  The Politics of Race, Gender and Citizenship in the District of Columbia, 1862-1878

Karen Miller, History
Race, Gender and Urban Politics in Mid-century Detroit and National Policy

Molly Swetnam-Burland, Classical Art and Archeology
Art as Agency and Mediator in Roman Religious and Gender Systems

2000 Four Month Fellowship Awardees

Carita Anderson, Psychology
Sexual Feelings in Therapy:  A Program for Psychotherapy Trainees

Michele Champagne, English language and Literature
Wandering Tribes:  Locating the Gypsy in the National Imagination, 1800-1900

Julie Easton, Psychology and Women’s Studies
The Mothers of Sexually Abused Children:  The Role of Gender in Meaning-making

Leoeneda Inge-Barry, Natural Resources and Environment
The Incidence of Environmental Waste and Hazards in Mobile, Alabama:  The Case of
African Town USA

Andrew Ivaska, History
Citizenship, the Mini-skirt and Africa’s New Women:  Representations of Women in the Postcolonial Tanzanian Press

Shannon Manning, Epidemiology/Public Health
Molecular Epidemiology of Group B Streptococci

Tiffany Marra, Education
Girls Software as Cultural Practice

Alicia Merline, Psychology
Social Roles, Life Course Stages and Women’s Feelings About Their Appearance

1999 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Jean Borger, English
"I see and sing, by my own eyes inspired,": The Gender of Victorian Ekphrasis

Lisa Colarossi, Social Work/Psychology
Gender Differences in Social Support from Parents, Teachers and Peers: Implications for Adolescent Development

Colin Johnson, American Culture
Queer Theory and Local Color: Vernacular Constructions of Gender and Sexual Personhood in Rural America, 1865-1930

Mandana Limbert, Anthropology/Near Eastern Studies
Gender, Religious Knowledge and Education in Oman

Juanita Cabello, Women’s Studies, English
Gertrudis Bocanegra: Capturing the Imaginations of Women in Changing Oral Storytelling Landscape

1999 Four Month Fellowship Awardees

Niki Dickerson, Sociology
Structuring and Reproducing Inequality: Labor Market and Residential Segregation

Carolyn Frantz, Law
Legal Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa: Beyond the Delusion Model

Anna Lawrence, History
Evangelical Women in England and the American South, 1730-1830

Maureen McDonnell, Women’s Studies/English
Actor Training in a Cross-Cultural Context: Possibilities for Feminist Performance Studies

Colleen O’Brien, Women’s Studies/English
Facets of the Body and Images of Citizenship in African-American Women’s Text

Paula Ross-Durow, Nursing
Factors which Predict Psychological Functioning in Women Raped by Strangers

Kim Yaged, Theatre & Drama/Music
Verses

1998 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Rebecca Friedman, History
In the Company of Men: Student Life and Russian Masculinity, 1825-1855

Shannon Lynch, Psychology
Women’s Sense of Self in the Context of a Violent Relationship: Does Working Help?

Charlene Makely, Anthropology
Gendered Practices, Religious Revival and the State among Tibetans in the PRC

Krista Van Vleet, Anthropology
Unequal Exchanges: Kinship Performance, Marriage Practices, and Emotional Discourse among Quechua Speakers in the Bolivian Andes

1998 Four Month Summer Fellowship Awardees

Apollo Amoko, English
On Kenya as a Deeply Patriarchal Culture, Or Gender Difference in the Field of Colonial Knowledge

Sarah Bay, Theatre
Uncovering the Rose: A Creative and Theoretical Exploration in the Dramatic Works of Gertrude Stein

Elizabeth Dutro, Education
Literature Lived Between the Lines: Children Reading Gender With/in Popular Fiction

Meghan Hays, History
Schooling Women in the Nation: Women Teachers and the Quest for Women’s Education in Croatia, 1869-1914

Pamela Ramseyer, Political Science
Re-presenting Women and Their Interests: Women Workers, War Work and the Suffrage Debates in Great Britain, 1917-1918

Anna Ruiz-Bayon, Art and Design
The Figurine Project

Izumi Sakamoto, Social Work and Psychology
When Interdependent Selfways Meet Independent Selfways: Changing View of Self, Family   Obligation and the Sense of Guilt Among Japanese Academic Migrant Women in the U.S.

Dulcey Simpkins, Political Science
Sex Work, Money, Power: Gendered Political Economies of Development in Thailand

Nancy Wells, Architecture, Psychology
Participatory Housing: Its Effects on Low-Income Urban Mothers 

1997 Eight Month Fellowship Awardees

Lara Blanchard, History of Art
Visualizing Love and Longing in Sang Dynasty Paintings of Women

Susan Chimonas, Sociology, Certificate in Women’s Studies
Faces of Eve: Gender, Social Control, and the Moral Panic Over Day Care

Julie Hastings, Anthropology
Gendered Aggression: State Sponsored Rape and Domestic Violence in a Guatemalan Refugee Community

Kristina Milnor, Classical Studies, Certificate in Women’s Studies 
Making Place: Women, Space, and Society in the Early Roman Empire

1997 Four Month Summer Fellowship Awardees


Michelle Callahan, Psychology
Adolescent Coping with Dating Violence: The Roles of Race, Gender, and Psychological Well-Being

E. Summerson Carr, Anthropology and Social Work, Certificate in Women’s Studies
Assessing the Possibilities of Empowerment: The Collective Mobilization Narrative of a Homeless Women’s Committee

Carolyn Comiskey, History, Certificate in Women’s Studies
Daughters of Joan of Arc: Women, Catholicism, Patriotism, and Politics in France, 1894-1930

Coralynn Davis, Anthropology, Certificate in Women’s Studies
Engendering the Third World: The Development of Women at a Craft Producing Project in Nepal

Tracy Gonos, Law
New Frontiers in the Fight for Reproductive Freedom: Mandatory Testing and Compelled Antiviral Treatment of HIV and Pregnant Women

Elena Gutierrez, Sociology
The Racial Politics of Reproduction: The Social Construction of Mexicana/Chicana Fertility in Post-WWII California

Jennifer Robohm, Psychology
Sexual Assault: Psychological Implications for Survivors’ Health and Health Care Experience

Julia Routbort, Clinical Psychology
What Happens When You Tell: Women’s Experience of Disclosing Sexual Assault and Their Psychological Recovery

Jocelyn Stitt, English Language and Literature, Women’s Studies
Representing the Other: Nineteenth Century Afro-Caribbean and British Women’s Writings.

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