Jane Grant Dissertation Fellow

• Meagan Evans, Graduate Student, English, “Sounding Silence: Twentieth-Century Feminist Poetic Innovation”

Laurel Research Awardee

• Rupa Pillai, Graduate Student, Anthropology, “Indo-Caribbean Gender Negotiation in New York City” Faculty Mentor, Philip Scher, Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology

Graduate Research Grantees

• Genevieve Roesler Beecher, Graduate Student, International Studies, “Negotiating Identity with Heritage: Understanding Race, Ethnicity, and Gender for Chinese American Study Abroad Students in China”
• Brian Cook, Graduate Student, Theatre Arts, “(In)famous Angel: The Cherub Company and the Problem of Legacy”
• Emily Gilkey, Graduate Student, History, “Lover, Husband, Friend: Marriage and Infertility in 19th-Century Lyon”
• Brian Alan Guy, Graduate Student, Political Science, “Code Violations: Men, Gender Inequality, and the Contentious Politics of Senegal’s Family Code”
• Linda Konnerth, Graduate Student, Linguistics, “The Status of Women in Karbi Society: Evidence from Oral Literature, Customs, Interviews, and the Karbi Lexicon”
• Laura Gerard Massengale, Graduate Student, International Studies, “Gendered Identities and Associational Life of the Peul in the Paris Ghettos”
• Miwako Okigami, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “Flowers in Utopia: Japanese Girls’ Gender Identities and Romantic Friendship in Girls’ Illustrated”
• Bryce Peake, Graduate Student, Anthropology, “Silence Beyond Absence: the Gendered Politics of Hearing Nothing in Urban Gibraltar”
• Katie Rodgers, Graduate Student, Sociology, “Who Am I Now? Understanding Identity Transformations of Professional Football”
• Yu Zhang, Graduate Student, East Asian Languages and Literatures, “The Female Rewriting of Grand History: Tanci Fiction Jing zhong zhuan (The Biography of Yue Fei)”

Faculty Research Grantees

• Yvonne Braun, Assistant Professor, Women’s and Gender Studies, and International Studies, “Selling the River: Gender, Commodification, and Violence in Large-Scale Development”
• Kaori Idemaru, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures, “Languages of Gothic and Lolita Girls and Herbivore Boys in Japan”
• Michelle McKinley, Assistant Professor, School of Law, “Conjugal Chains and Illicit Intimacies: Virtue, Concubinage and Freedom in 17th-Century Lima”
• Geraldine Moreno, Professor Emerita, Anthropology, “Eating on the Edge: Thai Voices of Food Insecurity”
• Cecilia Enjuto Rangel, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, “Weaving National and Gender Politics: The Transatlantic Poetics of Rosalia de Castro and Julia de Burgos”
• Helen Southworth, Associate Professor, Clark Honors College, “An Experiment in Women’s Biography: A Biography of Francesca Allinson (1902-1945)”
• Leslie Steeves, Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, “Gender, Technology and Education for Development: A Case Study of the One Laptop Per Child Project and Information and Communication Technologies in Ghana”