2011 CSWS Research Grant and Fellowship Awardees

Meagan Evans

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship

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

2011 Laurel Research Award

  • Rupa Pillai, Graduate Student, Anthropology; “Indo-Caribbean Gender Negotiation in New York City” Philip Scher (Faculty Mentor; Associate Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology)
2011 CSWS Graduate Research Grant Awards
  • 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)”

2011 CSWS Faculty Research Grant Awards

  • 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”