Committee on African Studies Awards Four Grants

The Committee On African Studies Awards Grants For Study In Africa

The Committee on African Studies has awarded grants for summer travel and study to four juniors planning to do research for their senior honors thesis in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Karen C. Kim, a women's studies concentrator, will travel to South Africa to study the Truth & Reconciliation Commission and the role of competing memories in the production of "truth." Kim is particularly interested in how the voice of women is or is not emerging in testimony before the Commission.

Marlyse McQuillen, a social anthropology concentrator, will travel to South Africa to study how the lives of South African workers in the wine industry have changed since the end of apartheid and will concentrate on topics such as land redistribution, changing labor relations, and private sector initiatives in asset sharing with employees.

Kate Nash, a history and science concentrator, with a history focus in colonial Africa and a science focus on biology/epidemiology, will travel to South Africa to explore the history of medical institutions on Robben Island from 1846 to 1931, the period before it became South Africa's infamous political prison.

Casey Recupero, a social anthropology concentrator, will travel to Botswana to study the contemporary relationship between alcohol consumption there and social identity and focus on the residents of Maun, a large settlement near the Okavango River Delta.