Weatherhead Center Names Winners of Travel Grant Competition

The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs named seven juniors the 1998-99 Undergraduate Associates of the Center. Five students have received summer travel grants to support senior thesis research on topics related to international affairs, and two students have been named honorary awardees.

The awardees, their fields of concentration, and their areas of research are as follows:

Halbert Jones (history), sponsored by the Harvard International Relations Council, will travel to Spain and Mexico to conduct an investigation of the factors that resulted in different Spanish and Mexican responses to U.S. expansionism in the 1850s.

Karen Kim (women's studies), sponsored by the Harvard International Relations Council, will conduct research in South Africa on media, nongovernmental organization, and survivor response to the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to be issued this summer.

Navin Narayan (social studies), sponsored by the Julian M. Sobin Fund, will investigate the effectiveness of the nongovernmental organization response to child labor in Bangalore, India.

Erica Simmons (social studies) will travel to various locations in the southwestern United States and Mexico to conduct an evaluation of the role of the institutions created by NAFTA in mitigating the environmental impact of free trade along the U.S.-Mexican border.

Jessica Wolf (East Asian studies), sponsored by the Julian M. Sobin Fund, will explore how the interactions of Japanese domestic demands, foreign demands, and the Ministry of Health and Welfare's policy goals affect U.S.-Japan negotiations regarding the deregulation of the Japanese pharmaceutical industry.

Audrey Lee (government) will research the shift in the British Labour Party's attitude toward European integration from one of opposition in the early 1980s to mid-'80s to one of clear endorsement in the late 1980s.

Celia Whitaker (history and Romance languages) will study gender relations during World War I in northeastern France along the warfront and border with