Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Names Fellowship Recipients

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) announces winners of the following fellowship competitions administered by the GSAS Director of Fellowships Cynthia Verba:

Whiting Fellowships go to outstanding students in the humanities, selected by a faculty jury chaired by Richard M. Hunt, University Marshal. Funded by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the fellowship offers a $14,500 stipend plus tuition for full-time dissertation work for an academic year. The l998-99 Whiting winners and topics are:

Corinne Ondine Pache, classics, "Baby Heroes in Ancient Greek Religions"

Sheung-yeun Daisy Ng, East Asian languages and civilizations, A study of the changing relationship between nostalgia and nationalism in the fiction and film of Hong Kong from the 1970's to the 1990's.

Rebecca Walkowitz, English, a study of "cosmopolitanism" as a style which theorizes identity in its modern forms.

Aimee H.C. Bessire, fine arts, an exploration of the impact of the missionary-founded Bujora Church and Museum on the ways that cultural memory is maintained and identity is formulated in the Sukuma community.

Lisa Pon, fine arts, an examination of how the concept of the artist as independent genius was inflected by the practice of making prints closely related to other works of art.

David Brandenberger, history, "'The Short Course to Modernity': Stalinist History Textbooks and the Construction of Popular Russian National Identity"

Patrice M. Dabrowski, history, An investigation of the Polish commemorations of famous events and people during the decades before the recreation of a Polish state (1879-1914), and the impact of these events on Polish national consciousness.

William Pannapacker, history of American civilization, "Revised Lives: Nineteenth-century American Autobiography and the Changing Self: Representations of P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman"

Susan Louise Cohen, Near Eastern languages and civilizations, The origin and nature of the Middle Bronze IIA city-states and their relationship with Middle Kingdom Egypt.

Katalin Makkai, philosophy, A study of the aesthetic conditions of languages in Kant's Critique of Judgment and Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.

Sara McClintock, religion, An historical investigation of the concept of omniscience in the systematic treatises of Mahayana Buddhism, especially the works of Santaraksita.

Edyta M. Bojanowska, Slavic languages and literatures, A study of Noklai Gogol's works in the context of Russian national identity, nationalism, and the establishment of a national literature.

The Eliot Fellowships, funded by a recent $l million gift from an anonymous GSAS alumnus, will help advanced students in the humanities and social sciences to shorten the time needed to complete their dissertations. The selection process was done jointly with the Whiting Fellowships, and offers similar financial benefits. In addition, the donor has generously indicated that a $3,000 dissertation completion incentive will be provided to all Eliot Fellowship recipients who are able to complete their work during the fellowship year. The 1998-99 Eliot Fellows and Topics are:

Marco Daniele Passerman, economics, Three essays on unemployment: a demonstation of how the previously unused wealth of information embodied in high frequency consumption dynamics can be exploited to better understand labor market transitions; an estimation and comparison of compensating wage differentials for unemployment risk in Europe and the U.S.; and a presentation of an innovative semiparametric method for estimating duration models.

Sara Paulson Eigen, German, An invesitgation of the effort by 18th century jurists, statesmen, scientists, and poets to identify the legal, biological, and imaginative factors capable of transforming a collection of humans into an ethical human community.

Mary Clayton Coleman, philosophy, An original account of what it is to have a reason to act modeled on the best account of what it is to have a propositional attitude.

Justyna Beinek, Slavic languages and literatures, "The Abum and Album Verse in the Culture of Russian and Polish Romanticism"

Monica McDermott, sociology, A study of the roots of working class thinking about race, class, and identity using participant observation work in predominantly working class communities in Atlanta and Boston and recently released survey data.

The Graduate Society Fellowships for Dissertation Completion are merit-based fellowships honor students in the humanities and social sciences, chosen from nominations submitted by the degree-granting deparments in these areas. There are three different Graduate Society fellowship categories, each relating to a key stage in progress toward the Ph.D. degree. The winners at the dissertation completion stage, Category III, are the following:

Karim Al-Zand, music

"The Improvisational Style of Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley," a project which attempts to characterize the late jazz saxophonist's solo style and to develop theories and analytical tools with broader applicability to aid in the investigation of improvised jazz more generally.

Jeffrey Bourns, linguistics

A linguistic analysis of the language of three Old Northumbrian poems.

Kathryn Ann Chadbourne, Celtic

Explores Otherworld processions in medieval Celtic literature and modern Irish and Welsh folklore.

Nani Clow, history of science

Examines the relationship of late-Victorian experimental physics with engineering, industry, and research in the period from 1881 to 1913.

Jeffrey Collins, history

A study of the political theory of Thomas Hobbes as it related to the historical context of the English Revolution generally, and Cromwell's regime particularly.

Giorgio DiMauro, Slavic Languages and Literatures

A study of the religious drama of pre-modern and Avant-Garde Russia through theories of liturgy and ritual.

Karina Galperin, Romance languages and literatures

Focuses on formal experimentation by Spanish authors of Jewish origin in the Renaissance, and examines their relation to Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Karl Gerth, history

Examines the National Products Movement in China, 1905-1937, through Chinese popular organizations established to link consumption and nationalism and to promote the creation of a national Chinese market that limited foreign participation.

Carolyn Gideon, public policy

Develops a general model of interconnection pricing for competition in networked industries, testing the model using evidence from the local telephone and Internet industries.

Seth Graebner, Romance languages and literatures

Historicizes the development of new modes of writing about the city in Paris and Algiers, and shows how North African writers have continued to use the city to focus their perception of colonial history.

Judson Herrman, classics

Studies the genre and historical content of Demosthenes' and Hypereides' Funeral Orations, to establish a new critical edition of both.

Heather Larson, Celtic Languages and Literatures

The woman's voice in medieval and modern Gaelic poetry.

Yue-June Liang, East Asian languages and civilizations

Re-definition of "landscape" poetry in the Chinese tradition.

Anna Ranero-Antolin, Sanskrit and Indian Studies

Study of the Mah_bh_rata, the oldest Epic poem of India, from a linguistic and literary point of view, focusing on the similes or comparisons.

Tonia Sharlach, Near Eastern languages and civilizations

Documents the economic ramifications of radical governmental change on the provinces of the Ur III state.

Angela Smith, philosophy

Addresses the question whether we can be held responsible and morally accountable for aspects of our character that seem to fall outside the scope of our immediate voluntary control - for example, emotions, desires, and other attitudes.

Marjut Ruti, comparative literature

"Subjective Fictions: Nietzsche, Freud, and the Aesthetics of the Self."

Mark Schiefsky, classics

A study of ancient Greek conceptions of scientific method, focusing on the Hippocratic treatise On Ancient Medicine and its intellectual context.

Shirley Thompson, history of American Civilization

"New Orleans' Creoles of Color: Race, Culture, and Language during the Civil War and Reconstruction," attempts to locate within the identity of the group, "Creoles of Color" some linguistic and racial challenges to Anglo-American nationalism.

Corinna Treitel, history (declined for another award)

Examines the history of the modern German occult revival from 1884 to 1937.

Daniel Wolfenzon, economics

Three projects concerning corporate finance/governance in developing countries: ownership structure of business groups; bundling of control and cash flow rights in the absence of a takeover threat; and the market structure of the Foreign Exchange Market and the Feds Funds Market.

Anne Wren, political economy and government (declined for another award)

Addresses the set of trade-offs between policy goals of equality, employment and fiscal restraint in the context of the transition to a post-industrial economy, noting significant variation in the paths which countries follow in the face of these trade-offs.

Graduate Society Fellowships, Categories I and II. The winners in the respective categories are the following:

Category I, Summer A, Grants for Language Study or Preliminary Dissertation Research

Irene Bloemraad, sociology; Susan Bronskill, health policy; Jonathan Conant, history; Brian Delay, history; Leor Halevi, Middle Eastern studies; Jeffrey Inaba, architecture; Hilla Jacobson, philosophy; Aaron James, philosophy; Asim Khwaja, economics; Gabriel Kaplan, public policy; Edward Mack, East Asian languages and civilization; Patricia Malone, Celtic; Christine Millet, East Asian languages and civilization; Joshua Salomon, health policy; Yu-chu Shen, health policy; Margaret Shih, psychology; Karen Thornber, East Asian languages and civilization; Qi Wang, psychology; Deborah Weinstein, history of science; Joel Westerdale, German.

Category II, Fellowships for Research on Approved Dissertation Topics; Term- time

Alan Gosman, music; Jennifer Hill, statistics; David Jones, history of science; Brent Kalar, philosophy; Thomas Kelly, philosophy; Nathaniel Keohane, political economy and government; Nicholas King, history of science; Jennifer Light, history of science; Theodore Proferes, Sanskrit; Jinbao Qian, history and East Asian languages; Kristin Sword, history of American Civilization.

Category II, Summer B

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, health policy; Justin Cammy, Near Eastern languages and civilization;Taras Koznarsky, Slavic; Jenny Lefcourt, Romance languages and literature; Omar McRoberts, sociology; Chandra Miller, history; Kenneth Norman, psychologoy; Jennifer Richeson, psychology; Christopher Woods, Near Eastern languages and civilization.

The Merit Fellowships honor prospective fourth-year students chosen from nominations submitted by each degree-granting department, division, and committee within GSAS. Students generally have maintained an "A" average, have passed their general examinations with highest honors, and have begun teaching and publishing their research. Income for the Fellowships comes from the Arthur Lehman Fund, the John Parker Fund, the John E. Thayer Fund, and the Christopher M. Weld Fund. Winners for 1998-99 are the following:

Karla Davis-Salazar, archaeology; Hector Arce, astronomy; Dianina Ekaterina, comp. lit.; Xavier Gabaix, economics; Bissera Pentcheva, fine arts; Elizabeth Richardson, health policy;

David Lubensky, physics; Adriane Seiffert, psychology; Esther Whitfield, Romance languages and literature; Timothy Harte, Slavic.

Fulbright Winners, Institute for International Education, 1998-99

Jeffrey Bayliss, Japan; Randall Bird, Madagascar; Christina Davis, Japan; Alexander Fisher, Germany (DAAD); Kathleen Gallagher, Nepal; Barak Kalfuss, Egypt; Susan Lanzoni, Germany; Karen Leal, Turkey; Virginia Han Moon, Korea; Richard Penglase, Brazil; Nathan Rein, Germany (DAAD); Kurtis Schaeffer, Nepal; Alternate: Karen Derris, Thailand

Fulbright-Hays Winners, Doctoral Dissertation for Research Abroad Program, 1998-99

Narquis Barak, Vietnam; Kathleen Gallagher, Nepal; Kurtis Schaeffer, Nepal; Susan Schomburg, India, Sri Lanka, UK; Robert Taliercio, Jr, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia; Caroline Fox, Kenya; Erica Razafimbahiny, Haiti; Taras Koznarsky, Ukraine. Alternate:Caroline Fox

Winners of the Kennedy, Knox and Sheldon Travelling Fellowships, 1998-99

Maurice Samuels, Romance languages and literatures; Renee Ann Richer, organismic and evolutionary biology; Erica James Razafimbahiny, social anthropology; Sean Greenberg, philosophy; Andrew Gossen, social anthropology; Alexander John Fisher, music; Susan Marie Lanzoni, history of science; Sarah Elizabeth Trombley, history; Andrew Herscher, architecture; Narquis Barak, social anthropology Alternates: Benjamin Graham Larkin, fine arts; Eric Andrew Kurlander, history; Karen Derris, religion; Matthew Laurence Jones, history of science; Amy Ilene Farber, social anthropology; Bonnie M. Meguid, government; Fred Schnabel, history; Eric C. Kansa, archaeology; Karen Alexander Leal, history and the Middle East

The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University made the following awards:

Rebecca Bennett, history; Andrew Gossen, anthropology; Jacques Hymans, government; Eric Kurlander, history; Susan Lanzoni, history of science; Paul Mapp, history; Bonnie Meguid, government; David Meskill, history; Maurice Samuels, Romance languages and literatures; Julia Torrie, history; Arash Abizadah, government; Liliana Botcheva, government;, Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas, sociology; Benjamin Frommer, history; Anna Grzymala-Busse, government; Brian Hanson, political science; Joshua Tucker, government; Corinna Treitel, history; Rebecca Weil, political science; Anne Wren, government; George Eliades, history; Lawrence Hamlet, government; Jenny Lefcourt, Romance languages and literatures; Istvan Majoros, government; Isabela Mares, government; Hiram Ramirez, government; Natalia Tsvetkova, government; Jeffrey Vanke, history

The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation has made an award to several students of GSAS:

Scott Karambis, English; Sianne Ngai, English, Jennifer Pitts, government; Corinna Treitel, history.

The Eisenhower World Affairs Institute has made an award to Mark Haefele, history.