HARVARD GAZETTE ARCHIVES

Dissertation fellowships in the amount of $17,500 were awarded to three graduate students. At the undergraduate level, CAPS awarded eight research grants of $2,500 to juniors who are writing senior honors theses. In addition to receiving a research grant, CAPS undergraduate fellows may also participate in an informal thesis writing group and draw upon the advice of mentors from the previous class of undergraduate fellows.

The 2005-06 CAPS Dissertation Fellowship winners are as follows:

Leah Platt Boustan (economics, G-4): "From 'White Fight' to 'White Flight': Racial Residential Segregation in Historical Perspective"

Cybelle Fox (sociology and social policy, G-5): "Latinos, Immigration, and the Politics of Welfare"

Dan Hopkins (government, G-3): "The Politics of Urban Disadvantage: Social Diversity and Public Investment in U.S. Cities"

The 2005-06 CAPS Undergraduate Fellows are as follows:

Luke Appling (government): "The Effect of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Political Participation"

Jennifer Bennett (history and economics): "Portuguese Labor Importation into Hawaii, 1877 to 1913"

Mae Bunagan (social studies and women, gender, and sexuality): "Raising Their Voices: Participatory Citizenship among Immigrant Women in New York City"

Ryan Delahoyde (government): "Bigger Is Not Always Better: Impacts of Consolidation Policies on Rural Education in North Dakota"

Joseph Green (social studies): "Class Consciousness in Exurbia"

Joseph Hanzich (government, certificate in health policy): "A Perplexing Prescription: An Analysis of the Passage of the Medicare Prescription Drug Modernization and Improvement Act of 2003"

William Martin (government): "Urbanism and Metropolitan Activism: How Does the Built Environment Affect Participation in Local Politics"

Whitney Satin (social studies): "Polluting the Vote: How Environmental Policy and Pollution Affect Voting Behavior in Louisiana's 'Cancer Alley'"