| This year, over two-hundred students applied for dissertation-year fellowships, the highest number in the GC’s history. The competition was extraordinary, and the panelists, who devoted a great deal of time to reviewing and discussing the proposals, noted their overall high quality. Due to economic constraints, the GC was able to offer thirty-three awards, a smaller number than in past years. The winners are listed below along with their program, the proposed title of their dissertation, and the name and amount of the award. Please note: awards marked with + include in-state tuition.
Isil Anil (Political Science), Political Integration of Turks in the US and the Netherlands: A Comparative Study of the Role of Turkish Immigrant Organizations, European Union Studies Center Dissertation Fellowship ($10,000).
Ian Bickford (English), The Thief of Paradise: Milton and Seventh-Day Adventism, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Dissertation Proposal Award ($2,000).
Taina Carogol (Art History), Boom and Dust: Defining Latin American Art from New York Collections, Exhibitions, and Auction Houses, 1970s–1980s, William Randolf Hearst Dissertation Award ($8,000).
Leah Cohen (Biochemistry), Structure Determination of a Double Transmembrane Fragment of the G Protein-coupled Receptor Ste2p in Membrane Mimetic Environments, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Helen Decker (English), Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes: Side by Side: The Double-Sided Pages Written During Their Marriage Years, 1956–62, Leon Levy Center for Biography ($22,000).
Garrett Eisler (Theatre), Performing Wartime Zionism: We Will Never Die, A Flag is Born, and the Jewish-American Cultural Front, Randolph Braham Dissertation Fellowship ($5,000).
Blake Howe (Music), Problematic Embodiments: Locating Disability, Disfigurement, and Disease in Music, Mario Capelloni Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+).
Reem Jaafar (Physics), Spin phonon effects in nanomagnets, Mina Rees Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Jing Jing (Chemistry), Electrochemistry and Spectroelectrochemistry of Lanthanide Polyoxometalates, Rose K. Rose Dissertation Award in Chemistry ($5,000).
Matthew Johnson (Computer Science), Algorithmic Problems in Sensor Networks and Elsewhere, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Anoulak Kittikhoun (Political Science), Of Rule and Performance: The Enduring Allure and Legitimacy of Authoritarianism in East Asia, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Mehrdad Kheiripour Langroudi (Engineering), Rheological Behavior of Dense Granular Matter, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Lars Kokkonen (Art History), John Martin (1789–1854) and the Mechanics of Making Art in a Commercial Nation, Leon Levy Center for Biography ($22,000).
Clayton McCarl (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures), Edition, with introduction and notes, of Piratas y contrabandistas de ambas Indias (Pirates and Smugglers of the East and West Indies, 1693), by Fancisco de Seixas y Lovera (1650–c.1705), Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Paul Naish (History), Looking at Latin America, Thinking about the United States: The Construction of U.S. Nationalism through Comparisons with its Southern Neighbors, 1826–61, Altman Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Enrique Lanz Oca (Earth and Environmental Sciences), Dynamiting Dams and Exploding American Myths about Nature: The Elwha Dam Removal Plan, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Krystal Perkins (Psychology), Acceptance of injustice among African Americans as a function of ideology and social comparison processes, MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+).
Janet Reilly (Political Science), The Role of Diasporas in Peacebuilding, Athena Pollis Fellowship ($10,000).
Patricia Ruiz-Navarro (Psychology), Orientation to Homeland: Understanding Permanent Settlement and Transnational Parenting Decisions among Mexican Migrant Mothers, Mellon Dissertation Fellowship ($22,000).
Noam Scheindlin (Comparative Literature), The Bungled One: Failure and the Fictional Impulse, Carell Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+).
Hyewon Shin (English), Materiality of the Medium and Mapping of the Virtual Subject in Richard Powers, Shelly Jackson, and Mamoru Oshii, Ford Foundation Award ($2,000).
Christopher Swift (Theatre), Theatres of Absence: Seville, 1248–1550, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Ashleigh Thompson (Urban Education), College Students with Learning Disabilities in New York City: A Mixed Methods Study on Social Class and Success, Harold M. Proshansky Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Julia Tomassilli (Psychology), Navigating Sexuality in the Stigmatized Context of HIV/AIDS: A Study of HIV-Positive Men and Women in New York City, Ford Foundation Award ($2,000).
Laura Villa (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures), Spelling Communities: Controversial Orthographies and the Construction of (Trans)National Identities in the Spanish-Speaking World, Martin Spiaggia Dissertation Award ($5,000).
Lawrence Waldron (Art History), Islands Float Away, MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+).
Marcos Wasem (Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Languages and Literatures), Anarchist Literature in Spanish American Modernismo: The Works of Roberto de las Carreras, Lane Cooper Dissertation Fellowship ($17,000).
Karen Weiser (English), Authority and Self-Authorship: Elective Orphanhood in Post-Revolutionary America, 1789–1859, Mellon Dissertation Fellowship ($22,000).
Craig Willse (Sociology), From Social Problems to Governance Problems: Health and Housing After the Welfare State, Sponsored Dissertation Fellowship ($18,000+).
Nathan Woods (Anthropology), The Institutional Growth of the Environmental Sciences, 1950-2008, MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+).
John Wriggle (Music), Harlem on Broadway: Popular Music arranging in Swing Era New York, Martin E. Segal Dissertation Award ($18,000).
Damaris Yamoah (Biology), Impact of Odors on Paternal Responsiveness and Associated Neuronal Activity in “Expectant” Male Prairie Voles (Microtus ochrogaster), a Monogamous Species, MAGNET Dissertation Fellowship ($20,000+).
Bree Zuckerman (Political Science), Can’t Stop the Party: Elections and the Dynamics of Regime Endurance in Zimbabwe, Ralph Bunche Dissertation Fellowship ($12,000).
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