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• Lo Ferguson, M.A. ’20 in Women’s and Gender Studies, Receives Full Tuition Scholarship to University of Pennsylvania Law School as a Public Interest Scholar

  

  Lo Ferguson (Photo courtesy of Ferguson)

  Ferguson, whose research focuses on transgender college students, wants to work "on things like access to health care and housing for the LGBTQ community, and at a level that will enact more systematic change." Read more

• Prestigious NIH Grants Support Neuroscience Research by Susana Mingote and Orie Shafer

  

  Susana Mingote and Orie Shafer

  Shafer will study how different neurotransmitters released by the same neuron mediate different functions within our circadian clocks. Mingote will investigate neurons that release both dopamine and glutamate, and their relation to disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s.  Read more

• ‘Pending and Insistent Research Questions’ About Sustainable Development in Paraguay Led Alumna Christine Folch to a 2021 Carnegie Fellowship

  

  Christine Folch (Photo courtesy of Folch)

  Folch will use the $200,000 fellowship to spend 14 months in Paraguay, shadowing social entrepreneurs who are finding ways to balance poverty alleviation and development with environmental protections in the midst of climate change Read more

• Elliot Wiseman Receives an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to Study How Crimes Are Reported by Detectives

  

  Elliot Wiseman (Photo courtesy of Wiseman)

  Wiseman will join the Anthropology program to study the narratives created and used by detectives during investigatory police work. Read more

• Drag and Flamboyant Performance Art Are Like ‘Bread and Butter’ to Aerialist and Art History Scholar Jack Crawford

  

  Ph.D. candidate Jack Crawford performing as an aerialist. (Photo credit: Adad Hannah)

  Crawford is channeling her interest in drag and burlesque into her doctoral dissertation. Read more

• ‘It’s About Poverty’: Jama Shelton (Ph.D. ’13, Social Welfare) on the Structural Forces Behind LGBTQ+ Youth Homelessness

  

  Jama Shelton (Photo courtesy of Shelton)

  "I wanted to focus more on policy and research and try to make more of a structural impact," says Jama Shelton. Read more

• Urban Education Student and Women of Color Archive Founder Awarded AAUW Fellowship for ‘Searching for Mami & Abuelita’

  

  Wendy Barrales (Photo courtsey of Barrales)

  Wendy Barrales is also the founder of Women of Color Archive (WOCArchive) a “storytelling project that seeks to preserve the stories of our matriarchs, femmes, and non-binary folks of color.” Read more

• ‘Consider Your Colleagues Your Mentors, Not Your Competition’: Allison Guess on Completing Her Dissertation During the Pandemic and Landing a Tenure-Track Position at Williams

  

  Allison Guess (Photo courtesy of Guess)

  "I hope to inspire more inquiry on the early Black Atlantic through my teaching, mentoring, and research," says Class of 2021 graduate Allison Guess.  Read more

• Two Philosophy Ph.D. Candidates Are Named 2021 Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellows

  

  Philosophy Ph.D. candidates Shannon Brick and Alex Steers-McCrum will each receive $27,500 for the final year of dissertation writing.  Read more

• Two Graduate Center Anthropology Students Win Fulbrights

  

  Evan Mann and Carly Batist

  Ph.D. candidates Carly Batist and Evan Mann won 2021–2022 Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants.  Read more