May
7, 2004
Global
Studies Fellowships Announced
Eight Mount Holyoke
students have been awarded and have accepted Global Studies
Summer Fellowships. These awards provide partial funding for
students to conduct independent studies abroad this summer
in close collaboration with either College faculty or outside
experts in the student’s field of interest. According
to Eva Paus, director of the Institute for Global Initiatives
and professor of economics, the fellowship program is intended
to promote students’ understanding of global issues.
The award winners span a wide range of academic fields, from
philosophy to astronomy to economics.
Adwoa Ampofo ’06 will be working with the Women’s
Network, a national humanitarian NGO in Rwanda, studying the
role of women in Rwanda’s reconstruction process. She will
write an independent paper under the supervision of a faculty
member at the School of African and Oriental Studies in London,
where she will be studying in the fall.
Elizabeth Hamlin FP will attend a weeklong conference in England with the world’s
preeminent experts on Lyme disease and spend the remainder of the summer conducting
research with a Lyme disease specialist-physician in Connecticut. Her work will
form the basis of a senior thesis supervised by anthropology professor Lynn Morgan.
Kylie Hanify ’06 and Yarrow Rothstein ’06 will research Martian meteorites
at Imperial College, London, with Phil Bland, a research collaborator of Darby
Dyar, associate professor of astronomy and geology.
Emily Pratt ’06 will do an independent study on arctic climate change in
Norway under the supervision of Al Werner, associate professor of geology, who
will be directing a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for
Undergraduate (REU) program there.
Beth Robertson ’05 will study Bhutanese refugees in Assam, India, where
Julia Jean, visiting assistant professor of anthropology and Robertson’s
faculty supervisor, is conducting her own field research.
Denitsa Tsankova ’05 will work in the libraries of prominent economic research
institutes in Madrid studying in-house analyses of how Spain’s accession
to the EU in 1986 has affected the country’s economic development. She
will be in email communication with her adviser, Eva Paus, over the summer and
write a senior thesis on the topic in the fall.
Ekaterina Vavova ’05 will study epistemic limits with members of the philosophy
department at the University of Melbourne, Australia, where the most exciting
work in epistemology is taking place. She will continue her studies through a
senior thesis with Lee Bowie, philosophy professor and dean of the College.
In addition to producing written theses or research reports, the students will
give oral presentations of their work to a department or program gathering. Eva
Paus is pleased with the high quality of the projects. “It’s a very
exciting initiative,” she said. “I am only sorry that we could not
fund more of the 22 wonderful applications we received.”
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