CAS Fellowship Award Highlights of 2024

October 25, 2024

Undergraduate Fellowships

Award for Best Undergraduate Thesis in African Studies

  • David Villani, History. Les Rouges et les Noirs: French Communism, African Nationalism, and the Creation of Post-War Anti-Colonialism.

Honorable Mentions

  • Haikun Liu, Economics. Altruism of Aid: Analysis of Canadian Official Development Assistance (ODA) into Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).
  • Nanaama Awotwe Arkorful, Interdisciplinary Studies (ISF). Good Governance: Effects on Enhancing Educational Access and Equity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Judy Geist and Carl Rosberg Undergraduate Research Grants

  • Lindsay Hatch, Linguistics. Atchan language documentation project.

Graduate Fellowships

Rocca Dissertation Research
  • Bhavya Joshi, Public Health. Reproductive Health Services and Needs of Refugees and Internally Displaced Women in Crisis.
  • Jane Mango Angar, Political Science. Variations in Victory: Exploring the Diverging Paths of Disability Rights Advocacy in Africa.
  • Katherine Culbertson, Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Investigating and overcoming barriers to rainforest restoration in eastern Madagascar.
  • Gustavo Capela, Anthropology. Waterfront Futures: an ethnographic inquiry of memory, place and environment in Port Harcourt, Nigeria.
  • Jonathan Tin-Jun Wu, Music, Ethnomusicology. Negotiating Contemporary China-Kenya Relations through Sonic Infrastructures and Musical Imaginaries.
  • Julia Gannon Raven, Political Science. The Origins of Ethnic Stacking: The design and durability of colonial militaries.
  • Olufunke Bamidele Fasawe, Public Health. Impact of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) on primary health care service delivery in Nigeria -- Evaluation of implementation in Kano state, Nigeria.
  • Purba Chatterjee, Public Health. Suicide Bereavement and Impact of Stigma on Help-Seeking Behavior in Nairobi, Kenya.
  • Sarah Idunu Abidla Daniel, Political Science. Living Apart: Assessing the Impact of Urban Segregation in East Africa.
  • Uyanga Byambaa, Economics. Cognitive enrichment and human capital development: Evidence from school intervention in Malawi.

Rocca Pre-dissertation Research

  • Matthew McGee, Integrative Biology. The ecological impact of anthropogenic disturbances on tropical forests in Madagascar.
  • William James Carter, Geography. Navigating Black Waters and White Fears: Aquatic Geographies of West and West-Central Africa and the Origins of Racialisation in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.