Fellowship Recipients

Summer African Language Study Grant

2018

Crossley Pinkstaff, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

2017

John Walsh, Music.

Louise Nina Haug, History.

2016

Brandi De Leuze, French and Franchophone Literature.

Peter Vale, History.

Wolfgang Alders, Anthropology.

2015

Allyson Fritz, School of Welfare.

Brandi De Leuze, French and Franchophone Literature.

Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology.

Brittany Meche, Geography.

Erin Torkelson, Geography.

James Mizes, City and Regional Planning.

Naima Allcock, French.

Stephen McIsaac, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology.

African Research Travel Grant

2017

Catlan Reardon, Political Science.

Rocca Dissertation Research

2017

Adam Lichtenheld, Political Science. Making Migrations: The Coercive Use of Forced Displacement in Civil Conflicts

Brian Klein, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Mining for Territory: Access and Governance in Madagascar's Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector

Chase Arnold, History. Government Intelligence and the Fall of the First Republic of Ghana

Christine Wilkinson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Mapping critical areas of human-carnivore conflict in wildlife corridors of the Rift Valley, Kenya

Juliana Friend, Anthropology. The Pleasures of Pedagogy: Sex Education and Postcolonial Statecraft in Senegal

Justine Davis, Political Science. Consolidating Democracy: Violence, NGOs and Post-Conflict Democracy Promotion in Côte d’Ivoire

Melanie Thompson, Political Science. Party Politics and Women in Politics

Shakirah Hudani, City and Regional Planning. Urban environmentalism and environmental planning in Rwanda

Wolfgang Alders, Anthropology. Community, social inequality and globalization in Zanzibar, Tanzania: AD 1000-1850

2016

Aaron Young, City and Regional Planning. A Field of Meaning: The Urban Land Question in South Africa

Alexis Schaffler, Landscape Architecture. The emergence of multifunctional infrastructure in Johannesburg

Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology. Photography and urban transformation in Johannesburg, South Africa

Erin Torkelson, Geography. Black Tax: Gender and Generation in South Africa

James Mizes, City and Regional Planning. Marketing Dakar: The politics of value in urban West Africa

Kaitlyn Gaynor, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Wildlife ecology in shared spaces: Effects of human activity on animal behavior, distribution, and population dynamics in post-war Mozambique

Paul Thissen, Political Science. Legacy Institutions and Political Order in Weak States

Rachel Strohm, Political Science. Political impacts of welfare expansion in Africa

Stephen McIsaac, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. The Shifting Terrains of Violence and Trauma in Post-apartheid South Africa

2015

Adam Lichtenheld, Political Science. Forced migration as a weapon of war

Adeola Oni-Orisan, Anthropology. Miraculous Motherhood: Pentecostalism, Maternal Mortality, and the Fifth Millennium Development Goal in Southwest Nigeria

Annah Peterson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Critical ecology of Malagasy rosewood

Briana Abrahms, Environmental Science., Policy & Management. Movement ecology and conservation genetics of endangered African wild dogs in Southern Africa

Danny Choi, Political Science. Strongmen or Strawmen: Incumbent Survival in Emerging African Democracies

Erin Torkelson, Geography. The Black Tax: Gender, Generation and Youth Politics in South Africa

Lindsay Bayham, Sociology. Social Ties and Socio-economic Mobility in Ghana

Paul Thissen, Political Science. Order and violence on the edges of weak states: A study of institutional legacies

Selina Makana, African American Studies. Soldiering Women: Gender and Militarized Armed Struggle in Southern Africa and Cuba

Sylvan Herskowitz, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Causes and Consequences of Intensive Sports Betting in Uganda

Youssef Carter, Anthropology. "Remembering God: Religious Subjectivities, Spiritual Networks, and Diasporic Existence among African-American and Senegalese Muslims"

2014

Alice Sverdlik, City and Regional Planning. Infrastructure in Nairobi's Informal Settlements

Caroline Ritter, History. The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire in Africa

Cheryl Schmitz, Anthropology. Chinese economic and social practices in Angola

Cullen Goldblatt, Comparative Literature. Political Imagination in Historical Narratives (Thiaroye, Dakar and District Six, Cape Town)

David Dow, Political Science. Political Reconstruction Strategies after Civil War: Coercion, Administration, & Distribution

Hallie Wells, Anthropology. Malagasy Slam Poetry at the Intersection of Politics, Performance, and Transnational Circulation

Jason Price, Anthropology. Holy Ghost Inc: Inside a Malawian Ministry of Deliverance

Joseph Lample, Education. Educational Re-contextualization in Uganda

Joshua Williams, Performance Studies. Performance and Ecology in East Africa

Katherine Seto, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Fish, Fishers, and Fleets: Marine Resource Competition and the Impacts for Sustainability and Conflict in West Africa

Marlee Tichenor, Anthropology. Artemisinin and the Senegalese Fight against Malaria

Peter Dixon, Sociology. International Criminal Law, Transitional Justice, Global Governance, D.R. Congo

Sam Dubal, Anthropology. Against Humanity: Life, Violence, and Rebellion in an African Postcolony

Sarah Holcombe, Public Health. Legal Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia’s 2005 Reform of Criminal Code on Abortion

Tristan Nunez, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Hippopotamus Ecology and Conservation in a Changing Kenya

Victoria Massie, Anthropology. Transnational Uses of Genetic Ancestry Testing Among African Americans

Youssef Carter, Anthropology. Religious Subjectivities, Spiritual Networks, and Diasporic Existence among African-American and Senegalese Muslims

Zachary Burt, Energy and Resources Group. Drinking Water Access in Developing Countries

2013

Aharon de Grassi, Geography. Agricultural Investment and Accumulation in Post-Conflict Oil-Boom Angola

Allan Mugishagwe, Music. On Choreographing Productive Citizenship: The Cultural Work of Music in NGOs in Uganda

Caroline Ritter, History. The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire in Africa

Chelsea Johnson, Political Science. Implementing Peace: Power sharing in post-conflict societies

Jessica Crewe, Comparative Literature. Distant Reading: Narrative Theory at the Edge of Empire

Jonathan Cole, History. Medicalizing Maternity: Gender, Health, and the Politics of Reproduction in twentieth-century Senegal

Kathryn Fiorella, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Natural Resource Use, Livelihoods, and Health Outcomes: Interactions of fishery resources in Western Kenya

Merrill Baker-Medard, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Sunken Treasures: Marine Conservation & Gendered Resource Use During Madagascar's Political Crisis

Miriam Tsalyuk, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The Cultural Project of the Late British Empire in Africa

Nicole List, Geography. Negotiating Landed Inequalities: Politics of Urban Land Grabs in Senegal's Dakar Region

Peter Dixon, Sociology. Transitional Justice in the Congo

Rachel Niehuus, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. Institutions of Healing in the DRCongo

Tendro Ramaharitra, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Linking rural household's decision to land use and land cover change around Makira Protected Area, Madagascar

Zachary Levenson, Sociology. Surplus Cities: Transit Camp and Forced Removals after Apartheid

2012

Allan Mugishagwe, Music. The Cultural Work of Music in NGOs: Uganda

April Sizemore-Barber, Performance Studies. Over the rainbow? Constituting Queerness and Performing Nation in Post-(post)-Apartheid South Africa

Beth Rabinowitz, Political Science. Reversal of Fortune: Regime Strategies and Political (In)Stability in Cote d’Ivoire and Ghana, 1950-2000

George Willcoxon, Political Science. Insurgency and the State: Core Institutions under Extreme Stress

Jason Price, Anthropology. Mental Health Care Delivery in Malawi

Jeffrey Schauer, History. Imperial Ark: wildlife policy and colonial governance in East and Central Africa, 1890-1974

Jonathon Repinecz, French. Whose Hero?: Reinventing the Epic in French West African Literature

Joseph Godlewski, Architecture. History of Zoning Strategies in Calabar, Nigeria

Joshua Craze, Anthropology. Notions of territory in Abyei, Southern Sudan

Joshua Williams, Performance Studies. Performance and Political Violence in East Africa during the Cold War

Margaret Frye, Sociology/Demography. The Recursive Reconstruction of Future Aspirations in Southern Malawi

Miriam Tsalyuk, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Using satellite imagery to assess the impacts of herbivore distributions with application to rangeland management and conservation in Southern Africa

Oluwakemi Balogun, Sociology. Contesting Nationalisms: Gender, Globalization and Cultural Representation in Nigerian Beauty Pageants

Sharone Tomer, Architecture. Architectural Practices after Apartheid: Urban Imaginings and Nation Building in Cape Town, 1984 to 2010

Willa Friedman, Economics. Local Economic Conditions and Participation in the Rwandan Genocide

2011

Alice Kelly, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Putting the "Fortress" into Fortress Conservation: Militarizing State Control in Waza National Park, Cameroon

Allan Mugishagwe, Music. NGOs and Values Education: The Cultural Work of Music in Uganda

Brendan McSherry, Political Science. What impact will the Muslim Manifesto actually have on the 2010 General Elections?

Bruno Reinhardt, Anthropology. African modernity and the rhetoric of charisma: becoming a pastor in contemporary Ghana

Christopher Golden, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The interaction between natural resource use and human health outcomes in rural Madagascar

Jonathan Cole, History. In Sickness and in Health: Urban Space and the Social Contexts of Health and Disease in Dakar, 1914-1996

Kehinde (Kenny) Ajayi, Economics. School Choice and the Returns to Schooling

Leticia Cesarino, Anthropology. Biofuels in Brazil and Ghana

Sarah Sawyer, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Habitat Suitability and Landscape Connectivity in the Takamanda-Mone Region of Cameroon

Sarah Zimmerman, History. A Social History of West African colonial soldiers who served in French Empire

Steve Bellan, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Understanding the spatiotemporal distribution of wildlife disease with opportunistic surveillance and scavenger movement data:

Tobias Warner, Comparative Literature. Conceptions of Literacy and Literature in Senegalese Fiction, Poetry and Film

2010

Abdoulaye Sy, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Civil Conflicts and the Spread of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Sub Saharan Africa

Beth Rabinowitz, Political Science. A comparative analysis of changes in political stability in Ghana & Cote d'Ivoire, from 1950-2000

Dan Fahey, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. War in DR Congo, 1996-2008

Duncan Allard, Music. Popular Music and Urban Livelihood in Zimbabwe

Jonas Hjort, Economics. Development economics and female empowerment in East Africa

Joshua Dimon, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Strategic Institutions and Collaborative Extractives? A Paradox of Fossil Fuel Development and Community-Based Natural Resource Management in Mozambique

Marcel Paret, Sociology. Immigration and State-Economy Relations: A Comparative Study of Post-WWII Labor Systems in California and South Africa

Oluwakemi Balogun, Sociology. The Cultural Politics of Beauty Pageants in Nigeria

Steve Bellan, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Ecology of anthrax and scavengers in Etosha National Park

2009

Brendan McSherry, Political Science. Religion and Political Polarization in Tanzania

Carrie Cizauskas, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Ecology of anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia

Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group. Assessment of Community-Based Electric Micro-Grids as an Option for Off-grid Rural Electrification in Kenya

China Scherz, Medical Anthropology. Childhood and the Ethics of Care: Orphan Support and NGOs in Central Uganda

Duncan Allard, Music. Popular Music and Urban Livelihood in Zimbabwe

Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology. Social Marketing in Tanzania

Jay McEntee, Integrative Biology. The Diversification and Conservation of Eastern Arc Mountain Double-Collared Sunbirds

Jennifer Brass, Political Science. Surrogates for Government? NGOs and the State in Africa

Rachel Giraudo, Anthropology. Tourism and Cultural Heritage at the Tsodilo Hills, Botswana

Sarah Zimmerman, History. Social History of the Tirailleurs Senegalais in French Colonial Wars

2008

Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group. As if Institutions Matter: The Case of Rural Electric Mini-grids in Kenya

China Scherz, Medical Anthropology. Orphan Care and Children’s Rights in Uganda

Dan Fahey, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Post-Conflict Development in Uganda, 1986-2006

Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology. Publicity, Secrecy, and Medical Confidentiality in Zanzibar, East Africa

Jessica Leino, Economics. Essays on social service provision in developing countries: evidence from Kenya

Karen Weinbaum, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Sustainability of bushmeat hunting in Central Africa

LaToya Beck, African Diaspora Studies. Performing (Racial) Identity in Postcolonial India: Sidis, Blackness, and Diaspora

Mahad Ibrahim, Information Management. An Institutional Eye on ICT4D projects: How do institutional policies and practices reflect and affect utilization of Egyptian IT

Mark Massoud, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Law in a Failed State: Grassroots Legal Groups and Development in Sudan

2007

David Cohen, Archaeology. The Archaeology of Culture Contact on the Kalahari's Fringe, Botswana

Ethan Yeh, Economics. Sex Work as a Response to Risk in Kenya

Ippolytos Kalofonos, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine. HIV/ AIDS interventions in Central Mozambique

Jenny Aker, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Of Markets and Famines: Understanding Market Performance during the 2005 Niger Food Crisis

Mark Massoud, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. Law in a Failed State: Grassroots Legal Groups and Development in Sudan

Natoschia Scruggs, African Diaspora Studies. Engendering Somali Refugee Resettlement in Egypt and the United States

Wendy Turner, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Coinfections between gastrointestinal parasites and anthrax in ungulates of Etosha National

2006

Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. An investigation of land use and cover change dynamics using a multi-agent system model

Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Rethinking Conservation and Development in Madagascar

Charles Kirubi, Energy and Resources Group. Evaluating the Impacts of Modern Energy Services on Microenterprises in Kenya

Gaidi Faraj, African Diaspora Studies. Radical Black Underground

Ippolytos Kalofonos, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine. HIV/AIDS Interventions in Central Mozambique

Ivy Mills, History of Art. Sutura: Subalternity, Disclosure and the Gendering of the Senegalese Subject

Martha Johnson, Political Science. Unsettling the Bureaucracy: Presidential Leadership and State Institutions in Post-2000 Senegal

Michael Nelson, Political Science. African State Power: on the influence of African states in the international legal system

Rachel Robinson, Demography. An Analysis of African Responses to Rapid Population Growth

Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group. Public Services or Commodity Goods? The Social and Political Significance of Electricity Reforms in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Robin Turner, Political Science. States and markets revisited: nature tourism and the local political economy

2005

Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. An investigation of land use and cover change dynamics using a multi-agent system model

Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Rethinking Conservation and Development in Madagascar

David Cohen, Archaeology. Culture-contact at the Kalahari's edge; the archaeology of serfdom, trade, marriage, and poverty, Botswana, c. AD 500- AD 1500

George Wittemyer, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The Spatial and Social Structure of the Sumburu Elephant Population

Ivy Mills, History of Art. Sutura: Subalternity, Disclosure, and the Gendering of the Senegalese Subject

Kristin Reed, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Washing Ashore: The Tides of Oil Capitalism and Violence in Northern Angola

Laura Hubbard, Anthropology. Lusaka sounds, Johannesburg markets: making and selling culture in Southern Africa

Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group. Negotiating Reforms: The Politics of Urban Energy in Tanzania (Social and Political Significance of Energy Reforms)

Robert Bailis, Energy and Resources Group. Social and technical analysis of charcoal production in Narok, Kenya

Robin Turner, Political Science. Tourism and the local political economy in Kenya and South Africa

Ruth Uwaifo-Oyere, Agricultural and Resource Economics. Geopolitic and time differences in returns to education in Nigeria: fact or fantasy?

Saida Hodzic, Medical Anthropology. Sites of Contention: NGO Interventions against Female Genital Cutting in Ghana

Rocca Pre-dissertation Research

2017

Brittany Young, Geography. Climate Change Politics and Agriculture in Ethiopia

Nancy Ortiz, Public Health-Epidemiology. Birth Outcomes in Prenant Women and Infants in Mali: an analysis of the effects respiratory illness in high risk groups

Peter Vale, History. The Imagination of a Global Minerals Market in Colonial Congo 1899-1931

Susanna Berkouwer, Agriculture & Resource Economics. Essays in Development and Energy Economics

2016

Brian Klein, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Mining for Territory: Pressures, Practices, and Policy in Madagascar’s Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Sector

Brittany Meche, Geography. Geohistories of Securitization in the West African Sahel

Christine Wilkinson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Mapping Critical Regions of Human-Wildlife Conflict and Resource Use in Wildlife Dispersal Areas of Southern Kenya

2015

Chase Arnold, History. 20th Century Africa and International Intelligence

Kaitlyn Gaynor, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The effects of human settlement and activity on wildlife behavior and distribution in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique

Nicholas Rolle, Linguistics. Analyzing tone melodies in the languages of Nigeria: Case studies from Esan, Degema, Eastern Ijo, and Lake Kainji

2014

Adeola Oni-Orisan, Anthropology. Charismatic Childbirth: Pentecostalism, Maternal Mortality and the Fifth Millennium Development Goal in Southwest Nigeria

Annah Peterson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The political ecology of rosewood in Madagascar

Brittany Birberick, Socio-cultural Anthropology. South African Craft Art, Contemporary Art, and the Political

Stephen McIsaac, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. A Memory From the Future: Psychiatric Reform, Trauma, and Therapeutic Space in Postapartheid South Africa

2013

Erin Torkelson, Geography. Platinum and Power: Producing South Africa’s Uneven Geographies

Hallie Wells, Anthropology. Performance and Political Engagement in Malagasy Slam Poetry

Selina Makana, African American Studies. Unveiling the Voices of Women behind the Pan-African Movement: 1945-1970 West Africa

Tristan Nunez, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Hippopotamus Movement Ecology and Conservation

Victoria Massie, Anthropology. Use of genetic ancestry testing among the African Diaspora in transnational spaces

2012

Amy Wolfson, African American Studies. Voluntourism in Tanzania

Cheryl Schmitz, Anthropology. Cultural Politics and the Spirit of Chinese Capitalism in Angola

Francesca Nicosia, Anthropology. Global Health, Palliative Care and the Management of Pain in East Africa

Lindsay Bayham, Sociology. Migration aspirations and ICTs in West Africa

2010

Carrine Meyer, Public Health. Examing the Impact of New Aid Financing Models on Maternal Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

George Willcoxon, Political Science. Insurgency and the State in Africa: political violence and state capacity

Jeffrey Schauer, History. Imperial Ark: wildlife policy and colonial governance in East and Central Africa

Kathryn Fiorella, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. People, Wildlife, and Parasitic Worms: Health Impacts of Zoonotic Disease Transmission

Marlee Tichenor, Anthropology. A biography of anti-malarial pharmaceuticals and the institutions that surround them

Nicole List, Geography. Land sales and social inequality in Dakar

Rachel Niehuus, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology. State and Nonstate Actors in the Making of Health Policy in the Post-Conflict State

2009

Bob Bell, School of Information. Transnational diasporic networks

Kehinde (Kenny) Ajayi, Economics. Education, Employment and Household Decision-Making in Ghana

Merrill Baker-Medard, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Social and Environmental Impact of Gemstone Mining in Madagascar

Niels Tomijima, Energy and Resources Group. Methods of Disseminating Improved Energy Technologies Effectively and Efficiently: The KUUTE Stove in Tanzania

Owen Ozier, Economics. Long-term Impacts of Early Childhood De-worming

Patience Fielding, Graduate School of Education: Language & Literacy. Indigenous Languages and Globalization: The Case For Mungaka

Willa Friedman, Economics. African Development Economics

2008

Alice Kelly, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. People and Parks: An interdisciplinary study of community-based ecotourism in Cameroon

Mark Rosenberg, Political Science. Affective Beliefs and the Maintenance of Dominant Party Systems (South Africa)

Sarah Sawyer, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Applying habitat vulnerability, irreplaceability, and human-wildlife interactions to corridor design in West Africa (Cameroon)

Tobias Warner, Comparative Literature. The Transformation of Reading and Writing Practices in Senegal

2007

Brendan McSherry, Political Science. Radical Islam in Tanzania

Christopher Golden, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Trends of Bushmeat Consumption in Madagascar's Eastern Rainforests

Duncan Allard, Music. Citizenship, Land rights, and Musical Practices in Zimbabwe

Liza Buchbinder, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine. Youth Resiliency in West African Labor Market

Steve Bellan, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Scavenger Ecology and Anthrax Epidemiology in Etosha National Park

Tanya Jones, Sociology. Civil Society Mobiliation for AIDS Treatment in South Africa

Tendro Ramaharitra, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Model of Land Use and Land Cover Change, comparaison of different zones in the eastern rainforest of Madagascar

Thera Crane, Linguistics. Comparative Description and Documentation of Totela

2006

Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology. Reproductive/Human Rights, Contraception/Abortion, Statistical Technologies

Jade Sasser, Anthropology. HIV/AIDS and Mines in Madagascar

Joshua Dimon, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Rivers of Extraction, Rivers of Life: Extractive Capitalism and Rural Livelihoods along the Zambezi River, Mozambique

Rachel Giraudo, Anthropology. Identity and Heritage Among the Ju'hoansi at Tsodilo

Sarah Zimmerman, History. Sub-Saharan African Colonial Conscripts Participation in Maghribi Anti-colonial Wars

2005

Dan Fahey, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Environmental Protection and Post-Conflict Development in the Great Lakes Region of Africa

Jennifer Brass, Political Science. Theories of bureaucratic hollowing "informalization" and "privatization" in the African State.

Malini Ranganathan, Energy and Resources Group. Enhancing Energy Access in Senegal through Rural-Urban Interactions and Improved Bioenergy Sources

Mark Massoud, Jurisprudence and Social Policy. The Mobilization of International Law in Religious Societies: Cases of Sudanese NGOs

Rosalind Fredericks, Geography. Community Environmental Management in Dakar, Senegal

Sarah Staveteig, Sociology/Demography. Beyond Greed and Profit: The Socio-Political and Demographic Dynamics of Civil War in Contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa

2004

Christopher Blattman, Economics. Investigation of Effects of Global Trade and Aid Flows on East African Economic Development

Martha Johnson, Political Science. The relationship between newly elected political leaders and the existing national bureaucracy in situations of democratic transition

Mpho Matsipa, Architecture. Enclave Johannesburg: Mapping the Shadows of Fear

Nadege Clitandre, African American Studies. The Pace-Bound Contiuum and Articulations of Home in Haitian Literature

Rebecca Cover, Linguistics. Documentation and Description of the Badiaranke Language

2003

Ashtari Negar, Geography. Land policy, local government and cultural politics in peri-urban areas in Botswana.

Rosberg/Geist Undergraduate Research

2017

Rassidatou Sr Konate, MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program. Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer in Burkina Faso: Seeking Paths to Better Prevention Programs

2016

Kerby Lynch, African American Studies. Shadow of Myself: Defining Black Lesbian Genocide in a PostApartheid South Africa

2015

Emma Woolf, Linguistics. Documenting and describing Guébie

2014

Ashley Milller, Interdisciplinary Studies. Severe deficits in water and sanitation development in the Kenyan coastal province (specifically Kaloleni), prompting school absenteeism/gender inequity, increased health risk, and economic underdevelopment.

2013

Stephanie Danner, Economics and French. Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities in Mauritius

2012

Ernest Honya, Development Studies. Ketwea Bea Nswa: The Politics of Susu in Ghana

2010

Akash Patel, Political Economy. The 2010 World Cup's Effect on Xenophobic Violence in Cape Town

Christina Law, Public Health. Utility of bacteriophages as biocontrol agents for bacillus anthracis

2009

Grace Newman, Development Studies. Microfinance in Internally Displaced People Camps in Northern Uganda

Jocelyn Matthews, Middle Eastern Studies. Issues of Representation in African Dance

2008

Curtis Boyd, History. The Reintegration of Former Soldiers in Sierra Leone

Evan Wu, Economics., Statistics., Spanish. Applying Friedman Liberalism to South Africa: China's Role in South African Development

2007

Nick Broten, Political Economy of Industrial Societies. Aid, Implementation, and Tradition in a Ugandan NGO

Peter Schulte, Conservation and Resource Studies/Comparative Literature. Aquaculture and the Decline of Marine Fisheries in Ghana

2006

Ileita Lafitte, Anthropology. A Nation Can Rise No Higher than its Woman": A Closer Look at the Gender Equality Movement in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Khieu Thi Tran, Sierra Leone: Finding the Lost Generation in Dislocated Spaces

FLAS - Academic Year

2013

Andrew Crane-Droesch, Energy and Resources Program.

Dylan Isaacson, Public Health.

Erin Milner, Public Health.

Paul Thissen, Political Science.

Rita Cuckovich, Public Health.

Rose Calnin, Public Health.

Tiffany Clarke, Public Health.

Vanessa Reed, Agricultural and Resource Economics.

2012

Andrew Crane-Droesch, Energy and Resources Program.

Caitlin Scholl, Comparative Literature.

Caroline Ritter, History.

Diana Gergel, History.

Dylan Isaacson, Public Health.

Jessica Clarkson, Peace and Conflict Studies.

Julie Freccero, Public Health.

Rachel Jamison, Law.

Rachel Niehuus, Anthroplogy/Medical Anthropology.

Rena Lipkowitz, Public Health.

Rose Calnin, Public Health.

Sara Adelman, Development Studies.

Vanessa Reed, Agricultural and Resource Economics.

2011

Andrew Crane-Droesch, Energy and Resources Program.

Caitlin Scholl, Comparative Literature.

Casey Rogers, City and Regional Planning.

Diana Gergel, History.

Jacobus Van Der Merwe, City and Regional Planning.

Margaret Frye, Sociology/Demography.

Matthew Gichohi, Political Science.

2010

Amanda Wheeler, Public Health.

Bob Bell, School of Information.

Eloise Bertrand,

Joseph Gaston,

Karen Weidert, Public Health.

Suzanne Bell, Public Health.

Vanessa Roderick, Linguistics.

Zoe Chafe, Public Health.

2009

Aharon de Grassi, Geography.

Jason Price, Anthropology.

Nicole List, Geography.

Niels Tomijima, Energy and Resources Group.

2008

Anjali Gupta, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Jessyka Finley, African Diaspora Studies.

Jonathan Cole, History.

Laura Swift, Public Health.

Merrill Baker-Medard, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Niels Tomijima, Energy and Resources Group.

2007

Benjamin Bellows, Public Health.

Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology.

Karen Weinbaum, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Malika Crutchfield, African Diaspora Studies.

Tanya Jones, Sociology.

2006

Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology.

Katy Guimond, Geography.

Naim Darghouth, Energy and Resources Group.

Rosalind Fredericks, Geography.

Tanya Jones, Sociology.

Thera Crane, Linguistics.

Tobias Warner, Comparative Literature.

2005

Brendan McSherry, Political Science.

Duncan Allard, Music.

Erin Mahaffey, Anthropology.

Ippolytos Kalofonos, Medical Anthropology/Public Health/Medicine.

Michael McElroy, Public Health.

Naim Darghouth, Energy and Resources Group.

Rachel Giraudo, Anthropology.

Rosalind Fredericks, Geography.

2004

Amanda Riley, Public Health.

Elizabeth Boner, Education.

Erin Brock, UC/UCSF MDPhD Program.

Martha Johnson, Political Science.

Rachel Giraudo, Anthropology.

Rebecca Tanner, Law.

Renee Kuriyan, Energy and Resources Group.

Sadie Ryan, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Sarah Zimmerman, History.

Zakiyyah Jackson, African Diaspora Studies.

2003

Amanda Riley, Public Health.

Andrew Lyons, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Andrew Simpson, Linguistics.

Benjamin Gardner, Geography.

Carrie Decker, History.

Ivy Mills, History of Art.

Lesley Bennett, Public Health.

Libby Lewis, African Diaspora Studies.

Martha Johnson, Political Science.

Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group.

Sadie Ryan, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Sean Brennan, Public Health.

2002

Andrew Simpson, Linguistics.

Benjamin Gardner, Geography.

Catherine Corson, Environmental Science, Policy & Management.

Ivy Mills, History of Art.

Jeff Good, Linguistics.

Laura Hubbard, Anthropology.

Rebecca Ghanadan, Energy and Resources Group.

Xavier Livermon, African Diaspora Studies.

FLAS - Summer fellowships

2010

Catherine Appert,

Jonathan Cole, History.

Jonathon Repinecz, French.

Rachel Flamenbaum,

Robia Charles Farrell, Political Science.

2009

Reginold Royston, African American Studies.

2008

Aharon de Grassi, Geography. Relations between Agrarian Dynamics and State Formation in Angola

Anjali Gupta, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The Elephant Question: An Ethnography of Environmental Imaginaries in Chobe Enclave Community Trust, Botswana

Jasmine Johnson, African Diaspora Studies. Embodied Utterances: Investigating Performances of Africa Through West African Dance Classes (Ghana)

2006

Carrie Cizauskas, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Ecology of Anthrax in Etosha National Park, Namibia

Cole Burton, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Protected-area effectiveness and the landscape context of mammal conservation in Ghana

Karen Weinbaum, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Human/Wildlife dynamics at the Congo Basin forest margin

Michael Wasserman, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Primate Response to Protected Area Boundaries in western Uganda: Using Field Endocrinology to Examine Forest Edge Effects

Nathan McClintock, Geography. Peri-Urban Agriculture in Bamako and Dakar

2004

Wendy Turner, Environmental Science, Policy & Management. The ecology of anthrax in a community of herbivores in Etosha National Park, Namibia