2006-2007 University and Bevier Fellows

Recipients

Humanities

Diana Botea — French
Performative Space in Fin-De-Siècle Paris: Text and Performance from Mallarmé
and “La Plume” To Jarry and “Le Mur”

Samuel Cumming — Philosophy
Proper Nouns

Carmen Khair — History
Defining Spaces: Elite Egyptian Identity Formation and Cultural Exchange in Cairo, 1867-1919

Patricia Zalamea — Art History
Myth, Identity and Artistic Origins in Sixteenth-Century French Court Imagery

Sciences

Jennifer Krumins — Ecology and Evolution
Experimental Studies of Biodiversity in Microbial Communities

Fara Lindsay — Geological Sciences
Geochemical Characteristics of Isla De Ometepa, Nicaragua and Cerro Mercedes, Costa Rica

Alexander Strehl — Computer Science
PAC Exploration in Reinforcement Learning

Chris Stucchio — Mathematics
Selected Problems in Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics

Social Sciences

Alexandra Hoerl — Political Science
The Necessity of Inspiration and the Crisis of Modern Political Communication

Jenna Howard — Sociology
Recovering From Recovery: The Temporal Dynamics of Disorder Identities

Noelle Molé — Anthropology
Protection and Precariousness: Workplace “Mobbing” and Gender in Neoliberal Northern Italy

Benjamin Neimark — Geography
Industrial Heartlands of Nature: The Political Economy of Bioprospecting in Madagascar

Undergraduate

Nicholas Molnar — History

Alternates

Humanities

Robert Alegre — History
Railway Workers’ Identities and the Construction of Post-Revolutionary Mexico

Tatjana Aleksic — Comparative Literature
Defining the Nation: Myth and History in Contemporary Greek and Serbian Novels

Kathryn Steele — Literatures in English
Navigating Interpretive Authorities: Women Readers and Reading Models
In Eighteenth-Century England

Dennis Whitcomb — Philosophy
Intellectual Goods: The Nature of Epistemic Value

Sciences

Katherine Lepis — Plant Biology
Revision of Chelonanthus (Gentianaceae:Helieae): Implications of Taxonomy, Evolution and Conservation

Neelima Sehgal — Physics and Astronomy
Cosmology from Multi-Wavelength Observations of Galaxy Clusters

Melissa Stickle — Biomedical Engineering
Development of an Organic Field Effect Transistor for Biosensing

Social Sciences

Zenzele Isoke — Women’s and Gender Studies
The Political Spaces of Black Women in the City: A Case Study of How U. S. Black Women’s
Participation in Social Networks Enable Mobilization in Urban Communities

Vanina Leschziner — Sociology
Cultural Creation: A Sociological Analysis of Creation in the Culinary Sphere