2007-2008 University and Bevier Fellows

Recipients

Humanities

Carolina Giraldo Botero — History
Excess in Seventeenth-Century Lima and Santa Fe de Bogota

Francis Edward Fletcher III — Art History
Mantegna’s Fictive Reliefs for Isabella d’Este: Painting as Moral Philosophy and the Humanist Language of Historical Inquiry in the Renaissance

Bliss Kern — Literatures in English
Social Virtues and Domestic Arrangements in the 18th-Century Novel, 1740-1770

Jessica Rett — Linguistics
Degree Modification in Natural Language

Sciences

Diana David-Rus — Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Systems Biology and Modeling Approaches to Gain New Insight Into the Biology of Aging and Healthspan Extension

Timothy Edmunds — Computer Science
 

Melissa Stickle — Biomedical Engineering
An In-Situ Study of Organic Field Effect Transistors for Gas Sensing

Jessica Ware — Entomology
Evolutionary Success in the Most Speciose Group of Dragonflies, Libelluloidea

Social Sciences

Thomas E. DeGloma Jr. — Sociology
The Culture of Survivorhood: Contested Traumas, Cognitive Authority and the Survivor Worldview

Dillon Mahoney — Anthropology
The Art of Connection: Insecurity and Adaptation Among Curio Traders in Mombasa, Kenya

Brian Stipelman — Political Science
The Political Theory of the New Deal

Bradley Wilson — Geography
Replacing Politics: Agrarian Reform, Fair Trade and Crisis in Nicaragua

Undergraduate

Peter Stivers — Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Alternates

Humanities

Anamaria Banu — French
Correspondences, Transposition, Translation:
The Symbolist Poetics of Suggestion in A la recherche du temps perdu

Paul Benzon — Literatures in English
Spaces, Cuts Codes: Postwar Technology and the Mediation of Writing

Jie Chen — Comparative Literature
Nation, Ethnicities, and Cultural Strategies: Three Waves of Minority Representation in Post-1949 China

Alexander Jackson — Philosophy
Foundations and Skepticism

Sciences

Arati Baliga — Computer Science
Combating Rootkits: A Realistic Threat to Operating System Security

Neelima Sehgal — Physics and Astronomy
Galaxy Clusters as Probes of Cosmology

Lauren Ashley Spearman — Ecology and Evolution
Mantid and Grasshopper Biodiversity and Conservation in South Africa

Social Sciences

Arpita Chakrabarti — Anthropology
Understanding Muslim Modernity: A Comparative Study of Contemporary South Asian Muslim Identities and Practices in New York and Delhi

Kelly Coogan — Women's and Gender Studies
Feminist Scholarship: Excavating the Archive

Asia M. Friedman — Sociology
Sex Seen: The Socio-Optical Enactment of Sex

Jessica Kelly — Geography
Reassessing Forest Transition Theory: Gender, Land Tenure Insecurity, and Forest Cover Change in Rural El Salvador

Undergraduate

Stephanie Jones-Rogers — History

Holly Peterson — Geological Sciences