2008-2009 University and Bevier Fellows

Recipients

Humanities

Alexander Jackson — Philosophy
Foundations and Skepticism

Florence Quideau — Art History
French Romantic Portraiture and Caricature in the July Monarchy, 1830-1848:
A Study on the Sculptures of David d’Angers, Dantan-Jeune, Daumier and Pr้ault

Colleen Rosenfeld — Literatures in English
Indecorous Thinking: Style, Form and Spenserian Poetics

Karen Routledge — History
In These Latitudes: Arctic and Urban Stories of Survival, 1850 - 1884

Sciences

Patricia Alvarez — Ecology and Evolution
The Role of Pathogens in Determining Plant Distribution and Abundance

Est้ban Gazel Dondi — Geological Sciences
Sources of the Central American Volcanic Arc:
The Influence of the Galapagos Hot-Spot and Its Relation to the
Caribbean Large Igneous Province

Luc Nguyen — Mathematics
Singular Harmonic Maps into Hyperbolic Spaces and Applications to General Relativity

Michelle L. Previtera — Cell and Developmental Biology
Effects of Substrate Rigidity on Morphology and Synaptogenesis of Hippocampal Neurons

Social Sciences

Josephine Faass — Planning and Public Policy
Cleaning Up Where the Feds Leave Off:
Toward an Operational Approach to State-Level Oil Spill Regulations

Asia Friedman — Sociology
Sex Seen: The Socio-Optical Construction of Sex Difference

Amy Linch — Political Science
The Religious Roots of Liberalism: Community, Contention and Toleration in
Early Modern England and Contemporary Egypt and Turkey

Debarati Sen — Anthropology
From Illegal to "Organic": Fair Trade-Organic Tea Production and
Women's Political Futures in Darjeeling, India

Alternates

Humanities

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

Laura Lynn Broadhurst — Music
The Wonderful Wizards of Song: A Critical Study of Harold Arlen and E. Y. "Yips" Harburg's Watershed Collaboration for MGM's The Wizard of Oz

Devin Griffiths — Literatures in English
The Age of Analogy: Scientific and Social History in the Nineteenth-Century Novel

Sciences

Jeanmarie Molina — Ecology and Evolution
Phylogeny and Biogeographic History of the Forgotten Grape Relative Leea (Leeaceae)

Gary Monteiro — Biomedical Engineering
Directed Stem Cell Differentiation Using Bio-mechanical
Properties within a Three Dimensional Collagen Gel

Wantinee Viratyaporn — Materials Science and Engineering
Effect of Domain Size and Interfacial Characteristics
on the Impact Resistance of Selected Polymer Composites

Social Sciences

Emily A. McDonald — Anthropology
Medical Tourism to Buenos Aires, Argentina:
Marketing Surgery in the Paris of South America

Elizabeth Williamson — Sociology
The Mobilization of Emotions, Magical Framing and
Their Effect on Commitment to a Social Movement