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Undergraduate Research 2007-2008 Recipients

 

Best Undergraduate Research and Travel Grants of 2008

The R. Stephen and Ruth Barrett Family Grant for Best Proposal

John Hennessey (France)
"The Struggle to Define Empire in Colonial French Indochina, 1940-1945"

The Katie Murphy McMahon Grant for Russian and East-Central European Studies

Mary Ann Barge (United Kingdom, Russia)
"National Identity and Patriotism During the Siege of Leningrad, and
Their Implications for Today"

Anna Jansons (Latvia)
"The Saule's New Realm: Contemporary Treatment of Ancient Latvian Symbols"


Katherine Mohrig (Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France)
"Maymester in Budapest---The Struggles of the Roma: Hungary's Largest Minority and the Development of Human Rights Law"


Undergraduate Research and Travel Grants: Up to $4,000
Colleen Anderson (Germany), "German Views of Nationalism in Hamburg's Public Building Projects, 1890-1990"

Alice Ciciora (Ireland), "The Views of Muslim and Irish Elites on Muslim Accommodation and Integration in Ireland"

Emily Doll (Germany), "Elisabeth Heinroth: Exploring Beyond the Wall"

Monica Garcia Blizzard (Italy), "Immigration & Imitation Goods in Italy"

Courtney Hofman (United Kingdom), "Medieval Hospital Field School in Bioarchaeology"

Ryan Lash (United Kingdom, Ireland), "Constructing Identity from the Ground Up: Reexamining the Medieval Castle"

George Mandarakas (Greece), "To What Extent Has the Production of Wind Farms Alleviated Andros Island's Dependency on Non-Renewable Resources"

Katherine Schilling (Netherlands), "Relief and Development Challenges for a Catholic NGO: The CORDAID Experience After 9/11"

Perry Shoemaker (Spain), "Historical Memory and the Franco Legacy: An Examination of Spain's Efforts to Address Political Violence and Crimes Committed During Francisco Franco's Dictatorship"

Senior Research Grant Awards
Rachel Mulligan (London, England), "The Unconscious and Identity in Virginia Woolf's Work"

Maria Iuppa (Bologna, Italy), "Italian Comedic Cinema Between WWII and the Economic Boom"

Ben Gunty (Paris, France), "The French and English Debate in Europe: A Bilingual Textual Analysis"

Sarah Hunger (Paris, France), "Integration of French Immigrants"

Martina Mirandola Mullen (London, England), "Cultural Fluidity in Europe: the People and Identity of South Tirol"

Amanda Bode (Paris, Angers, and Tours, France), "Inspiration, Love, and Rivalry of Homeland: The Loire Valley as Muse in the Renaissance"

Lindsay Poulin (Lyon, France), "The Rise and Fall of House and Empire: Charles Worth and the Lyon Silk Industry"

Philip Carl Smith (Rome, Italy), "The Hymns of the Dominican Dialect of Gregorian Chant"

Lisa Anne Fallon-Stack (Amsterdam, The Netherlands), "A Shoah Memorial in Writing: Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum Understood and Remembered in a Jewish-Christian Amsterdam"

Laura Fox (Bologna, Italy), To attend the "Transnational Identities/Reimaginging Commnitites" conference.

Elizabeth Simari (Bologna, Italy), To attend the "Transnational Identities/Reimaginging Commnitites" conference.

Undergraduate Initiative Grants
Ann Walter and Allyson Laurance (London, England and Valencia, Spain), To attend the global healthcare conference: "Women Deliver"

Brian Beyersdorf (UK). To research Parliamentary rhetoric in the colonial economy in the India Office Collections of the British Library.

Caroline Anne Wenzke (Ireland). To present "Dismantling the Cyprus Conspiracy: the United States' Role in the Cyprus Crisis of 1963, 1967, and 1974" at the Belfast Workshop on Cyprus and Divided Societies Conference.

Advanced Language Study Grants
Joseph Maciubq (Polish)
Kristine Nugent (Ukrainian)
Kaitlin Spillane (Russian)
Logan Zoellner (Russian)
Katie Buza (Russian)
Vanessa Milano (Russian)
Joseph Piligian (German), Goethe Institute in Munich, Germany

Pessoa Advanced Language Grant in Portuguese
Julia Sendor (Portuguese) at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth

Undergraduate Summer Internships
Charles Ramsey (Germany), Deere & Company in Mannheim.

Elizabeth Ruiz (Germany), University of Stuttgart's Institute for Chemical Process Engineering

Andrew Bertoli (Belgian), European Union in Brussels.

Catherine Stecyk, (Ukraine), The Children of Chernobyl Relief & Development Fund and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.

Brenna Decker (France), with the Arcas Group, an architecture firm in Paris.

Alejandra Gutzeit and Andrew Gim (Italy), architecture firm of Pier Carlo Bontempi in Parma.

David Murren (France), working with Peter Herrly of SciencesPo (Institute of Polictical Science) in Paris.

Internships sponsored through the SIBC (Student International Business Council)
Poland - Patrick Sala and Danielle Straccia
Italy - Clare Brady, Maria Bufalino, and Tina tovar
England - Allie Carroll

Internship at the Carpathian English Summer School through the Catholic University of Ukraine
Christopher Gattis
Greer Hannan
Christopher Smith
Jaime Cordes

Links to Undergraduate Research from Previous Years
2006/2007
2005/2006
2004/2005
2003/2004
2002/2003
2001/2002

Link to Notre Dame's Digital Repository for Undergraduate Research, Scholarship, and Creative Endeavors

Link to Undergraduate Research at Notre Dame

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