2007 CBS Award Winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following
awards and fellowships. Congratulations!
Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowship , awarded to Hsuan-Hsin Huang (History); research on “Trade and the Opium Wars: British Merchants in the Making of an Informal Empire in China”

Pre-Dissertation Fellowship , awarded to Andrew Keating (History), research on the British imperial cemetery in the twentieth century; Toby Reiner (Political Science), research on “The Primacy of Ethics? Oxford Philosophy in the Rawlsian Era. ”

Anglo-California Scholarship ; awarded to Angela Hill (Rhetoric), “Panoptical Movements: An Investigation into the Cross-Currents of British and American Penology" and Nicholas Hoover (Sociology), “The Habits of Empire: Imperialism and Weak State Power in Britain and India”

Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Graduate Paper
Hillary Gravendyk Burrill (English), "Turner and Turner: Interpolating Possibilities"
Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper
Sharon Tang-Quan

Travel/Conference Grants
Joelle Brown (Undergraduate, History), Researcing thesis on the experience of German Jewish refugees in Britain during WWII
Andrew Keating (Graduate, History), Presenting a paper at conference at U. of Texas: "An Empire of the Silent Dead: The British Imperial War Graves Commission and the Legal Status of the Dead"
Jo Guldi (Graduate, History), Presenting dissertation at Rocky Mountain Interdisciplinary History Conf.: "The Road to Rule: The Expansion of the British Road Netowrk, 1726-1848"
Gina Patnaik (Graduate, English), Presenting work at conference in Aberdeen: "Novel and its Borders"
Marisa Libbon (Graduate, English), Presenting work at 43rd International Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo
Tala Khanmalek (Undergraduate, Ethnic Studies), Attending conference "Muslims, Race , and the Public Sphere"
Jamie DeAngelis (Graduate, Comparative Literature), Presenting work at 43rd International Conference on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo
Amanda Ott (Undergraduate, English), Researching project: "Daniel DeFoe: Women Defining the New Commercial Society"