2009 CBS Award
Winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following
awards and fellowships. Congratulations!
Dissertation Grant, awarded to Ryan Calder (Sociology), "From Mit Ghamr to the Dow Jones Citigroup Sukuk Index: The Evolution of Modern Islamic Finance;" and Larisa Mann (Jurisprudence & Social Policy), "Listening to Law, Getting Law to Listen: Copyright and Musical Practice in Jamaica.”
Pre-Dissertation Grant, awarded to John Chenoweth (Anthropology), "Religion and Daily Life: Slavery and Quakerism in the British Caribbean" and Kristen Podolak (Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning), "Capability Brown’s Water Designs: Historical Analysis and Serpentine Form.”
Berkeley-Pembroke Exchange Scholarship, awarded to David Anixter (History), “ ‘I found Myself Quite Another:’ Evangelical Conversion and the Birth of the Modern Self,” and Cameron Hill (Mathematics), “Computability and Geometry in Finite – Variable Logics.”
Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Graduate Paper
To be announced.
Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper
To be announced.
Travel/Conference Grants
Jaimee Comstock-Skipp (Undergraduate, Near Eastern Studies/Arts), for research in London on thesis entitled “Reading Colonial Overtones in British Orientalist Art of Cairo via Arabic Text and Islamic Design”
Caroline Shaw (Graduate, History), to present paper at the American Historical Association Conference in New York.
John Lurz (Graduate, English), to present paper entitled “The ‘Sirens’ of the World: Reading Joyce with Open Eyes and Wax-Plugged Ears” at the North American James Joyce Conference in Buffalo, NY.
Tobias Schulze-Cleven (Graduate, Political Science), to present paper at conference in Cardiff on “Beyond the Enterprise: Widening the Horizons of International HRM”
Jeff Schauer (Graduate, History), for research at the National Archives in London concerning wildlife preservation in the British Empire.
Kahwee Lee (Graduate, Architecture), to present paper entitled “Governing the Aesthetic Domain” at the Centre for Research in Arts, Social Sciences and the Humanities Conference in London.
Elizabeth Winsor (Undergraduate, Art Practice), for research on Islamic Art at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
Amanda Jo Goldstein (Graduate, Comparative Literature), to present paper entitled “Growing Old Together: Physiognomic History in Percy Shelley’s The Triumph of Life” at annual meeting of North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
