2011 CBS Award Winners
We are pleased to announce the recipients of the following awards and fellowships. Congratulations!
Dissertation Grant, awarded to Catherine Cronquist Browning (English), "Bower of Books: Reading Children in Nineteenth-Century British Literature;" and Kenzo Sung (Social Cultural Studies),“Imperial Eyes on the Prize: British and American Educational Reform, National Discourses and Legacies of Empire During the Postwar Era,” and Riyad Koya (History), “Indian Diaspora and Personal Law: From Imperial to National Citizenship.”
Pre-Dissertation Grant, awarded to Tehila Sasson (History), "The Problem of Homelessness in Twentieth Century Britain" and Matthew Horton ( School of Education), “Irish Nationalist Protestants [1922-present].”
Berkeley-Pembroke Exchange Scholarship, awarded to Jacob Habinek (Sociology), “Between the Clerisy and the Professions: The Life Sciences in Britain, 1820-1870,” and Jeffrey Schauer (History), “Imperial Ark: Wildlife Policy and Colonial Governance in East and Central Africa.”
Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Graduate Paper
Ryan Phillips, (Political Science), "Turkey’s EU Membership in the British Press"
Kirk Underhill Prize for Best Undergraduate Paper
Jack Howells, (English), "’Secret Springs’": Hydraulic Resistance to the Physiology and Fiction of Sentiment in Smollett’s Humphry Clinker”
Travel/Conference Grants
Matthew Baxter (Graduate, Political Science) to present a paper on the London Missionary Society and its influence on a social reform movement in South India called the Self-Respect Movement at the Madison South Asia Conference.
Tyleen Kelly (Graduate, English) to present a paper, “Neither Soapbox nor Confessional: Postcolonial Monologues on America,” at the British Association for American Studies “American Geographies” conference.
Katie Harper (Graduate, History) for a trip to Exeter for pre-dissertation research to study Dartington Hall, a school and co-operative community founded in 1925.
Margaret Kolb (Graduate, English) to present a paper on Daniel Deronda and the rise of the social statistic at the Victorian Futures Conference at Santa Cruz.
Caroline Ritter (Graduate, History) to present a paper, “UDI and the Meaning of Liberal Imperialism,” at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Seattle.
Tehila Sasson (Graduate, History) to present a paper on the problem of homelessness in postwar Britain at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Seattle.
Ryan Perry (Graduate, English) to attend the International Piers Plowman Conference in Oxford, England and for dissertation research at the Bodleian.
Diana Gergel (Graduate, History) to attend the World History Association Conference at the University of Michigan.
Grahame Foreman (Graduate, History) to present a paper, “’The Power to Exclude’: Primitivism and the Persecution of British Social Anthropologists in the 1950s,” at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies in Seattle.
Shannon Chamberlain (Graduate, English) to give a talk on the influence of David Hume’s “Treatise of Human Nature” on the nationalist literary forgeries of James Macpherson at the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society’s Annual Conference at the University of Aberdeen.
Jocelyn Rodal (Graduate, English) to present a paper, “Woolf on Mathematics: Signifying Opposition,” at the 21 st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf at the University of Glasgow.
Irene Yoon (Graduate, English) to present a paper, “Beauty Behind a Pane of Glass,” at the 21 st Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf at the University of Glasgow.
Marisa Knox (Graduate, English) to present a paper, “Odd Women and the Limits of Female Sympathy at the Fin de Siecle,” at a conference at Newcastle University called “Affecting Feminism: Feminist Theory and the Question of Feeling.”
Gina Patnaik (Graduate, English) to present a paper, “’ Silence Falls on London’”War’s Pervasive Absence in Jacob’s Room and Mrs. Dalloway.”
