2024 Graduate Summer Fellows
- Ruqeya Afshan, Anthropology
Generational Perceptions of Excess and Waste in Indian Weddings
- Sreeparna Das, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Juvenile Liminality: Gender Development in Postcolonial Arab Diasporic Fiction
- Kinza Fatima, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Gender, Militarization, and Women's Everyday Resistance in Balochistan, Pakistan
- Olta Idrizi, Anthropology
Agricultural Practices in Early Neolithic Albania: New Results from Pogradec
- JeMiah Israel, History
Freedom Ride: A survey of Historical Sites Associated with African American Life, Culture and History
- Junghyun Lee, Mathematical Sciences
Mathematical Modeling of Clock Development in Mammalian Cells
- Vanessa Lovato, Philosophy
Towards a Female-Centered Understanding of Female Sexuality
- Bishal Pandey, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Being Men while Becoming Queer: Experiences of Queerness, Masculinity and Heteronormativity in Nepal
- Prateek Raj, School of Public & International Affairs
Queering the Economic Crises: Reconstruction, Development and LGBTQ+ Enterprises in Sri Lanka
- Yash Sharma, School of Public & International Affairs
Muslims in Hindu India: A study of political mobilization under the BJP
- Vincent Temba, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Safe house Organizing and Mobilization for Female genital Mutilation in Tanzania
- Bilgen Turkay, School of Public & International Affairs
Social Media Strategies in Humanitarian Crisis: NGOs and International Organization Responses to the Syrian and Ukrainian Refugee Situation
Past Graduate Summer Fellows
Graduate Summer Fellows
2023
- Andrew Evans, Philosophy
Bioethical and public health perspectives on the aims of healthcare
- Alysha Federkeil, History
They Dare Not Say No to Me:” Daisy Lampkin’s Grassroot Networks in the Long Civil Rights Movement
- Ben Hojem, English
Racial Poetics and Creative Rhetorics: A Study on Race and the “Too-White” Workshop
- Lora Newman, Mathematical Sciences
COVID-19 Transmission in Schools: A Multi-Group Stochastic SEIR Model
- Olga Sanz-Casasnovas, Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures
Dissenting Discourses: Body as an Archive versus the National Body in Two Novels by Severo Sarduy
- Prateek Srivastava, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
In Search of My Husband: Resisting Disappearances and Microfinance Debt in Northern Sri Lanka
- Jayne Stone, English
The Writing/Crafting/Dining Table: Making Visible the Complex Writing Environments of Single Mother Graduate Student Writers
- Kierra Toney, Sociology
Veiled Schools: A Comparative Historical Analysis of Place Making in Majority Black High Schools in the South
- Zhihe Zeng, Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies
Negotiating Queerness and Feminist Ideals: Forming Identities and Changing Living Strategies of Young Lesbian and Queer Women in China
2022
- Charles Beckerman, English
K-Pop: a Novel
- Stephen Bryant, School of Public and International Affairs
Mobilization and Resistance: ISIS Recruitment and Governmental Response in Jordan
- Pinaki Chandra, Anthropology
Mobility, Property-making, and Economic Aspirations in Ephemeral Landscapes of Assam, India
- Rome Hernandez Morgan, English
Literary translation of Derecho de piso by Piastro Garcia
- Abigail Hobbs, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Gendered Effects of Nonconsensual Pornography Laws
- Sarah Lekwa, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Sociocultural Factors Affecting Women's Participation in Agriculture in Nigeria
- Ana Maria Molina Gomez, Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures
Representing the Conflict: A Contemporary Reading of the Dramatic Work of Enrique Buenaventura and Santiago Garcia through New Representations of Armed Conflict in Cali and Bogota.
- Carlos Munoz, History
Carroll Greene Jr.: Challenging museum representations of African American history and culture in the late 20th century
- Carlos Munoz, Philosophy
On the lay conceptions of neoliberalism
- Erena Nakashima,History
Avondale Neighborhood Archive 2.0
- Zachary Peck, Philosophy
Agency and evolutionary dynamics in biological and artificial systems
- John Roth , Sociology
Agency and evolutionary dynamics in biological and artificial systems
- David Schwartz , English
Agency and evolutionary dynamics in biological and artificial systems
- Hyogo Shibahara , Mathematical Sciences
Agency and Evolutionary dynamics in biological and artificial systems
- Kierra Toney , Sociology
Agency and evolutionary dynamics in biological and artificial systems
2020
- JeMiah Cannon, Anthropology
Lift Every Voice: An Archaeological Analysis of Slavery on the Dinsmore Plantation
- Morgan Gimblet, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Mutual Aid is Reproductive Justice: Lessons from an Abortion Fund
- María Daniela Granja Núñez, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Un análisis feminista de la obra de Mónica Ojeda: la construcción de personajes femeninos en la escritura creativa (A Feminist Analysis of Monica Ojeda’s Work: The Construction of Female Characters in Creative Writing)
- Ayesha Katugoda, Mathematical Sciences
Statistical Downscaling of Climate Model Projections
- Daniel Mattox, Philosophy
Role-Sensitive Virtues and Vices: How Skills, Relationships, and Social Identity Shape Ethical Demands
- Annie McGhee, Sociology
LGBTQ Peoples’ Perspectives on Sex Education
- Kelsey Mello, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Can Expanding Telemedicine Services Help Bridge the Gap in Rural Reproductive Health Inequities?
- Erena Nakashuma, History
Carroll Greene Jr.: Challenging museum representations of African American history and culture in the late 20th century
- Mark Ornelas, Philosophy
Classifying Cultural Behavior: Understanding cultural learning in social robotics
- Lucas Proper, Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures
Evolution of Strangeness within the works of Abdellah Taïa
- Aida Ramusovic, Political Science
The other big news: how reporting on Covid-19 influenced reporting on BLM
- Tony Russomano, History
"They Monopolize the fruit, oyster and fish trades and are nearly all peddlers:” The Racialization of Italian immigrants in Gilded Age Louisiana, 1870-1899
- Kurt Schmidt, Mathematical Sciences
Large-Degree Asymptotics of Generalized Hastings-McLeod Solutions of Painlev´e II
- Nikki Smith, Sociology
Mad Men as a Feminist Text
- Maggie Su, English & Comparative Literature
In the Mood: a short story series inspired by Wong Kar Wai
2018
- Caitlin Doyle, English & Comparative Literature
Access to Her Proper Stone: Formal Mastery & Marginalized Identity in the Work of Gwendolyn Brooks
- Kristen Fleming, History
The Upstream Polluters in the Ecological Transformation of the Ohio River
- Ian Golding, English & Comparative Literature
Drawing Civic Identity: How Illustrations Shaped 19th Century America
- Alexander Golubski, Anthropology
Inequality and Gendered Networks in Pastoral Mongolia
- Stacy Grover, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Queer Oral History in Appalachia
- Margaret Kane, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Decoding Discipline: ‘Appropriate’ Femininity and Disparate School Discipline Practices
- Julie Marzec, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The (Im)possibilities of Ecuador’s Left Turn: State Responses to Gender-Based Violence
- Sevsem Okay, Sociology
Patterns and Trends in the Spatial Assimilation of Middle Eastern Immigrants in the United States
- Parker Christopher, Philosophy
The Rationality of Mental Disorder
- Aleashia Walton, English & Comparative Literature
Claiming Baggage: The Airport Baggage Claim as a Kairotic Border of Violence
2019
- Shaonta Allen, Sociology
Unapologetically Black & Unashamedly Christian: Exploring the Complexities of Black Millenial Christianity
- Andrea Beaudoin, Romance Languages & Literature
Las raices de la luz (The roots of light)
- Zeinab Eskandari, History
Analyzing women's rights and status in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Iran
- Kimberly Grey, English & Comparative Literature
A Mother is an Intellectual Thing: Essays on Trauma and Narcissism
- Hillary Gyuras, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Current Practices and Future Promises of the Demedicalization of Abortion: A Qualitative Study
- Jenny Ham, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Reimagining Accessibility For a Post-Ableist Future
- Elaina Johns-Wolfe, Sociology
Evaluating the Role of Measurement and Urban Context in The Gentrification Debates, 1980-2016
- Alyssa Konerman, English & Comparative Literature
The Echoes of Diaspora The Destruction of the West End and Race and Equity in Cincinnati Today
- Katelyn Lusher, English & Comparative Literature
"The Word on the Street": Streetvibes, Activist Circulation, and Embodied Distribution
- Rodrigo Mariño-Lόpez, Romance and Arabic Languages & Literatures
Viene la ausencia (The coming of absence) and Más allá del texto (Beyond the text)
- Sayam Moktan, Political Science
An In-Depth Study of Migration of Women from Nepal for Domestic Work
- Colleen O’Brien, Anthropology
Investigating a Late Classic Maya Plaza through Artifact Distributions to Find Evidence of a Marketplace
- Caleigh Richissin, Anthropology
Investigating Ancient Marketplace Activity at Say Kah, Belize
2017
- Bijun Chen, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Not Your Normal Marriage: How Tongqi, or Women Married to “Gay Men,” Negotiate Marriage, Economy, and Culture in Contemporary China
- Aparna Singh, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Women’s Experiences in Natural Disasters: A Case Study of the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
- Emily Skaja, English & Comparative Literature
To Feel All the Hurting Beauty Go Flat: Plath, Northampton, & the Stigma of Mental Illness
- Ryan Smith, English & Comparative Literature
Extended Family
- Angela Stiefbold, History
Rural Character and Rural Economy: Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1930-1990
- Jelena Vicic, Political Science
Euroskepticism vs. the Establishment: Challenging the Status Quo?
- Julia Escobar Villegas, Romance Languages & Literature
Archival Research on Muy Caribe Está
2016
- Rasha Aly, Sociology
Finding Your Identity in a Domestic Violence Shelter
- Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco, Romance Languages & Literature
Mexican Boxer: A Mythical approach to a Tragic Hero
- Evan Johnson, History
Coexistence in the Face of War: Civil-Military Relations During the Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
- Andrew McGrath, Anthropology
Circuit Breaker: Housing First as chronic caring
- Sarah Nordgren, English & Comparative Literature
Territory Video
- Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira, Philosophy
Representationalism and the Analogy between Scientific Models and Maps
2015
- Sophonie Bazile, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Dykeasporia: Queer Haitian Women Creating Their Own Spaces
- Jocelyn Connolly, Anthropology
The Woodland Indian Occupation of the Lower Little Miami River Valley
- Vanessa de los Reyes, History
From Ricky Ricardo to Chico and the Man: Latinos in American Popular Culture, 1951-1978
- Juan Camilo Galeano Sanchez, Romance Languages & Literatures
An Intersectional Approach to Colombia’s La Violencia Female Literature
- Sergio Daladier Molina Aristizabal, Mathematical Sciences
Semi-Regular Systems of Equations
- Ondrej Pazdirek, English & Comparative Literature
After Him: A book-length poem in sections
- Brenda Peynado, English & Comparative Literature
Our Mercy in April (a novel)
2014
- Matthew Bauman, German Studies
The Truth Is Always More Subjective on the Other Side of the Wall: Television and Propaganda in the Two Germanys
- Katherine Fiorelli, History
Whose History? Researching Changes in England’s Historical Curriculum
- Jordan Hager, History
Searching for Medicinal Plants in the New World: Practical Approaches to Healing and General Health
- Eugenia Mazur, Romance Languages & Literature
Contemporary Reception and Adaptation of Spanish Golden Age Theater in the United States
- Alyssa McClanahan, History
“Take the Toys from the Boys!” Women’s Liberation, Environmentalism, and the Politics of the Anti-Nuclear Movement
- Janine Morris, English & Comparative Literature
Attending to Digital Reading
- Valentina Petrolini, Philosophy
Delusions and Rationality: Moving Forward from Bortolotti's Proposal
- Kathleen Ratajczak, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Creating Survivor Identities
- Eric Rogers, Philosophy
Towards A Comprehensive Invasion Ecology: Expanding the Role of Systems Thinking in Explanations of Biological Invasions
- Linwood Rumney, English & Comparative Literature
St. Matthias and the Great Moon Hoax
2013
- Ufuk Adak, History
Behind the Walls: Prison Life in Ottoman Prisons in Istanbul and Izmir (1858-1910)
- Matthias Barker, Philosophy
Ecological Sensibility Theory: Affordance Perception as a Model for Moral Perception
- Brittany Cowgill, History
Monitoring Progress: The Story of SIDS, Infant Monitors, and Changing Doctor-Patient Relationships in the Twentieth-Century United States
- Michael Ducey, Philosophy
Intentions and Meaning Determination
- Ayca Mazman, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Negotiating the Relationship Between Islam and Feminism in the Writings of Middle Eastern Women
- Janine Morris, English & Comparative Literature
Webbed Ecologies: Examining Activist Movements Online
- Katharine Polak, English & Comparative Literature
Introduction and Conclusion of Gutter love: Comics and the Mediation of Trauma