The International Institute (II) awarded nearly $150,000 to 40 U-M students who will travel abroad this summer to conduct research or participate in an internship.
“This fellowship program attracts a very talented group of students,” says Ken Kollman, acting director of II and acting vice provost for international affairs. “It is part of the II’s ongoing effort to promote global understanding and advance international research at the university.”
Students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds apply for the program each year, representing the humanities, social and natural sciences, medicine, law, architecture, and business. This year’s projects range in scope from examining the child welfare system in South Korea to analyzing water, food and energy systems in Brazil.
The highly competitive, merit-based program is open to undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a degree program at U-M. Approximately 250 students applied for the prestigious competition, which awards individual fellowships of up to $5,000.
The year’s fellowship grantees, their research projects and internships include:
❙ Kareem Alazem, Malaysia — $4,000. Researching capital controls enforced by Malaysia during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.
❙ Sarah Alward, Japan — $4,000. Examining the evolution of Japanese garden art in Kyoto.
❙ Sarah Baruch, Uganda — $3,500. Participating in a health and education internship with 4Uganda.
❙ Julie Bateman, Brazil — $4,000. Comparing the impact of traditional water, food and energy systems to that of relatively new commercial systems in the Brazilian Pantanal.
❙ Andrew Broderick, China & Taiwan — $5,000. Evaluating innovative sustainable urban living ideas featured at the Shanghai World Expo 2010.
❙ Eric Burnstein, Romania — $3,500. Interning with “Altelier de Urbanism” (Urbanism Workshop) housed in Timisoara’s city hall.
❙ Ananda Burra, United Kingdom and Switzerland — $5,000. Examining colonial and U.N. archives to identify the involvement of colonial administrators in the development of international norms in the mid-1940s.
❙ Lara Burt, Tanzania — $2,000. Interning with Cross-Cultural Solutions on development projects concerning women’s empowerment and HIV/AIDS outreach.
❙ Emily Canosa, Japan — $4,000. Interning with Earth Day Market, a nonprofit organization focused on using city markets as a direct resource for sustainable goods.
❙ Sirui Cao, China — $4,500. Studying the effect of improved clear water accessibility on women and children’s health in rural China.
❙ Sarah Casinelli, Turkey — $1,500. Interning at the Center for International Business Education at Bilkent University.
❙ David Catalan, Hungary — $3,500. Participating in an internship through the Central European University Professional Internship Program.
❙ Krisda Chaiyachati, South Africa — $5,000. Studying the effects of introducing a cell phone-based system of real-time monitoring, evaluation and clinical support for the care of multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.
❙ Dina de Veer, Bolivia — $2,300. Interning with Sustainable Bolivia to educate and recruit local women to participate in a microfinance program.
❙ Georgia Ennis, Ecuador — $3,000. Conducting a linguistic anthropological investigation of the second personal singular pronoun vos in Ecuadorian Spanish.
❙ Candice Hamelin, Germany — $5,000. Researching Helga Paris’ work, working conditions and the impact of her photographs.
❙ Sean Hoskins, Austria and Romania — $5,000. Studying compositional tools used by some of the world’s prominent choreographers.
❙ Rutherford Hubbard, Kosovo and Karabakh — $5,000. Exploring the relationship between legally defined corruption, public perceptions of corruption and government legitimacy.
❙ Lin Jones, China — $4,500. Interning with the U.S. Trade Representative Beijing Office.
❙ Justin Joque, Indonesia — $3,000. Interning at Gadjah Mada University to integrate information technology into the library system.
❙ Caitrin Kelly, Kenya — $4,000. Interning with Kenya Medical Research Institute/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Kenya to assist with an influenza vaccination study.
❙ Trevor Kilgore, Italy — $1,000. Examining the archives of the Florentine parish of Isolotto.
❙ Benjamin Klein, Cambodia — $3,000. Participating in a legal internship with the U.N. Office of the International Co-Prosecutor for the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
❙ Na Youn Lee, South Korea — $5,000. Conducting an in-depth study of the South Korean child welfare system.
❙ Ashley Lemke, Germany, Spain and France — $1,000. Participating in archaeological excavations and research at four Paleolithic sites in Europe.
❙ Julie Katherine Purdom Lindblad, Indonesia — $3,000. Interning at Gadjah Mada University to integrate information technology into the library system.
❙ Andre Markon, Brazil — $2,000. Analyzing transmission dynamics of dengue virus to identify new disease prevention opportunities.
❙ Nisreen Mesiwala, Ethiopia — $5,000. Conducting research to identify a treatment to clear trachoma infection and eliminate infection recurrence in an Ethiopian community.
❙ Christine Murray, Indonesia — $3,000. Interning at Gadjah Mada University to integrate information technology into the library system.
❙ Angela Perez, Colombia — $5,000. Conducting archival research in Bogota on the complex roles of women slaveholders in early 19th-century Colombia.
❙ Dana Petit, The Netherlands and Denmark — $5,000. Creating a portfolio of bicycle-friendly street designs from the Netherlands and Denmark that could be applied in the United States.
❙ Devan Rouse, Madagascar — $2,700. Surveying lemur and livestock populations outside of the Beza Mahafaly Reserve to determine how grazing pressure affects lemur distribution.
❙ Joshua Schlachet, The Netherlands and Japan — $5,000. Studying cross-cultural materiality and mentality in the collection and display of late Edo period food ephemera.
❙ Kathryn Sederberg, Germany — $3,500. Investigating how German women articulated new forms of self-identity and solidarity to cope in the traumatic transitional period at the end of World War II.
❙ Eleanor Stewart, Malawi — $2,000. Participating in a nursing internship with a Malawi hospital.
❙ Ariel Taivalkoski, Italy — $5,000. Excavating the Bronze Age site “Progetto Pran’E Siddi” (Siddi Plateau Project) in Sardinia and working at the Pompeii Archaeological Research Project.
❙ Meryl Waldo, Ireland — $5,000. Interning with Macnas, a leading Irish performance company.
❙ Jennifer Walker, Cambodia — $3,000. Interning as a summer legal associate at the Documentation Center of Cambodia.
❙ Rebecca Wall, France — $5,000. Researching the emancipation of the Jews of M’Zab, Algeria in 1961, and their absorption into France after their immigration en masse to Strasbourg in 1962.
❙ Laura Winnick, United Kingdom — $3,200. Researching unpublished manuscripts of women’s diaries from the 18th century to discover the relationship between fictional representation and non-fictional accounts of female cultural life.
