Levitt Summer Research Fellows --Summer 2009
The Following students were selected to receive Levitt Fellowships for Summer 2009. They will be working with their faculty advisors throughout the summer on these research projects:
Daniel Bunger '11 with Derek Jones: "Co-operative Banks in the Financial Crisis: An International Comparison"
Jiong Chen '10 with Betsy Jensen: "China to Protect Intellectual Rights on Digital Media Products"
J. Max Currier '10 with Ned Walker: "Obama's War: Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan"
John Dunn '10 with Kevin Grant: "Reconciliation and Rugby in Post-Apartheid South Africa"
Robert Eisenhart '11 with Alan Cafruny: "Examining Human Rights Abuses in the War on Drugs: U.S. Foreign Policy and Plan Colombia"
Alex Gross '11 with Doug Ambrose: "Olde Nourse Farm"
Jae Yong Kim '10 with Dingding Chen: "Is the Sun Shining on North Korea? North Korean Human Rights Crisis and the Roles of NGOs and South Korean Government"
Erica Kowsz '11 with Nathan Goodale: "Cultural Landscapes of the Irish Coast Heritage Project 2009"
Injun Lyo '11 with Dennis Gilbert: "A Comparative Study of the Childrearing Practices of White American and Immigrant Korean Parents"
Mario Magana '10 with Dennis Gilbert and Shelley McConnell: "Democratization in El Salvador"
Lauren Perillo '10 with Lisa Trivedi: "Women's Mutual Aid Societies in the Era of the Rise of the British Welfare State"
William Preston '11 with Doug Ambrose: "John Howland: the Separatist and His Posterity"
Samantha Rabin '11 with Jenny Irons: "Open Season on Tourists? Identity and Community on Martha's Vineyard"
Kevin Rowe '10 with Peter Cannavo: "Community-based Urban Planning and Environmental Justice in Two NYC Neighborhoods"
Ekaterina Staykova '10 with Alan Cafruny: "Bulgaria's Integration in the European Union"
Elizabeth Weber '10 with Lisa Trivedi: "The Homes and Possessions of the Women in Manchester, England"
