Sixteen graduate students in the History Department were awarded SAS Dissertation Research Fellowships across a broad range of fields. This award recognizes the accomplishments and promise of these projects. Please find below the names of the awardees, as well as the titles of the projects for which they received a DRF award, and their committees:
Sylvia Brown Dissertation Research Fellowship
Sam Finkelman, “Ghetto, Gulag, Geulah: Jewish Nationalism, Inter-Ethnic Encounters, and Collective Memory of Catastrophe in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1953-1982”
Committee: Ben Nathans (Supervisor); Warren Breckman; Peter Holquist; Beth Wenger.
Dissertation Research Fellowship.
Emma Curry-Stodder, “’That I May Become Useful to My Dear People’: The Brown Family and Cherokee Christianity in the Era of Removal.”
Committee: Dan Richter (Supervisor); Kathy Brown; Sally Gordon.
Anna Todd, “The Ties that Bind: Illegitimacy in Early America.”
Committee: Kathy Brown (Supervisor); Sarah Gronningsater; Kathy Peiss; Dan Richter.
Penfield Dissertation Research Fellowship
Michael Brinley, “The Cities They Wanted and the Cities They Built: Soviet Chief Architects and Urban Planning in the Era of Developed Socialism, 1954-1985”
Committee: Ben Nathans (Supervisor); Peter Holquist; Domenic Vitiello (City and Regional Planning)
Teddy Chappell, “Knowing Things, Consuming Knowledge: Material Culture and Intellectual Life in Grand Ducal Tuscany, c. 1640-1720”
Committee: Ann Moyer (Supervisor); Marcy Norton; Ada Kuskowski; Margo Todd
Geoffrey Durham, “The Standards of Value: Weights, Measures, Money, and the Making of a Russian Imperial Economy, 1770s-1820s”
Committee: Peter Holquist (Supervisor); Ben Nathans; Amy Offner; Sophie Rosenfeld.
Lacy Feigh, “As Pretty as an Abyssinian Girl Could Be: Racial Geographies of Ethiopian Exceptionalism”
Committee: Lee Cassanelli (Supervisor); Eve Troutt Powell; Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet.
Rich Lizardo, “Worlds of Spanish Poverty: Theory and Practice from the Reformation to the Enlightenment.”
Committee: Antonio Feros (Supervisor); Roger Chartier; Sophie Rosenfeld.
Paige Pendarvis, “Tenant Unionism, The Right to Housing, and the Welfare State in Paris, 1880-1940.”
Committee: Sophie Rosenfeld (Supervisor); Warren Breckman; Peter Holquist; Amy Offner.
Yi Ren, “Popular Entertainment and Everyday Life in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution.”
Committee: Arthur Waldron (Supervisor); Fred Dickinson; Siyen Fei.
Makiki Reuvers, “Bodies of Empire: The Political, Religious, and Corporeal Makings of English Subjecthood in Seventeenth-Century New England.”
Committee: Dan Richter (Supervisor); Kathy Brown; Sally Gordon.
Peter Roethke, “Baroque Morality: Corruption in the Old Empire.”
Committee: Tom Safley (Supervisor); Antonio Feros; Ada Kuskowski.
Jing Sun, “Nurturing a Robust Society: Japan and the Making of a Global Science of Nutrition, 1885-1951.”
Committee: Fred Dickinson (Supervisor); Eiichiro Azuma; Sebastián Gil-Riaño (History and Sociology of Science)
Ting-Chih Wu, “Farmlands, Grasslands, and Woodlands: Changing Landscapes in Chinese-Mongol Borderlands, 1370-1620.”
Committee: Si-yen Fei (Supervisor); Chris Atwood (EALC); Fred Dickinson.
Jennifer Yip, “Of Rice and Men: Nationalist Grain Transport Policies in Wartime China, 1937-1945.”
Committee: Arthur Waldron (Supervisor); Fred Dickinson; Si-yen Fei.
Sarah Yu, “Hygiene in the Daily Lives of Republican Chinese, 1911-1949.”
Committee: Arthur Waldron (Supervisor); Eiichiro Azuma; Alex Chase-Levenson.