Graduate Research Grants - Past Recipients
Spring 2010
Bryce Horswell
(History)
“A World of Letters: the Jesuits and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
Carlos Melendez
(Political Science)
“Political Linkages and Voter Mobilization in Colombia”
Laura Taylor
(Peace Studies/Psychology)
“Democracy, Conflict, and Civil Society: Examining the Microdynamics of Transitional Justice”
Brandon Vaidyanathan
(Sociology)
“Religion, Expatriation, and Virtual Migration: Negotiating Modernity in Dubai and Bangalore”
Fall 2009
Chad Kiewiet de Jonge
(Political Science)
“Vote Buying in Uruguay”
Carlos Melendez
(Political Science)
“Vote Buying in Bolivia”
Javier Osorio
(Political Science)
“Vote Buying in Chile”
Christopher Sullivan
(Political Science)
“State Surveillance and State Violence in Guatemala”
John Thiede, SJ
(Theology)
“The Concept of Martyrdom in the Christology of Jon Sobrino, SJ”
2008 - 2009
Sandra Botero
(Political Science)
“Legal Pluralism and Inequality in Latin America”
Andrew Bramsen
(Political Science)
“A Comparative Examination of Islamic Fundamentalist Parties in Muslin Africa”
Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
(Sociology)
"The Sustainable Emancipation Project"
Daniel Colon – FLAD Recipient
(Literature)
“Imagining and Remembering the Dictator. Representations of Salazar During and After the Estado Novo”
Lucrecia Garcia Iommi
(Political Science)
"Thinking Institutions in 3-D: The Role of Legitimacy in the Creation of International Institutions"
Victor Maqque
(History)
“Roots of Andean Democracy: Transition from Kuraka to Varayoc in the Nineteenth Century Andes”
Anne McGinness – FLAD Recipient
(History)
“Sacrifice and Celebration: Martyrs, Indigenous and their Feasts in Colonial Brazil”
Becky Miller
(Biology)
“The Impact of National Malaria Policies on Local Malaria Treatment in Uganda”
Ezequiel Gonzalez Ocantos
(Political Science)
“Measuring and Comparing the Quality of Bureaucracies in Latin America”
Christopher Sullivan
(Political Science)
“State Surveillance and State Violence in Northern Ireland and Guatemala”
Jessica Weaver
(History and Philosophy of Science)
“Reforming the Raj: Florence Nightingales’ Biomedical Liberalism in British India”
2007 - 2008
Maria Guadalupe Arenillas – FLAD Recipient
(PhD in Literature)
“Exile and the Politics of Identity in the Poetry of Ana Mafalda Leite and Luis Carlos Patraquim”
Robert Brenneman
(Sociology)
“Leaving the Gang: Identifying Pathways out of the Central American Gang”
Martina Cucchiara
(History)
“Fighting on Two Fronts: Catholic Women Religious in Germany from 1933 to 1948”
Cora Fernandez Anderson
(Political Science)
“The Impact of Social Movements on State Policy: Argentinean Movements in Comparative Perspective”
Lourdes Hurtado
(History)
“Military Culture and Civil Society: A Study of the Peruvian Army’s Rhetoric and Self-representations”
Krystin Krause
(Political Science)
“The Politics of Crime: Public Opinion and Political Rhetoric in Argentina, Brazil, Guatemala and Mexico”
Sheila Nowinski
(History)
“Postwar French Catholic Political Culture, 1944-1958”
Kunle Owolabi
(Political Science)
“Blessing or Curse? Reassessing the Impact of British Colonial Rule on Liberal Democracy in the Caribbean and Africa”
Charles Strauss
(History)
"The Role of Religious Mission and Advocacy in the US Debate on Central America, 1960-1990”
2006 - 2007
Angel Alvarez
(Political Science)
“Hold Their Feet to the Fire: Party Financing Regulation in Competitive Democratic Arenas”
Carlos Gervasoni
(Political Science)
“Describing and Explaining Differences in the Degree of Subnational Democracy in Argentina”
Lucas Gonzalez
(Political Science)
“Primus Contra Pares: Presidents, Governors, and the Politics of Distribution of Federal Resources in Argentina and Brazil”
Ozlem Kayhan
(Political Science)
“How National Security Threats Affect Civil-Military Relations: A Search for Causal Mechanisms”
Kathryn Lawall
(Political Science)
“Religion, Contention, and the State: A Comparative Look at Islamic Mobilization in Western Europe in a Post-9/11 Context”
Claudia Maldonado
(Political Science)
“Tying Hands? The Political Economy of Social Policy Change (Mexico in Comparative Perspective 1996-2006)”
Susy Sanchez
(History)
“Making and Unmaking the Nation: Dictatorship, Revolution, Democracy Through the Lens of National Representations”
Shannon Walsh
(Political Science)
“State Response to Violence Against Women in Democratizing Regimes”
2005 - 2006
James Donahue
(History)
"The Quest for a Global, Godly Order: Transnational Protestantism, International Politics, and the State, 1907-1948"
Gavin Foster
(History)
"The Social and Ideological Foundations of the Irish Civil War"
Carlos Lisoni
(Political Science)
"Regional Differentiation in the Argentine Electorates: Analyzing the Peronist Vote"
Carlos Mendoza
(Political Science)
"Political Elites and Indigenous Peoples: Creating Multicultural Institutions in Central America"
Sarah MacMillen
(Sociology)
"Civil Society, Sympathy and Empathy"
2004 - 2005
Yolanda Xóchitl Bada-Garcia
(Sociology)
"Transnational and Translocal Connections among Grassroots Hometown Associations in Michoacán"
Annabella España Nájera
(Political Science)
"Party Systems and Democracy after the Civil War"
Juan Andrés Moraes
(Political Science)
"The Painful Road from Clientelism to Programmatic Politics: An Exploration of Two Small Latin American Democracies"
Mariana Magaldi de Sousa
(Political Science/Economics)
"The Political Economy of Banking Regulation and Supervision in Latin America"
2003 - 2004
María Alejandra Armesto
(Political Science)
“Federalism and the Provision of Public Goods”
Mary Mulvihill
(Political Science)
“Bringing Civil Society into Multilateral Policy Making: Transnational Advocacy Coalitions and 'Value Change' Politics”
Kathleen Nicholls
(Political Science)
“States and Policy-Making in Ireland, Greece and Portugal”
Patricia Rodriguez
(Political Science)
“Social Movements and Democracy: Participatory Effectiveness in Ecuador, Peru, and Brazil”
Steven Schroeder
(History)
“Religion, Morality, and the German Encounter with the Occupying Powers, 1944-1955”
Saika Uno
(Political Science)
“Public Support and Democracy: Identifying Causal Mechanisms for the Erosion of Democracy in Latin America”
Edurne Zoco
(Political Science)
“The Collapse of Party Systems: Italy, Peru, and Venezuela”
2002 - 2003
Firat Demir
(Economics)
"Militarization of the Market: The Role of Military in the Formation of Rent Seeking Coalitions During Economic Liberalization in Turkey"
Helena Olea
(Law)
"Humanization of Internal Armed Conflicts"
Claire M. Smith
(Political Science)
"Leveling the Playing Field: Political Finance Laws and Party Competition in the German Laender and US States"
Xiao-Qing Wang
(Sociology)
"How Has a Chinese Village Become Catholic? Local Cultures and the Catholic Revival in a Northern Catholic Village"
