Fellowship Recipients
The Institute is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2008-09 Graduate and Undergraduate Fellowships and Assistantships.
Graduate Summer Fellows
The following students will receive travel stipends to conduct preliminary research for their doctoral dissertations:
• Elizabeth Bonnette, Department of English and Comparative Literature, "Remembering Things: Transformative Objects in Community Conflict."
• Bina Gogineni, Department of English and Comparative Literature, "God and the Novel in India."
• Seema Golestaneh, Department of Anthropology, "Sufi Zikr Practices in Iran."
• Dahlia Gubara, Department of History, "Trajectories of Learning and the Everyday Life of Ideas: Al-Azhar in the Eighteenth Century."
Undergraduate Summer Fellows
The following students will receive travel stipends to conduct research for their senior theses:
• Eric Hirsch, Department of Anthropology, "Governance and Cultural Performance: Community Organization, Political Recognition and the Catholic Church in Peru."
 • Rudi Batzell, Department of History, "Religious Toleration and State Formation in Empires."
 • Shir Alon, Department of Comparative Literature and Society, "A Comparative Study of Language, Memory and Forgetting."
 • Shuli Shinnar, Department of Religion, "Religious Discourse in the Public Sphere."
Undergraduate Research Assistants
The following students will receive grants to work as research assistants to professors in their fields of study during the academic year 2008-09:
• Nicholas Kelly, Department of Political Science, Democratic Theory and the Place of Religion"
• Lena Friedrich, Department of Sociology, "Entanglement of Religion and Public Life in Western Europe."
• Neha Nimmagudda, Department of Political Science, "Religious, Cultural and National ideologies in India and South Africa."
• Stephanie Russell-Kraft, Department of Comparative Literature and Society, "Immigrant Literary Traditions in Germany and France."
• Rajiv Sicora, Department of History, "Diplomatic and Missionary relation between the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy and the Quakers in Colonial New York.
• View 2008 application for Graduate Summer Fellowships here.
• View 2008 application for Undergraduate Summer Fellowships and Assistantships here.
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