We are pleased to announce that the 2011 Student Travel/Research Grant Recipients have been chosen!Please see below for details. Congratulations to all who were selected, and thank you to everyone who applied.
Carol Wang is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at The New School for Social Research. As an ICI Student Fellow, she intends to examine the professionalization of activist methodologies with an emphasis on the role of rights documentation in the Chinese HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Jeff Bailey is a graduate student pursuing a Masters of Arts in Nonprofit Management at Milano New School of Management and Policy. He is particularly interested in exploring the use of social entrepreneurship in income-generation efforts by NGOs in China and the relationship between poverty reduction and environmental sustainability.
Elana Bulman is an undergraduate student at Eugene Lang College where she is majoring in Urban Studies. As a student fellow, she will examine youth solutions to climate change in India using the “solutionary” method which focuses on developing initiatives that seek to actively create a positive future instead of taking a reactionary approach to environmental threats.
Elizabeth Catlin is an undergraduate student pursuing a Bachelors of Arts in Global Studies with a minor in gender studies at Eugene Lang College. Her purposed research project is to look at the issue of internal migration from rural to urban areas in China and how this relates to development in the country.
Bahar Tabakoglu is a PhD candidate in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. She is working on a dissertation in which she is attempting to provide a comparative examination of Islamic labor unionism in Turkey and India. This program will allow her to carry on her research in this field in India.
Anamaria Vrabie is a Fullbright fellow who is pursuing a Masters of Arts in International Affairs at the Graduate Program in International Affairs. She is interested in using the opportunity afforded to her by the fellowship to research urban socio-spatial changes through looking at urban fragmentation and specialization of functions in Mumbai, Kolkata, and Ahmedabad and how correlate with the overall cultural policy in India.