The six recipients of the Starr Foundation Student Research Fellowships are preparing to embark on their travels. Each student received a $3,000 study/research grant to support an independent study project or to defray the cost of attending a New School Program in India, China, or the Himalaya region.
As of March 25th the students will be blogging about their travels and documenting the exciting experiences they are destined to have this summer. Read below to see what each student is planning to explore.
Mikaela Kvan: Mikaela will look at China’s labor laws and use China as a baseline to evaluate the growth of Cambodia’s garment industry through the voices of women who work at various levels throughout the garment manufacturing process. The research will assess the physical effects of the growth of this industry on emotional outcomes in identity and personal expression, and will take place in Shenzhen, China and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
Carolina Coviello: Carolina will explore and define the improvement in Chinese labor standards. She will also investigate how this process has impacted both the manufacturing market and the relationship between China and the international companies, like Adidas, which have outsourced there.
Tomas Uribe: Tomas will conduct research on music as a tool for empowering youth in order to analyze and evaluate the applicability and relevance of music education in the lives of at-risk youth based on two case studies in Mumbai (Mewsic) and New Delhi (Music Basti).
Joseph Wheeler: Joseph will engage in discourse with women working toward gender equality externally (via national reform) and internally (via community reform) in India. He will explore how the Uniform Civil Code is understood by both sides, the advantages and disadvantages of both solutions to this complex problem, as well as the lived ramifications of discriminatory Personal Law and real world persecution of religious minorities.
Tim Rosenkranz: Tim will explore how the nation-state of India is reproduced as a commoditized tourist destination; and what are the emerging conflicts of such an effort of the nation-state as actor of both the public interest and private enterprise.
Marina Kaneti: Marina will travel to Hong Kong, Guandong, and Shanghai to conduct research of archival collections at several locations. This research, part of a broader PhD Dissertation work, will examine the links between migration and business at the end of the nineteenth – early twentieth century.
You can also read the experiences of previous Research Fellows on the blog. Please visit the Student Research Fellows Blog for new postings throughout the summer.