Daily Archives: October 8, 2013

Congratulations to the Rapoport-King Scholarship Recipients!

Maria M. Arréllaga – International Relations and Global Studies

“Social and Environmental Impacts of the Quest for ‘Green Gold’ in South America:  A Political Ecology Analysis of the Soy Production Boom in the Gran Chaco”

Faculty Adviser:  Michael Anderson

 

James Beveridge – Anthropology 

“How the Bolivian Government Fragments the Resistance Movement of the TIPNIS Indigenous Territory”

Faculty Adviser:  Shannon Speed

 

Sarabeth Flowers – English

“Postmodern Re-Enchantment:  Transcendence Through Language in the Works of Don DeLillo”

Faculty Adviser:  Martin Kervorkian

 

Kyle Lee Harper – Anthropology 

“Tem Gente Aqui:  How Traditional Ribeirinho Communities are Resisting Invisibility and the Amazonian Developmentalist Agenda of the Brazilian State”

Faculty Adviser:  Circe Sturm

 

Sarah Lusher – English  

“The War Fought Between the Words”

Faculty Adviser:  Mia Carter

 

Daniel Muñoz – Philosophy 

“A Defense of Commonsense Causation”

Faculty Advisers:  Galen Strawson and David Sosa

 

Mohammed Nabulsi – Philosophy 

“The Nature of Belief’s Implications for Evidentialism”

Faculty Adviser:  Miriam Schoenfield

 

Alyssa O’Connell – English 

“The Problem of Tolkien’s Dwarves”

Faculty Adviser:  Elizabeth Richmond-Garza

 

David Oh – Economics 

“The Gift of Salvation”

Faculty Adviser:  Stephen Trejo

 

Kanyinsola Obayan – African and African Diaspora Studies 

“State Violence, Radical Protest and the Black/African Female Body”

Faculty Adviser:  Christen Smith

 

Jean G. Raveney – Philosophy  

“’Realism and Powers’:  Making Sense of the Arguments Facing Best Scientific Theories”

Faculty Adviser:  Robert Koons

 

Victoria Schwartz – History

“’Working’ in Verbs:  Gender and Labor in

Pre-Industrial England”

Faculty Adviser:  Julie Hardwick

 

Cassandra Shulter – English 

“Textile Arts As Represented in 19th-Century Industrial Novels” Faculty Adviser:  George Christian

 

Robert Van Patten – Asian Studies 

“The Origin and Role of Heaven in Early Chinese Religious Thought”

Faculty Advisers:  David Sena and Chiu-Mi Lai

 

Eric Zaizar – Psychology 

“Enhancing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders with

Photobiomodulation”

Faculty Adviser:  Michael Telch

Congratulations to Second, Third, and Fourth Year Scholarship Recipients!

Thank you to everyone for applying. This year was especially competitive as we received many outstanding essays.

Second Year

Meagan Abel

Katelyn Burran

Maureen Clark

Rebekah Crone

Kendall DeBoer

Emily Finkelstine

Alyssa Hernandez

Nina Ho

Samantha Meyer

Elaina Olmo

Caleb Parker

Samantha Tedford

Imogen Sealy

Haley Williams

Michelle Willoughby 

 

Third Year 

Alexander Djamoos

Maria Herrera

Connor Pursell

Juliette Seive

Tara Timinsky

 

Fourth Year 

Patrick Crowley

Jennifer Harrision

Jamie Hill

Cara Shaffer

Caroline Suh

John Winston