When the spring semester ends, a select group of Yale College juniors will depart for such far-flung locales as Poland, Australia, Kenya and Peru, where they will pursue research projects with the support of Yale Summer Traveling Fellowships.
The names of the 33 members of the Class of 1999 who have received the 1998 awards were recently announced by the Yale Summer Traveling Fellowships Committee. The juniors, who were chosen from among 92 applicants this year, demonstrated through written proposals and interviews that they had carefully worked out projects that can be completed during several weeks this summer and that will contribute significantly to the development of the students' special educational interests. In most cases, the experience gained abroad will enhance work leading to the completion of the students' senior essays or other individual projects.
The awards are made possible through the income of a fund endowed in memory of Robert C. Bates, one-time fellow of Jonathan Edwards College and a member of the Yale faculty, as well as through six additional funds. The funds -- administered by the committee on behalf of Yale College -- are the Hilgendorf Fellowship, in memory of William Hilgendorf Jr. '67; the Wagster Fellowship, a memorial to Rhea Plunkett Wagster; the Kilborne Traveling Fellowship, in memory of Robert Stewart Kilborne, for travel to England and studies in the arts, history or literature; the Lewis P. Curtis Fellowship, for studies in the field of history, philosophy, the arts and letters; the David W. Baer Memorial Fellowship, for architecture or design; and the John Boit Morse Memorial Fellowship, for a traveling fellowship to an art student.
A list of the students, brief descriptions of their projects and the grants they have received follow:
Curtis Fellowships
Andrew C. Melzer of Jonathan Edwards College -- In England, conduct research on the Civil War claims between the British and American governments, frequently grouped together as the "Alabama claims," from the British perspective.
Lucy Schaeffer of Jonathan Edwards College -- Travel to Rome, Florence and Venice to investigate the roots and inspiration for British paintings created during the age of the Grand Tour and paint contemporary versions of some of these works.
Hilgendorf Fellowship
Alexander F. Zemek of Davenport College -- Investigate and find any links between the international emergence of Kenya's athletes and the intense financial and political involvement in track and field begun under the newly independent government of President Kenyatta.
Kilborne Fellowship
Anisha Dasgupta of Timothy Dwight College -- While at Oxford University, study Anglo-Norman medieval Latin and examine the economic laws of 12th- and 13th-century England as they relate to the participation of women in fields of commerce.
Plunkett Wagster Fellowship
Emily Bell of Jonathan Edwards College -- Conduct research in Brazil on the evolution of the Brazilian women's movement from 1920 to the present and its connection to the history of women's reproductive health policies in Brazil.
Baer Fellowships
Joyce Hsiang of Jonathan Edwards College -- In Spain, study, through intensive sketching, Moorish architecture and its aim of metaphysical harmony.
James Ramsey of Jonathan Edwards College -- Study the architecture of Gothic cathedrals in northern France and record these findings in charcoal and watercolor drawings.
Hua Frederick Tang of Davenport College -- Travel to Japan to examine traditional Japanese architecture and to relate this to the International Style of the 1920s and 1930s.
Boit Morse Fellowship
Seth Lewis Gordon of Berkeley College -- Pursue research in Rome on Hadrian's Villa, and both survey and illustrate the villa for presentation on an interactive CD-ROM.
Bates Fellowships
Sarah Bray of Branford College -- Design and administer an epidemiological survey to examine the level of knowledge about HIV among commercial sex workers in Iquitos, Peru.
Elizabeth DiMare of Ezra Stiles College -- Research the British government's use of different kinds of propaganda in World War II on the home front in order to mobilize British women for the war effort.
Faslyn Felicien of Jonathan Edwards College -- In
St. Lucia, investigate the use of the English language as a political and economic tool, and study Creole's link with identity and nationalism.
Nora Flynn of Davenport College -- Study the ways in which Australian secondary school students are taught civics and the ways in which these lessons reflect a changing curriculum in the history of Australian education.
Eric Friedman of Morse College -- Investigate implications of the French experience with Minitel, a text-only low-bandwidth network, for designing human interfaces, in order to apply this knowledge to emerging wireless computer/phone technology.
Anna Grojec of Davenport College -- Travel to Warsaw to research the fate of the Jewish Labor Bund, a socialist party in Poland, in the immediate aftermath of World War II.
Jennifer Harris of Davenport College -- Through on-site drawings and oil studies, depict the shrouded worlds lodged among the extant layers of modern-day Italy.
Brian Ingram of Silliman College -- Investigate the interplay between religion and economics in the success of the Jordan Islamic Bank and Finance House.
Bernard Kim of Saybrook College -- Examine the satirical prints and literature of the Gin Craze, a period in British social history that witnessed a dramatic increase in distilled liquor consumption.
Daniel McGarry of Morse College -- Study the late 19th-century debate in Paris over the construction of the subway system and its place as one of the many social, political and economic issues confronting the early French Third Republic.
Theodore Miller of Silliman College -- Travel to England and France to chronicle and critique the clash between the modernist and postmodernist representation of the "black man" in contemporary film, literature and music.
Dalia Muller of Ezra Stiles College -- In Mexico City, analyze the Mexican student movement of 1968, a movement representative of the nation's struggle to achieve both democratization and modernization.
Soo Mi Park of Silliman College -- In Berlin, trace the development of Migranten/Ausländerliteratur, from its inception in the early 1960s to the present, and examine its role in the German public sphere.
Joanna Pozen of Trumbull College -- Conduct research at the Spanish Foreign Ministry in Madrid on Franco and his foreign ministers' efforts to assist Jewish refugees of Sephardic origin during the years between 1941 and 1945 in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Anthony Sagnella of Branford College -- Travel to the Campania region of Italy to do field work in dialectology and to eventually compare these dialects in their "pure" forms with those used by Italian immigrants in New Haven.
Elena Saxonhouse of Saybrook College -- Research New Zealand's reorganization of indigenous forest management to determine whether single-use management has been a success.
Jonathan Schiffman of Calhoun College -- Study an unpublished, unedited and unperformed musical composition by Igor Stravinsky at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel, Switzerland.
Alexander Slater of Jonathan Edwards College -- In Jerusalem, examine the personal files of the officials of the Mandatory Palestinian Government that are housed in the Israel State Archives.
Stephanie Small of Jonathan Edwards College -- In Dublin and Sligo, Ireland, examine the influence of W.B. Yeats on modern Irish culture and poetry.
Rivka Spivak of Morse College -- Travel to France, Germany and Belgium to ascertain whether restricted cryptographic algorithms with U.S. patents are commonplace in these countries and to study these countries' export policies.
Loren Stewart of Branford College -- In Méridan, Yucatán, study the rise of the National Action Party in the 1960s and, through interviews with party officials, study the party's later growth.
Sylvia G. Taft of Trumbull College -- Study underground Czech literature in the decades following the repression of the Prague Spring in 1968.
Lauren Willig of Branford College -- Research the life and statecraft of Scotland's 16th-century queen and regent, Marie de Guise.
Derek Windham of Berkeley College -- In Germany, interview participants of vocational training programs in their various industries to evaluate how the programs meet the participants' needs and expectations.
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