Experiential Education Program: Kluge Fellows & Projects
SUMMER 2007 KLUGE FELLOWS
Maria Abascal, CC '09
Title: "Shifting Loyalties: Family Ties, Disillusionment, and the Changing Face of Cuban-American Party Identification"
Advisors: Dr. Jose Moya, History (Barnard)
Amy Duffuor, CC '09
Title: "Transnationalism: What Is Its Effect on Ghanaian Migrants Living in the Bronx, NY?"
Advisors: Dr. Steven Gregory, Anthropology
Desirée Carver-Thomas, CC '09
Title: "Indigenous Tourism in the Carib Territory: Intersections of Power and Identity"
Advisors: Dr. Maxine Weisgrau, Anthropology (Barnard)
Francisco Laso, CC '08
Title: "Anthropogenic Pressures and Effects on Podocnemis Turtles (P. expansa, P. unifilis, P. sextuberculata) in the Iquitos Area of the Peruvian Amazon"
Advisors: Dr. Matthew Palmer and Dr. Oscar Pineda-Catalan, Ecology, Evolution & Environmental Biology
Christien Tompkins, CC '08
Title: "Crossing the Gates: Columbia University and the Struggle for Harlem Abstract"
Advisors: Dr. Samuel Roberts, History & Sociomedical Sciences
SUMMER 2006 KLUGE FELLOWS
Keith Hernandez, CC ‘07
Title: “Traversing Discourse: Lay Catholics in the Cristero Period, 1925-1930”
Advisors: Dr. Pablo Piccato, History
Monica Cuevas, CC ‘07
Title: “Parent Teacher Associations: How Do They Differ Among Similar Schools?”
Advisors: Melinda Mechur Karp, adjunct, Sociology
Jennifer Wilson, CC ‘07
Title: “The Racialization of the Radical: The Politics of the Body in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Literature”
Advisors: Dr. Liza Knapp, Slavic Languages
Matthew Rey, CC ‘07
Title: “A Bluer Wave: Democratic Gains in New York City’s Suburban Precincts”
Advisors: Dr. Ester R. Fuchs, International & Public Affairs and Political Science
Jennifer Oki, CC ‘07
Title: “The New South Africanism: Youth, Arts, and the Making of the New South Africa”
Advisors: Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, Anthropology
SUMMER 2005 KLUGE FELLOWS
Eremi Amabebe, CC ‘06
Title: "The Nollywood Film Industry and Nigerian Identity"
Advisors: Dr. Richard Pena, Arts
Fiori Berhane, CC ‘07
Title: "The Women of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front: Then and Now"
Advisors: Dr. Brian Larkin, Anthropology (Barnard)
Rita Harvey, CC ‘07
Title: "Construction of Sexual Identity in Black Feminist Literature"
Advisors: Dr. Farah Griffin, English & Comparative Literature
Keith Hernandez, CC ‘07
Title: “Electoral Non-governmental Organizations and Mexico’s Transition to Democracy”
Advisors: Dr. Pablo Piccato, History
Jennifer Oki, CC ‘07
Title: "The New South Africanism: Youth, Arts, and the Making of the New South Africa"
Advisors: Dr. Robin Kelley, Anthropology
Gabrielle Ramos, CC ‘06
Title: “United States Medicaid System vs. Canada’s Universal Healthcare System: Effects on the Urban Homeless’ Access to Healthcare in New York City and Toronto”
Advisors: Dr. Judith Russell, Political Science
Kimberly Ramos, CC ‘06
Title: “Asymmetric Synthesis of Amino Acids Using Peptide-Based Polyamine/Pyridoxamine Systems”
Advisors: Dr. Ronald Breslow, Chemistry/Biological Sciences
Claudia Sandoval, CC ‘06
Title: “Plan Ecuador: An Evaluation of Legislative Policies & Assistance for Columbian Immigrants in Ecuador”
Advisors: Dr. Scott B. Martin, Political Science
Kwame Spearman, CC ‘06
Title: “Harlem's Empowerment Zone: How has the $300 million governmental aid given to the Harlem community affected business in the area?”
Advisors: Dr. Beverly Watkins, Sociomedical Science
SUMMER 2004 KLUGE FELLOWS
Bethlehem Dejene, CC ‘05
Title: “The Influence of Islam on Ethiopian Talismanic Scrolls”
Advisors: Dr. Roger Bagnall, Classics
Reginald Gossett, CC ‘06
Title: “Political Inactivity in Boston’s Communities of Color”
Advisors: Dr. Gary Okihiro, International & Public Affairs
Christopher Johnson, CC ‘06
Title: “Inventos: Cuban Hip-Hop & the Implications of its Self-Sustainability”
Advisors: Laurent Alfred, adjunct, African American Studies
Evita Mendiola, CC ‘05
Title: “A Fish on Fulton's Doorstep: The End of Manhattan's Maritime Community and Era”
Advisors: Dr. Mary Marshall Clark, Oral History Research Office
Talibah Newman, CC ‘06
Title: “The African Legacy of Spirituality in Cuba: The Survival and Growth of Santeria”
Advisors: Dr. Carlos Riobo, Spanish & Latin American Cultures (Barnard)
Gabrielle Ramos, CC ‘06
Title: “United States Healthcare System vs. Canada's Universal Healthcare System: Effects on the Urban Homeless' Access to Healthcare Case Studies: New York City & Toronto”
Advisors: Shelley Burt, adjunct, Political Science
Roberto Reyes-Gaskin, CC ‘06
Title: “Contestation, Confrontation, and Renegotiation in Brasilia: Changes in the Use of Urban Spaces in the Plano Piloto Since 2002”
Advisors: Dr. Pablo Piccato, History
LaToya Tavernier, CC ‘05
Title: “Overrepresentation of Blacks in Local News Broadcasts of Violent & Drug Related Crimes: A Pilot Study”
Advisors: Dr. Carl Hart, Psychiatry
SUMMER 2003 KLUGE FELLOWS
Denaka Perry, CC ‘04
Title: “Reruns in History”
Advisors: Dr. Robert Hanning, English & Comparative Literature
Bethlehem Dejene, CC ‘05
Title: “Church of Bethlehem: The Survival of Degua Liturgy in Ethiopia”
Advisors: John Pemberton, Anthropology
Stephanie Leon, CC ‘04
Title: “The Price of Victory: How Winning the Battle Can Lose the War—the Effects of the Plains Wars on the Sioux”
Advisors: Dr. Samuel Moyn, History
Andrea Woodley, CC ‘05
Title: “Family Capital: An Educational Perspective on Structures of Stratification”
Advisors: Vanessa Morest, adjunct, Sociology
Ileana Dulce Mendez-Penate, CC ‘04
Title: “Race, Sexuality, and Sex Politics in Chelsea”
Advisors: Dr. Nan Rothschild, Anthropology (Barnard)
Marvin Edmead, CC ‘04
Title: “AIDS Communication to Young African Americans: Trends of the New York City Department of Health, 1981-2002”
Silvia Banderas, CC ‘04
Title: “The Invisible Victims of the World Trade Center”
Advisors: Dr. Nicholas De Genova, Anthropology
Milka Milliance, CC ‘04
Title: “In the Diaspora: Constructing a Gendered Identity Amongst Second Generation Haitian-American Female Students at Columbia University”
Advisors: Dr. Lila Abu-Lighod, Anthropology
Alden Young, CC ‘04
Title: “A Case Study of the Alexandrian Riots of 1882 and British Intervention in Egypt”
Advisors: Dr. Samuel Moyn, History
Derek Mitchell, CC ‘03
Title: “Ghandi’s Hind Swaraj and Contemporary Gandhian Movements in India”
(Derek was a graduating senior using the grant to serve as introductory work towards a dissertation on ethics in popular Hinduism)
Jamie Hodari, CC ‘04
Title: “Movement in Power: the Hindu Nationalist Fusion of Movement and Party in Contentions Politics”
Advisors: Dr. Amrita Basru, Political Science (Amherst)
Dr. Mark Kesselman, Political Science (Columbia)
SUMMER 2002 KLUGE FELLOWS
Amber Baylor, CC’02
Title: “From Rowhouse Windows: An Oral History-Based Narrative of a Contemporary African American Community—12th Street Northwest, Washington, DC”
Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Blackmar, History
Viviana Rodriguez, CC’02
Title: “Hiding Homosexuality”
Advisor:Dr. Martin Puchner
Steffani Jemison, CC ‘02
Title: “Cultural Criticism, Racial Essentialism, and Critical Pragmatism: Reading Alain Locke’s Race Contacts and Inter-racial Relations”
Advisor:Dr. Farah Griffin, English & Comparative Literature
Oliver Sellers-Garcia, CC ‘02
Title: “Jobs in New York: A Sociological Study of New York City Occupations”
Advisor:Dr. Peter Bearman, Sociology
Imo Imeh, CC ‘02
Title: “A New Vision: Exploring the Extent to Which Black Art Should Be Considered Essentially on Political Grounds”
Advisor:Dr. Richard Brilliant, Art History & Archaeology
Anthony Morales, CC ‘02
Title: “Seekin’ the Cause: Art/Healing Through Nuyorican Literature of Piri Thomas & Miguel Pinero”
Advisor:Dr. Nicole Marwell, Sociology
Anya Allen, CC ‘02
Title: “Popular Culture and the Politicization of Ethnicity in Trinidad and Tobago”
Advisor:Dr. David Scott, Anthropology
Andrea Hauge, CC ‘02
Title: “Contradictions in a Stalled Integration Process: MERCOSUR Through the Lens of Bolivian Migration—A Comparative Study of Labor Mobility of Migrants with the EU and NAFTA Cases”
Advisor:Dr. Robert Smith, Sociology (Barnard)
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