2011-2012 Wang Grant Recipients
Student Projects
Mycal Ford. Chinese Citizenship and Inter-Ethnic Relations
Brett Rousseau. Colony Collapse Disorder and the Honey Bee
Student-Faculty Projects
Paul Manfredi with Leif Nordquist. Chai-na: Documenting the End of the Blackbridge Art Village
Claire Todd with Matthew Heglund. Glacial History and Climate Change in Northern Bolivia
Robert Wells with Katie Scaff and Jacob Ooley. Riding the Rails: Connecting Cascadia
2009 - 2010 Wang Grant Recipients
Student Projects:
Austin L. Goble - Exploratory Research of Organic Farms in Turkey
Jessica A. Lupton - A community's Response to a Government's Neglect: Researching Educational and Community Development in the Esmeraldas Province
Sarah E. Sandgren - Domestic and International Policy in Ecuador: Following the Government in the First Year, Post-Election
Melissa S. Severson-Hampton - Proponents of Change: Norway's Shifting Perspectives on Language
Faculty Projects:
Dr. Amy C. Beegle, Music Department - Afro-Peruvian Jazz Performance and Transmission in Peru
Dr. Peter B. Davis, Department of Geosciences - A Field-Based Geologic Investigation of Panama's Dulling Subduction Zones
Dr. Steven K. Thomson, Department of Anthropology - "Children of the Village": On-going Research on Ethnicity, Community Development and Regional History in Coastal Gambia
2008-2009 Wang Grant Recipients
Student Projects:
Matthew D. Ferraro - Islam and Morocco's Political Identity
Elisia L. Howard - Humanity in Action, Independent Fellowship
Jessica A. Lee - Morocco: Functional Art and Culture
Jacob L. Taylor-Mosquera - Promoting Literacy in a Predominately Afro-Ecuadorian Community
Faculty Projects:
Dr. Kathlyn A. Breazeale, Department of Religion - "Witches," Nature, and Religious Imagination: The Sámi of Scandinavia & Spiritual Baptists of Trinidad and Tobago
Dr. Adam Cathcart, Department of History - War Mobilization in the Sino-North Korean Borderlands, 1945-1953
Dr. Teresa Ciabattari, Department of Sociology - Race, Colonialism, and Tourism: Attitudes towards Tourism and Tourists in Tobago
Faculty/Student Projects:
Dr. Charles A. Bergman, Department of English and Matthew S. Schmitz - Wildlife Trafficking in Ecuador
Dr. Claire E. Todd, Department of Geosciences - Glacial History and Climate Change in Southern Peru
Dr. Robert M. Wells, Department of Communication & Theatre and Shannon N. Schrecengost, Julie J. Olds and Melissa A. Campbell - Dangers Within: Canada, the U.S. and Cross-Border Crime