Four Princeton University Graduate Students Honored with Scholarships by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
The German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst – DAAD), an organization promoting higher education in Germany and providing funding to do so, has announced the recipients of several scholarships and grants for the academic year 2009/10. Princeton University students Christine Kim, Michael McGillen, Mary Marshall Campbell and Alana King, were awarded Graduate Study Scholarships.
Campbell, King, and McGillen are all post-generals graduate students in the German Department. Campbell and King are medievalists. Campbell will use her fellowship to study Sisterbooks, medieval nuns’ chronicles. King, in her fifth year of study, will investigate the use of medieval mystical texts in the Reformation period. McGillen, a fourth-year student, will analyse the figure of the child in post WWII German literature to trace the end of literary Modernism.
DAAD programs are helping to create goodwill and professional relationships that will help build a solid basis for relations between Germany and North America. DAAD scholarships are highly competitive and recipients are selected by independent selection committees on the basis of outstanding academic records and convincing project proposals or statements of purpose.
2009-10 Honorific and Whiting Fellows Selected
Honorific Fellows 2009-10
Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowships
Vaneet Aggarwal, Electrical Engineering
Melinda Clare Baldwin, History of Science
Charles Conroy, Astrophysical Sciences
Joseph Moshenska, English
Harold W. Dodds Fellowships
Rafael Dix Carneiro, Economics
Joseph E. Carpenter, Chemistry
Alexander Lawrence Kitnick, Art and Archaeology
Ning Lin, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Xin Lu, Molecular Biology
Andrew P. Marencic, Chemical Engineering
Yury Polyanskiy, Electrical Engineering
Cristobal Young, Sociology
Charlotte Elizabeth Procter Fellowships
Bart Bonikowski, Sociology
Joseph George Checkelsky, Physics
Mina Cikara, Psychology
Jeffrey D. Colgan, Woodrow Wilson School
Christopher Laumann, Physics
Eve Célia Morisi, French and Italian
Somangshu Mukherji, Music
Lindsay Vail Reckson, English
Haojia Ren, Geosciences
Irene Sunwoo, Architecture
Dustin Tingley, Politics
Leah Jane Whittington, Comparative Literature
Joshua James Wilburn, Philosophy
Wallace Memorial Fellowship in Engineering
Michael P. Burke, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Yang Feng, Operations Research and Financial Engineering
Wolfgang Johann Heinrich Mulzer, Computer Science
Whiting Fellows 2009-10
Maren Annika Ehlers, East Asian Studies
Lance Warren Jenott, Religion
Jamie Kreiner, History
Yann Robert, French and Italian
David James Russell, English
Krisztina Szilágyi, Near Eastern Studies
Jada Renee Twedt Strabbing, Philosophy
Joseph Witztum, Near Eastern Studies
April 13, 2009- Five Graduate Alumni Among 24 Carnegie Scholars Named for 2009
Three historians, one political scientist and a current graduate student in Near Eastern Studies have won prestigious Carnegie Scholar awards for their scholarship related to Islam and Muslim communities in the modern world, the focus of these awards for the last ten years. They are:
Ussama Makdisi, professor at Rice University, earned his Ph.D. in History in 1997.
Robert Crews, assistant professor at Stanford University, earned his Ph.D. in History in 1999.
Hussein Anwar Fancy, assistant professor at the University of Michican, Ann Arbor, earned his Ph.D. in History in 2008.
Samer Shehata, assistant professor at Georgetown University, was awarded the Ph.D. in Politics in 2000.
Intisar Rabb is currently an advanced graduate student in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and due to defend her dissertation soon.
More information is available on the Scholars program and on the projects of these awardees.
April 9, 2009- Guggenheim Fellowships Go To Six Graduate Alumni
The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation announced on April 8, 2009, the 180 new Guggenheim Fellowships for 2009-10. Six Princeton Graduate alums were among the winners.
Steven Gubser, currently professor of physics at Princeton, received his Ph.D. in Physics in 1998.
George D. Gollin earned his Ph.D. in Physics in 1981, and received a Guggenheim in the category of “General Non-fiction.”
Leslie P. Peirce received her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies in 1988.
Noel Lenski was awarded his Ph.D. in Classics in 1995.
Susan C. Watkins earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1980.
Risa Goluboff, a History Ph.D. from 2003, received a Guggenheim in the category of “Constitutional Studies.”