This year a new competitive program for funding doctoral student research was introduced at AU. Many strong proposals were submitted. After careful review by the Review Committee, the following individuals were named as recipients of the Doctoral Student Research Award.

College of Arts and Sciences

Britta Anderson
Proposal Entitled:
“Smoking and Numeracy Study”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Laura Juliano

Gina Luff Bruns
Proposal Entitled:
“Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Media on Body Image: The Effects of Priming with Ethnically Different or Similar Models”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Michele Carter

Nell Haynes
Proposal Entitled:
“Violence, Identity, and Indigenous Women’s Wrestling in Bolivia”
Dissertation Director: Dr. William Leap

Stephanie Jacobe
Proposal Entitled:
“Thomas Fortune Ryan: An American Catholic”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Alan Kraut

Allen Mikaelian
Proposal Entitled:
“There is Humanity: Globalization, Foreign Students, and the Cosmopolitan Clubs in Early 20th Century America”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Alan Kraut

Shannon Mohan
Proposal Entitled:
“Under Advisement: Henry Kissinger’s Policy Journey from the Influence of William Y. Elliott to Influencing Richard Nixon”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Max Paul Friedman

Thomas Nassif
Proposal Entitled:
“Effectiveness of Meditation for Chronic Pain Management in Veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Deborah Norris

Matthew Pembleton
Proposal Entitled:
“Toiling in the Vineyards: American Security and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1968”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Peter Kuznick

School of International Service

Ryan Briggs
“Aiding and Abetting: The influence of Foreign Assistance on African Election Outcomes. The Ghanian Case”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Deborah Brautigam

Tom Long
“Convincing the Colossus: Latin American Leaders Face the United States”
Dissertation Director: Professor Robert Pastor

Beatrice Reaud
“The Political Economy of Local Democracy: Service Delivery & Accountability in Mozambique Since 1999”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Deborah Brautigam

School of Public Affairs

Peter Brusoe
“The States of Small Donors”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Laura Langbein

Sarah Fischer
“Democracy, Modernization, and Secularism: Women’s Relationship with Secularism in Contemporary Turkey”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Diane Singerman

Kevin Wozniak
“Analyzing the Effect of Exposure to Elite Discourse on Public Opinion about Punishment”
Dissertation Director: Dr. Joanne Savage