People Type: SKJ 2011

Biography Kim Johnson traveled to Thailand to intern with the Curriculum Project, an NGO dedicated to providing educational aid for migrant learning centers. Learn more about Kim’s experience here.

Biography Monica Ledesma traveled to Ireland to conduct research on the Irish Catholic missionary movement, mainly during the critical period of political and social change in the first half of the twentieth century. Read on about Monica’s research here.

Biography Aliza Luft spent a summer in Paris, France conducting pre-dissertation research on public defections from political commitments in a high-risk context – specifically, understanding why bishops deviated from Catholic Church policies and how those actions impacted the evolution of the Holocaust in France. Aliza’s post-fellowship report can be found here.

Biography Taylor Price departed for Namibia in the summer of 2011 — to explore “the role of traditional leaders … in implementing women’s rights policies enacted by the government” — and managed to extend her stay in the country for more than a year, carrying out research, networking, and bringing back a number of interesting …

Biography Prakirati Satasut spent the summer of 2011 in Thailand conducting preliminary fieldwork among urban Buddhists to examine contemporary urban meditation movements as a site of religious renewal and change. Check out Prakirati’s post-fellowship report here.

Biography John Stavrellis performed archival research at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute in Pune, Maharashtra, India, with the primary goal of investigating Indian legal traditions for examples of how prejudices towards marginalized communities were encoded into law. Learn more about John’s fellowship experience here.

Biography Ryan Wolfson-Ford researched ancient and early modern Lao history to prepare for his dissertation proposal during his time in Laos in 2011. Ryan’s post-fellowship report can be read here.