In addition to the nine recipients previously
announced by the university
(The Gazette, Aug. 8,
2005), these five current or recent students have received
prestigious Fulbrights to study abroad.
Amy Holmes, a graduate student in the Krieger
School's Department of
Sociology, will be conducting a sociological analysis
of the network of U.S. bases in Germany to explain how the
restructuring process and changing power relations are
reflected at the local level. She will try to show that the
decision to keep so many installations in operation may
have more to do with questions of culture and gender than
military strategy. Holmes also plans to assess how much
agency the German government has in this process and the
possible implications for theories of the state.
Haley Morrisson, who earned her bachelor's
degree from the Krieger School's
Department of Philosophy in May, is also heading to
Germany, where she will interview visitors to the country's
Holocaust memorials to develop an account of how monuments
function as a form of remembrance. Morrisson says that the
designs for recent German Holocaust monuments are abstract,
and it is unclear how the average viewing public responds
to them. She hopes her interviews with visitors at the
Monument to the Murdered Jews of Europe and the Jewish
Museum of Berlin will determine whether abstract memorials
allow for meaningful experiences.
Andrew Devereux, a graduate student in the
Krieger School's Department of
History, will travel to Spain to write the history of
the relations between the Kingdom of Aragon and Kingdom of
Naples from 1469 to 1510. He will explore the methods and
motivations of King Ferdinand of Aragon's expansionist
interests in the Neapolitan kingdom to more clearly
elucidate the ideology of empire in Spain as well as in the
broader contexts of the Mediterranean and Atlantic
worlds.
Anne Palaia, a doctoral candidate in the
Bloomberg School's
Department of International Health, will travel to
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she will examine
infant-feeding decisions among HIV-infected women receiving
the drug nevirapine to prevent mother-to-child transmission
of HIV. Interventions are currently under way throughout
sub-Saharan Africa to reduce transmission of HIV from
mother to child during labor and delivery, and the success
of such interventions is often undermined when a mother
transmits the virus to her infant after birth, through
breast milk. As multilevel factors often affect a woman's
decisions to breast feed, formula feed or mix-feed her
child, Palaia's project seeks to better understand such
determinants so that culturally appropriate recommendations
of strategies to prevent mother-to-child transmission can
be developed.
Joshua Garoon, a doctoral candidate in the
Bloomberg School's
Department of International Health, will be
investigating the impact of access to cash, labor type and
gender on health-care decision making and health outcomes
among 40 purposefully sampled households in the oilfield
region of southern Chad. The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum
Development and Pipeline Project has been billed as a new
model for public-private partnerships in development; his
research will take an ethnographic approach in exploring
how the anticipated avenues of such development will affect
those living in or near the project area.
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