Graduate Student Awards & Fellowships (Spring
2012)
Rice University Wagoner Travel Fellowships
- Carolyn Van Wingerden
- Olivia Wolf
- Melissa Venator
- Umit Acikgoz
Rice University Fondren Library Research Competition
Honorable Mention
- Olivia Wolf for her paper "Re-presenting La Tapada Limena:
Uncovering Orientalism in the Gendered, Civic Icon of Fin-de-Siglo
Peru"
- Rachel Hooper for her paper, ""Sunlight and Fresh Air: Picturing
Life in the Central-Hall Houses of Beirut, 1890-1920"
Rice University Departmental Research Funds for Summer
2012
- Umit Acikgoz
- Stephanie Chadwick
- Rachel Hooper
- Natasha Mao
- Kyle Sweeney
- Katia Zavistovski
- Olivia Wolf
Rice University Graduate Research Seminars
- Julie Knutson, participant in the Andrew J. Mellon Graduate
Research Seminar, "Before and After Queer: Sexualities in Theory,
History, and Performance", 2012-2013
- Rachel Hooper, participant in the Rice Humanities Graduate
Research Seminar, "Human Trafficking Past and Present: Crossing
Borders, Crossing Disciplines."