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Barbara Anton Community Research Grant

Funding Opportunities

Undergraduate students doing an honors thesis involving community work related to the welfare of women and children are eligible to apply for the Barbara Anton Community Research grant. The grant provides $1,000 in research support.

For application due date, see here. 

Application materials should include:

  • a three to five page description of your honors thesis
  • a letter of support from your thesis advisor
  • a brief description of how you would use the grant funds, if awarded

The grant commemorates Barbara Anton’s many contributions to the Pembroke Center over nearly two decades as director of the Pembroke Associates (now the Friends of the Pembroke Center) organization.

2024-25 Recipients

  • Anusha Gupta ’25, Public Health, Gender and Sexuality Studies
    “Evaluating the Impact of the Rhode Island Teen Institute (RITI) 2024 on Youth Leadership and Community Development”
  • Jo Ouyang ’26, Ethnic Studies, Painting (Brown/RISD)
    “Organizing the Asian/American/South: Examining Strategies of Racial Justice Organizing within Asian/American Communities in Atlanta”

 

Past Recipients

  • 2023-24: Addison Kerwin, Science, Technology, and Society
    “Alternatives to the Industrial Agriculture Model: Diverse Perspectives from Farmers in Rhode Island”
  • 2022-23: Rachel Tam, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Biology
    “Not Actually Pro-Life, but Anti-Birthing People’s Rights: an Analysis on the Operations of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Rhode Island”
  • 2022-23: Sydney Smith, Africana Studies, Political Science
    “‘I Am a Revolutionary Black Woman’: Black Power Visions in the Narratives of Women in the Black Panther Party”
  • 2020-21: Connor Jenkins, History, Africana Studies
    “‘Fear gave speed to our steps’: Slavery’s Hauntings and the Long Lives of Plantation Geographies in Edenton, North Carolina from 1850 to 1880”
  • 2019-20: Scarlett Bergam, Public Health
    “‘They should be taught self-respect, self-confidence and self-love’: The impact of education and conflicting social pressures on the sexual behaviors of South African Adolescents Living With HIV”
  • 2018-19: Sophie Kupetz, History
    “Prisoners Against Rape”
  • 2017-18: Cleveish Bogle, Anthropology, Human Biology
    “Articulating the Impact of Creative Youth Development on ¡City Arts!”
  • 2016-17: Sage Fanucchi-Funes, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies
    “Class and Racial Entanglements in Contemporary Midwifery”
  • 2015-16: Yacine Sow, Health and Human Biology
    “Project CARE Video Series: Encouraging Women to Make Contraceptive Choices while Incarcerated”
  • 2014-15: Elaine Hsiang, Health and Human Biology
    “Mapping (Un)Safe Spaces: LGBTQ Health Since the HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
  • 2013-14: Evelyn Sanchez, American Studies
    “State Sanctioned Motherhood”
  • 2012-13: Julia Ellis-Kahana, Sociology
    “Sailing a Social Movement into a Social Nonmovement: A Case Study of Self-Empowerment for Safe Abortion in Morocco”
  • 2011-12: Chishio Furukawa, Applied Math-Economics, Environmental Studies
    “Reading by solar lamps, replacing kerosene candles: Randomized evaluation of solar lamps as alternative to kerosene candles for children’s study in rural Ugandan households”
  • 2010-11: Samuel McGowan, Africana Studies
    “Patients and Power: The Development of a Health Infrastructure Gone Awry in Kibera, Kenya”
  • 2009-10: William Lambek, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Africana Studies
    “Migratory Identities: Political Identity Formation and Immigrant Community Organizing”
  • 2008-09: Alison Cohen, Community Health
    “Community-Based Participatory Epidemiology: Developing, Conducting, and Analyzing an Environmental Health Assessment with Communities for a Better Environment”
  • 2007-08: Alison Fairbrother, Development Studies
    “Intern for African Services Committee (ASC) based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopa, to create a pilot program in pediatric case management for HIV positive women and children living on an isolated mountaintop”
  • 2006-07: Sarah Adler-Milstein, Development Studies
    “Union of Workers of the Company BJ&B in the Dominican Republic–study of issues related to women, unions and the global market”
  • 2005-06: Bathsheba Demuth
  • 2004-05: Keally DeWitt
  • 2003-04: Jammei Delphine Huang
  • 2002-03: Emma Kuby
  • 2001-02: Laura Hughes
  • 2000-01: Dara Kay Cohen