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.
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 organization.
2022/23 Recipient
Rachel Tam
Rachel Tam '23, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Biology
“Not Actually Pro-Life, but Anti-Birthing People’s Rights: an Analysis on the Operations of Crisis Pregnancy Centers in Rhode Island”
Crisis Pregnancy Centers are unlicensed medical clinics that do not provide comprehensive reproductive health care – namely they do not see abortions as a viable option for pregnant people. This thesis explored the 8 CPCs in Rhode Island and the connections that half of them had to large national CPC networks. Through this, Tam confirmed the intentional deception of these centers and explored their current strategies for further restricting abortion access: medicalization and proliferation.
Past Recipients
2022/23 - Sydney Smith, Africana Studies and Political Science “‘I Am a Revolutionary Black Woman’: Black Power Visions in the Narratives of Women in the Black Panther Party”
2020/2021 - Connor Jenkins, History and 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
2019/2020 - 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
2018/2019 - Sophie Kupetz, History Prisoners Against Rape
2017/2018 - Cleveish Bogle, Anthropology, Human Biology Articulating the Impact of Creative Youth Development on ¡City Arts!
2016/2017 - Sage Fanucchi-Funes, Gender and Sexuality Studies, American Studies Class and Racial Entanglements in Contemporary Midwifery
2015/2016 - Yacine Sow, Health and Human Biology Project CARE Video Series: Encouraging Women to Make Contraceptive Choices while Incarcerated
2014/2015 - Elaine Hsiang, Health and Human Biology Mapping (Un)Safe Spaces: LGBTQ Health Since the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
2013/2014 - Evelyn Sanchez, American Studies State Sanctioned Motherhood
2012/2013 - Julia Ellis-Kahana, Sociology Sailing a Social Movement into a Social Nonmovement: A Case Study of Self-Empowerment for Safe Abortion in Morocco
2011/2012 - 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
2010/2011 - Samuel McGowan, Africana Studies Patients and Power: The Development of a Health Infrastructure Gone Awry in Kibera, Kenya
2009/2010 - William Lambek, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies; Africana Studies Migratory Identities: Political Identity Formation and Immigrant Community Organizing
2008/2009 - Alison Cohen, Community Health Community-Based Participatory Epidemiology: Developing, Conducting, and Analyzing an Environmental Health Assessment with Communities for a Better Environment
2007/2008 - 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
2006/2007 - 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
