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Pembroke Center Research Development Grant for Graduate Students

Funding Opportunities

The Pembroke Center Research Development Grants support innovative research by graduate students from any department pursuing work related to the Pembroke Center, including, but not limited to, gender and/or sexuality studies, women's education, health, community activism, philanthropy, economic status, and women's rights.

For application due date, see here

Graduate students are invited to apply for grants up to $2,000. Application materials include:

  • a three- to five-page description of your research project
  • a letter of support from faculty advisor
  • amount requested and plan for allocated grant funds

2025-26 Recipients

  • Elizabeth Berman, Modern Culture and Media and German, “(Re)mediating Damaged Life: Toward a Critique of Repair”

  • Aidea Downie, Public Health, “The Potential Role of a Size-Inclusive and Anti-Weight Stigma Framework in Perinatal Healthcare within a Rhode Island and New England Context”

  • Courtney Fitzpatrick, History, “Syilx Cultural Burning Initiative”

  • Joaquín Marreros Núñez, History, “Peruvian Maricones: Queer Urban Life, Race, and Violence in 20th Century Peru”

  • Luvuyo Nyawose, Modern Culture and Media, “Chronologies of Capture: Saartjie Baartman and the Politics of Mediated Time”

  • Isabella Schultz, Anthropology, “The Impact of Ujamaa’s Legacy, International Aid, and Care in Maternal Health in Tanzania”

Past Recipients

  • 2024-25:
    • Mickell Carter, Africana Studies
      “Stylin’ Black Power: Fashioning Identity and Masculinity”
    • Victoria Cheff, French & Francophone Studies
      “Stérile Volupté: Productive Sterility in Baudelaire, Vivien, Rachilde, and Colette”
    • Tara Holman, English
      “Aestheticizing the Maternal: Creative Enactments toward Relationality”
    • Madeline Nicholson, Anthropology
      “Adopting Change: An Ethnographic Investigation of Transnational Adoptee Activism in Norway”
    • Semilore Sobande, English
      “Ghostwriters: Black Women and Representation in 20th-Century Anglophone and Francophone Literature of the African Diaspora”
    • Amber Hawk Swanson, Theatre Arts and Performance Studies 
      “Hemings and Lewinsky Studies, as made imaginable by Marisa Williamson’s Sally & Monica’s Hot Tub Hangout (2014)”
  • 2023-24: Augusta (Guta) da Silveira de Oliveira, History
    “From Inverts to Dykes: Lesbian Life in Twentieth Century Brazil”
  • 2022-23: Devon Clifton, English
    “Psychoanalytics: Towards a Black Object Study”
  • 2021-22: Sara Colantuono, Italian Studies
    “The Lonzi Paradox: Rethinking Lonzi’s Place in the Canon of Italian Feminist Thought”