Pembroke Center

Pembroke Center Announces 2024-25 Student Research Grant Winners

These are the winners of this year’s Pembroke Center student research grants.

Barbara Anton Community Research Grant
  • Anusha Gupta ’25, Public Health and 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 and Painting (Brown/RISD), “Organizing the Asian/American/South: Examining Strategies of Racial Justice Organizing within Asian/American Communities in Atlanta”

Helen Terry MacLeod Research grant
  • Rachel Kamphaus ’25, English and Classics, “All About Me: Re-Writing the Subject in the Feminist Poet’s Kunstlerroman”

  • RL Wheeler ’25, Ethnic Studies and Literary Arts

Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant
  • Sophi Aronson ’25, Health and Human Biology, “Programmatic Integration of Birth Doula Care into Health Systems in the United States: An Integrative Review”

  • Olivia Hanley ’25, International and Public Affairs, “Black Women Activists within the United States’s Civil Rights Movement and in South Africa's Anti-apartheid Movement”

Pembroke Center Research Development Grant for Graduate Students
  • 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)”

Steinhaus/Zisson Pembroke Center Research Grants for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
  • Shravya Sompalli ’25, Ethnic Studies and Computer Science, “Opening the Curtains: Reclaiming Technology-Enabled Narratives on Massage and Sex Work in Queens, New York”

  • Luiz Paulo Ferraz, History, “‘The Original Earth Defenders:’ Gender, Environment, and the Rise of Brazil's Indigenous Women Leaders”

  • Kiana Knight, Africana Studies, “Translating Racial Uplift: Black Women, Language, and International Politics, 1918-1965”

  • Mohadeseh Salari Sardari, History of Art and Architecture, “Craving Her Space: Negotiating Architectural Boundaries in the Lives of Taj Alsaltane and Bibi Maryam Bakhtiari”

Enid Wilson Undergraduate Fellowship
  • San Kwon ’25, Comparative Literature, “Theorizing Ellipses as a Critical Concept”

  • Alissa Simon ’25, Political Science and Gender and Sexuality Studies, “Power of the Private: Feminist Revisions to U.S. Domestic Violence Law”