Pembroke Center

Pembroke Center Announces 2025-26 Student Research Grant Winners

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

Barbara Anton Community Research Grant

Emerald Spindler ’26, Anthropology, “Repercussions of Systemized Shame in Secondary Pregnancy Prevention for Hispanic Women: Montrose, Colorado, as a Case Study”

Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant

Tilly Hillenbrand-Arlt ’26, Classics and Medieval Cultures, “The Sustained Study of Late Medieval Bodies on the Pilgrimsvegen til Røldal

Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant

Francis Parserio ’26, Applied Math and Economics, “Cash Box to Bankbook: A Study to Integrate Women Chamas into Kenya’s Financial System”

Pembroke Center Research Development Grant for Graduate Students

  • 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”

Steinhaus/Zisson Pembroke Center Research Grants for Undergraduate and Graduate Students

  • Maria Arievitch, Sociology, “The Suburban Grassroots: Examining the Durability of Political Outcomes in Small Town America”

  • Joyce Fu, Integrative Studies, “Reviving Nüshu: Women’s Script as Modern Song”

  • Zhujun Ma, Religious Studies, “Ambivalent Morality: Undefinable Practices of Mothering in Popular Medical Self-Help Books in 19th and Early 20th-Century China”

  • Yilmaz Yeniler, Archaeology, “Archaeological Knowledge at the Intersection of Race, Gender and Nationalism: A Comparative Analysis between Turkey and Greece”

  • Amelle Zeroug, History, “Sexuality and Statecraft: The Strategic and Ideological Weaponization of Gender in the Algerian War of Independence”

Enid Wilson Undergraduate Fellowship

Julia Clark ’26, History of Art and Architecture, “Transformed by Water: How Aphrodite Reveals Birth, Life, and Marriage for Women in Greek Society”