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Gerken Fellowship

This program is open to Juniors majoring in Politics, DWA, Economics or UEP and will provide a stipend and travel allowance for full time research on a public policy issue of importance to Los Angeles or the United States. For more information contact Prof. Caroline Heldman, Politics Dept.

Interested students should apply using the Occidental Summer Research Program process. Applications are due on February 14, 2013 by 5 pm.  This award assumes the student researcher is travelling during the summer and subsidized room and board is not provided. If possible, fellows should present their work at the Oxy end of summer conference and at the fall SCCUR conference. Fellows are expected to submit an abstract to urc@oxy.edu. Additional funds will be provided to permit travel for presentation of the work in a way that attempts to influence policy. Questions about the application process can be directed to the Undergraduate Research Center.

Previous Gerken Fellows:

2012-13:

Alana Murphy, Restorative Justice: How the Right Discipline in Schools Can Help Battle Racism

2011-12:

Mark Silva, Public Interest Law in Los Angeles Through a Rebellious Vision

2010-11:

Jacqueline Adorni, Queers in Pink Keffiyehs: The Motivations of Radical Queer Activists

 

Christine Jones, The Effects of Teach for America on the Los Angeles Unified School District: Do You get What You Pay For?

 

Daniel Rosales, Scandinavia and the Success of Socialism

2008-09:

Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, Disaster Politics: Assessing the Impact on Student Relief Workers in Post-Katrina New Orleans

2007-08:

Kenneth Smutny, Application of Entrepreneurial Finance to the Nonprofit Sector of the Czech Republic

2006-07:

Josephine Kalika, Russian Immigrant Artists' Success as a Function of the Relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union

 

Emily Rasmussen, Artist Identity and Allegiance: National vs. Imagined Communities

2005-06:

Asen Hristov, Bulgaria's Euro-integration: A Crucial Factor for Stabilization and Sustained Growth

2004-05:

Maria Stoyadinova, Russia's Impact on Eastern European Transition

2003-04:

Drenusha Kusari, Immigration, Unemployment, and Optimum Currency Options: Implications for the enlargement of the European Union

2002-03:

Caspar Oswald, Contemporary Anglo-American Foreign Policy & Iraq

2001-02:

David Flores, Mental Health Services for Individuals with Severe Mental Illness

2000-01:

Bianca Karim, Women in Armed Conflict: The Story of Kosovo

 

Matthew Tompkins, The Nature and Future of European Security Integration

1999-2000:

Justin Anderson

1998-99:

Brett Neeley

1997-98:

Eddie Jauregui

1996-97:

Toby Dalton

 

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