Fellowship Recipients

2023-2024 Recipients: 

Philip Balboni
8th Year Graduate – UC Berkeley; Anthropology
“The Occidentalist Frame: Orientalism and the Idea of the West in Turkey”

Wen Chao
5th Year Graduate – Caltech; Chemistry
“Spectroscopic and Kinetic Reactive Intermediates in the Atmosphere of Venus: The Catalysis Role of the Chlorine Atom”

Hristos Courellis
4th Year Graduate – Caltech; Neuroscience
“A Study of the Neural Representational Geometry that Underlies Human Cognition and Intelligence”

Graylin Harrison
8th Year Graduate – Stanford University; Art History
“City of Skulls: Art, Ritual, and the Afterlife in Early Modern Naples”

Thais Miller
7th Year Graduate – UC Santa Cruz; Literature
“Vaudeville to Netflix: One Hundred Years of Jewish Comediennes”

Trevor Auldridge-Reveles
6th Year Graduate – UC Santa Barbara; Sociology
“California Dreaming: Coming of Age in America’s Other Heartland”

2022-2023 Recipients:

Heidi Aronson 
6th Year Graduate – University of Southern California; Geomicrobiology “Investigation of Novel Sulfur Metabolisms in Marine and Terrestrial Subsurface Environments” 

Elyse Brusher 
7th Year Graduate – University of California, Los Angeles; French and Francophone Studies “Sentimentalism and Transgression:  Disability in 19th Century French Women’s Novels (1815-1890)” 

Whitney Griggs 
4th Year Graduate – California Institute of Technology; Systems Neuroscience “Uncovering the Internal Representation of Actions in Posterior Parietal Cortex” 

Leonardo Moauro 
8th Year Graduate – University of California, San Diego; Philosophy “Perfection and Desire in Spinoza’s Ethics” 

Sven Neth 
7th Year Graduate – University of California, Berkeley; Philosophy “Decision Making under Self-Doubt” 

Emma Steigerwald  
7th Year Graduate – University of California, Berkeley; Evolutionary Ecology “Glaciers Retreat, Frogs Advance: How Range Expansion Shapes Disease and Genetic Diversity in the Marbled Four-Eyed Frog (Pleurodema Marmoratum)” 

2021-2022 Recipients:

Prashant Bhat
5th Year Graduate – California Institute of Technology; Biology
“Genomics, RNA Biology, and Cancer Biology”

Carmen Brick
8th Year Graduate – University of California, Berkeley; Sociology
“Varieties of Neoliberal Welfare States: California and Wisconsin Compared”

Benjamin Lehmann
6th Year Graduate – University of California, Santa Cruz; Physics
“Dark Matter, Black Holes, and New Physics”

Ekaterina Shubenkina
7th Year Graduate – University of Southern California
“Learning to Write in Russia, 1700-1860”

Szilvia Ruszev
6th Year Gradute – University of Southern California; Media Arts and Practice
“Media Assemblages, In-Between Mental and Material Images”

Catherine Sirois
7th Year Graduate – Stanford University; Sociology
“Between Dependent and Delinquent in the Eyes of the State:
Children at the Intersection of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Justice Systems”

2020-2021 Recipients

Shannon Esswein
4th Year Graduate – California Institute of Technology, Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics
“Structural Basis of the Neutralizing Antibody Response to Zika Virus”

Jiani Fan
6th Year Graduate – Princeton University, Comparative Literature
“Pleasure as a First Principle? Nietzsche and the French Moralists on Morality and Religion”

Xin Cassandra Guan
6th Year Graduate – Brown University, Film & Media Studies
“Maladaptive Media: Life and Other Political Emergencies, 1917-1940”

Sara Parhizgari
8th Year Graduate – University of Minnesota, Philosophy
“Mathematics, Existence, and Objectivity”

Aziza Suleymanzade
6th Year Graduate – University of Chicago, Physics
“Quantum Engineering with Millimeter Wave Photons”

2019-2020 Recipients

Richard Calis
6th Year Graduate – Princeton University
“Making Ethnographic Knowledge: Martin Crusius (1526-1607) and the Early Modern Discovery of Ottoman Greece”

Luciana Chamorro Elizondo
7th Year Graduate – Columbia University
“Love is Stronger than Hate: Populist Authoritarianism in Post-Revolutionary Nicaragua”

Kester Coutinho
6th Year Graduate – Johns Hopkins University
“Engineering the Synthetic Clearance of Tumor Targets”

Emily Dreyfus
7th Year Graduate – University of Chicago
“Popularizing Classical Music in German Cinema of the Third Reich (1933-1945)”

Anatoly Levshin
7th Year Graduate – Princeton University
“Rebuilding Order in the Shadow of Total War: The Domestic Origins of Collective Security”

Barum Park
7th Year Graduate – New York University
“Essays on Cross-Cutting Social Cleavages, Political Polarization, and Social Integration”

Xin Xiang
6th Year Graduate – Harvard University
“Repertoires of Learning in a Society Under Transformations: Reconceptualizing Educational Inequality and Change in Contemporary China”

2018-2019 Recipients

Mohammad Ansari
6th Year Graduate – Columbia University
MESAAS – “Pythagoras in Baghdad: Safi al-Din al-Urmawi and the Science of Music in Medieval Islamic World”

Thomas Callister
5th Year Graduate – California Institute of Technology
Astronomy – “Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Backgrounds in the Era of Advanced LIGO”

Alyssa Evans
6th Year Graduate – Princeton Theological Seminary
History of Christianity – “Karlstadt Discovers Augustine: Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt’s Commentary on Augustine’s De Spiritu et Litera and his Development as a Reformer in Wittenberg, 1517-1519”

Kelly McKowen
7th Year Graduate – Princeton University
Cultural Anthropology – “The Employment Ethic: Losing, Finding and Valuing Work in the Norwegian Welfare State”

Kathryn O’Nell
Senior Undergraduate – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brain and Cognitive Sciences

David Rodriguez
6th Year Graduate – Stony Brook University
English Literature – “Spaces of Indeterminacy: Aerial Description and Environmental Imagination in 20th Century American Literature”

Jonathan Weed
5th Year Graduate – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Applied Mathematics – “Statistical Problems in Transport and Alignment”

2017-2018 Recipients

Carson Bay
4th Year Graduate – Florida State University
Religion & Classics – “Pseudo-Hegesippus, the Jews, and the Jewish Temple”

Nicholas Burali
5th Year Graduate – California Institute of Technology
Mechanical Engineering – “Modeling Differential Diffusion in Turbulent Non-Premixed Flames”

Luisa Cortesi
7th Year Graduate – Yale University
Environmental Anthropology – “Living in Floods…….in North Bihar, India”

Gustavo Fujiwara
6th Year Graduate – University of Washington
Aeronautics and Astronautics – “Aeroservoelastic Design Optimization of Aircraft with Morphing Wings”

Jacob Mukand
Senior Undergraduate – Brown University
Comparative Literature and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Gangzheng She
6th Year Graduate – Brandeis University
International History – “The Dragon Behind the Curtain”

Talia Shiff
7th Year Graduate – Northwestern University
Sociology – “Framing the Case: Bureaucratic Efficiency Pressures……and Adjudication of Refugee Claims”

Federica Soletta
7th Year Graduate – Princeton University
Architectural History – “The Display of Evidence: Photography and the Origin of Architectural History”

2016-2017 Recipients

Leenie Baker
Senior Undergraduate – University of Pittsburgh
Theatre Arts, Political Science, English Writing

Megan Bedell
5th Year Graduate – University of Chicago
Astronomy – “Illuminating the Origins of Planets with Solar Twins”

Katherine Hindley
6th Year Graduate – Yale University
Medieval Studies – “On Parchment or on Bread: Textual Magic in Medieval England”

Friederike Knupling
6th Year Graduate – Stanford University
German Studies – “Heinrich von Kleist, Author of Precarity”

Daniela Mikhaylov
Senior Undergraduate – Hunter College
Biology and Music

Cate Reilly
7th Year Graduate – Princeton University
Comparative Literature – “Pieces of Mind: Psychiatry, Diagnosis and Literary Modernity in Germany, Russia and Beyond (1880-1929)”

Lindsay Turner
6th Year Graduate – University of Virginia
English – “Poetry’s Work: Poiesis and Labor, 1950 to the Present”

Aro Velmet
5th Year Graduate – New York University
History and French Studies – “Pasteur’s Empire: French Expertise, Colonialism, and Transnational Science, 1890-1940”

2015-2016 Recipients

Joshua Bennett
5th Year Graduate Student – Princeton University
English – “Being Property Once Myself: In Pursuit of the Animal in 20th Century African American Literature”

Kristina Burnside-Oxendine
7th Year Graduate Student – Duke University
Literature – “Police is Dead: On the Rise of Economism in the United States”

Daniel Duzdevich
6th Year Graduate Student – Columbia University
Molecular Biology – “Single Molecule Studies of Eukaryotic DNA Replication”

Kinga Reka Makovi
6th Year Graduate Student – Columbia University
Sociology – “Social Structural Avenues for Mobilization – The Case of British Abolition”

Josheph McCaffrey
6th Year Graduate Student – University of Pittsburgh
History and Philosophy of Science – “Mental Function and Cerebral Cartograhphy: Functional Localization in fMRI Research”

Ian Moore
6th Year Graduate Student – DePaul University
Philosophy – “On Being, Method, and Ethics in Eckhart and Heidegger”

Will Russell
5th Year Graduate Student – Arizona State University
Anthropology – “Social Inequality in the Mimbres Region of the US Southwest, ca. 550-1150 CE”

Coral Wheeler
4th Year Graduate Student – University of California, Irvine
Physics/Astrophysics – “Star Formation in Galaxies: From Tiny Dwarfs to the Milky Way”

2014-2015 Recipients

Nada Ayad
7th Year Graduate – University of Southern California
Comparative Literature – “Reimagining Domesticity: Intimate Nationalism in Egypt’s Three Revolutions”

Abigail DeHart
Senior Undergraduate – Grand Valley State University
Philosophy, Classics with Classical Languages Emphasis

Sydney Do
5th Year Graduate – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aerospace Systems Engineering – “A Generalized Framework for Technology Selection and Tradespace Exploration of Life Support System Architecture”

Hassan El Menyawi
6th Year Graduate – New York University
Sociology – “”The Great Reversal”

Gregory Gandenberger
6th Year Graduate – University of Pittsburgh
History and Philosophy of Science – “The Likelihood Principle and It’s Significance for the Philosophy of Scientific Method”

Nilay Kumar
Senior Undergraduate – Columbia University
Mathematics and Physics

Bihui Li
6th Year Graduate – University of Pittsburgh
History and Philosophy of Science – “Quantum Field Theory in Context”

Nils Skudra
Senior Undergraduate – University of California, Berkeley
American History

Simon Stevens
7th Year Graduate – Columbia University
International and Global History – “Strategies of Struggle: International Pressure and the End of Apartheid, 1958-1994”

2013-2014 Recipients

Christin Angele
6th Year Grad – Princeton University
Sociology – “Breaking the News? Web Journalism in the United States and France”

Oluwadamisi Atanda
Senior Undergrad – The City College of New York, CUNY
Political Science

David Gabrieli
Senior Undergrad – University of Pennsylvania
Bioengineering

Kenneth Lamb
6th Year Grad – Princeton University
Politics – “Hope: A Democratic Virtue”

Sarah Nicolazzo
6th Year Grad – University of Pennsylvania
Comparative Literature – “No Good Account: Reading Vagrancy in the Eighteenth Century”

Alistair Russell
5th Year Grad – University of Washington
Microbiology – “Characterization of Type VI Secretion System (T6SS) Antibacterial Effectors”

Winter Jade Werner
7th Year Grad – Northwestern University
English – “The Gospel and the Globe: Missionary Enterprises and the Cosmopolitan Imagination 1795-1910”

Mareike Winchell
7th Year Grad – University of California, Berkeley
Anthropology – “Intimate Landscapes: Uncertain Legacies of the Hacienda in Post-Revolutionary Bolivia”

2012-2013 DeKarman Fellowship Recipients

Daniel Bessner
6th Year Grad Student – Duke University
History

Sarit Kattan Gribetz
6th Year Grad Student – Princeton University
Religions of Antiquity, Jewish Studies

Stefania Heim
6th Year Grad Student – City University of New York
20th Century American Literature

Chang Sub Kim
Senior Undergrad – Caltech
Physics

Heui Beon Lee
Senior Undergrad – University of Pennsylvania
Chemical Engineering

Mahmoud Samori
Senior Undergrad – Columbia University
Classics

Flora Thomson-DeVeaux
Senior Undergrad – Princeton University
Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures

Wenyi Zhang
7th Year Grad Student – University of Illinois

2011-2012 DeKarman Fellowship Recipients

Cote, Laura
5th Year Grad Student
Northwestern University
Materials Science and Engineering

Guilford, Joshua
7th Year Grad Student
Brown University
Modern Culture and Media

Hartikainen, Elina
6th Year Grad Student
University of Chicago
Anthropology

Ivanov, Andrey
7th Year Grad Student
Yale University
History

Liu, Benjamine
Senior Undergraduate Student
Yale University
Molecular Biology

Mayo-Wilson, Conor
5th Year Grad Student
Carnegie Mellon University
Philosophy

O’Mahoney, Joseph
6th Year Graduate Student
George Washington University
International Relations

Solomon, Samual
6th Year Graduate Student
University of Southern California
Comparative Literature

Ursu, Oana
Senior Undergraduate Student
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Computational and Systems Biology

Zingesser, Eliza
6th Year Graduate Student
Princeton University
French Literature

2010-2011 DeKarman Fellowship Recipients

Mohit Agrawal
Senior Undergrad – Princeton University
Mathematics

Bart Bonikowski
6th Year Grad – Princeton University
Sociology

Amanda Godbee
6th Year Grad – University of Wisconsin-Madison
English

Monica Kim
8th Year Grad
University of Michigan
History

Erik Madsen
Senior Undergrad – Caltech
Physics

Sean Mannion
6th Year Grad – Notre Dame
English

Julia Ng
8th Year Grad – Northwestern University
Comparative Literature

Bahawa Nimaga
Senior Undergrad – University of California San Diego
Bio-Chemistry

Jamel Velji
7th Year Grad – University of California Santa Barbara
Religious Studies

Adam Zientek
7th Year Grad – Stanford University
History

2009-2010 DeKarman Fellowship Recipients

Fulya Apaydin
7th Year Grad Student – Political Science
Brown University

William Chueh
5th Year Grad Student – Materials Science
California Institute of Technology

David Hansen
Senior Undergrad – Mathematics
Brown University

Aloke Kumar
5th Year Grad Student – Mechanical Engineering
Purdue University

Mihan Lee
Senior Undergrad – Women’s Studies
Yale University

Claire Nettleton
6th Year Grad Student – French Literature
University of Southern California

Otilia Pupezeanu
Senior Undergrad – Architecture
Princeton University

Jacob Remes
6th Year Grad Student – History
Duke University

Junxia Shi
5th Year Grad Student – Electrical Engineering
Cornell University

Adam Wheeler
Senior Undergrad – English
Harvard University

Eitan Wilf
6th Year Grad Student – Anthropology
University of Chicago

2008-2009 DeKarman Fellowship Recipients

Sabo, Oana
7th Year Grad Student – Literature
University of Southerna California

Dean, Mason
6th Year Grad Student – Biology
University of California, Irvine

Hromadzic, Azra
8th Year Grad Student – Anthropology
University of Pennsylvania

Borisova, Ivelina
6th Year Grad Student – Psychology
Harvard University

Fox, Renee
6th Year Grad Student – English
Princeton University

Wood, Melanie
5th Year Grad Student – Mathematics
Princeton University

Xie, Kathleen
Senior Undergrad – Biology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kahn, Yonatan
Senior Undergrad – Physics
Northwestern University

Fennell, Catherine
8th Year Grad Student – Anthropology
University of Chicago

Fuerstein, Michael
6th Year Grad Student – Philosophy
Columbia University

Tsultem, Uranchimeg
7th Year Grad Student – Art History
University of California, Berkeley

Mak, Stephen
6th Year Grad Student – History
Northwestern University

2007-2008 Recipients

Jason Petrulis
US History – 5th year Grad
Columbia University

Abigail Ruane
International Relations – 6th year Grad
University of Southern California

Stefan Bargheer
Sociology – 6th year Grad
University of Chicago

Rebecca Rainof
Literature – 6th year Grad
Princeton University

Robert Riggs
Arabic & Islamic Studies – 5th year Grad
University of Pennsylvania

Marija Cetinic
Literature – 8th year Grad
University of Southern California

Younes Jabbara
Economics – Senior Undergrad
College of William & Mary

Jennifer-Kate Barret
English – 6th year Grad
Princeton University

Nitzan Shoshan
Anthropology – 7th year Grad
University of Chicago

Kristin Boyce
Philosophy – 7th year Grad
University of Chicago

Andrei Negut
Mathematics – Senior Undergrad
Princeton University