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Funding Recipients
2008-09 FLAS Academic Year Award Recipients
| Name |
Shawn Gumbleton |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
I plan to use my FLAS fellowship to travel to Germany, where I will be
taking a German language course in Freiburg through the Goethe-institut. I
will be conducting research into archives dealing with Nazi forced-labor
camps during the Holocaust, as well as reading testimonies of Holocaust
survivors. |
| Name |
Megan Cavender |
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| Department |
Law |
| Language |
French |
| Research |
Born and raised in the Midwest, Megan received her Bachelor of Science in General Engineering from the University of Illinois in 2007 with minors in French and International Engineering. In 2005, she studied abroad in Avignon, France. She is currently completing her third and final year at the University of North Carolina Law School. During her time in law school, Megan has had the opportunity to work with a law professor in translating a French case book and researching French criminal law and procedure. She would like to further explore the French legal system and its role in international law and policy. |
| Name |
Tom Hylands |
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| Department |
TransAtlantic Masters Program |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Tom came to Carolina from Great Britain to study economics and political science as an undergraduate, and plans to use his FLAS award in the TransAtlantic Masters Program to learn German before spending a year at the Vrije Universitat in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. His research interests are centered on welfare state responses to obesity as a public health issue. |
| Name |
Lauren Tucker |
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| Department |
Political Science |
| Language |
French |
| Research |
My academic interests center on the Europeanization and Americanization of Central Europe vis-à-vis populist politics and policy. In a commonly defined post-ideological, post-national world, what exactly is this spectre haunting Central Europe? I would like to investigate the link between deeper integration (through European and American-led institutions) and the rise of populism in this region. As traditional parties become inextricably linked to the process of globalization, will negative popular perceptions of the European project or the perceived impotence of national politicians in the economic arena lead to a complete failure of the European party system as we know it today? Will populist politicians be tamed by inclusion into the democratic system or will they tear it apart from the inside out? What is the consequence of laying democracy down on a region previously unfamiliar with constitutional liberalism? Is there a danger of “too much democracy” in this region, and how will EU elites who despise the illiberal democratic consensus draft sound policy responses? Finally, what kind of American policy is needed to sustain a European liberal democratic consensus? |
Summer 2009 FLAS Award Recipients
| Name |
Jennie Kathryn Carlisle |
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| Name |
Christina Carroll |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
French / German |
| Research |
I will be studying German this summer at the Goethe Institut in Berlin in order to improve my language abilities before starting work on my master's thesis in the fall, provisionally titled “Cultural Memory and National Representation: The Franco-Prussian War in French and German Literature, 1871-1914." My research will examine the memory of the War of 1870/71 in late nineteenth-century French and German transnational literary conversations. It will look specifically at the way that French and German writers and critics employed the war symbolically to construct visions of their respective nations, which they defined against the enemy “other” and delineated in political, social, gendered, religious and sometimes racial terms. |
| Name |
Kevin Fox |
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| Department |
Geography |
| Language |
Irish Gaelic |
| Research |
I am a PhD student in UNC's Department of Geography. For the summer program
I will be studying beginner Irish Gaelic at the Oideas Gael School in Gleann
Cholm Cille, Donegal, Ireland. This immersion will put me on track to
achieve my goal of advanced level knowledge of the language for the
fieldwork phase of my doctoral program as well as future research and
endeavors in Irish Studies. As a cultural geographer I will be looking at
different ways in which religion, belief and memory continue to shape and
produce cultural landscapes in contemporary Ireland. Speaking Irish Gaelic
will allow me to function in Irish-speaking communities and different
archives. |
| Name |
Shawn Michael Gumbleton |
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| Name |
Toni Paniagua |
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| Department |
TransAtlantic Masters Program |
| Language |
Italian |
| Research |
Toni Paniagua graduated from the University of Washington with a double degree in Italian and European Studies. She participated in two study abroad programs, one of which she spent in Bologna, Italy attending regular university classes and interacting with Italian students. She wrote her European Studies thesis on “The Rise and Fall of the First Republic: Berlusconi’s entry into politics”. Toni is interested in further researching populist politics in Italy as Berlusconi is once again the main player, and expanding her knowledge of immigration into Italy from Central European and Northern African countries. |
| Name |
Emily Ann Ravenscroft |
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| Department |
Communication Studies |
| Language |
Irish Gaelic |
| Research |
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Laura Jeanne Sims |
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