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Funding Recipients
2007-08 FLAS Academic Year Award Recipients
| Name |
Margaret Austin |
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| Department |
TransAtlantic Masters Program |
| Language |
Italian |
| Research |
Latin, no dead language, has kept me alive during my Fulbright year in the Czech Republic. Without my Latin training as a 2006 graduate of UNC's Classics department, I'd be drowning in cases and conjugations in this land-locked country. As a student in the TAM program, I hope to explore further how Latin intersects with modern language through my studies in Siena, and furthermore to learn more about this language that has been my life raft by getting to know the land where it developed. |
| Name |
Kyle Beaulieu |
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| Department |
TransAtlantic Masters Program |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Kyle graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2007, having majored in Political Science with minors in German and Dramatic Art. He completed his undergraduate studies in three years. He plans to complete his overseas TAM modules in Berlin, and his research will focus on Germany's leadership in the drive to stronger federation in the European Union. He plans to further explore the question of Turkish membership in the EU, as well as learning the Turkish language. |
| Name |
Adrianne Lapar |
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| Department |
TransAtlantic Masters Program |
| Language |
Spanish |
| Research |
Born and raised in Long Island, NY, Adrianne Lapar graduated from UNC in May 2007 with a double major in International Studies and Spanish. In 2005, she studied abroad in Seville, Spain. In the summer of 2006, Adrianne worked as an intern in the Political-Economic section of the U.S. Embassy in Bratislava, Slovakia. For her senior honors thesis, Adrianne researched the influence of the European Union on minority rights policies in Slovakia, looking at how these policies affected the country's Roma population. As a student in the TAM program, Adrianne would like to further examine minority rights policies in the EU, this time through the lens of Spain. |
| Name |
Michael Mulvey |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
French |
| Research |
My project explores the legacies of the postwar governmental decision to build on the grands ensembles or public housing estate model in suburban France. This landscape exploded onto American television screens during the November 2005 suburban riots, the apex of violence endemic to the grands ensembles since 1981. Today, in France, most remember the 1950s to the late 1970s as a “golden age” for life in the housing estates before the suburban crisis, but the reality was more complex than the memory of a “golden age” suggests. With the assistance of an Academic Year FLAS Fellowship, I will record oral histories and conduct archival research in the Parisian region with the aim of questioning this myth of the “golden age” in the grands ensembles by bringing passionate gendered debates and policy, resident experience, and ethnic tensions to the forefront of consideration. |
| Name |
Caleb Ritter |
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| Department |
TransAtlantic Masters Program |
| Language |
Italian |
| Research |
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| Name |
Sarah Summers |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
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| Name |
Allison Vos |
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| Department |
Political Science |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Allison Vos received an academic year FLAS to study German. Furthering her knowledge of this language will help her in field work in Germany and with research on social policy in Germany, including fertility and immigration issues, and questions of national identity. Allison is a third-year doctoral student in the Political Science department. Her research interests include the European Union, social policy, and comparative welfare states. She is an enthusiastic learner of languages and hopes to bring her level of German up to her French knowledge, having lived in France for a total of three years. |
2007 FLAS Summer Award Recipients
| Name |
Waitman Beorn |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Waitman Beorn is a native of Richmond, Virginia. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2000. After his army service including a tour in Iraq, he entered the PhD program at UNC. Waitman is currently investigating attitudes and responses of German soldiers during World War II toward participation in atrocities. His academic year FLAS award enabled him to better understand witness testimony and wartime letters, by increasing his aptitude in reading the German archival and letter sources that formed the basis for his master’s thesis.
Goethe Institute, Frieberg, Germany |
| Name |
Elena Clark |
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| Department |
Slavic Languages |
| Language |
Finnish |
| Research |
This summer I will be studying Finnish at the University of Minnesota.
As a Slavist, I am interested in Russian borrowing from the Finnish language and literature. I am also looking forward to learning all 15 Finnish grammatical cases as a relaxing way to spend my summer. |
| Name |
Rebecca Dawson |
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| Department |
Germanic Languages |
| Language |
Swedish |
| Research |
I entered the MA program in Germanic Literature at UNC in Fall 2004 and received my Masters degree in Spring 2006 and plan to write my dissertation on soccer in 20th century German literature. After spending the 2006-2007 academic year in Mannheim, Germany on the UNC-Chapel Hill/Baden Württemburg TA exchange program, I will be spending the summer studying Swedish in Uppsala. After the summer, I will hopefully be able to use my Swedish to research contemporary European literature dealing with soccer.
Uppsala International Summer Session, Uppsala, Sweden |
| Name |
Eduardo Gil |
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| Department |
Linguistics |
| Language |
Turkish |
| Research |
My present work investigates the interplay between word order, quantification, and specificity in Turkish noun phrases, and draws primarily from data gathered during consultations with native speakers. Summer language studies at Bogazici University in Istanbul have immeasurably strengthened the conversational fluency necessary to conduct interviews with my consultants, and would have been impossible without a FLAS grant from the Center for European Studies.
Bogazici University, Istanbul |
| Name |
Michael Grutchfield |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Michael Grutchfield entered the PhD program at UNC in Fall, 2006, with Karen Hagemann as his advisor. His educational background was MA, Portland State University (2006), and BA, The Evergreen State College (1988). As an undergraduate, his main focus was on Film Studies, but a serendipitous assignment to lead a seminar on Leni Riefenstahl sparked an intense interest in learning more about this unique and controversial figure. The years in between undergraduate and graduate schools were spent in an autodidactic project of learning about, first Nazi Germany, than as much as possible about the previous history of Germany in order to understand the processes that brought Hitler to power. By the time he reached graduate school, Michael’s interest had expanded to the culture and history of Germany as a unique and fascinating European nation, not necessarily only as the perpetrator of the Holocaust. At present he is beginning research into the unique public perception of military service refusers, deserters, and conscientious objectors in Germany, and it’s development across the twentieth century.
Goethe Institute, Frieberg, Germany |
| Name |
Jennifer Lynn |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Jennifer Lynn is a graduate student in the Department of History at UNC-Chapel Hill. With the FLAS award, she will spend the summer in Bonn, Germany studying at the Goethe Institute. There, she plans to develop her German language skills. As the field of women’s and gender history continues to expand, so do the opportunities to apply a gendered approach to modern German history. Studying gendered representations of work in Germany allows for a unique opportunity to examine cultural texts, such as films, novels, and illustrated magazines in the context of Weimar Germany. Her M.A. thesis will examine the relationship between the textual and visual images and the context in which they appear, the different modes of representation, the functions of such images and their change over time.
Goethe Institute, Bonn, Germany |
| Name |
Richard Plavnieks |
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| Department |
History |
| Language |
German |
| Research |
Richards Plavnieks is a graduate student in the history department of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is currently working on the research for his Master's Thesis, which seeks to track the experience of the Baltic Germans immediately before, during, and after the Second World War. Since the primary source base for this work is entirely in German, reading proficiency in that language is a prerequisite. Mr. Plavnieks' summer FLAS grant has provided him an important opportunity to improve his German language abilities.
Goethe-Institut, Goettingen, Germany |
| Name |
Emily Ravenscroft |
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| Department |
Communication Studies |
| Language |
Irish Gaelic |
| Research |
Oideas Gael, Gleann Cholm Cille, Ireland |
| Name |
Christina Simpson |
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| Department |
Law |
| Language |
French |
| Research |
Christina Simpson is a native Chapel Hillian and a "double tar heel." Christina graduated from UNC in 2004 with a major in French and English. Currently in her second year of law school and interested in international law, diplomacy and public health, Christina will use the FLAS award to study French at the Sorbonne this summer. Christina is interetsed in researching the growing sphere of action in health and social policy in the federal European Union. |
| Name |
Gillian Speace |
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| Department |
School of Information and Library Science |
| Language |
Welsh |
| Research |
Cardiff University, Cardiff, Wales |
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