Goldman Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants for 2003

Nine Harvard students were awarded Goldman Undergraduate Summer Travel Grants to carry out thesis research during summer 2003. Their names, concentrations, research topics, and destinations are:

Gena Ciccone (Slavic): “Public Opinion on Autocracy in Russia in 1913,” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Richard Freeman (Slavic): “Research on Leo Tolstoy,” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Natalie Ignacio (Biological Anthropology): “Social Cognitive Skills of Russian Silver Foxes and the Evolution of Human Cognition,” Novosibirsk, Russia.

Colin Jost (History & Literature): “The Literary Work of Viktor Pelevin,” St. Petersburg, Russia.

Ann Kofol (History & Literature): “The Youth Group ‘Walking Together,’” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Darya Nachinkina (Government): “The Influence of Non-Elected Elites and Interest Groups on Policy-Making in Post-2000 Russia,” Moscow, Russia; Cambridge, England.

Joshua Stenberg (East Asian Studies): “Chinese Migrant Assimilation in Khabarovsk,” Khabarovsk, Russia.

Stephen Stromberg (Slavic): “Late Soviet and Early Post-Soviet Political Posters and Advertisements,” Moscow & St. Petersburg, Russia.

Natalia Truszkowska (Literature & Women's Studies): “Women and Ethnic Identity in East-Central Europe,” Warsaw & Kraków Poland; Bukovina & Lviv, Ukraine; Bratislava & Presov, Slovakia.