2024–25 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Dana Nabil Khalil | Abu Haltam | Arts and Sciences | Abandoning A Friend? Middle Eastern North African Countries’ Behavior Towards China’s Rise | Political Science | US: DC, Chicago; Jordan: Amman; Egypt: Cairo |
Stella (Korleki) | Ashong | Arts and Sciences | Unpacking the Root of Ghana’s Punitiveness: A Narrative Criminological Approach | Sociology | Ghana(Accra) |
Rossana (Rose) | Diaz | Arts and Sciences | Whiteness, Imperialism, and Cultural Reproduction: Unveiling Global Racial Influences in Post-Dictatorial Chilean Society | Sociology | Temuco, Chile and Santiago, Chile |
Orhan | Dogan | Arts and Sciences | Finding a Scapegoat: How Authoritarian Regimes Target Minority Groups to Reinforce Their Rule? | Political Science | Turkey, Various cities; including Istanbul , Izmir and Ankara |
Sumon | Ghosh | Education, Health, Human Sciences | Compliance to rabies post-exposure prophylaxis among animal bite victims in Bangladesh | Public Health Sciences | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Kacper | Grass | Arts and Sciences | Cultural Interventions by Powerful States: On the Fate of Borderland Nations in Central and Eastern Europe | Political Science | Warsaw, Poland / Vilnius, Lithuania |
Ana Maria | Greenberger | Herbert College of Agriculture | Exploring Traditional Knowledge for Adaptation: Indigenous Insights on Climate Change and Food Security in Guatemala | Agric Lead/Educ/Com | Sololá District, Guatemala |
Guido Alberto | Herrera Rodriguez | Arts and Sciences | Conserving freshwater fish diversity under oil palm expansion in the critically endangered Orinoco foothills of Colombia | Ecology/Evolutionary Biology | Cumaral, Meta, Colombia |
Sompa | Reza | Education, Health, Human Sciences | Exploring the Barriers to Tuberculosis Treatment Access and Adherence among Children in Low-Resource Settings: A Caregivers Perspective in Bangladesh | Public Health Sciences | Bangladesh, Dhaka and Pabna |
Kyle | Scripko | Arts and Sciences | Navigating the Everyday: Guide Dogs and Disability in Twentieth-Century Germany | History | Germany (Marburg, Oldenburg, Hamburg, Berlin) |
Su Chen | Tan | Education, Health, Human Sciences | Evaluating the Adaptation of Psychological First Aid (PFA) Training in 3 Contexts: Malaysia, Libya, and Afghanistan | Public Health | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
2023–24 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Abel | Lateefa | Arts and Sciences | Oral Microbiomes in Colonial Lambayeque, Peru. A Comparative Study Exploring the effect of structural violence, and diet on oral microbiomes in Spanish Colonial Peru. | Anthropology | Country: Peru Cities: Chiclayo, Mórrope, and Ferreñafe |
Kelley | Matthew | Arts and Sciences | Summer Research in Switzerland for Dissertation: “German Agitation in Swiss Civil Society during the Great War” | History | Bern and Geneva, Switzerland |
Mckeague | Marissa | Education, Health, Human Sciences | A World of Difference: A Case Study of the Lived Experiences of Undergraduate Students on a Food and Agricultural Study Abroad Program | Nutritional Sciences | Uppsala Sweden Ikaria Greece Palma de Mallorca Spain |
Parajuli | Saurav | Tickle College of Engineering | Pedestrian Perceptions of Crash Risk in the Motor Vehicle-Oriented Built Environment of Kathmandu, Nepal | Civil Engineering | Country: Nepal City: Kathmandu |
Shaneberger | Jennifer | Arts and Sciences | Political rhetoric and labor market integration in Sweden | Political Science | Sweden. Stockholm, Malmö, Göteborg |
Simpson | Kaitlin | Arts and Sciences | The Flowers of El Dorado: Gender, Production, and the Cut Flower Industry in Colombia and the United States | History | Bogotá, Colombia Mosquera, Colombia |
Traslavina Arias | Teddy Abel | Arts and Sciences | Mapping infrastructural inequalities: A perspective from the potential tensions between community, governmental level, and private infrastructure in lower Lurín valley, Lima-Peru | Geography | The research area includes some parts of the districts of Lurin and Pachacamac, corresponding to the lower Lurin Valley, located in southern Lima, Peru. |
2022–23 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Coffey | Leah | Scotland- Visitor Experience- Carrying Capacities | Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management |
Dixit | Sweta | Sustaining Human-Wildlife Coexistence in Contested Landscapes: An Evaluation of Park Revenue Sharing Policy | Wildlife and Fisheries |
Kamrunnaher | Rosy | Assessing the Effectiveness of Bystander Intervention Training to Prevent Gender-based Violence among Undergraduate Students in Bangladesh | Public Health |
Koutlias | Lauren | The Embodiment of War: Effects of Occupation and Civil Conflict on Biological Growth and Development of Greeks (1940-1949) | Physical and Biological Anthropology |
Lussier | Nicole | Combatting deforestation: How do differing reforestation techniques influence the reestablishment of ecosystem services? | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology |
Patwary | A. Latif | Does online shopping reduce in-person shopping trips in a developing country? a case study of megacity Dhaka, Bangladesh | Transportation Engineering |
Torres Mora | Álvaro Germán | An analysis of land inequality in Colombia | Sociology |
2020-2021 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Huslage | Melody | “A League of Their Own:” The Formation of the Australian Women’s Baseball League | Social Work | Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia |
Khan | Md Marufuzzaman | Research capacity and research engagement among physicians of tertiary healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a cross-sectional survey. | Public Health Sciences | Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Maurer | Thomas | Outlining the Apocalypse: Rediscovering the Lost Prophetic Manuscripts of Medieval Italy | History | Milan, Padua, and Rome, Italy |
Mclean Cooke | Wendy | Jamaican Stepfathers’ Adjustment to their Parental Role | Child and Family Studies | Jamaica West Indies, Kingston & St. Andrew Parish |
Pekarcik | Gracie | Assessing the impact of parental involvement on the scaling of agricultural technologies from school garden to home farm through experiential learning | Agric Lead/Educ/Com | Kampong Thom and Battambang, Cambodia |
Shah | Nitesh | Micromobility acceptance in mid-sized cities of developing countries: A case study of Kathmandu, Nepal | Civil Engineering | Kathmandu, Nepal |
Stubblefield | Jason | William of Malmesbury’s Theological Contribution | History | Malmesbury, UK Oxford, UK Cambridge, UK |
Subiani | Shahad | Women’s Formal Help-Seeking Behavior in Saudi Arabia: A Qualitative Study | Child and Family Studies | Saudi Arabia, Jeddah |
Watson | Jenna | A Bioarchaeological Investigation of Migration, Diet, and Health in Late Medieval-Early Modern Romania | Anthropology | Bucharest, Romania |
2019-2020 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Savannah | Blackman | Farmer attitudes toward wildlife in the Maya Golden Landscape, Belize | Wildlife and Fisheries |
Faisal | Islam | Gendered Roles of Livelihood Diversification and Socio-economic Mobility Decisions in Climate Change affected Coastal Districts of Bangladesh | Geography |
Anthony | Knowles | Automation, Unemployment, and Superfluity: A Comparative-Historical Analysis of Time, Labor, and Social Domination in the United States and Germany | Sociology |
Claire | Mayo | Cultural Experiences of the Great Flood of 1910 along the Seine: Local, Expert, and Imperial Attitudes towards the River(Mae Scheib Study Abroad Scholarship) | History |
Regis | Nisengwe | Investigating Environmental Behaviors among Farmers in Rwanda | Forestry, Wildlife & Fish |
Quynh | Nguyen | Betweenness: An Attempt to Resolve Dualities | Art |
Mikayla | Prince | Sustainable Development of Broiler Chicken Production in Rwanda | Sociology |
2015-2016 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Bier | Lindsey | Understanding the Impact of Cultural Mediators on Country Identity and Country Image: The Case of Vietnam | Communication and Information | Communication And Information |
Chuang | Angela | Range expansion of the globally invasive colonial tentweb orbweaver spider, Cyrtophora citricola | Arts and Sciences | Ecology/Evolutionary Biology |
Dubinsky | Yoav | Olympism and Israel in the 2016 Olympic Games | Educ, Health, Human Sciences | Kinesiology and Sport Studies |
Greer | Anna | Redeeming the Past: Music in Theresienstadt | Arts and Sciences | Modern Foreign Languages |
Hermes | Richard | Kings and Queens of Mahanakorn: A Collection of Novellas and Stories Set in Thailand | Arts and Sciences | English |
Jin | Meilan | Understanding Preschool Children’s Cooperative Problem Solving During Social Play: China and the U.S. | Educ, Health, Human Sciences | Child and Family Studies |
Lopez Cerquera | Maria | Justice and Peace: Evaluation of the Impact of Confessions as a Mechanism of Transitional Justice in Colombia. | Arts and Sciences | Anthropology |
Neupane | Santosh | An Empirical Analysis of the Degree of Household Dependence on Community Forest of Nepal Across Hilly and Terai Regions | Agri Sci and Natural Resources | Natural Resources |
Shrestha | Utsala | Anaerobic soil disinfestation for soil borne disease control in tomato production systems in Nepal | Agri Sci and Natural Resources | Plants, Soils, And Insects |
Tekie | Yacob | Refugee Trauma: Diagnostic utility and Psychometric properties of PTSD checklist | Arts and Sciences | Psychology |
Tian | Nana | Forest certification for sustainability: Understanding the opportunities, barriers, and interests of forest landowners in Shandong, China | Agri Sci and Natural Resources | Natural Resources |
2014-2015 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Ayari | Mehdi | A Mixed-Methods Approach to the Dynamics of Government Coalitions in One-party Systems: Minister Duration, Social Networks, and Elite Coalitions in Tunisia, 1957-2014 | Arts and Sciences | Political Science |
Bader | Lauren | Parent Perceptions and Responses to Infant Emotions among the Gamo People in Southern Ethiopia | Educ, Health, Human Sciences | Child and Family Studies |
Chapagain | Binod | Payments for Improved Water Quality and Quantity in Dhulikhel Municipality, Nepal: A Willingness to Pay Contingent Valuation Approach | Agri Sci and Natural Resources | Natural Resources |
Currin | Grant | Mediation or Exploitation? Neoliberal Conservation in Costa Rica | Arts and Sciences | College Scholars Program |
Dascomb | Amanda | The Role of Primary Montessori Education in Multilingual Literacy: Guadeloupe, language instruction and lessons for a globalized future | Educ, Health, Human Sciences | Education |
Gathongo | Njoroge | Assessing Vulnerability of Human and Natural Systems at Mt. Kasigau, Kenya Using Integrated Environmental Anthropology, Landscape Ecology, and Decision-Making Science Approaches | Arts and Sciences | Geography |
Johnson | Alicia | The Crested Cranes: An Exploration of the Ugandan Women’s Senior National Football Team | Educ, Health, Human Sciences | Kinesiology and Sport Studies |
Letteney | Kyle | Hear No Evil, See No Evil: United States Punishment and the Decivilizing Process | Arts and Sciences | Sociology |
Panageotou | Steven | SYRIZA in the Midst of Financial Crisis: From Political Party to Ruling Administration | Arts and Sciences | Sociology |
Pearson | Jeremy | Europe, the Levant, and the Mediterranean World: Reconsidering Muslim-Jewish-Christian Relations in the Crusader States | Arts and Sciences | History |
Simarasl | Nastaran | Engagement of Women in Entrepreneurship across Borders | Business Administration | Business Administration |
Sonnichsen | Tyler | Finding the Washington DC Landscape in French Punk Culture | Arts and Sciences | Geography |
Tuller | Hugh | The Role of Forensic Science in Post-Conflict Transformation: A Preliminary Research Project in Northern Uganda | Arts and Sciences | Anthropology |
Walker | Lydia | Ad sanctos ultimi temporis: Lay Spirituality, Crusading, and Reform in the Sermons of Jacques de Vitry | Arts and Sciences | History |
Yoon | Jihwan | The “Comfort Women” Commemorative Campaign: Geopolitical Struggles over Memory and Justice between Korea and Japan | Arts and Sciences | Geography |
2013-2014 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Kaeser | Amanda | Women’s Attitudes, Barriers, and Participation in Community Based Conservation Programs in Belize | Agri Sci and Natural Resources | Natural Resources |
Lecaque | Thomas | Reading Raymond: Southern French Bibles, Performative Religion and Crusading Christianity in Occitania | Arts and Sciences | History |
Martin | Geoffrey | Mozarab Readers of the Bible, From the Cardoban Martyrs to the Glossa Ordinariaâ | Arts and Sciences | History |
Rennie | Robert | Death in the Air: The Luftstreitkräfte, Aviation Technology, and German Culture in the First World War. | Arts and Sciences | History |
Sander | Joshua | The Greater Germanic Reich: Nazification and the Creation of a New Dutch Identity in the Occupied Netherlands | Arts and Sciences | History |
Watcharaanantapong | Pattarawan | Factors Influencing Reducing Carbon Dioxide Emission in Thailand by Using Tobit and Logistic Model | Agri Sci and Natural Resources | Natural Resources |
2012-2013 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Alsobrook | Anna | A multidimensional analysis of the Great Green Wall in Senegal: a study of the physical effects of afforestation and its impacts on a human landscape | Arts and Sciences |
Basford | Scott | The Ethics of Conditional Entry: International Student Migration to Norway as Development Aid | Arts and Sciences |
Billingsley | Krista | Teaching Peace: Local Perceptions of Justice and Peace Education in Nepal | Arts and Sciences |
Conner | Neil | African Immigrants in the Republic of Ireland: Contested Notions of Identity & the Spaces of Social Integration | Arts and Sciences |
Corush | Joel | Global introduction of animals and their effects on native species | Arts and Sciences |
Hargrove | Stephanie | Traffic Enforcement in China using License Plate Recognition Technology | Engineering |
Kim | Ji Eun | Extending the Applicability of Transition Analysis (TA) Beyond the Western Hemisphere: Can we improve TA to be applicable to modern East and Southeast Asian adult skeletal samples? | Arts and Sciences |
Mcknight | Julie | Sink or Source? Carbon cycling processes in páramo and wooded ecosystems in the Ecuadorian Andes | Arts and Sciences |
Pannell | Zane | Road User Vulnerability in China – Impacts of New E-Bike Mode | Engineering |
Pjesivac | Ivanka | Trust in News Media in post-Communist Eastern Europe: The Case of Serbia | Communication and Information |
Reinke | Amanda | Collaborative Participatory Action Research (PAR) with the Center for Reparations and Rehabilitation (CRR) in Northern Uganda | Arts and Sciences |
2011-2012 McClure Scholarship Recipients
Bertasi, Elliot | Investigating the political history of Uganda from the beginning of the National Resistance Movement to the end of the Civil War | Arts and Sciences | College Scholars Program |
Brookshire, Robyn | Critical Teacher Inquiry in Early Childhood: Collaborative Action Research Using Post-Structuralist and Cross-National Provocations | Education, Health, and Human Sciences | Child and Family Studies |
Campbell, Andrew | Potential Mode Choice Impact of Electric Bicycle Sharing in Beijing | Engineering | Civil Engineering |
Hauser, Kathleen | Climate Change Response in Kakadu National Park | Arts and Sciences | Geography |
Jackson, Darren | A Free Air | Arts and Sciences | English |
Kembel, Adrianne | The Investigation of Cultural Perspectives Concerning Proper Reburial: Individual and Mass Graves in Northern Uganda | Arts and Sciences | Anthropology |
Kim, Jaymelee | Transitional Justice in a Non-Transitioning Society: A Study of the Perceived Efficacy of Canada’s Justice and Reconciliation Efforts | Arts and Sciences | Anthropology |
Krempa, Geoffrey | Against the Red Peril of the East: Germany, the White International, and Central European Extremism, 1918-1925 | Arts and Sciences | History |
Maldonado-Guerra, Gabriela | Voices of a Revolution, Guatemala 1944 | Arts and Sciences | Anthropology |
Merchant, Stephen | Aesthetics and Caste; Exploring Contemporary Dalit Artists in India | Arts and Sciences | Art |
Parker, Lisa | Literary Construction of Puerto Rico’s Identity: A Country of Four Voices | Arts and Sciences | Modern Foreign Languages |