Past Recipients:

2013 Environments & Societies Mellon Research, Graduate Summer Research and Travel Awards

Awardees and Project Description

Juan Camilo Cajigas, Cultural Studies: An investigation of multi-species spiritual communication.

Ted Geier, Comparative Literature: Analysis of British nonhumans in literature, law, and culture, 1785-1912.

Sophie Moore, Cultural Studies: An investigation of eco-political organization through a peasant solidarity movement in rural Haiti.

Kevin O’Connor, Performance Studies: A study in Arctic performance.

Nick Perrone, History: An investigation of the role conservationists and labor activists had in the creation of Sequoia National Park.

Jordan Scavo, History: Analysis of the history of solar power in the United States from 1945-1988.

Jen Sedell, Geography: Investigation of the environmental and political economic history of medicated salt used in anti-malarial campaigns in the 1950s and 1960s.

Meg Sparling, English: Analysis of race, class, and species.

Chris Tong, Comparative Literature: A study of Chinese eco-poetics.

2012 Environments & Societies Mellon Research, Graduate Summer Research and Travel Awards

Awardees and Project Description

Xan Chacko, Cultural Studies: Analysis of the expeditions of Frank Meyer and the USDA to China.

Mark Dries, History: Analysis of environmental and labor relations at the Huancavelica mercury mines in colonial Peru.

Elizabeth Grennan Browning, History: Exploration of the history of the Hull House and Chicago Progressive Environmentalism.

Corrie Knudten, History: Analysis of the construction of heterosexual space in interwar Bay Area planning.

Raoul Liévanos, Sociology: Mixed-methods cumulative impact analysis of the concentration of environmental threats and the housing crisis in Stockton, California.

Mary E. Mendoza, History: Environmental history of the US-Mexico border.