Winnie Chen - China
Winnie graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in Political Science. Next year she will be studying and conducting research at Beijing University, focusing on urban local self-government groups called Community Residents’ Committees.

Wendi Chiong – Peru
Wendi graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in Political Science. Her project is an assessment of the social impact of Microfinance in Peru. Wendi will be working the groups FINCA and Pro Mujer, with two of the largest microfinance institutions working to target extreme poverty and provide social services.

YunXiang Chu – Germany
YunXiang graduated from Stanford in 2008 with B.S. degrees in Chemistry and Biological Sciences. Her project involves investigating the role of NMDA receptors on LTP in transgenic mice at the Max Plank Institute. This type of research aims to provide insight into learning and memory.

Elsie Gyang – United Kingdom
Elsie received her B.A. in Human Biology and is currently a student at Stanford Medical School. With the support of the Fulbright, she will study for her MSc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her interest is in improving care for sickle cell patients from diverse economic backgrounds.

Mengfei Huang – United Kingdom
Mengfei graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a B.S. in Biological Sciences. With the support of the Fulbright, she will study for an MSc in Neuroscience at Oxford University to investigate the relationship between art and vision. The interdisciplinary program will allow her to study both physiological and psychophysical approaches to visual perception.

Quinn Javers - China
Quinn is a PhD candidate in History, and next year he will conduct research toward his dissertation entitled “Murder and Mayhem: Violent Crime in Congqing, 1821-1911.” This project examines the dynamics and discontents of urbanization in China, as well as the impact of economic, social and political change on patterns of violence during this period.

Samuel Kahn
Samuel is a PhD candidate in Philosophy, and next year he will conduct research toward his dissertation. His project is an investigation of the relation between Kant’s theories of good and right.

Claire Liu
Claire graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a B.A in International Relations. Her project examines the role of Western classical music in contemporary China. She will examine symphonies and other music organizations with the support of the China Symphony Development Foundation.

Melina Platas - Uganda
Melina graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a B.A. in Human Biology. Her project involves working as a journalist at a Ugandan newspaper and conducting research at a think-tank based in Uganda. Here she will examine the history of development in Uganda with regard to aid and the political environment of the country.

Cheryl Pruce – Israel
Cheryl graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in Urban Studies. She will conduct quantitative analyses and qualitative interviews in Israel for her individual research project on education achievement gaps between Ethiopian immigrants and other Jewish Israelis. She will also take courses at Tel Aviv University and volunteer at a local elementary school.

Liberty Reforma – Philippines
Liberty graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in Human Biology. She is researching effective models of Community-Based Health Programs in the Philippines.

Bradley Richie – France
Bradley graduated from Stanford in 2002 with a B.A in English and Fiction Writing and an M.A in English. With the support of the Fulbright he will complete a documentary film about the life Andre Verdet, a poet, Resistance commander, and concentration camp survivor.

Rolf Steier – Norway
Rolf graduated from Stanford in 2007 with a M.A. in Education/Learning Design and Techonology and a B.S. in Product Design. His project involves a study on the mobile phone culture of children in public spaces in order to design and educational program with the support of a research group at the University of Oslo.

Daniel Sullivan – Japan
Daniel is a PhD candidate in Japanese literature. Next year he will conduct research toward his dissertation entitled, “The Rise of Modern Japanese Historical Fiction, 1887-1917.” This project examines the developments in nineteenth-century Historiography and Literature, and how they are related to popular historical consciousness and different genres of historical fiction.

Suzanne Sutherland
Suzanne is a PhD candidate in History. Next year she will conduct research toward her dissertation entitled “The Art of Universal Monarchy”. This project examines the role of Italian mercenaries in spreading Habsburg power and the Catholic Reformation in seventeenth-century Bohemia.

Corey Tazzara – Italy
Corey is a PhD candidate in History. Next year he will conduct research toward his dissertation entitled, “Great Disorder: The Culture of Political Economy in Medici Tuscany”. This project explores the theory and practice of economic life during the reign of Ferdinando I.

Jessica Vernon – South Africa
Jessica graduated from Stanford in 2008 with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science. The goal of her project is to evaluate the impact of Economic Partnership Agreements on South African industries and the policy response of this agreement at a national level. The study will occur in Stellenbosch, Pretoria and East London, and it will draw on the fields of economics and trade law.

Austin Zeiderman – Colombia
Austin is a PhD candidate in Cultural and Social Anthropology. Next year he will conduct research toward his dissertation entitled “Living Dangerously: History and Governance of Environmental Risk in Bogotá.” His project will examine urban governmental efforts to protect populations from environmental risks, and provide an ethnographic account of its effects on those living in Bogotá’s “zones of high risk.”

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