Through the Graduate Awards for Research & Training, Duke University Center for International & Global Studies (DUCIGS) provides full-time graduate students working on international research topics with funding for travel to archival and research sites inside and outside the continental United States; for attendance at specialized conferences; and for foreign language and methods training. In the 2020 competition, 25 Duke graduate students were awarded DUCIGS travel grants.
2020 Graduate Grant Awardees
Elizabeth Aimone (MSc-GH)
Project: Closing the Gap in Modern Contraceptive Care for Young Women in Harare, Zimbabwe: Applying the Rights-Based Family Planning Framework - Harare, Zimbabwe
Dana Baker (PhD, Marine Science and Conservation)
Project: Small-Scale Fisher Wellbeing: How Relational Values Shape Behavior and Migration Inside and Outside of a Southern Tanzanian Marine Park - Kiel, Germany
Karlee Bergendorff (PhD, Art, Art History, and Visual Studies)
Project: Diplomatic Gifts and Cold War Strategies: North Korea's Mansudae Overseas Projects - Cairo, Egypt
Julia Anastasia Bingham (PhD, Marine Science and Conservation)
Project: Knowledge and Power in Salmon Fishers of West Coast Vancouver Island - Vancouver Island, Canada
Cristina Carnemolla (PhD, Romance Studies)
Project: Between Don Giovanni and Social Climbers: The Italians in Two 19th Century Peruvian Novels - Guadalajara, Mexico
Jessica Coleman (PhD, Psychology and Neuroscience)
Project: Global Reproductive and Sexual Health Summer Institute - University of Michigan
Cody David (PhD, Religion)
Project: Immersive and Intensive Arabic Language Study - Amman, Jordan
Harlan Downs-Tepper (PhD, Public Policy and Political Science)
Project: Household Poverty in Rural Kenya: Scoping for Long-Term Followup - Kisumu, Nairobi, and Mombasa, Kenya
Daanish Faruqi (PhD, History)
Project: Politicized Sainthood in Diaspora: Sufi Rebels from the Colonial Maghrib to the 2011 Syrian Uprising - Rabat, Morocco
Dana Grieco (PhD, Marine Science and Conservation)
Project: Assessing Data-Poor Fisheries Management Worldwide - Paris, France
Assaf Harpaz (SJD)
Project: Cross-Border Taxation of the Digital Economy: A Comparative Analysis - Durham, North Carolina
Elise Harrigan (MS, Environmental Management and Forestry)
Project: Measuring the Impacts of Sustainable Management Practices of Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico on Biodiversity, Land Use Change, and Socioeconomic Wellbeing - Oaxaca, Mexico
Jonathan Henderson (PhD, Ethnomusicology)
Project: Producing Mande Music in the Black Atlantic: Circulation, Mobility, and the Sonic Politics of World Music Record Production - M'Bour, Senegal
Felicia Hogan (Doctor of Nursing Practice)
Project: 3-Dimensionally Printed Simulated Trachea to Improve Cricothyrotomy Skills in Anesthesia Providers in Tanzania - Mwanza, Tanzania
Cordelia Kenney (MSc-GH)
Project: Implementation and Policy Context of a Mental Health Intervention for HIV-Positive Youth in Tanzania: A Stakeholder Analysis - Moshi, Tanzania and Marrakesh, Morocco
Rani Kumar (MS, Environmental Management and Forestry)
Project: Creating Indigenous-Led Malaria Control Plans with the Shuar Communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon - Kapawi, Ecuador
Clare LeBarbenchon (PhD, Public Policy and Sociology)
Project: Social Capital in an Immigrant Community: Case of Employment Referral Networks - San Jose, Costa Rica
Mary Carlton Murphy (MEM, Forestry)
Project: Measuring the Impacts of Sustainable Management Practices of Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico on Biodiversity, Land Use Change, and Socioeconomic Wellbeing - Oaxaca, Mexico
Anna Nordseth (PhD, Marine Science and Conservation)
Project: Regrowing an Endangered Forest: The Role of Primate Seed Dispersers in Seasonally Dry Tropical Forest Restoration - Pedasi, Panama and Radolfzell, Germany
Ignacio Hurtado Rodriguez (PhD, Economics)
Project: Technology Adoption and Long-Run Outcomes: Evidence from Franco's Spain - Madrid, Spain
Rosalind Rothwell (PhD, History)
Project: Tamil Language Study - Madurai, India
Minato Sakamoto (PhD, Music)
Project: "Piano" is Chinese/Midwest Graduate Music Consortium Conference and CUNY Graduate Students in Music Conference - New York, New York
Matthew Sebastian (PhD, Cultural Anthropology)
Project: Securing Youth: Humanitarian Futures in Postconflic Uganda - Gulu, Uganda
Helen Shears (PhD, History)
Project: "To Be Observed Throughout the World": Imperial Diplomacy, Treaty-Making, and the Global British Empire, 1660-1763 - Paris, France and London, England
Adam Karim Soliman (PhD, Economics)
Project: The Role of the Informal Sector in Urban Service Delivery: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Cairo, Egypt - Cairo, Egypt
Alvan-Emeka Ukachukwu (MSc-GH)
Project: Perception of Clinicians on the Infrascanner Device in Managing Traumatic Brain Injury in Uganda: A Discrete Choice Experiment - Geneva, Switzerland and Kampala, Uganda
Claudia Meca Van Den Berg (MEM, Environmental Management)
Project: Measuring the Impacts of Sustainable Management Practices of Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico on Biodiversity, Land Use Change, and Socioeconomic Wellbeing - Oaxaca, Mexico
