The Duke University Center for International & Global Studies (DUCIGS) provides funding for full-time undergraduate Duke students to complement their classwork with research experience in different social and cultural settings. In the 2020 competition, five undergraduate students received travel grants from DUCIGS. They submitted proposals for focused overseas academic research of a minimum of four weeks' duration. Their projects were designed to further their knowledge of a particular country or world region.
2020 Undergraduate Grant Awardees
Andrew Carlins ('21) - Economics and History
Project: Jewish Identity Under the Franco and Vargas Regimes from the Late 1930s through the Mid-1950s - Jerusalem, Israel
Anne Crabill ('22) - Public Policy
Project: Investigating the Impact of Social Media on Vaccine Hesitancy - London, England
Courtney Lee ('22) - Italian and European Studies
Project: Exploring the Attitudes Towards Punishment and Justice in Italy through Artistic Representations of Dante's Inferno - Bologna, Italy
Anwulika Okonjo ('21) - International Comparative Studies
Project: When I Call Myself a Feminist: Comparative Ideological Approaches to Women's Rights and Social Change in Nigeria - Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Enugu, Nigeria
Mishek Thapa ('21) - Statistics
Project: Earthquake Early Warning in Nepal: Technology, Behavioral Science, and Policy - Kathmandu, Nepal
