Awards & Publications

AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS

Andrea Aldrich

Andrea Aldrich, PhD Candidate in Political Science and Center Graduate Certificate Awardee in both West European and EU Studies, received the 2013 Ernst Haas Award for Dissertation Research from the European Union Studies Association at their national meeting in Baltimore in May.  Hers was one of only two such awards given in a national competition.

With support from this award, Aldrich will spend time in Brussels interviewing members of the EU Parliament.  She will focus on candidate selection within national parties for European Parliament elections and communication/supervision structures between members of Parliament and their national party leadership. 

She plans a five-week trip which will also be supported by a George S. Klinzing Graduate Research Award given to her by the EUCE/ESC.  Her research builds on the work that she did for her 2012 Fulbright fellowship in Croatia.  That award allowed her to interview members of the Croatian Democratic Union (Hrvatska demokratska zajednica (HDZ)) and Social Democratic Party (Socijaldemokratska partija (SDP)) about the preparation for EU entry—scheduled for July 1, 2013.

About her work interviewing both members of the EU Parliament and national parties, the Ely, Minnesota native noted that, “Most of the politicians I have spoken with have been open and frank about their work and their parties and really allowed me to learn about how the relationship between the EP and national parties works.”

She also said of her fieldwork experience that, “It's been both challenging and fun and a once and a lifetime opportunity.”

Julie Draper Tremeryn

Julie Draper Tremeryn, a Pitt MFA Alumna who served as the Center’s Newsletter Editor from 2008-2012, was recently awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for the Academic Year 2013-14. 

Tremeryn will be staying in Ljubljana, Slovenia during the course of her fellowship.  While there she will travel to the village where her great-grandmother lived to research the experiences of migration of women in the Posavje region-both those who left and those who stayed behind.  The research will culminate in a novel tentatively titled "Iron Road: A Novel of Slovenian-American Migration".

Jessica Kuntz

Jessica Kuntz, entering her second year of study at GISPIA and an EU Studies Graduate Certificate student with the Center, has been awarded a Boren Fellowship.  Kuntz, a previous Fulbright Fellow, will spend her fellowship year in Bosnia in intensive Bosnian language study and developing her proposed project, “The Use of Public Goods to Defuse Economic Instability in Bosnia Herzegovina.”

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Cody Dickerson & Stephen Sloto

Two Pitt students, Cody Dickerson and Stephen Sloto, were awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship to study intermediate Turkish in Turkey during summer 2013.  Both Dickerson and Sloto received support from the Center to study Turkish in Pitt’s 2012 Summer Language Institute.

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Klinzing Grant Competition in European Union Studies                  Dissertation Fellowships

Andrea Aldrich- Department of Political Science, "Domestic Parties and European Legislators: Party Control in the European Parliament"

Veronica Harms- Department of History, “Hungarian Dissident Intellectuals and the ‘West,’ 1973-2004”

Yasemin Irepoglu- Department of Political Science, “Decentralization, Interactive Governance, and Inequality: A Comparative Study”

Evgeny Postnikov- Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, "Lobbying for Good: Social Issues in EU and U.S. Trade Agreements"

Klinzing Grant Competition in European Union Studies                                  Pre-Dissertation Fellowships

Hakan Gunaydin- Department of Political Science, "The IMF Conditionality and Compliance: Politics of Structural Adjustment"

Lauren Perez- Department of Political Science, "Europe's National Parliaments: Getting Lost in the EU"

Jonathan Sherry- Department of History, “A Moscow Trial in Barcelona?  The Soviet Union, the P.O.U.M. Prosecution, and the Spanish Civil War in the Cold War Mind”

EUCE Faculty Research Grant Competition

Despina Alexiadou- Political Science, "The Politics of Economic Adjustment"

Carolyn Ban- GSPIA, funding on several projects on management of the European Commission

Shanti Gamper-Rabindran- GSPIA, funding to help with the presentation of research titled "Environmental Regulations in the Shale Gas Drilling Industry: Lessons from the US for the EU".

Irina Livezeanu- History, funding used toward a workshop and book project on the history of East Central Europe

Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart- Anthropology, "The Eurozone Monetary Crisis and its Aftermaths in Ireland"

Faculty European Research Grant Award

Christopher Drew Armstrong- History of Art and Architecture

Sabina Deitrick- GSPIA

Adam Shear- Religious Studies

Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart- Department of Anthropology

Harris Miller Scholarships for Participation in Integrated Field Trips Abroad

Alexandra Zezinka
Alisha Webster
Cara Semelsberger
Audrey Rinker

Emily Polakowski

Mark Nordenberg Intership Abroad Fellowships

     Harry Clapsis
     Marissa Murin

Friedl E.Kessler Fellowship

Ronald Reha

2012

Dissertation Fellowships

Harrison Grafos- GSPIA, "Delivering Change: Privatization and Reform of the French and German Postal Services"

Katrin Mascha- German, "Commemorating East Germany in Post-Communist Europe"

Brian Shaev- History, "Estranged Comrades: French Socialists, German Social Democrats, and the Origins of the EEC, 1948-1957"

Yasemin Irepoglu- Political Science, "Decentralization, Governance, and Inequality: A Comparative Study of EU Countries"

Pre-Dissertation Fellowships

Erin McGrath– GSPIA, “Making Democracy Work or Making it Weak?: The Importance of Civil Society Structure for EU Democracy Assistance in Turkey"

Cengiz Hasksoz– Anthropology, “Identity Construction Among Borderland Communities: Pomaks in Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey"

EUCE Faculty Research Grant Competition

Suzanna Crage- Sociology, "Place and Policymaking: City-Level Refugee Policymaking in Germany"

Despina Alexiadou- Political Science, funding towards a research project regarding the predictors of econimic ministers' actions and "Employment Policy and the Transformation of Social Democracy in the European Union"

Andrew Strathern- Anthropology, funding towards an on-going research project in County Donegal Ireland on attitudes and reactions to the Eurozone Crisis.

Neil Doshi- French and Italian Languages and Literature, funding towards the research project "Countermemories of Liberation"

Carolyn Ban- GSPIA, funding towards an on-going research writing project in Europe.

Grant Program for Faculty Research or Teaching in Germany

Harry M. Flechtner- Law School, Funding for courses and joint research on international sales law at Universitaet Augsburg
William Scott- English, "Marginal Music: Wagner's Reading of Scholpenhauer."

Small Grants

    Brian Shaev, History
    Evgeny Postnikov, GSPIA
    James Jewitt, HAA
    Kevin Flanagan, English
    Sarah Patton, Political Science
    Jonathan Sherry, History
    Andrea Aldrich, Political Science
    Madalina-Valeria Veres, History
    Brandon Boylan, GSPIA

Harris Miller Scholarships for Participation in Integrated Field Trips Abroad

Joelle Urquart
Julianna Sincavage
Megan Breinlinger
Erin Carney
Shannon Helfer

IFTA Tuition Scholarships

    Sarah Kelly
    Dai Boa
    Carly Aldrich
    Tori DeHart
    Brittany DiSanti
    Kelsey Fanelli
    Leanne Kaltenbaugh
    Emily Venskytis   

Mark Nordenberg Intership Abroad Fellowships

     Sally Stadelman
     Morgan Walbert

Friedl E.Kessler Fellowship

MacKenzie Weiler