2014 SAI Winter Session Grants
SAI has awarded 16 grants to support undergraduate and graduate projects over the Winter Session in January, 2014. These include 3 undergraduates, and 13 graduate students.
Projects include an internship at the UNDP Turtle and Village Conservation Project in Colombo, Sri Lanka, and dissertation research on the displacement of agriculture, forestland, and natural retention basins in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Full list of awarded students:
Graduate Students
Mou Banerjee, History, GSAS
Hindu and Muslim apologetics against evangelical Christianity in the Indian ecumene in the nineteenth century
Vineet Diwadkar, Landscape, Architecture, Urban Planning, GSD
Ethnography, video documentation and visualization seeking to model the systems that generate Mumbai’s particular urban form
Sahjabin Kabir, Design Studies, GSD
Dhaka’s transportation growth and its impact on the natural landscape and environment
Aparna Kamath, Global Health and Population, HSPH
Study of the players, provisions and programs shaping access to cancer care and treatment in India
Caitlin McKimmy, Master in Divinity, HDS
How do Tibetan refugees intertwine the notion of a ‘sacred homeland’ into their own biographical narratives of persecution and displacement?
Finnian Moore Gerety, South Asian Studies, GSAS
The contributions of Brahmin singers to the development of OM in early South Asia.
Johannah Murphy, Master in Divinity, HDS
Establish a leadership curriculum for young women in the slum of Dharavi
Yusuf Neggers, Public Policy, GSAS
Identify the impacts on voter behavior and electoral outcomes in elections to the Lok Sabha and state legislative assembly
Alexandra Raphel, Public Policy, HKS
Determine which pricing model would be optimal for the Aman Foundation’s private ambulance system service to be sustainable in Karachi
Haider Raza, Political and Economic Development, HKS
Evaluations for the Program Monitoring and Implementation Unit of the Punjab government in Pakistan
Justin Stern, Landscape, Architecture, Urban Planning, GSD
Innovations in urban design strategy that have corresponded with Jamshedpur’s growth from a small and remote company town into a metropolis of nearly 1.4 million residents
Andrea Titus, Political and Economic Development, HKS
Determine which pricing model would be optimal for the Aman Foundation’s private ambulance system service to be sustainable in Karachi
Lydia Walker, History, GSAS
1964-1966 Peace Commission between the Indian Union government and Naga separatists under the auspices of the Naga Baptist Convention.
Undergraduate Students
Sabrina Ghouse, Social Studies, 2015
Internship at UNDP Turtle & Village Conservation Project, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Megan Prasad, Economics, 2015
Economically empowering widows in Bangalore, India by partnering with Awake India and Rotary Club
Inesha Premaratne, Government, 2015
Continued Work on GrowLanka, a mobile system designed to connect job seekers to potential employees