June-July 2007
In this addition to Inside CMC, the College's research centers and institutes report updates and activities as they occur. (Contributions reflect content provided at the date of publication):
The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights
Fifteen students have received AnneMerie Donoghue Fellowships for the summer. The Fellowship provides financial support for internships or research projects that deal with human rights. Students must submit a detailed project description, a budget proposal, and a letter of recommendation in order to be considered for the award. Donoghue Fellows will be spread across the globe. Their projects take them to China, Spain, Tanzania, South Africa, Washington, D.C., and Russia.
Internship placements include:
- U.S. Department of State, Bureau of African Affairs
- Orphanage in Yanji, China
- Doctors to Children, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Veteran's Writing Group, Berkeley, Calif.
- Touch Foundation, Mwanza, Tanzania
- Enough: The Project to Abolish Genocide and Mass Atrocities, Washington, D.C.
- Student Movement for Real Change, Limpopo, South Africa
- U.S. Embassy, military attaché office, Spain
- Weill Medical College, Mwanza, Tanzania
- Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
- Special Olympics Office, San Gabriel, Calif.
- Holocaust Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
Research projects, given to support senior theses, include:
- Philosophical approaches to global poverty (philosophy thesis)
- The effects of Turkey's 2002 Civil Code on the welfare of women (economics thesis)
- The Turkish minority in the former GDR during the Communist era (history thesis).
Kravis Leadership Institute
- Three faculty members will receive Course Development Grants through the Kravis Leadership Institute this summer. Suzanne Obdrazalek is working on a class entitled Classical Ethical Theory: Plato and professors Deepak Shimkada and Nicholas Warner are collaborating to incorporate significant leadership content in Questions of Civilization.
- Two faculty members will receive summer research grants from KLI. Hillary Appel will be exploring Russian President Vladimir Putin's leadership style at the same time that Rod Camp will be working on biographies of Mexican political leaders.
- One hundred and thirty students are completing summer internships under the auspices of KLI with the assistance of the Career Services Center. These students, who are working at corporations, non-profit organizations, and NGOs worldwide, work with a CMC faculty member, must read a couple of leadership books, and must write a paper at summer's end incorporating their understanding of the text as it related to their internship.
Lowe Institute for Political Economy
The Claremont-Bologna-Singapore Economic Policy Forum will be held in Singapore, July 30-31, 2007. The Lowe Institute is helping to organize the forum. In spring 2008, the Lowe Institute will host the forum in Claremont.
Roberts Environmental Center
Six students will spend the summer at the Burger Reserve on the eastern edge of the Sierra. Each summer, students study Sierra flora and fauna at the reserve under the guidance of Center director Emil Morhardt while working at organizations like the Mono Lake Committee. These students will also work on the final year of a Bureau of Land Management grant to understand how nature overcomes devastating fires. This three-year study has been chronicled by Sia and Emil Morhardt and will be presented to the BLM in the fall.
Financial Economics Institute
FEI welcomes six summer research analysts to the Institute this year: Nicholas Burnett '09, Tejas Gala '09, Kevin Hesla '09, Tinsley Lowe '08, Maria Lohner '10, and Thomas Spiller '09. They will be working with these faculty members on various financial research projects: Darren Filson, Michelle Goeree, Eric Helland, Greg Hess, Lisa Meulbroek, Josh Rosett, and Janet Smith.
Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies
The Keck Center offered financial assistance ($24,800) for students to participate in an international learning and work experience that is related to their career plans. Internships were open to all CMC sophomores and juniors, with preference given to IR majors. The internships were to be international in substance but could be domestic in location with private corporations, government departments, and non-government organizations. Recipients are required, upon return, to submit a written report about their experiences, explaining their duties, accomplishments, and assessing the value of the internship to their academic and career objectives. The following internships were awarded:
Hillary Bunsow: Fundacion IDEAS, Argentina
Laura Eise: Awlady Orphanage, Egypt
Nicholas Le Du: USAID Office for Iraq Reconstruction. Washington, D.C.
Shelby Leighton: Seeds of Peace, Israel
Weston LeMay: UNESCO, Switzerland
Rachel Rosenfeld: Miranda Law Firm, Portugal
Lauren Smith: Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
The Keck Center Award for Outstanding Senior Thesis in Strategic Studies was given to Leah Judge for her thesis, Revolutionary Change in Contemporary Venezuela: Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution.
The Rose Institute of State and Local Government
- The Institute will release the 2007 Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey, featuring data on fees, taxes, and incentives that affect businesses nationwide, this summer. They also have partnered with Executive Pulse and the Los Angeles Economic Development Council (LAEDC) on a survey that will guide the Council in their pursuit of assisting local businesses.
- Director Ralph Rossum, the Salvatori Professor of Political Philosophy and American Constitutionalism, along with Fellows Manfred Keil, associate professor of economics, and G. David Huntoon '65, presented "The Importance of Research in Conveying Indian Country's Message" at the 2007 Western Indian Gaming Conference. The Institute will continue its work with tribal leaders to improve tribal and local government relations, including clarifying concepts of tribal sovereignty, and to assess the economic impact of tribal governments and organizations on the local, county, and state levels.
- Rossum also is working on the Eighth Edition of his case-book, American Constitutional Law.
- Fellow Douglas Johnson '92 testified before the California Assembly Elections Committee's May 25 hearing on redistricting reform, while freshman Abhi Nemani has spearheaded a project to upload more than 100 historic Institute publications to the Political History Archive and Database in The Claremont Colleges Digital Library.
- The Board of Governors welcomes three alumni to new roles on the Executive Committee: chair Darryl Wold '63 and vice-chairs Shannon Kelly '92 and Richard "R.J." Romero '89. The Institute also welcomes new Assistant to the Directors Matt Peterson and bids farewell to former assistant Jessica Chastek, who is moving to Rome.
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