Past Grant Recipients
Below are the past recipients of Abbasi Program research and travel grants. You can also find the field notes from students' projects and experiences here.
2021-2022
- Hannah Yuh Watkins (Undergraduate, Mechanical Engineering)
- Dwight Miners Knightly (Master of Arts Student in International Policy)
- Callum Alexander James Tresnan (Undergraduate, Comparative Literature)
- Feyaad Allie (PH.D. Student in Political Science)
- Nina Silvia Iskandarsjach (Undergraduate, Division of Literatures, Cultures & Languages; Undergraduate, Program in International Relations)
- Emre Can Daglioglu (PH.D. Student in History)
2020-2021
2019-2020
- Wallace Teska (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Morgan Tufan (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Feyaad Allie (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Ala' Alrababa'h (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Callum Tresnan (Sophomore, Comparative Literature)
- Dwight Knightly (Freshman, International Relations)
- Gabby Conforti (Sophomore, Political Science)
2018-2019
- Miray Cakiroglu (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Emilia Groupp (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Sarah Thompson (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Feyaad Allie (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Seungah Lee (Ph.D. Student, Education)
- Alp Akis (Sophomore, Undeclared)
- Nesrine Mbarek (Junior, History)
- Nathaniel Stuart (Junior, International Relations)
2017-2018
- Ala' Alrababa'h (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Alexandra Blackman (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Alexandria Brown-Hedjazi (Ph.D. Student, Art & Art History)
- Andrew Fitzgerald (Ph.D. Student, Communications)
- Chun-Yu Wang (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Daniel Muise (Ph.D. Student, Communication)
- Mashail Malik (Ph.D. Student, Political Science
- Morgan Tufan (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Salma Mousa (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Isabelle Carpenter (Sophomore, International Relations)
- Soraya Fereydooni (Sophomore, Biology)
- Raleigh Browne (Junior, Classics)
- Parsa Nowruzi (Junior, Anthropology)
2016-2017
- Scott Williamson (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Basma Fahoum (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Alaa Abdelgadir (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Kerem Ussakli (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Nathan Hausman (Junior, History)
- Parsa Nowruzi (Sophomore, Anthropology)
- Eilaf Osman (Sophomore, International Relations)
2015-2016
- Tanvir Akhtar Ahmed (Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies)
- Anubha Anushree (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Vincent Bauer (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Chelsea Burros (Sophomore, International Relations)
- Andrew Fitzgerald (Ph.D. Student, Communications)
- Paul Christians (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Raveen Kumarasinghe (Frosh, Undeclared)
- Alyssa Liew (Sophomore, Undeclared)
- Mejgan Massoumi (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Sabauon Nasseri (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Tariq Patanam (Sophomore, Undeclared)
- Lara Prior-Palmer (Junior, History)
- Rachel Roberts (Sophomore, History)
- Duygu Yildirim (Ph.D. Student, History)
2014-2015
- Caroline Abadeer (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Ramah Awad (Junior, History)
- Alexandra Blackman (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Madeleine Chang (Sophomore, Undeclared)
- Diana Dakhallah (Ph.D. Student, Sociology)
- Kerem Ussakli (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Christiana Parreira (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Tesay Yusuf (Sophomore, Undeclared)
2013-2014
- Madihah Akhter (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Alexa Andaya (Sophomore, Political Science)
- Alexandra Crerend (Sophomore)
- Nisrin Elamin (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Parwana Fayyaz (Junior, Comparative Literature)
- David Gilbert (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Rebecca Gruskin (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Marlette Jackson (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Michelle Kahn (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Ali Karamustafa (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Melissa Lee (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Alizabeth McGowan (Sophomore, CCSRE)
- William Sherman (Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies)
- Grace Zhou (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
2012-2013
- Kristen Alff (Ph.D. Student, Department of History)
- Ali Baqeri (Undergraduate Student, Undeclared)
- Rebecca Gruskin (Ph.D. Student, Department of History)
- Lina Ibrahim (Undergraduate Student, Undeclared)
- Ugur Zekeriya Pece (Ph.D. Student, Department of History)
- Erin Pettigrew (Ph.D. Student, Department of History)
- Megan Shutzer (M.A. Student, International Policy Studies)
- Vladimir Troyansky (Ph.D. Student, Department of History)
- Lauren Yapp (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)
2011-2012
- Mohammad Ali (J.D. Student, Law School)
- Catherine Baylin (J.D. Student, Law School & Ph.D. Student, Department of History)
- Firat Bozcali (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)
- Samil Can (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)
- Yasemin Ipek Can (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)
- Diana Dakhlallah (Ph.D. Student, Department of Sociology)
- Kara Downey (Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science)
- William Fryer (Ph.D. Student, Department of Iberian and Latin American Cultures)
- Allison Mickel (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)
- Melina Platas (Ph.D. Student, Department of Political Science)
- Fatoumata Seck (Ph.D. Student, Department of French and Italian)
- Amanda Wetsel (Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology)
2010-2011
- Michelle Moore Apotsos (Ph.D. Student, Art & Art History)
- Jessica Chen (Ph.D. Student, Religious Studies)
- Aisha Ghani (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Maron Greenleaf (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Brian Johnsrud (Ph.D. Student, Modern Thought and Literature)
- Annette Mullaney (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Eda Pepi (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
- Lauren Prather (Ph.D. Student, Political Science)
- Yan Slobodkin (Ph.D. Student, History)
- Elizabeth Spragins (Ph.D. Student, Iberian and Latin American Cultures)
- Anna West (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
2009-2010
- Lucy Alford (Ph.D. student, Comparative Literature)
- Elizabeth Buckner (Ph.D. student, International and Comparative Education)
- Helen Human (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Avital Livny (Ph.D. student, Political Science)
- Ariela Marcus-Sells (Ph.D. student, Religious Studies)
- Jonathan McMaster(Junior, Political Science)
- Ian Simpson (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Maggie Sachs (Co-terminal M.A student in Religious Studies)
- Karem Said (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Yan Slobodkin (Ph.D. student, History)
- Jenna Rice (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Harley Adams (Junior, Art History)
- Irys Kornbluth (Junior, Science & Technology)
- André Zollinger (Junior, International Relations)
2008-2009
- Zaid Adhami (Co-terminal M.A. student, Sociology)
- Jessica Lilu Chen (PhD student, Religious Studies)
- Megan Dean (Ph.D. student, History)
- Corisande Fenwick (Ph.D. student, Cultural and Social Anthropology)
- Rachel Gillum (Ph.D. student, Political Science)
- Mohsen Goudarzi (M.A. student, Religious Studies)
- David Kessler (Sophomore, History)
- Nicholas Lund (Ph.D. student, History)
- Alice Nam (Sophomore, Economics and Comparative Literature)
- Ian Simpson (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Alexandra Kelly (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Trinidad Rico (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Keren Weitzberg (Ph.D. student, History)
2007-2008
- Tania Ahmad (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Rachel Ama Asaa Engmann (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Trinidad Rico (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- Margari Hill (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
- James Greenberg (Ph.D. student, Sociology)
- Chelsea Barabas (Undergraduate Student, Undeclared)
- Marisa Cramer (Undergraduate Student, Undeclared)
- Kate Powell (Undergraduate Student, Undeclared)
- Will Sherman (Undergraduate Student, Religious Studies)