Royster Society of Fellows

Dissertation Fellowships

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Disseration Fellows 2004-2005

  • Yaacov Ben-Shemesh, Philosophy
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Neutrality and Self-Government”
  • Melissa K. Bostrom, English
    The Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship
    “Economics of Farm, Family and Whiteness in the Short-Story”
  • Swaha Das, Computer Science
    The Carol and Edward Smithwick Dissertation Fellowship
    “Strategies, Heuristics and Semantics to Enhance Performance of OSHL Theorem Proving”
  • G. Rebecca Dobbs, Geography
    The Hugh McColl Dissertation Fellowship
    “North Carolina’s Piedmont Urban Crescent and the Indian Trading Path: A Polycentric Urban Region and its Early Roots”
  • Brandie Fariss, Ecology
    The John Motley Morehead Dissertation Fellowship
    “Common Property-Uncommon Interests: The Effects of Tourism on Communal Resource Management in the Reserva de Huascardan, Peru”
  • Tywanda Ellison Manuel, Education
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Relationship of Social Support and Families Perceptions of Childhood Disability to Family Well-Being”
  • Maya Parson, Anthropology
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “An Ethnographic Analysis of Corruption in Post-Socialist Nicaragua”
  • Sharif Razzaque, Computer Science
    The Ross and Charlotte Johnson Family Dissertation Fellowship
    “Redirected Walking”
  • Mary E. Robbins, Chemistry
    The Linda Dykstra Science Dissertation Fellowship
    “Micropatterning Nitric Oxide Releasing Sol-Gels for Biosensor Applications”
  • Kathleen Blain Roberts, History
    The Hugh McColl Dissertation Fellowship
    “Pretty Women: Female Beauty Culture in the Twentieth-Century South”
  • Rosemarie Stremlau, History
    The Sequoyah Dissertation Fellowship
    “Cherokee Families: Cultural Adaptation During the Allotment Era: 1882-1934”

Dissertation Fellows 2003-2004

  • Lisa Chensvold, Music
    The Caroline H. and Thomas s. Royster Dissertation Fellowship
    “Making Ercole Amante: Opera and the Aesthetics of Collaboration at the Court of Louis XIV”
  • Christine Kelleher, Political Science
    The Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship
    “Representation and Responsiveness in American Local Governments”
  • Hye-Chung Kum, Computer Science
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Approximate Mining of Consensus Sequential Patterns”
  • Madoka Kumashiro, Psychology
    The Peace Sullivan Dissertation Fellowship
    “‘Maintaining an Even Strain’: A Homeostatic Model of Balance in Orientation Toward Personal Concerns Relative to Relational Concerns”
  • Cynthia Lakon, Health Behavior and Health Education
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “Social Network Influences on Needle Use Among High Risk Youth and Young Adults”
  • Mercedes Lopez-Morales, Physics and Astronomy
    The Linda Dykstra Science Dissertation Fellowship
    “Searching for M-Dwarf Detached Eclipsing Binaries to Test Low Mass Stellar Models”
  • Brian Nablo, Chemistry
    The Ross and Charlotte Johnson Family Dissertation Fellowship
    “Investigating the Antibacterial Action of NO-Releasing Sol-Gels for the Prevention of Bioflim Production at Medical Implants”
  • Matthew Smith, Philosophy
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “Property and Conventions: A New Natural Law Theory of Property”

Dissertation Fellows 2002-2003

  • Marc David, Anthropology
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “Memory’s Warp: History, Race, and the Cultural Politics of the Past in South Louisiana”
  • Kathryn Harker, Sociology
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “Academic Outcomes Among Adolescents in Stepfamilies”
  • Luke Keele, Political Science
    The Ross and Charlotte Johnson Family Dissertation Fellowship
    “In Whom Do We Trust? Confidence in American Political Institutions”
  • Laura L. Mielke, English
    The Sequoya Dissertation Fellowship
    “Encountering the Indian in the Age of Sentiment, 1823-1864”
  • Heather K. Nelson, Nutrition
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Role of Host Nutritional Status during an Influenza A Infection”
  • Zena Ryder, Philosophy
    The Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Causal Maintenance Theory of Consciousness”
  • Bernadette B. Sangalang, Social Work
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “Evaluating a Case Management Program for Adolescent Mothers: A Dual Cohort Design”
  • David A. Sartorius, History
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Limits of Loyalty: Race and the Public Sphere in Cienfuegos, Cuba, 1850-1898”

Dissertation Fellows 2001-2002

  • Susan Ridgely Bales, Religious Studies
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Sensuous and the Local: An Ethnographic Study of Children’s Interpretations of First Communion at Two Catholic Parishes in North Carolina”
  • George E. Demacopoulos, Religious Studies
    The Thomas S. and Helen Borda Royster and Snowden and Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship
    “A Monk in Shepherd’s Clothing: Gregory I and the Asceticization of Pastoral Authority”
  • Jason Dale Fridley, Biology
    The Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship
    “Interactions Among Species Diversity, Environmental Complexity, and Ecosystem Productivity in Experimental Plant Communities”
  • Jonathan Grabowski, Ecology
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Biological and Economic Value of Oyster Reefs to the Nursery Function of the Estuary”
  • Holly Heard, Sociology
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Life Course of Family Structure and Educational Achievement Among Adolescents”
  • Daniel Y. Kono, Political Science
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “Are Preferential Trade Arrangements Good for Multilateralism?”
  • Thomas Daniel Ryder, Philosophy
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Neurosemantics: A Theory”
  • Deborah J. Thomas, Geological Sciences
    The Ross and Charlotte Johnson Family Dissertation Fellowship
    “Paleoceanography of Warm Climates: Reconstructions Using Geochemical Proxies”
  • Shannon S. Van Zandt, City & Regional Planning
    The Lyle V. Jones Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Impact of Homeownership on Opportunity for Low-Income Households”

Disseration Fellows 2000-2001

  • David Carr, Geography
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Impact of Migration on Land Use Land Cover and Change in a Protected Area: Colonization, and Corn in the Sierra de Lacandon National Park, Guatemala”
  • Thomas Fahy, English
    The Lyle V. Jones Dissertation Fellowship
    “Disabling Visions: Freak Shows in Modern American Literature and Visual Arts”
  • Jessica Fields, Sociology
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship
    “Community, Difference, and School-Based Sex Education: Lessons in Sexual Citizenship”
  • Thomas Holden, Philosophy
    The Thomas S. & Helen Borda Roster and Snowden & Elspeth Merck Henry Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Antinomy of Material Composition: Leibniz to Kant”
  • Kathryn Newfont, History
    The Peace Sullivan Dissertation Fellowship
    “Moving Mountains: Forest Politics and Commons Culture in Western North Carolina, 1964-1994”
  • Tina Marie-Saldana, Nutrition
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Dissertation Fellowship
    “Impaired Glucose Tolerance During Pregnancy”
  • Erik Sotka, Biology
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Host Plant Use Among and Within Species of Marine Organisms”
  • Michael Yonan, Art History
    The Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship
    “Embodying the Empress-Widow: Maria Theresia and Schonbrunn, 1765-1780”

Dissertation Fellows 1999-2000

  • David Anderson, History
    The Lyle V. Jones Dissertation Fellowship
    “Striking Consensus: The Perfect Circle Strike of 1955 and Competing Visions of Industrial Order in America’s Heartland”
  • Timothy Crowder, Biomedical Engineering
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “A Novel Dry Powder Inhaler for Aerosol Drug Delivery”
  • Christina Ewig, Political Science
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Gender and State Reform: Formulation and Impact of Neoliberal Health Policies in Peru”
  • Kimberly Jastremski, Slavic Languages
    The Georgia Carroll Kyser Dissertation Fellowship
    “Spiritual Exile and the Work of Czeslaw Milosz”
  • Tanya Kinsella, Germanic Languages
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Aesthetics of Bodily Violence: The Early German Artfilm and Classical Aesthetics”
  • Lisa Pellerin, Sociology
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship in Early Adolescence
    “Urban Youth and Schooling: A Dynamic and Contextual Study of Student Disengagement”
  • Joseph Thompson II, Biology
    The Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Ontogeny of Squid Mantle Architecture and Function”
  • A. Elizabeth Van Deventer, Anthropology
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “Redefining the Farm, Redefining the Self Continuity and Change in Burgundy, France”

Disseration Fellows 1998-1999

  • Sandra Jane Bardsley, History
    The Georgia Carroll Kyser Dissertation Fellowship
    “Scolding Women: Cultural Knowledge and the Criminalization of Female Speech in late Medieval England, 1300-1500”
  • David C. Campbell, Geology
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Evolution of the Bivalvia: Molecular and Morphological Evidence”
  • JoAnn Carmin, City and Regional Planning
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Protest, Participation, or Passivity?: Community Reactions to Proposed Changes in Land Use Designations in the Czech Republic”
  • Paul E. Castelloe Jr., Social Work
    The Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship
    “Community Change and Community Practice: A Qualitative Inquiry into a Grassroots Model of Rural Community Change”
  • Elizabeth V. Chew, Art History
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Female Art Collecting and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Britain”
  • Andrew L. Goldman, Classics
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Roman Settlement and Settlement Patterns at Gordion, Turkey”
  • Flora E-shen Lu, Ecology
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Changes in Resource Use, Subsistence Patterns, Work, and Diet of Huaorani Indians of the Ecuadorian Amazon Due to Acculturation”
  • Michelle Mouton, English
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Parliament, Power, and English Fiction, 1867-1888”
  • Thomas B. Pearson, Religious Studies
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Hearts and Minds: The Conversion of the Montagnard Refugees and the Vietnam War”
  • Raymond Russell Swisher, Sociology
    The Jessie Ball duPont Dissertation Fellowship in Early Adolescence
    “Neighborhood Effects on Adolescent Perceptions of Life Chances”
  • Jory Philip Weintraub, Microbiology & Immunology
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Investigating the Role of Fas-Mediated Apoptosis in Prevention of Autoimmunity”
  • Beth Elise Whitaker, Political Science
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “Refugees, Hosts, and the Struggle for Resources in Western Tanzania”
  • Ronda C. Zakocs, Health Behavior & Health Education
    The Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship
    “Advocacy Organizations and State Gun Control Policies”

Dissertation Fellows 1997-1998

  • Mary Victoria Basolo, City and Regional Planning
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Housing Policy in the Local Political Economy: Understanding the Initiation and Support of Affordable Housing Programs in Cities”
  • Marcie L. Colledge, Physiology
    The Henry H. Dearman Dissertation Fellowship
    “Tyrosine Phosphorvlation of AChR”
  • Eric Iversen, Comparative Literature
    The Lovick P. Corn Dissertation Fellowship
    “History Making Novels: the Romances of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ignacio Manuel Altamirano”
  • Daniel Clay Kelly, Geology
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Study of Evolutionary Responses to Past Oceanic Change: Lessons from the Planktonic Foraminifera”
  • Tara Powell, English
    The Hugh W. McColl Fellowship for Southern Studies
    First-year fellow with three-year award
  • Pamela Paxton, Sociology
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Capitalizing on Community: Voluntary Association Membership and the Democratic Society”
  • Lisa Richey, Political Science
    The Paul Hardin Dissertation Fellowship
    “Population Politics and the Tanzanian National Population Policy”
  • Jennifer Lynn Ritterhouse, History
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Rituals of Race: Black and White Children in Atlanta and the New South, 1880-1924”
  • Jennie Marcelle Smith, Anthropology
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “The Stones in the River Speak Out: Grassroots Organization, Nonviolent Action, and Critical Social Thought in Rural Haiti”
  • Holloway Sparks, Political Science
    The Caroline H. and Thomas S. Royster Jr. Dissertation Fellowship
    “Dissident Citizenship: Lessons on Democracy and Courage from Activist Women”