Notre Dame undergraduates (in any major) are invited to apply for summer research grants offered by the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Several grants of up to $5,000 are awarded each year for research abroad (or, when appropriate, in the United States). Students must be in their junior year of studies at Notre Dame and be in good academic standing.
Ideally, student topics should relate to the research agenda of the Kellogg Institute or a research priority of the Kroc Institute. In recent years, students have used their grants to investigate, for example, issues related to indigenous life in Peru, women’s and children’s health in South Africa, young people’s perceptions of HIV/AIDS in Uganda, and literary censorship in Cuba.
More information and application materials are available on the Kellogg Institute website.
For questions about the program, please contact Holly Rivers, Assistant Director, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, hrivers@nd.edu, 574-631-6023.
Recent grant winners:
2011
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Benjamin German - program of liberal studies/economics
"Measuring the Moral Development of Rural and Urban Indian Schoolchildren" (India) - Hanna O'Brien - science pre-professional/anthropology
"Quality of Life for the Sick and Dying: Challenges in Ugandan Palliative Care and Its Relation to Curative Services" (Uganda) - Joe VanderZee - history/Spanish
"One New World, Two New Spheres? Difference in Missionary Efforts among Spanish and Indigenous Peoples of Colonial Peru" (Peru) - Gregory Woods - science pre-professional/sociology
" ‘Inside’ Healthcare and Recidivism: A Case Study of Gulu Prison" (Uganda)
2010
- Robyn Grant - history
"Perverse Verses: Homophobia and Literary Censorship in Revolutionary Cuba" (United States) - Stephanie Mulhern - history/Spanish
"Idolatry and Criminality: Making Sense of Indigenous Life in Colonial Peru" (Peru) - Claire Naus - biological sciences
"Gender Inequality and the Health of Women and Children in Lesotho" (South Africa) - John Villeco - anthropology
"Ugandan Youth: Perspective on HIV/AIDS Social Support and Self-Efficacy" (Uganda)
2009
- Jenna Knapp - anthropology/peace studies
"Will These Wounds Ever Heal? Trauma and Healing in the Lives of Salvadoran Street Children" (El Salvador) - Kerry Pecho - anthropology/Spanish
"Building an Understanding of 'Children at Risk' in Latin America" (Chile) - Timothy Reidy - architecture
"Rebuilding Northern Uganda" (Uganda) - Christopher Smith - chemistry
"A Cooperative Approach to Groundwater Protection in Benin: Establishing the Link Between Land Use and Contamination" (Benin) - Allison Thomas - English/art history
"Revolutionary Nativism: the Indigenous Aesthetic in Chilean and Nicaraguan Political Art" (Nicaragua) - Ayslinn Tice - anthropology/peace studies
"Education in Lesotho: School, Gender Roles, and Sexual Negotiation" (South Africa)
2008
- Susan Bigelow - political science/theology
"Catholic Liturgy and Authentic Human Development in Uganda" (Uganda) - Allyson Brantley - history
"Borderland Identities: The 1911 Socialist Invasion of Baja California" (United States and Mexico) - Michelle Byrne - science-business
"The Source of Water System Development: Bridging the Gap Between Problems and Solutions Regarding Water Issues in Nindye, Uganda" (Uganda) - Katie Day - theology/political science
"Measuring Government Corruption in Uganda: Allocation of Funds for the Plan for Modernisation of Agriculture, 2005-2008" (Uganda) - Sean Hoskins - political science/economics
"Determinants of Agricultural Output in Nnindye, Uganda" (Uganda) - Maureen Howard - political science/peace studies
"A Child's Right to Education: Uganda's Response, 1997-2008" (Uganda)
