2021 Watson undergraduate awards, grants and prizes

Fellowships & Grants:

Emma Blake ’22, International Relations concentrator
Consortium for Gender, Security, and Human Rights
Sonia Kelly-Manning ’22, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Center For Justice
Benjamin Pollard ’23, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Military Commissions Defense Organization

Olwyn Kells ’23, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Russian language/cultural immersion

Bethenie Carriaga ’23, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Research project: COVID-19 and State Violence in the Philippines with PhilRights

Yanhoo Cho ’21, Social Analysis and Research concentrator
Research project: Neoliberalism as Exception: Labor Organizing Suppression in the Korean Garment Industry in Mayanmar

Jack Doughty ’22, International and Public Affairs concentrator
The Intersections of Housing, Mass-Incarceration, and Policing — Comparative and Domestic Research Study
Rose Houglet ’22, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Confining Contradictions and Transformative Collaborations at the Intersection of Anti-Trafficking and Prison Abolition

Mariana Villar ’22, Anthropology concentrator
Research project: Who cares for the caregivers? The burdens of caregivers of adolescents of Tuberculosis in Lima, Peru

Caroline Allen ’22, International Relations and History concentrator
US Mission to the UN Human Rights Council
Liam Bendicksen ’22, Public Policy and Public Health concentrator
SENATE Help Committee
Claire Hodges ’22, Public Policy and French Studies concentrator
The Sabin Center for Climate Change at Columbia University
Saoirse MaherGreene ’21, Independent Concentration in Social Trauma Studies
Rhode Island for Community & Justice
Margherita Micaletti-Hinojal ’23, Political Science and Philosophy concentrator
Refugee Representation Division of Human Rights First
Bailee Peralto ’21, Public Policy concentrator
Mental Health Association of Rhode Island
Emily Reed ’22, Public Policy and Africana Studies concentrator
Bud to Blossom Project
Emery Shelley ’22, International and Public Affairs and Computer Science concentrator
Rhode Island Center for Justice
Gina Sinclair ’22, International Relations and History concentrator
United States Department of State and International Crisis Group
Andrew Steinberg ’22, International and Public Affairs concentrator
Legal Services Center's Safety Net Project at Harvard Law School

Elaina Kim ’21: Provocations as Engagement: Korea’s Foreign Policy Strategy in 2017
Emma Kumleben ’21: Constructing Arenas of Great Power Competition: Policymaking Narratives and the Globalization of US-China Competition
Alexandra Reice ’21: What is the Capacity for Institutional Learning? An Analysis of the IMF in South Africa and the Ivory Coast

Grace Banfield ’21: Recasting the Iron Triangle Fails to Serve our Nation’s Veterans: Partial Privatization of the VHA under the Veterans Choice and VA MISSION Acts
Isabelle Belleza ’21: Desegregating Suburban School Districts: Understanding Challenges and Evaluating Practices for Effective Policy Implementation
Katherine Bennett ’21: A Nation of Growth and Decline: Charter Schools and the Broken Promise for Efficiency and Equity in American Public Education
Viknesh Kasthuri ’21: Defensive Medicine: An Elusive Beast
Audrey Kim ’21: Holding States Accountable: The Politics of Open Records Laws at the Subnational Level
Audrey Shapiro ’21: Innovation in Practice: A Program Evaluation of Young Entrepreneurs of Providence (YEP!)
Emily Skahill ’21: The Price of Liberty: Implications of Digital Contact Tracing for Privacy, Public Health, and the Economy
Mandana Vakil ’21: The Invisibility Problem: A Study of the Implementation of the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act using Two State Case Studies
Lucia Winton ’21: Private Wealth for Public Good? A Critical Examination of The Role of Philanthropic Foundations in American Democracy

Prizes:

Srinaath Kidambi Perangur ’23, Sanskrit Classics and Chemical Engineering concentrator