A total of $70,000 was awarded to eleven Harvard graduate students for 2008—2009, for dissertation research. Recipients represent the Departments of Government, History, and Sociology; the Graduate School of Education; the Law School; the Design School; and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Samuel Abrams, Government
Where Everyone Knows Your Name: A Socio-Rational Logic of Voting and Political Participation

Efrat Arbel, Law
Contested Belonging: Sovereignty, Identity, and National Membership in Aboriginal Prisoner and Refugee Law

Maria Banda, Law
Understanding the Responsibility to Protect (R2P): The Evolution, Interpretation, and Implementation of R2P, 2001-07

Lydia Bean, Sociology
God Keep Our Land: Evangelical Churches as Sites of Political Socialization in Canada and the U.S.

Jeffrey Denis, Sociology
Canadian Apartheid: The Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal-Non-Aboriginal Boundaries and Bridges

Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Education
Can I invite You for a Cup of Coffee?: Building Bridging Social Capital Between Immigrants and Long-Time Residents in Canada

Hilary Kaell, History of American Civilization
Universal Christian and Localized Identity: How Pilgrimage to the Holy Land Acts as Transformative Experience

David Lynch, Public Policy
Analogies and Attitudes Toward Sovereignty in Quebec

Shelagh McCartney, Design
Transnational & National Migration, Remittances and Urbanization in Canada & Urbanisms of the Informal in Mumbai, Lagos and Manila

Daniel Nadler, Government
Education Public Policy: Canada and the U.S. in Comparative Perspective

Tiffanie Ting, Education
Art Museums in Canada: Constructing Culture and Identity with Community