Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Meet the Summer Interns: Healing the wounds of war
Jesse Mattleman '11 is working as a community child health educator and clinical assistant in a Guatemalan health facility that serves the Mayan community.
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Meet the Summer Interns: Picking Up the Pieces
Margaret Kettles '11 has been awarded a Holocaust and Genocide Summer Internship to pursue volunteer work with orphaned and institutionalized children in Bosnia.
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History/Holocaust and Genocide Studies/Jewish Studies
Work to live
Professor Debórah Dwork's research provides context for letters to
a Nazi labor camp inmate. Read
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Foreign Languages and Literatures
Coming of age—vive la différence!
French professor Beth Gale and her students explore coming of age novels
written in French in the context of French and Francophone culture. Read
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History/Government
A Ghanaian odyssey
Anton Fellow recipient Brooks Marmon travels to Ghana to volunteer in a
refugee camp and learn more about the Pan-African movement. Read
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Philosophy
Medical ethics
Philosopher Patrick Derr and his students ponder topics ranging from the
politics of HIV/AIDS treatment to codes of ethics in medical research. Read
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History
Home on the rails
Historian Amy Richter and student Rebecca Dezan investigate some of the
transformations affecting women, youth and urban areas in the United States
at the turn of the 20th century. Read
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English
Subverting the dominant culture: laughter and the blues:
English professor Betsy Huang and undergraduate Johnny Siever '05 are interested
in literature that explores the emotional interactions between dominant
and subject cultures. Numerous writers from subject cultures worldwide have
used writing to examine how oppressed cultures express themselves, and how
dominant cultures respond to behavior that doesn't conform to their rules.
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Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Comradeship: camouflaging the violence of war
Drawing upon battlefield diaries and letters, as well as propaganda from
World War II Germany, historian Thomas Kuehne argues that a "myth of comradeship"
was embraced as an acceptably masculine way for soldiers to provide each
other with the emotional support normally considered the province of women.
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Government / Philosophy
Ethics in the South African Government
Gwladys Ngo Tedga '06 is using an Anton Fellowship to compare the ethical
basis of government in South Africa before and after Mandela's presidency.
Gwladys was born and grew up in the central African nation of Cameroon,
and the corruption she perceived there inspired her to double major in philosophy
and government in order to study ethics in government. She is particularly
interested in Nelson Mandela's efforts to establish a government based on
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Asian Studies / Women's Studies
My era and my fate
Historian Paul Ropp is fascinated by the social and cultural history of
China in the 17th and 18th century, especially the lives of its women. He
hoped that an examination of Wang Yun's writings would provide insight into
her life, her era, and the fate of many educated and talented Chinese women.
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Jewish Studies / Sociology
Taking care of our own
Sociologist and Jewish Studies professor Shelly Tenenbau has been examining
the support resources available to San Francisco Jews during the Great Depression
of the 1930s. In early 1900s America, members of tight-knit immigrant communities
often formed and had access to what sociologists call ethnic self-help organizations.
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