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Travel Grant Awardees

We are pleased to announce that we have awarded travel grants to nine graduate student and one undergraduate student participants in the annual meetings in New York City. We received over 150 applications for ten grants. The Program Committee awarded grants based on their judgment of the papers’ contributions to the theme of this year’s meetings and distances travelled. Congratulations to the grant recipients!

  • Jenna Appelbaum, NYU, Transitional Justice and its Stories: Complicating the Genocidal Rape Monologue in Rwanda
  • Miriam Sessions, Florida State, Social Control and Emotional Expression: Women`s Experiences in Hospitalized Childbirth
  • Mia Diaz-Edelman, Boston University, Anchoring Narratives: Multicultural Collaboration in the Immigrant Rights Movement
  • Amanda Gengler, Brandeis University, Telling Stories about Ourselves and Our Projects in the Field
  • Andrew Junker, Yale University, Storied Methodologies: Innovative Uses of Narrative in Research
  • Rebekkah Joy Orr, Syracuse University, Pride and Prejudice: Sexual Storytelling and the Politics of Inclusion in One Sex-Positive Group
  • Sara Garrett, UCLA - Berkeley, “Then it all went wrong…”: First-time mothers respond to deviations from their desired birth plans
  • Joris Gjata, University of Virginia, Constructing a Self: Organizations and their Stories
  • Naliyah Kaya, George Mason University, Poetic Personas: Self & Society in Spoken Word Performance Culture

Undergraduate:

  • John Robert Butler, Louisiana State University, The Cultural Psychology of Palestinian Terrorism