Winners

2007

• Brittany Murlas (Uniiversity of California Berkeley; University of California Education Abroad Programs, Ghana): Mother Tongue Literacy in Ghana: A Sociolinguistic Approach
• Lauren Gersbach (Butler University; The School for Field Studies/Centre for Rainforest Studies, Queensland, Australia): Resistance vs. Resilience: Alternative Mechanisms to Survive Severe Cyclones in Mabi Type 5b Rainforest Tree Species of North Queensland, Australia

2006

• Hannah Arem (Cornell University; Institute for Study Abroad - Butler University, Buenos Aires): The Faces of Globalization
• Demetri Blanas, (Columbia University; School for International Training Kedougou and Dakar, Senegal): Primary Health Care in Kedougou, Senegal
• Jason Nossiter (University of California, Santa Barbara; Science Po, Paris): France says ‘Non’: Elites, Publics and the Defeat of the EU Constitutional Treaty

2005

• Emily Kanstroom (Brown University, Sciences Po, Paris): Justifying Torture: Explaining Democratic States ’ Noncompliance With International Humanitarian Law
• Colin Smith (Brigham Young University; East London, South Africa): Telling Stories: Past and Present Heroes; Rainbow Nation’s Ubuntu: Discovering Distinctness as a Spectrum Through South African Literature

2004

• Heidi Boutros (University of Texas; Chennai, India):  Bonded Slavery in India and Methods of Intervention,
• Brian Hoyer (Middlebury College;School for International Training, Uganda): Nipe Nikupe: Dependency, Reciprocity, and Paradoxes of Food Aid in Lugufu Refugee Camp Kigoma, Tanzania
• Kevin McAdam (Boston College; Kent State University, Geneva): The Human Right to Water: Market Allocations in a World of Scarcity