Previous Recipients

School: LSA
Major: Spanish & Biology, Health and Society 
Fellowship Project: The Impact of Intersectional Stigma on Access to Prevention andTreatment Services for Minoritized Groups in the Dominican Republic
Location(s): The Dominican Republic (and/or other Caribbean islands)

Proposal Summary: Through the Wallenberg Fellowship, I want to study the impacts of intersectional stigma on accessto equitable healthcare in the Dominican Republic with a particular focus on the effects ofcolorism/racism, immigration status and nationality, and sexual and gender identity.

Read more about Darius' Wallenberg Fellowship here!

School: College of Engineering
Major: Computer Science Engineering 
Fellowship Project: Supporting Conservation of Greenlandic Lands and Culture
Location(s): Greenland 

Proposal Summary: The project will consist of programmatic and physical support on the development of the new Greenlandic UNESCO World Heritage site, Aasivissuit-Nipisat, “the Inuit hunting ground between land and sea." It will involve travel between Kangerlussuaq, Greenland and Sisimiut, Greenland.

Read more about Abigail's Wallenberg Fellowship here! (Note: Delayed until 2021 due to Covid-19)

School: LSA
Major: Gender & Health, Linguistics
Fellowship Project: Exploring Legal Action by Survivors of Sexual Violence in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Location(s): Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Proposal Summary: I will conduct a longitudinal study on the legal behaviors of sexual violence survivors who seek medical attention at Menelik II Hospital in Addis Ababa. I will collect data on pathways and obstacles to legal recourse and share it with the intention of influencing both Ethiopian policy and resources within Menelik II Hospital.

Read more about Carly's Wallenberg Fellowship here. 

School: Ross School of Business
Major: Entrepreneurship
Fellowship Project: The Humanitarian Potential of Mobile Phones in Tanzania
Location(s): Tanzania

Proposal Summary: Understanding how the proliferation of cellphones has allowed people to escape poverty, exploring the effects of disconnection on the abject poor, and how inducting them into the digital world couldimpact their lives. I will conduct an ethnographic study to understand the usage of cellphones andtheir impact between urban and rural populations. Then I will identify disconnected populations andmeasure the level of exclusion they experience due to disconnection, and how to overcome it.

Read more about Meagan's Wallenberg Fellowship here. 

School: LSA
Major: Biopsychology, Cognition & Neuroscience
Fellowship Project: Cross-Cultural Consciousness
Location(s): Cape Town, South Africa

Proposal Summary: I want to use children's literature to compare the representation of blacks in the U.S. and South Africa and explore how the implicit and explicit messages children receive through early exposure to literature affect their self-image. I will use a series of books that showcase black leaders and culture to facilitate dialogues about identity and purpose with black 8-12 year olds in South Africa. 

Read more about Adelia's Wallenberg Fellowship here. 

School: School of Music, Theater & Dance
Major: BFA Theater Program
Fellowship Project: Artistic activism: exploring the intersection of performance and social justice in Indian urban spaces
Location(s): Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bangalore, India

Proposal Summary: I will travel to India and spend several months in Mumbai, Kolkata, and Bangalore, respectively. The connections I've made with organizations in each city will serve as launching pads for my own individual theatre and dance outreach work. A common thread connects the unique experiences I have included: each one pushes back against the notion that certain people are not worthy or deserving of artistic expression, and capitalizes on the healing, transformative capacity of performance. 

Read more about Meredith's Wallenberg Fellowship here. 

School: Taubman College of Architecture and Urban planning 
Major: Architecture
Fellowship Project: Permanently displaced: Exploring the humanitarian potential of architecture in protracted refugee situations in Lebanon and Kenya 
Location(s): Lebanon & Kenya

Proposal Summary: In the proposed project I will travel to two refugee camps that has become permanent settlements. I will stay for ten months in Resheideh in Lebanon, and another two months in Dadaab Kenya. Reshiedieh is one of the world’s oldest refugee camps dating, while Dadaab is the world’s largest. I will study how society adapts to permanent encampment and how architectural expertise can be used in a refugee setting.  

Read more about Bjørnar's Wallenberg Fellowship here. 

School: LSA
Major: Anthropology
Fellowship Project: The Socio-Cultural Components of Tuberculosis Prevalence among populations in Lima, Peru
Location(s): Lima, Peru

Proposal Summary: This project will focus on addressing the social determinants of tuberculosis prevalence in Lima, Perú and surrounding areas. Although it is a preventable disease, tuberculosis continues to spread in dense, urban centers among low socioeconomic status individuals. Through ethnographic research methods employing a participant-observer approach, community engagement projects, and collaboration with the Instituto Nacional de Salud, I will write both a critical anthropological analysis of tuberculosis and creative non-fiction accounts of the people and environments I encounter. 

Read more about Lily's Wallenberg Fellowship here.

School: Ford School of Publich Policy
Major: Public Policy
Fellowship Project: Top-Down or Bottom-Up: A Comparative Analysis of Conservation Governance and Conservation Outcomes for Local Peoples/Areas
Location(s): Kenya

Proposal Summary: The proposed project is designed to explore the ways in which different approaches to conservation governance in Kenya influence conservation outcomes for local people. It includes a comparative analysis of gonverance across five distinct conservation landscapes, relying upon quantitative and qualitative data to measure the consequences of each conservation method on local people.

Read more about Zachary's Wallenberg Fellowship here.