alumnae association
fellowships
Photographs of Cohen and Feinberg by Dorothy Hong
Fellowships for Graduate Study Each year the AABC Fellowship Committee selects outstanding Barnard alumnae, chosen through a rigorous application and interview process, to receive fellowships for graduate study. These grants are generously funded by the Edith and Frances Mulhall Achilles Memorial Fund.
2012-2013 Fellowship Application
Applications and additional information for the 2012-2013 fellowships are available online at alum.barnard.edu/fellowship. Completed applications are due by Wednesday, November 30, 2011. Questions can be directed to Alumnae Affairs at 212.854.2005 or alumnaeaffairs@barnard.edu.
Lila Feinberg ’07 Centennial Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, and summa cum laude graduate…Working on her MFA in dramatic writing from Columbia…Playwright and actress: Heirloom, her one-act play, received the Audience Award at the Emerging Female Playwrights Voices Festival…Monkey Bowl, based on her first year at Barnard, had a staged reading at an off-Broadway theatre…At work on a theatre commission about relational medicine
Ashley Cohen ’06 PhD candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania…Completing a critical edition of Lady Nugent’s India Journal…American studies major…Studying English, Hindi, Urdu, and Persian texts about the eighteenthcentury British Empire in the East and West Indies
Sarah Hines ’01 PhD candidate in Latin American history at the University of California at Berkeley… Researching dissertation on the history of water use and related conflicts during the twentieth century in Cochabamba and La Paz, Bolivia… MEd from City College of New York…MA in history from UC-Berkeley…Former New York City public high school social studies teacher
Aurora Macrae-crerar ’07 Third-year doctoral candidate in ecology in Dr. Brenda Caspar’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania…Working with the National Science Foundation Partnerships for International Research and Education’s Mongolia Project…Research focus on the consequences of global climate change and land-use pressures in the grasslands and surrounding ecosystems of northern Mongolia
Alexandra murphy ’03 Doctoral candidate in sociology and fellow in the joint degree program in social policy at Princeton…Conducting dissertation research on suburban poverty…Prepping her dissertation for publication as a book…Research supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the National Science Foundation, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the American Council of Learned Societies Barnard Magazine Summer 2011 19