Research Grants/Internships
The Barbara Anton Internship Grant
Undergraduate students doing an honors thesis involving an internship or volunteer work in a community agency are eligible to apply for the Barbara Anton research grant. The thesis and community work must be in some way related to the welfare of women and children, and the $1000 grant used to further research.
Application materials should include:
- a three- to five- page description of your honors thesis
- the name of the community organization with which you are working
- a letter of support from your thesis advisor
Application materials are due by October 1, 2010
The grant commemorates Barbara Anton’s many contributions to the Pembroke Center over nearly two decades as director of the Pembroke Associates organization.
Click here for a list of all Barbara Anton Internship Grant recipients
2009-10 Barbara Anton Internship Grant recipient
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Will Lambek, '10 William Lambek's honors thesis, “Migratory Identities: Political Identity Formation and Immigrant Community Organizing” seeks to understand the formation of political identity through transnational migration. His ambitious effort will include working with four organizations in Rhode Island: Fuerza Laboral (Power of Workers), Olneyville Neighborhood Associations, Direct Action for Rights and Equality, and Inglés en Acción (English for Action). |
The Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant
The MacLeod grant supports undergraduate honors research on issues having to do with women or gender, or research that brings a feminist analysis to bear on a problem or set of questions. Students currently working on honors theses in any field are eligible to apply. The $1000 grant is to be used to further research.
Application materials should include:
- a three- to five-page description of your honors thesis
- a letter of support from your thesis advisor
Application materials are due by October 1, 2010
The grant honors the life of Helen Terry MacLeod (1901-1994) who did not herself have a college education but who helped support the undergraduate, graduate, and professional school educations of her grandchildren, including Joan MacLeod Heminway ’83.
Click here for a list of all Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant recipients
2009-10 Helen Terry MacLeod Research Grant Recipient
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Neumeyer’s honors research project is on the relationship between private life and the Russian state in the late Soviet period. Specifically, Neumeyer seeks to understand how the Soviet state sought to appropriate gender and sexuality to realize its aims. She will be using the grant to travel to Washington, DC to visit the Library of Congress to further her research. |
From 1995-2007 the Pembroke Center awarded Helen Terry MacLeod funds for an outstanding undergraduate honors thesis that addressed questions of gender or women, or that brought a feminist analysis to bear on a topic of study.
MacLeod Prize recipients 1995-2007
In 2007, this award was changed from a prize for a completed honors thesis to a research grant available to support undergraduate honors research.
The Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant
First awarded in 2008, the Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant supports an undergraduate research project related to issues of women’s financial empowerment such as: gender equality in the workplace; micro-lending to women in developing nations; and, the relationship between educational attainment and financial independence for women. The $1000 grant is to be used to further research.
The grant honors the life of Linda Pei ’67 (1944-2007). Linda was born in China and grew up in Tokyo. Her parents sent her to the United States for schooling at the age of sixteen. She graduated from Brown with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, earned a master’s degree in teaching from Wesleyan University, and completed a master’s degree in business administration at Stanford University. She founded the Women’s Equity Mutual Fund in 1993 to advance the social and economic status of women in the workplace by bringing to bear the collective power of individual and institutional investors. She also founded a program to integrate entrepreneurial learning and microfinance in a small community in China.
Application materials should include:
- a three- to five-page description of your research project
- a letter of support from your advisor
Application materials are due by October 1, 2010
Click here for a list of all Linda Pei Research Grant recipients
2009-10 Linda Pei Undergraduate Research Grant recipient
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Julie Siwicki, '10 Siwicki’s research project seeks to understand the interplay between informal credit markets and the services provided by micro-finance institutions. She is conducting her study in Sikoroni, Mali, where women have the opportunity to participate in both informal credit markets and micro-finance programs run by institutions. |
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