Kahn Student Fellows for 2021-22 Yearlong Projects

Student Fellowships Awarded

The following Smith students have been awarded fellowships in connection wth the Kahn Institute’s 2021-22 long-term projects.

Democracies Redux: Resumptions, Resilience, Reconciliation, and Restoration

Democracies Redux is an invitation to open up what democracies might mean, carry, and create, when reconsidered as ways of knowing and being that uphold inter-relationships, inclusivity, and the work of restitution and renewal.

Student Fellows in Democracies Redux are:

• Amrita Acharya ’22, Architecture and Statistics and Data Science
• Sadie Buerker ’22, Sociology and Global South Development
• Charlie Diaz ’22, Study of Women and Gender
• Matlhabeli Molaoli ’22, Biochemistry and Anthropology
• Eugenia Yuan ’23, World Literatures

Coping with Democratic Precarity and the Prospects for Democratic Renewal

This project will bring together scholars from across disciplines to explore the causes and effects of democratic precarity. It will also engage scholars across disciplines who direct their attention to possibilities for pathways toward democratic renewal and the realization of high-quality democracy within communities, countries, and in domains of global governance.

Student Fellows in Democratic Precarity are:

• Cody Bloomfield ’22, Government and Biology
• Keelan Clifford ’23J, History and Government
• Erin Oppel ’22, Government
• Meredith Zhang ’23, Psychology and Study of Women and Gender