Antonian Fund – Grants Awarded MT15

Fund – Life at St Antony’s

Name of the recipientProjectFundAmount Granted
Paula Melendez‘Women and the Glass-Ceiling: Connecting St Antony’s Alumni and Current Students’Life at St Antony’s£200
Gabriela Victoria DaleFoxes Football ClubLife at St Antony’s£273
Porey LinStudent-run garden for the St Antony’s Gardening SocietyLife at St Antony’s£165
Jack CliftPurchase of a new stereo for the GCR Cafe/Late BarLife at St Antony’s£300
Niklas BargstedtSt Antony’s Football Club sports equipmentLife at St Antony’s£267.46
Christopher SiscaThe Visual Arts ClubLife at St Antony’s£300
Marc WitteSt Antony’s Boat ClubLife at St Antony’s£977
Aaron WatanabeGym equipment renewalLife at St Antony’s£196.65
Johanna PolleMusic equipment for events at St Antony’sLife at St Antony’s£256.94

Fund – Academic Initiatives

Name of the recipientProjectFundAmount Granted
Dr Anna Konieczna‘Global history of the anti-apartheid movement’Academic Initiatives£600
Dr Laurent Mignon‘New Religious Movements in Turkey and the Middle East’Academic Initiatives£750
Dr Andrea Purdekova‘Terrorism in Africa’Academic Initiatives£600
Prof Nandini Gooptu‘Political thought in South Asia: Plurality and Diversity’ Academic Initiatives£870
Maziyar Ghiabi‘Drugs, Politics and Society in the Global South’Academic Initiatives£600
Suliman AlatiqiGulf Affairs: Issue TwoAcademic Initiatives£450

Fund – Travel and Research

Name of the recipientProjectAmount Granted
Jiangshan AnFieldwork in China – November 2015-April 2016£200
Kathrin BachleitnerArchival research in Israeli State Archives in Jerusalem/interviews in January and February 2016£50
Arnold ChamunogwaFieldwork in Zimbabwe – September 2015-May 2016£290
Xi HuFieldwork – December 2015£450
Mukaddam KhaitovaFieldwork – 5th December-14th January 2016£200
Rachel LandryTraining on conflict mediation – 14th-15th November 2016£200
Sebastian LeviInterviews with politicians in Berlin and London – 17th January-12th March 2016£200
Robin MaddenFieldwork in Istanbul and Gaziantep – December 2015-January 2016£200
Rory McCarthyPresenting at a conference – 21st-24th November 2015£250
Vanessa MeierPresent at a conference – October 2015£95.10
Kwok Hung PunPresentation at a conference – 14th-15th December 2015£250
Dennell ReynoldsCourse related trip – seminars and lectures in Paris February 2016£140
Monica RichterData collection for MPhil Thesis – January-February 2016£200
Vishvini SakthivelFieldwork – July 2015-April 2016£200
Nicholas Simcik-AresePresentation of a conference – March 2016£250
Toby WhittakerCourse related trip – seminars and lectures in Paris February 2016£140

Fund – Writing-up bursaries

Name of the recieient Thesis TitleAmount Granted
Rory McCarthy‘The rise of the Islamist movement An-Nahda and Tunisia’s experiment in political pluralism, 1970-92’£1,000
Abhijit Sarkar‘Beyond Famines: State Intervention in Food and Popular Responses in Wartime India (1939-45)’£1,000
Rouven Kunstmann‘Political Press in Southern Ghana and Southern Nigeria: Nationalism, Visuality and Professionalisation, c 1937 – 1966.’£1,000