2010 - Jefferson Scholars Foundation

jefferson scholars foundation 2010
graduate fellows 2006
Vilde Aaslid
Edgar Shannon Fellow
Department of Music
University of Washington (B.A.)
(M.A.)
Seattle, Washington
Vilde is researching and writing her
dissertation on the intersections
between jazz and poetry. She also
continues her research on jazz laments
and will present this work at the
annual meeting of the American Musicological Society in November 2010.
In May 2009 her work on jazz laments was awarded the graduate student
paper prize at the U.S. meeting of the International Association for the Study
of Popular Music. In addition to her scholarly work on music, Vilde continues
to be an active performer on violin and Hardanger fiddle. Recently, Vilde and
her husband welcomed a new addition to the family, a baby boy, Anders
Aaslid DeJarnatt, born May 16, 2010.
Jill Patricia
Baskin
Edgar Shannon Fellow
Department of Art History
Dartmouth College (B.A.)
University of Virginia (M.A.)
Redmond, Washington
Jill is studying images of the African
landscape made by early nineteenthcentury
American travelers,
particularly African-Americans, abolitionists, and colonization society
members. In the summer of 2010, she assisted with work on an exhibition
at the Special Collections library while learning French, studied for her
comprehensive exams, and wrote her dissertation proposal. In the 2010-11
school year, Jill will be in Charlottesville conducting dissertation research.
Emily Jane
Charnock
Gregory L. and Nancy H. Curl
Fellow
Department of Politics
Oxford University (B.A.)
American University (M.A.)
Middlesbrough, United Kingdom
In the coming year, Emily will
continue working on her dissertation
“From Ghosts to Shadows: The National Party Organizations and Interest
Groups.” This project explores the evolving relationship between parties and
interest groups from the New Deal to the contemporary period.
Rishiraj Das
Paul T. Jones II Fellow
Department of Environmental
Sciences
University California-Berkeley
(B.S.)
Yale University (M.S.)
Mumbai, India
Rishi presented a poster at the
American Geophysical Union’s
Fall 2009 meeting in San Francisco, and received the Department of
Environmental Science’s Best Poster Award at the January 2010 Envirodays
Conference. He has begun collaborating with faculty at Oregon State
University to study the sources of dust and aerosols that bring nutrients to
forests in the Yucatan peninsula. During the summer 2010, Rishi will travel
to Mexico to continue looking for Saharan dust and nutrients in the tropical
dry forests of the Yucatan.
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