Presidential Fellows

CHRISTINE WEBER-2015 Scholarmajor & degree: Experimental Psychology, Ph.D.hometown: Coventry, CTcontact: christineeweber@yahoo.comI received my bachelor’s degree in psychology from Eastern ConnecticutState University, after also attending college in NYC. I’ve beenpassionate about psychology since I first took a course in high school,and I’ve had the opportunity to be involved in several independentresearch projects since then. I’m thrilled to continue my educationin USC’s experimental psychology program and study how contextinfluences behavior with Dr. Wedell. Outside of school, I love to readand spend time with my black lab.JILLIAN WEBER-2013 Scholarmajor & degree: English, Ph.D.hometown: Chicago, ILcontact: weberjm@email.sc.eduI have a bachelor’s from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaignand a master’s from the University of South Carolina. Before comingto USC to pursue graduate studies, I lived and worked in Chicago andMiami. In both cities I interacted with a diverse cross section of people,leading to my interest in the confluence of cultural identities. Morespecifically, I’m interested by the representations of racial and ethnicidentities in African American literature as something geographically imposed upon characters. Ihope to continue examining representations of space as a racialized discourse of classification, particularlyin cities, like New Orleans, that are often thought of as culturally diverse. After completingmy Ph.D., my goal is to obtain a position as a professor of English literature.40