It is with great enthusiasm that the Jewish Studies Program announces that the following undergraduates have received Jewish Studies Undergraduate Research Awards for the 2010-2011 year:
Zachary Ragent, Providence and Personality: How and Why the Lubavitchers of the Chabad Student Center Experience Santa Cruz
Nathan Brown, By the Rivers of Babylon: The Near Eastern Background and Its Influence on the Power Structures of Ancient Egypt and Judah
Savyonne Steindler, The Message of Unity in Saving the Lost Tribe and its Relationship to the Trauma of Absorption for Ethiopian Jews
Joshua Hungerford, Functions of Languages in Henry Roth’s Call It Sleep
Tal Harari, Homogenization Involved in Transgenerational Trauma
Leah Pickar, A Natural Connection: Discovering My Identity Through My Matriarchal Lineage
Please join us in extending our hearty congratulations to these students.