The 2007-2008 Haas Scholars
Shahrzad Abbassi-Rahbar (Molecular and Environmental Biology major)
“Establishment of a Sibling Donor Cord Blood Program in Iran”
Sponsor: Professor Mark Tanouye, ESPM
Javier Aros (Art Practice major)
“Food, Medicine, Supplies, and Freedom”
Sponsor: Professor Randy Hussong, Art Practice
Joshua Arribere (Molecular and Cell Biology and Mathematics major)
“Alternative Splicing and Fox Proteins in Zebrafish”
Sponsor: Professor Sharon Amacher, Molecular and Cell Biology
Sabrina Carletti (History of Art major)
“Reframing Zen: An Analysis of Morita Shiryu's Japanese Avant Garde Calligraphy”
Sponsor: Professor Gregory Levine, History of Art
Allene Cottier (Interdisciplinary Studies Field Program major)
“Manifestations of Native American Self-Determination in the 21st Century”
Sponsor: Professor Thomas Biolsi, Native American Studies
Ziza Delgado (History major)
“Understanding Our Legacy: How the Free Speech Movement and Third World Liberation Front Affected Curricular Reform at UC Berkeley”
Sponsor: Professor Ruth Rosen, History
Vi Do (Political Science and Economics major)
“The Politics of State-led Health Care Reform: 1974 to Present”
Sponsor: Professor John Zysman, Political Science
René Flores (Interdisciplinary Studies Field Program major)
“'I Hope I'm Dead Before They Come Down This Way': Political Xenophobia in Small Town USA”
Sponsor: Professor Irene Bloemraad, Sociology
Nicole Gordon (Rhetoric and Film major)
“The Architecture of the Invisible: Women, Workers, and Water in the New Argentine Cinema”
Sponsor: Lecturer Dale Carrico, Rhetoric
Randeep Hothi (Philosophy major)
“Philosophy, Creativity, and Spirituality: a Study of Puran Singh”
Sponsor: Professor Hans Sluga, Philosophy
Sirianand Jacobs (Anthropology major)
“'Apparently, they cannot bear the light': Privacy, Performance,
and Propriety in Dutch Neighborhoods”
Sponsor: Professor Cori Hayden, Anthropology
Sabina Juneja Garcia (American Studies and History major)
“Redefining the Battle of Chavez Ravine: The Quest for Public Housing in 1950's Los Angeles”
Sponsor: Professor Mark Brilliant, History and American Studies Program
Khatchadour Khatchadourian (Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology major)
“The Armenians of Lebanon: Political Integration and Participation Since 1975”
Sponsor: Professor Stephen Astourian, History
Alex Kogan (Psychology major)
“The Secrets of the Heart: Love Directionality and Construct Integration”
Sponsor: Professor Dacher Keltner, Psychology
Yu Lei (Chemical Engineering major, Materials Science minor)
“Controllable Synthesis of Cadmium Telluride Nanotetrapods”
Sponsor: Professor Paul Alivisatosz, Chemistry Department
Keith Orejel (History major)
“Bodies, Burials, and Black Cultural Politics: African
American Funerals in the Civil Rights Movement”
Sponsor: Professor Mark Brilliant, History
Spencer Orey (Anthropology major)
"Abrasive Reconciliation: Negotiating El Salvador’s Transition to Democracy”
Sponsor: Professor Lawrence Cohen, Anthropology
Samuel Pittman (Interdisciplinary Studies Field Program major, Creative Writing and Disability Studies minor)
“Keys to the House”
Sponsor: Professor Hertha Sweet Wong, English
Jordan Troeller (History of Art and Interdisciplinary Studies Field Program major)
“Hands-on Utopia: the Architectural Appropriations of Rirkrit Tiravanija”
Sponsor: Professor Anne Wagner, History of Art
Chad Vogler (English major, Creative Writing minor)
“Blankwall: A Poetic Interpretation of Interracial Modernity and the
Harlem Renaissance”
Sponsor: Professor Geoffrey O'Brien, English
