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John Near and Mitra Scholar Grant Reception
Monday, April 24, 2017 | 5:15-6:30 p.m.
Refreshments served at 4:15 p.m.
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You are cordially invited to celebrate and honor the 2016-17 John Near and Mitra Scholars at a reception.

Refreshments will be served in the Nichols Hall rotunda from 4:15 to 5 p.m.

Scholars will present their papers in the auditorium from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.
John Near Scholars
Molly Wancewicz
Crossing the Line: Angelina Grimké’s and Sojourner Truth’s Motivations as Representative of the Interaction between the Women’s Suffrage and Abolition Movements

Aditya Dhar
Constitutional Conundrums and Measuring Minimalism: Analyzing the Incorporation of Restraint and Avoidance Canons in the Roberts Court’s Decision in Citizens United v. FEC

Sarisha Kurup
Art in the Era of AIDS: A Look at the Emergence of “AIDs art” in 1980s and 90s New York City as a Result of AIDs Activism

Andrew Rule
“Sunrise, Sunrise”: Repurposing the Native American Oral Tradition in the Literature of the Activist 1970s

Soham Khan
“Truth is a Pathless Land”: Examining the Influence of Theosophy on Jiddu Krishnamurti’s Philosophy
Mitra Family Scholars
Tiffany Zhu
Putting the Realism in Socialist Realism: Gorky’s Mother as a Bridge between Soviet and Chernyshevskian Aesthetics

Maya Valluru
Listen, This One’s for You: The Influence of Punk Music in the 1989 Overthrow of the Soviet Communist Regime in Poland

Misha Tseitlin
War and (Eventually?) Peace: The Impact of Russian Invasionary Tactics in Shaping the Development of a Chechen Theocratic Autocracy

Raymond Xu
Saving Health Aid from Death’s Door: Analyzing Fraud in the The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria through the Principle-Agent Problem

Arnav Tandon
Cross-Cultural Camaraderie: Tracing the Roots of Cicero’s Philosophy on Friendship to Aristotelian Ideas

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