| FACULTY & STAFF |
| FACULTY OFFICE HOURS |
| THE MAJOR |
| COURSES |
| DEPT. HISTORY |
| ARCH MAJOR |
| MAJOR'S NEWS |
| AWARDS |
| RESOURCES |
| EVENTS |
| PROJECTS |
| ALUMNI NEWS |
| HOME |
| OBERLIN ON-LINE |
 |
Honors students and other advanced students (except Senior Scholars) engaged in research projects are invited to apply for support from the Jerome Davis Research Fund. These awards are designed to defray research costs of field projects in the social sciences, on well-defined topics focusing on or having implications for the community (broadly defined). Normally, awards will not exceed $500 and may be used for expenses related to travel to and from a research site, interviewing, supplies, equipment rental, etc. This award does not fund photo copying of honors theses. The fieldwork should result in a research paper on a community-related topic. Competition for the awards will be held fall and spring semesters.
The application deadline is Monday, March 10, 2008.
Application forms can be obtained from the link below or from the departmental
secretaries:
Ms. Davidson, in the Departments of Anthropology, Sociology, and Comparative
American Studies, King 305
Ms. Pleska, Department of Economics, Rice 233
Ms. Verlei, Psychology Department, Severance 105
Ms. Morris, History Department, Rice 316
Ms. Tucker, Politics Department, Rice 216
Further information may be obtained from the Chair of the Jerome Davis
Research Fund Committee, Veljko Vujacic, King 305A, ext. 58544.
Past Winners of the Jerome Davis Award in the Anthropology Department:
Emily Helton, Fall 2006Tamara White, Spring 2006
Andy Seidel, Spring 2006
Masana Amamiya, Spring 2005
Andy Seidel, Spring 2005
Erin Evangeline Allen, Spring 2004
Sara Abraham, Fall 2003
Masana Amamiya, Fall 2003
Amy Golladay, Fall 2003
Elio Trabal, Fall 2003
Shaady Salehi, Spring 2003
Austin Cadwallader Hill, Fall 2002
Kelly C. Porter, Fall 2002
Margaret Berger, Spring 2002
Netisha Currie, Spring 2002
Rebecca Deeb, Spring 2002
Michael Bobick, Fall 2001
Laura McClellan, Spring 2001
Elizabeth Solimine, Spring 2001
Laura McClellan, Fall 2000
COMFORT STARR AWARD
The Comfort Starr Award is one of Oberlin's oldest prizes for meritorious scholarly work. It was established in July of 1902 when Merritt Starr, of Cook County, Illinois, donated $2,500 to the College to help defray tuition costs to deserving students. In terms of the original grant, the prize was designed "for the education of deserving scholars in the college department maintained by said Oberlin College and who shall have attained superior excellence in their studies and who shall elect to pursue the courses of study given in said college in the studies of Civics, Economics, Political History and kindred subjects; and so far as is practicable the awarding of said scholarship shall be used as reward for excellence in said studies."
In November of 1923, Merritt Starr added to the original fund to raise its total to $10,000, the earnings from which would form the base for yearly Comfort Starr Awards. Mr. Starr specifically requested that the award be named the Comfort Starr Award in honor of his wife. In those early years, deserving students were named Comfort Starr recipients for tasks such as correcting themes in the History Department!
In 1937, the award became a prize rather than a form of student aid and students from the Departments of Sociology, Anthropology, History, Government, and Economics were made eligible to share the award.
Comfort Starr Recipients:
2007
Daniel Gonzalez
William Griscom
Tamara White
2006
Elia Gilbert
Katherine McCardwell
Ashley Suarez
2005
Keith Apfelbaum
Aaron Nichols
Andrew Seidel
Ann Stewart
2004
Amy Gollacky
Selena Morales
Amanda Nelson
Katherine Wickliffe
2003
Brooke Bocast
Megan Colletta
Elizabeth Hardy
Shaady Salehi
Takahiko Yoshioka
2002
Margaret Berger
Michael Bobick
Gwendolyn Kelly
Nedra Lee
Sarah Mullen
Alison Schwarzwalder
2001
Elizabeth J. Atack
Amy C. Greco
Laura K. McClellan
Elizabeth R. Solimine