Amy Farris: Fulbright Fellowship in Senegal
I was awarded a Fulbright grant to go study forced child begging within Koranic schools in Senegal. The practice of sending young children out to beg in the name of “humility” and “religious training” has become a widespread phenomenon that affects thousands of children who are unable to pay for formal education.

Beth Pearson: Rhodes Fellowship in Oxford and Rwanda
I was particularly interested in feminist and democratic theory, and these interests carried over into my time at the University of Oxford, where I completed a Master’s degree in Development Studies. This was an interdisciplinary degree that integrated anthropology, politics, and economics in the study of issues of global poverty. My dissertation at Oxford focused on relationships among gender, governance, and democratization in post-conflict Rwanda, the country with the world’s highest representation of women legislators.