Ted Shapiro Awards

Recipients 2010

Six American Studies majors were selected to receive a Ted Shapiro Memorial Award for 2010.  They were honored at an awards ceremony on Thursday, April 1.  Welcoming remarks were presented by Dean Vickie Sullivan. 

Hameto Benkreira, a junior double majoring in American Studies and English, is hoping to study education, black history, and social policy by looking at the Oakland Community School and the programs it implemented by the Black Panther Party. He hopes to conduct interviews with former students and faculty, as well as community residents, about the Survival programs that were predecessors to such programs as Meals on Wheels.  This experience will help Hameto with his senior Capstone Project or honors thesis, as well as his future as a possible educator and policy developer.  Hameto is studying abroad this semester.

Sharon Cho, a junior double majoring in American Studies and International Relations, is hoping to study the policies, structures, and institutions that allow for transnationalism, the ability for immigrants to stay connected to their original countries as well as forging ties with their new countries. She is hoping to particularly study the hybrid communities of Asian American immigrants, and hopes to understand these ties by doing in-depth interviews with several Asian American families in hopes of collecting an anthology. Sharon also hopes to use this experience while interning at an Asian American based organization.  Sharon is studying abroad this semester.

Chartise Clark, a junior majoring in American Studies, is hoping to study racial conflict between the African American and Asian American communities. She hopes to understand the stigmatization of each group toward the other and its origins by conducting in-depth interviews with members of both races in a variety of public arenas in major east coast metropolitan areas such as Boston, New York, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. She also hopes to have tape and video recordings of these interviews.

Eunji Lee,  a junior majoring in American Studies, is hoping to organize activities and outings for the children of the Pilar de Esperanza  home in Reynosa, Mexico, to help them help others as well as to encourage them to achieve their biggest dreams. Having traveled to this home in the past, Eunji noticed that many of the children wished to also help others, despite being less fortunate than most. She is hoping to be able to stay with them for two weeks and plan outings such as to a senior citizen center to allow them to help others, as well as help with their education in hopes of getting them into college.

Amber Frommherz, a junior majoring in American Studies, is hoping to learn more about her Navajo background as well as learning a craft by entering into an apprenticeship to learn Native American based bead work with the beadwork artist Linda Coombs. She is hoping it will help her connect to her roots and is also hoping to be able to share her craft with her two daughters. She is hoping to complete several beadwork pieces by the end of the summer.

Roxie Salamon-Abrams, a junior majoring in American Studies, is hoping to study issues in contemporary urban public education by doing an in depth case study of the Facing History School in New York City. The school, started by Michael Bloomberg and Joel Klein is an effort to replace large failing high schools, with smaller, more focused schools of diverse backgrounds. Roxie hopes to research the history of the small schools movement, as well as conduct interviews with teachers, administrators, and policymakers of the FHS School. This will also help Roxie toward writing her senior thesis.  Roxie is studying abroad this semester.

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