Funding Opportunities, Fontaine Society 2021 Provost's Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows

The Netter Center is pleased to announce the 2021 Provost's Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows: 

• Joshua Davidson, PhD Student in City & Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design (Advisor: Megan Ryerson)
  Joshua Davidson’s research investigates how commutes may change, and thereby improve, the socio-economic quality of life by isolating and expanding on three factors that generate “shocks” in the commuting environment: 1) the effect of adding new transit services to an existing network, 2) the effect of exogenous residential change, more commonly referred to as a forced move, or displacement, and 3) the effect of public health crises. In tandem with this research, Mr. Davidson will further develop the academically based community service course he offered last fall titled Transport Justice, to be offered again in fall 2021 in the department of city and regional planning.

• Breanna Moore, PhD student and Fontaine Society Fellow in History, School of Arts & Sciences  (Advisor: Kathleen Brown)
  Breanna Moore plans to create a Reparations Law Clinic/Research Seminar in which students partner with reparatory justice activists and community organizers to advocate for the implementation of reparations for descendants of enslaved Africans in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Her passion is to disseminate diverse histories to the public, especially to marginalized groups, inside and outside of academic spaces through multimodal mediums such as film, digital media, fashion, and public history projects.

• Claire Wan, PhD student and Fontaine Society Fellow in Reading, Writing, & Literacy, Graduate School of Education (Advisor: Gerald Campano)
  Claire Wan plans to lead a teaching- and research-based project on language, literacy, and power in schools, and particularly their relationship to Asian American identities and experiences. She intends to incorporate youth and family voices to explore community-based advocacy and activism and, in the process, co-construct scholarly understandings of these intersecting research interests. She previously taught kindergarten and first grade.

The Provost’s Graduate Academic Engagement Fellowship at the Netter Center for Community Partnerships (PGAEF @ NC) is a two year fellowship open to PhD students across all schools and fields at Penn. Fellows are outstanding students whose scholarship significantly involves Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) and related activities, including locally based community problem-solving, engaged scholarship, service learning, and learning by teaching in public schools. The Fellowship involves participation in an interdisciplinary faculty-student seminar on community-engaged research and teaching, a research fund for each Fellow of $5,000 over the two years, support to attend and present at conferences, and a full fellowship in the students’ second year to continue studies and/or work on their dissertation.

As Provost Graduate Academic Engagement Fellows at the Netter Center, these students will both build on existing work with local public schools and, through the fellowship, will design and teach new Academically Based Community Service (ABCS) seminars. 

See the announcement in the Almanac and learn more on the PGAEF webpage.