REDEKOP Family Environmental Research Grants for PhD Students
Thanks to a generous gift from the Redekop family, CEGU offers funding awards for Ph.D. research projects engaged with CEGU themes, including socio-environmental studies, urban environmental studies, energy histories and geographies, environmental humanities, and more. University of Chicago Ph.D. students across all disciplines can apply for funding up to $5,000 per person.
Grants can be used to cover field work related expenses including travel costs, access to archival or digital materials, interview compensations, and other research-related expenses. Preference will be given to students who are pursuing the CEGU Doctoral Certificate, and to those who have not previously received funding. Please bear in mind that our funding is limited and that applying to a CEGU grant does not preclude you from applying for funding from other sources at the University and beyond. Applications are reviewed once a year in Spring Quarter.
Under exceptional (time-sensitive) circumstances, we can consider requests for funding to support doctoral projects outside the standard period of review for the Redekop Doctoral Fellowship. To submit such a request, please contact Tess Conway (tconway@uchicago.edu).
2025 Recipients
Kyah Bridges, Ph.D. candidate, Crown School of Social Work
Housing Choice Voucher Staff, Housing Choice Voucher Solutions
Sofia Butnaru, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Seeds of Debt: The Racial and Environmental Underpinnings of Consumer Credit
Hindolee Datta, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Land, Language, and Loss: Mapping Sociolinguistic Change and Ecological Memory among Adivasi Communities in Eastern India
Emma Heidorn, Ph.D. candidate, Crown School of Social Work
Examining the Impact of Extreme Flooding on Midwest Schools
Margot Lurie, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
American Power: The State, Energy, and the Environment in the 20th Century
Alyssa Mendez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Wind Resistance: Contesting Post-Carbon Futures in Post-Crisis Greece
Joshua Silver, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Laurentian Film: Ecological Crisis, Wildlife Management, and the Postindustrial Leisure Economy of Lake Michigan
Mohit Srivastava, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Religious Cosmologies of Central Himalayas
Abigail Taylor-Roth, Ph.D. candidate, Committee on the Conceptual and Historical Studies
Mathematizing Coastlines and Borders: Lewis Fry Richardson, Meteorology, and the Development of the Coastline Paradox
Astrid Watkins, Ph.D. candidate, Crown School of Social Work
‘The Earth is a Living Thing’: Ecologies of Care, Political Struggle, and Worldmaking
Wei Zhou, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Energy Transition in Colonial Manchuria, 1934 -1944
2024 Recipients
Alice Diaz, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Human/environment relations in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta
Angela Wachowich, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English
Half Calf: An Entangled History of Colonial Leather Books
Carol Igelsias Otero, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English
Oil Out of Joint: Handling Time, Work, and Weather in Mexico’s Sureste Petrolero
Tyler Lutz, Ph.D. candidate, Department of English
Unruling the Subcontinent: Environment and Empire between the Lines
Zakery Gostisha, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Building the British Empire in Jamaica
Zi Yun Huang, Ph.D. candidate, Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science (CHSS)
A History of Plankton Science from Protoplasm to Petroleum
Daliyah Killsback, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Studying Northern Cheyenne water governance and the spatial politics of bottled water
Ashley Jackson, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
A Project of Counter-Mapping: Tracing Intimacy and Touch between Valero Energy and the Greater Memphis Area
Ashima Mittal, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Making Air Breathable in India: ‘Imperialist Ecologies’ of 21st Century Capitalism
Betsy Priem, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Adapting to Climate Change: How Institutions Influence Local Decisions
Max Maydanchik, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Economics
Complementarity in Electric Vehicles and Residential Solar
Megan MacGregor, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Research on the microbiome, considering the ways that environment and health articulate at the microbial level and via genomics
2023 Recipients
Ian Cipperly, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Multivalent Approaches to the Anthropocene: Finding Answers in the Memefication of Sacred Aesthetics
Zachary Klamann, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science
Power Crisis: The Roots of South Africa’s Electricity and Democratic Crises
Margot Lurie, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
The Diffusion of State Power: Rural Electrification in the United States
Reed McConnell, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
The Toxic Sea: Imagining Environmental Futures in Late Industrial California
Maureen McCord, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
The Developmental State and the Transformation of Bombay, c.1665-1785
Alyssa Mendez, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Wind Resistance: Contesting Post-Carbon Futures in Post-Crisis Greece
Sachaet Pandey, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Tremors of the Anthropocene: Hydroelectric Reason and the Industrialization of Modern India
Camilo Ruiz Tassinari, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History
Mexican Light and Power: The Political Economy of Electricity in 20th Century Mexico
Joshua Silver, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Sociology
Salmon Fishing in Chicago
Ricardo Soler Rubio, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Mineral Extractivism in Latin America: Aesthetic Legacies of Colonial Violence
Alaina Wibberly, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology
Cartographies of Capture: From Extraction to Surveillance in the Sonoran Borderlands