Research Highlights from the Graduate Student Grant Competition 2023 Student Experiences Shirin Abrishami Kashani Immigrant-Origin Communities and Political Representation in Germany Lauren Urbont Death and Burial Culture among the Jews of Medieval Ashkenaz Nathan Deschamps The Kipper-und Wipper Inflation (1619–23): Conceptualizing the Economy in a time of Crisis Ana C. Núñez Searching for Medieval Queens Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang The Ocean’s Cut: “Fredensborg,” Nordic Racial Innocence, and Archival Violence Lorenzo Tunesi Listening to the Lost Sound of a Late-Medieval City Ümit Öztürk Social Lives of Fiscal Institutions: The Case of Associations Thelma Beth Minney Identity Negotiations: Religious Identity Shifts for Phoenicians in the Punic Roman World Laura Menendez Gorina Inhabited Ruins: Narratives of Homes from Modern Barcelona and Havana Miray Cakiroglu Non Muslim Property, Historical Demand, and the Rum Community in Turkey Anuj Amin Divine Prisons and Sacred Bindings: Late Ancient Aramaic Incantation Bowls 2022 Student Experiences Paige Hill Cultural Food Bans and Immigrants’ Socio-Economic Integration in Italy Nicholas Bartos Investigating a Maritime Crossroads of the Ancient Mediterranean: Initial Underwater Archaeological Excavation at Vendicari, Southeast Sicily Amanda Coate How early modern people experienced and made sense of hunger Tobias Nowacki The effect of electoral systems and rules on candidate success and representation Miša Stekl Racial dynamics of radical queer politics and theory Sebastian Łucek Politics and Memory in Contemporary Poland Emre Can Daglioglu Archival Research in Lille and Berlin Valentin Figueroa 2019-2020 PhD Candidate in Political Science Johannes Junge Ruhland 2019-2020 PhD Candidate in French 2018-2019 Alexandra Sukalo PhD Candidate in Russian and Eastern European History Padraic Rohan PhD candidate in History Christina Toenshoff PhD Candidate in Political Science Graylin Harrison PhD candidate in Art & Art History Valentin Figueroa PhD Candidate in Political Science Rachel Midura PhD candidate in History Romina Wainberg PhD candidate in Iberian and Latin American Cultures Hans Lueders PhD candidate in Political Science Jonas Mueller-Gastell PhD candidate in Economics Dillon Gisch PhD Candidate in Classical Archaeology Rachel Myrick PhD candidate in Political Science Brian Higgins PhD candidate in Economics Cesar Vargas Nunez PhD candidate in Political Science Benjamin Ory PhD candidate in Musicology Emilia Groupp PhD student in Anthropology Jack Blundell PhD candidate in Economics Sarah Wilker PhD candidate in Classical Archaeology Peter Shi PhD candidate in Ancient History 2017-2018 Anna Toledano PhD candidate in History Danny Smith PhD candidate in Art and Art History Michael Schwalbe PhD candidate in Psychology Jane Esberg PhD candidate in Political Science Nandita Balakrishnan PhD candidate in Political Science Björn Buschbeck PhD candidate in German Studies Simeon Ehrlich PhD candidate in Classics Rachel Midura PhD candidate in History Graduate Student Grant Competition Each Spring The Europe Center invites applications from graduate and professional students at Stanford University whose research or work focuses on Europe. Learn more and apply