The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs has announced that 15 Harvard College juniors will be 1999-2000 Undergraduate Associates of the Center. Fourteen students received summer travel grants to support senior thesis research on topics related to international affairs; one student has been named an honorary awardee.

Nathaniel Lalone (Government) will travel to London to investigate British Conservatism in light of European integration and its effect on the "Tory revival." Michael Passaportis (Social Studies) will explore the politics of memory among white farmers in Zimbabwe. Chinwe Onyeagoro (East Asian Studies and Economics) will travel to Tokyo to create a constraint optimization model to explain why there is a paucity of corporate philanthropy in Japan. Zeynep Postalcioglu (Social Studies) will explore the reasons underlying the position of the European community with regard to Turkish membership.

Jasmin Sethi (Applied Math/Economics) will conduct research on the various incentives of and information asymmetries between Indonesian banks and foreign lenders to Indonesia. Robert Ortiz (History) will travel to Havana to investigate the relationship between Cuban and American elites during the annexationist movement of the 1850s. Daniel Hopkins (Social Studies) will travel to Madrid and Moscow to conduct archival research on Soviet participants in the Spanish Civil War. Jeffrey Lau (Social Studies) will travel to China to examine how recent reforms of legal and political institutions affect Chinese state-controlled enterprises.

Nisha Agarwal (Social Studies) will investigate why collective action by poor, urban communities in India, in pursuit of basic needs, often fails to emerge. Vanessa Schlueter (Government) will travel to Buenos Aires to examine the political movements to change reproductive rights legislation in Argentina during Menem's presidency. Marjolein Wijnen (Social Studies) will conduct research on the tensions between European, national, and regional identity through European Parliament election campaigns. Katerina Linos (Government) will examine the policies to legalize immigrants in European countries, focusing on Greece, Italy, and France.

Emma Phillips (Social Anthropology) will travel to Cuba to investigate the social impact of the growth of market capitalism among self-employed craftsmen in Havana. Micah Myers (History) will travel to Havana to conduct research on the extent and nature of American influence on Cuban governmental policies during the late 1940s. Jerry Nunes (Government) will conduct a study of how collective memory of authoritarianism affected Chilean and Brazilian leftist party development.