Announcing the 2016 Horizons Scholars

GSAS is pleased to announce the 2016 Horizons Scholars, eight PhD students whose ideas, innovations, and insights have the potential to reshape their disciplines. These students have been selected by the Harvard Horizons Faculty Fellows as representatives of the high aspirations and the extraordinary achievements of Harvard University’s PhD programs. They form the fourth class of the Society of Horizons Scholars, a fellowship cohort that will offer opportunities for long-lasting community, mentorship, and professional and academic growth. The scholars will receive in-depth mentoring on the art of effective presentation, preparing them for a campus-wide symposium on April 5, 2016 at 6:00 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.

The 2016 Horizons Scholars

and their project titles

Image	Ashley Anderson, G7, Government  Going Political: Institutions, Labor Mobilization, and Democratic Unrest in the Middle East
Image	Charrise Barron, G6, African American Studies  The Platinum Age of Gospel: Contemporary Gospel Music since the 1990s
Image	Henry Bowles, G6, Comparative Literature  Anatomy of “Decadence”
Image	Phoebe DeVries, G6, Earth and Planetary Sciences  Time-Dependent Stress Transfer and Earthquake Triggering along the North Anatolian Fault in Turkey
Image	Chen Liu, G5, East Asian Languages and Civilizations  The Rise of the Jotting Culture at the Dawn of the Chinese Printing Revolution
Image	Carolina Salguero, G5, Molecular and Cellular Biology  To Be, or Not to Be a Knot: The Basis of Translational Recoding in Viruses like SARS and HIV
Image	Ariel White, G6, Political Science  Voter Behavior in the Shadow of Punitive Policies
Image	Thomas Wisniewski, G6, Comparative Literature  The Rhythm of Prose