# CEGU

**Source**: https://cegu.uchicago.edu/doctoral-certificate/grants/
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## [DOCTORAL CERTIFICATE IN ENVIRONMENT, GEOGRAPHY AND URBANIZATION](https://voices.uchicago.edu/cegu/doctoral-certificate)

#### [Overview](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/doctoral-certificate)

#### [Requirements](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/doctoral-certificate/requirements/)

#### [Research Grants](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/doctoral-certificate/grants/)

#### [Frequently Asked Questions](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/doctoral-certificate/faq/)

#### [CEGU Colloquium](https://cegu.uchicago.edu/doctoral-certificate/colloquium/)

#### [Courses](https://voices.uchicago.edu/cegu/doctoral-certificate/courses/2025-26/)

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### 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. **The 2026 deadline is April 10th**.

To apply, please complete [this form](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe0vND3nROQjWVSxt35K9rtB215-ChPdr43GZmRtf9KZi9xgA/viewform). Requested materials include a project title, a project abstract (max 250 words), a CV, a short proposal of your research (max 500 words), a rationale for funding (max 250 words), a budget request detailing expense item(s) and amounts, and a letter of recommendation from a faculty member in your department. The letter of recommendation should submitted [here](https://uchicago.app.box.com/f/7dbe3d7fb70c4381bed654e1ec325238).

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](mailto: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 Anthropology\
*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*