Hallam Hurt Travel Award

The Hallam Hurt '63 Student and Faculty Foreign Travel Award helps Chatham Hall students pursue a question they’ve been burning to answer.

Love physics and music? One student did, and found herself traveling to Italy to study the acoustics in opera houses. Are you a beef eater who loves to ride horses? You could find yourself riding with gauchos in Argentina learning about the organic, grass-fed beef industry, like another past travel award recipient. You could visit Jerusalem to study the confluence of three major world religions.

With the Hallam Hurt '63 Student and Faculty Foreign Travel Award, you decide how to follow your passion.

Past Recipients

Since the Hallam Hurt '63 Student and Faculty Foreign Travel Award was established in 2005, the following students and teachers have participated:

  • 2016

    Margaret O'Hare & Susan Morley
    "The Influence of Rapid Cultural Change on Representational Art in the Twenty-First Century"

  • 2015

    Angelica Vinas & Katie Wood
    "The Role of Women's Volleyball in the Dominican Republic"

  • 2014

    Kelly Fu '15
    "Societal Happiness levels in Norway"

  • 2013

    Lily Fulop ('14) and Dr. Ned Edwards
    "Study of a common ancestry in religion"
    Israel

  • 2012

    Walker Abbott '14 and Ron Merricks
    "Study of the organic beef industry in Argentina"

  • 2011

    Libby Goldstein (‘12) and Cricket Stone – Influence of Andalusian Horses Upon Modern-day Sport Horse Breeds, Spain and Germany

  • 2010

    Tyler Burkett (‘11) and Dennis Reichelderfer – The Life of Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement: Resistance to the Rise of the Nazis, Germany

  • 2009

    Amy Hendricks (‘10) and Ken Tyburski – Molta Musica: An Appraisal of Musical History in Italy

  • 2008

    Grace Fulop (‘09) and Geoff Braun – Study of the evolution of pilgrimage in England

  • 2007

    Kaitlin Tebeau (‘08) and Caswell Nilsen – Historical fiction research on the Scottish Highland Clearance’s impact on the clan system, Scotland

  • 2006

    Isabella Yeager (‘07) and Alan Spearman – Research on the wife of medieval poet John Gower, England

  • 2005

    Courtney Atkinson (‘06) and Ann Beal – Investigation of the literature of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Russia
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