Jonathan Goldberg '02 has been awarded this year's Martin Dale Fellowship, the University announced this week.
The Dale fellowship is a University grant for graduating seniors that encourages the pursuit of non-traditional research around the world.
Goldberg will spend next year studying the social effects of the current economic crisis in Argentina.
"The chance to live in Argentina during this time of crisis and national introspection is an incredible, if slightly daunting, opportunity," Goldberg said.
A Wilson School major, Goldberg spent a semester last year in Chile studying U.S. intervention in the country before and during the Marxist government of Salvador Allende. He said he was intrigued by the neo-liberalism he saw there, and the citizens' extreme faith in their country's economy.
During that same trip, he visited Argentina and has wanted to return ever since, he said.
He hopes to chronicle the social effects of recent events in Argentina in a series of non-fiction essays in the style of The New Yorker magazine.
Goldberg plans to leave for Argentina some time this summer and will live in Buenos Aires for a year among the different groups he will profile. He said he looks forward to his time there.
"I am very grateful to the Dale committee and to the professors who supported my application," he said. "I am also thankful for the helpful advice that several professors gave me on my project proposal."
Headed by John Hodgson, Dean of Forbes College, the selection committee for this scholarship gave particular weight to the feasibility of the candidates' proposed projects and the potential impact on the international community. The intensive application process was followed up by a round of interviews in which candidates talked candidly about their project plans.
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