Past Awardees

In 2021, Sondra Cuban, Director of Adult and Higher Education, received funding from IGE as well as from the American Center for Mongolian Studies and Henry Luce Foundation to support two research projects in Mongolia.  The first project explores factors that help explain the contemporary migration of Mongolian women from their home in the countryside to the capital city of Ulaanbaatar.  The other study looks at reasons why Mongolian women have moved to South Korea, the strategies employed, and the contributions and sacrifices they have made in that migration process.

David Sattler, Professor of Psychology, has received multiple awards to work on environmental threats to nomadic herders, school climate, and mental health issues, in partnership with colleagues at the National University of Mongolia. This research has led to co-authored publications in Journal of Environmental Psychology and Learning Environments Research. Dr. Sattler's collaborative scholarship with Western and NUM students on the social and psychological impacts of COVID-19 vaccination in Mongolia appears in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Cynthia Horne, a professor in the Political Science department, received the award in 2019. Her research on the nexus of globalization and women’s empowerment in Mongolia has led to a publication in Europe-Asia Studies, a forthcoming book chapter, as well as a presentation for the American Center for Mongolian Studies Invited Speaker Series in Ulaanbaatar.

With Street funds awarded in 2019, Diana Gruman, professor of Psychology (in collaboration with David Sattler and several colleagues at National University of Mongolia), engaged in a project begun the previous year: an assessment of the climate for students in Mongolian schools. This research resulted in "School Climate in Mongolia: Translation and Validation of the What’s Happening in This School," published in Learning Environments Research in 2022. 

David Sattler, professor of Psychology, received the award in 2018 to commence field research climate change and mental health in Mongolia, working with colleagues at the National University of Mongolia.

In 2017 Holly Diaz, an instructor in Leadership Studies, conducted research on women in leadership in Mongolia with support from the Street grant. Her work expanded on data collected in 2016 by Karen Stout, Diaz, and students who were participating in a Global Learning Program to Mongolia. These several visits informed Dr. Diaz's 2019 dissertation on the persistence of Mongolian women leaders. Dr. Stout's and Diaz's collaboration also resulted in two conference presentations at the International Leadership Association's annual meeting: gender equity and collaborative practices in Mongolia (2016) and Mongolian women and leadership (2017).