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Memorial Initiatives

Fred Hood
Research Fund

Current Total	285764.9200
Goal	$300,000
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Upon his sudden and tragic death on December 24, 2008, former classmates and friends of Frederick Hood decided to launch, in his memory, an initiative connected to the Bologna Center, a place he loved and was associated with for so many years.

A core group of Fred's closest friends and compatriots from the Bologna Center convened at his funeral in New York on January 10, 2009 and decided that the best way to commemorate Fred's love for his research, the Bologna Center and the city itself was to create a fund in his memory. The "Frederick Hood Research Fund" supports research activities of PhD and MAIA students at the Bologna Center, contributing towards research costs such as travel to conferences or the purchase of research publications.

The initial goal was to raise $100,000 over a period of five years. In little over a year, pledges exceeded the goal. Moved by the generosity and affection of his friends, Fred's family decided, in December 2009, to add a significant contribution to the Fund by matching the amount pledged at the time, with the aim to perpetuate Fred's memory and reflect his great affection for the Bologna Center. The Family's donation has given a terrific push to the initiative and it has allowed for the Fund to become operative starting in the current academic year.

"The Bologna Center was very much Fred's home for most of the last seven years of his life. My children, Stephen and I are happy to support this initiative, and hope that the Fund will help to keep our beloved Fred's memory alive at the Bologna Center for years to come." - Ms. Maya M. Hood

On the occasion of their Class 15th anniversary celebration in Bologna in 2018, the leaders decided to push the goal further toward $300,000. If this new goal is reached, this will be the most successful Class initiative conducted in such a short timeframe. To date we have raised US$285,765.

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Academic Year 2023

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Irene Quadrelli (Italy)
In January 2022, Ms. Irene Quadrelli from Italy made a research trip to Bihac, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to conduct research for her thesis. Irene is a M.A.I.A. student working on the role of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Bosnia. Through the Fred Hood Fund, Irene was able to travel to Bihac, conduct interviews and visit the sites of IOM-run refugee reception centers in the region. Traveling to Bosnia allowed Irene to speak not only with IOM personnel and humanitarian workers present on the field, but also to several refugees living in IOM-run centers. Through her research, Irene seeks to understand the linkages between IOM's work in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union's migration management interests in the country. Visiting Bihać allowed her to see the reality of life in EU-funded, IOM-run reception facilities and speak to people working and living inside them. This made it possible for her to gain key insights on the interdependence between IOM and the EU and on how this affects the lives of migrants and refugees along the Balkan route.

Juliette Denis-Senez (France/Denmark)
Ms.Juliette Denis-Senez made a research trip to Greenland and Denmark to conduct research for her thesis on the possible governance of rare mineral mining in Greenland. She is particularly interested in understanding the local perception in Greenland and in Denmark of the mineral mining industry, as both countries still dispute whose authority should prime in the decision-making. For this she needed to travel to both countries and conduct physical interviews with key stakeholders such as with government members (DK & GR), Nuuk university and Copenhagen university researchers.

Jacob Boswall (UK)
Mr. Jacob Boswall made a research trip to Lebanon to conduct research for his thesis. During the trip he carried out a number of interviews with high profile political figures from Lebanon's former March 8 alliance (Hezbollah, Free Patriotic Movement, and Amal Movement). Without travelling to Lebanon, enabled by this funding, he would have been impossible to access these viewpoints which form the basis of his qualitative data collection for his master's thesis titled "Hezbollah and the IMF: Between Rhetoric and Policy."

Sara Moussavi (USA/Iran)
Ms. Sara Moussavi is conducting a study to explore how financial sanctions affect food security utilizing a collective country case study methodology, including three distinct countries (Somalia, Afghanistan, and Egypt) affected by international financial sanctions either directly and/or indirectly. She plans on traveling to interview key informant with governments who impose financial sanctions: European Union, United States, and the United Nations, as well as key Informant Interviews, Data Collection, and Focus Groups in Somalia and Egypt.

Michael Schroeder (Germany)
Mr. Michel Schroeder made a research trip to research trip to Indonesia to conduct research for his thesis. He is focusing his research on the supply-demand balance of critical minerals for electric battery vehicles. Indonesia is a centrepiece of the global battery value chain and he was invited by the Indonesian Deputy Minister for Investment and Mining to visit his ministry and to speak with him and other officials about his research during the latter half of March.

Alec Fiorini (USA)
Mr. Alec Fiorini plans to research the question, what are the implications of a commercial hydrocarbon mining company serving as the unofficial foreign policy arm of the Italian state? The mythologized account of Eni's activity in the Mediterranean will be subverted through a detailed analysis of the company's actual historic engagement in post-independence Algeria. More specifically, the project will reexamine an internal company dispute between advocates of ship-based LNG technologies and those supporting the construction of a direct cross-country, sub-sea pipeline. Alec will use the Hood funds to conduct extensive archival research. The main archival sources are: Eni's corporate archive (Castel Gandolfo); Historical archives of the EEC/EU (European University Institute, Fiesole); Eni's technical research center archive (San Donato Milanese); Sicilian Historical Archives; and Corriere della Sera Archives (Bologna and/or Milan).

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Those who are interested in joining the initiative can click here and make an online contribution or learn more about tax effective giving. The SAIS Europe Development Team is available at sais.eu.development@jhu.edu for any further question you may have and to discuss multi-year commitments. Also, you can get in touch with the class leaders:

Bologna Class of 2003:
• Saverio Grazioli-Venier
• Pete O'Brien
• Headley Butler

Bologna Class of 2004
• Yoshi Funaki
• Lucy Payton

Bologna Classes of 2005 through 2007 and Ph.D students:
• Timo Behr

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