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Six doctoral students awarded Fulbright Fellowships

Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Fulbright-Nehru Recipient

Sydney-Paige Patterson has received a Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship for 2020-2021 to complete dissertation research in India. "Between Home & City: Radical Private Space in the Black and Dalit Panther Parties" compares the gendered dynamics of the Black Panther Party, formed in Oakland, California in 1966, to the Dalit Panther Party, formed in Mumbai in 1972 and the rise of the Black feminist and Dalit feminist movements in the wake of these patriarchal radical parties. Patterson analyzes how women affiliated with these movements centered women’s empowerment in their writing, art, and activism but also, in their marriages. By centering women’s voices and private space, her work transforms the way we study the history of social movements.

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Liam Kingsley researches the intersection of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the formation of the Namibian nation, and argues that the global response to the emerging southern African AIDS crisis was consciously utilized by officials in the South West Africa People’s Organisation—Namibia’s main independence movement—to foundationally shape the Namibian state, which gained independence from South Africa in 1990. He contends that the nascent government of Namibia utilized the unprecedented global response the crisis provoked as a tool with which to legitimize state power and build the newly independent nation. He will use his Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellowship to conduct archival and oral research in Windhoek, Namibia and Pretoria, South Africa for eight months and one month respectively.

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Casey Korducki’s dissertation focuses on peasant organizing in the Dominican Republic following the downfall of the thirty-one-year dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, both on the national and local scale. By situating three examples of peasant organization within the context of a rapidly changing political landscape, his project illuminates the ways peasant actors negotiated and contested the political and economic forces aligned against them while considering the roots of efforts to limit peasant autonomy in the Dominican Republic. With funding from Fulbright-Hays, he will spend ten months visiting archives in Santo Domingo and travelling into the country’s interior to interview surviving activists.

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Avenel Rolfsen will travel to Senegal, France and Switzerland to conduct dissertation research on the history of humanitarianism, philanthropy, and giving in twentieth century in Senegal. Her research will combine oral interviews about Wolof and Muslim forms of giving in Senegal and archival research about both French colonial forms of public assistance and international NGOS in Senegal. Her research argues that humanitarianism in neither as new nor as European as scholars have often imagined.

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Leah Valtin-Erwin’s research explores the tumultuous transition from communist-era state-run food shops to foreign-owned self-service supermarkets after 1989 in Romania, Poland, and East Germany. She asks how Western European retail chains shaped everyday life in post-communist Europe, emphasizing experiences of economic precarity and uncertainty, changing cultures of consumption and waste, new relationships to food and its procurement, and the transformation of urban space after communism. Her project seeks to offer insight into globalization and the growing influence of neoliberalism at the end of the twentieth century, the history of modern grocery shopping and material consumption in Europe, and questions of daily life and urban change in the post-communist region.

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Amanda Waterhouse’s dissertation, “Grassroots Architects: Planning & Protest in the Building of Colombia, 1948–1971,” examines the transnational formulation of Colombian architecture, urban planning, and infrastructure. Waterhouse explores the public order and anti-communist motivations of such work, as well as its political and social contestation in urban space, particularly at universities. She focuses on Colombian officials, mid-level bureaucrats, architects, and students, and U.S. policymakers, urban planners, and philanthropic foundations.

Department of History

Six doctoral students awarded Fulbright Fellowships

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Six doctoral students awarded Fulbright Fellowships

Fulbright-Nehru Recipient

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

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Fulbright-Hays Recipient

Fulbright-Hays Recipient

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