PhD Student Scott Libson has received support for his dissertation, currently titled “The Christianization of Capital: The Business of Mission Movement Fundraising, 1865-1929.” Lisbon was awarded the 2014 Lynn E. May Study Grant by the Southern Baptist Historical Library and Archives; the 2014 Columbia University Libraries Research Award by Columbia University; the 2014 Research Fellowship by the Presbyterian Historical Society; the 2014 Newberry Library Short Term Fellowship for Individual Research by the Newberry Library; and the 2014 Hagley Exploratory Research Grant by the Hagley Museum and Library to support his research.

Congratulations to Hays Hopkins (PhD Student), who has been accepted into the 2014 DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Intensive Language course and has received a course scholarship.

Congratulations to PhD student Emma Meyer who has been awarded the 2014-15 Fulbright-Nehru Award to India from the United States-India Educational Foundation to support her research.

Christopher Brown (PhD student) has been awarded the 2014 Fédération Internationale de Football Association João Havelange Research Scholarship from the Centre International D’etude du Sport to support his research.

Debjani Bhattacharyya (PhD student) has been awarded The History Project Research Grant given by the History Project and the Joint Centre for History and Economics and the Institute of New Economic Thinking from Harvard-Camrbidge’s Centre for History and Economics.  Her research project is titled, “Risky Credit: The Commercial World of the Bay of Bengal from 1800 to 1940.”