Congratulations to Emory History major Nayive Gaytán, who has been accepted in the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers‘ 2020/2021 cohort. The IRT supports “talented underserved and underrepresented students, students of color, and students who are committed to issues of social justice, diversity, and equity in education” throughout the graduate school application process. Nayive will be applying to PhD programs in History and Spanish this year.
Category / Grants and Fellowships
History Faculty and Students Receive Grants from The Halle Institute for Global Research
Over the past academic year History Department faculty and graduate and undergraduate students received numerous grants from Emory’s Halle Institute for Global Research. View the History Department awardees and their projects below, and see the full list of Halle grant recipients from across Emory’s campuses.
URC-Halle International Research Award:
- Astrid M. Eckert – “Germany and the Global Commons: Environment, Diplomacy, and the Market”
- Pablo Palomino – “Carnivore Capitalism: A Global Cultural History of Argentine Beef”
Halle-CFDE Global Atlanta Innovative Teaching (GAIT) Grant:
- Pablo Palomino – “Soccer and Globalization”
Undergraduate Global Research Fellows, 2020-21:
- Nayive Gaytán – “Disappearing Acts?: Pueblos Mágicos and the Politics of Erasure,” Emory College of Arts and Sciences: Spanish and History
Graduate Global Research Fellows, 2020-21:
- Georgia Brunner – “Cultivating a Nation: Gender and the Political Economies of Nationalism in Late Colonial Rwanda”
History Major Zaynab Said Receives Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholarship at NYU School of Law
History major Zaynab Said graduated in December with a BA in History with a concentration in law, economics, and human rights, and Arabic. This fall Zaynab will attend the NYU School of Law as a Root-Tilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar. Read more about Zaynab’s background and this exciting next chapter on our “What’s Next?” series on Facebook.
Daniel Thomas (20C), History Major and Fox Center Honors Fellow, Writes About Separatism in Eastern Ukraine
Daniel Thomas, a senior double major in history and international studies, recently wrote a piece about his research on separatism in Eastern Ukraine for the blog of the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory. Thomas is a 2019-’20 Fox Center Humanities Honors Fellow, completing his honors thesis with a regional focus on the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine. The thesis draws on archival research and interviews that Thomas conducted in Kyiv in 2019. Associate Professor Matthew Payne is Thomas’ adviser. Read an excerpt from the post on the Fox Center’s blog below along with the full piece: “Neighbors against Neighbors: A historical study of separatist groups and rhetoric in Eastern Ukraine.”
The Fox Center’s generous grant has afforded me both the privilege of working in a tightly-knit epistemic community and the ability to conduct further research into my topic. The lump sum that I received as a part of my fellowship helped fund my interview-collecting over the Winter Break in Kyiv. Hearing the lived experiences of the Donbas’ denizens contributed a great deal to this project. I spoke with refugees and former separatist affiliates who dealt first-hand with the destructive repercussions of Donbasian separatism. Their accounts and lives illustrated that identity is more of a practice in subjectivity than it is an objective truth. Although my interviewees admitted that the separatist cause was rooted in a real problem (the callousness many politicians, both in Eastern and Western Ukraine, had towards the poor), they also admit that the separatists’ cause did little to ameliorate the Donbas’ desperate situation. Instead, it amplified it, displacing millions upon millions of Donbasians from their homeland. Without their insight, this thesis would have been at best a clueless meditation on a “forgotten” conflict…
Strocchia Appointed Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence
Congratulations to Dr. Sharon T. Strocchia, Professor of History, on her appointment as the Francesco de Dombrowski Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. Strocchia will be in residence at I Tatti from April to June. While in Florence, she will continue to develop her current project, “Tobacco and the Making of Atlantic Italy, 1600-1700.” Strocchia is the author, most recently, of Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (Harvard UP, 2019).
Cherise Thomas, History Department Work Study Student, Wins Gilman International Scholarship
Congratulations to Cherise Thomas, one of the History Department’s work study students, for winning a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. The Gilman scholarship, which is a grant program of the U.S. State Department, will fund Thomas’ summer study abroad in Salamanca, Spain. Thomas is one of only 10 students from Emory to win the Gilman scholarship in 2019.
Schainker Wins Fulbright Global Scholarship and Fellowship at Moscow’s Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center
Dr. Ellie R. Schainker has received major external support for her current research. The Fulbright Program will support Schainker’s fieldwork in Lithuania and Israel over the next two summers through a Global Scholar Award. In addition, the Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center in Moscow awarded Schainker a fellowship for research in the summer of 2019. Schainker is the Arthur Blank Family Foundation Associate Professor of Modern European Jewish History.
Doctoral Fellow Shari Wejsa on Grant Writing and Digital Projects in ‘HASTAC’
Graduate student Shari Wejsa recently authored a post on grant writing and digital projects for the interdisciplinary online community HASTAC. Wejsa is currently one of the HASTAC Fellows at Emory’s Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Her research centers of modern Brazil and the Lusophone world, and her dissertation is titled, “Migrant Agency and Racial Identity: Angolan Refugees and Immigration Policy in Brazil, 1974-1988.” Read an excerpt of her post below, along with the full article here: “Grant Writing and Digital Projects.”
“Ode to the beloved grant application–being forced to engage in that awkward dance of showcasing your brilliant project proposal while featuring why you, with all of your skills and experience are the ideal candidate to execute your project without gloating too much or simply regurgitating your CV in narrative form. Though most seem to sigh and groan when thinking about grant applications and find excuses to work on any other looming deadline, some have to enjoy developing and fine-tuning them, right? Maybe? Any takers?”
Fellowship Will Support Research by Undergraduate Beatrix Conti
Congratulations to History Honors student Beatrix Conti, who was recently awarded a Halle Institute – Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Global Research Fellowship for conducting research during the Summer of 2018. Conti is an English and History double major, and her project is entitled The Sassoon Family: Jewish Engagement with British Imperialism and the Opium Trade. View the full list of fellows here.
Undergraduate Liza Gellerman Wins Fellowship at Fox Center, Grant for Research Abroad
Emory’s Tam Institute for Jewish Studies has awarded a research and travel grant to History Honors student Liza Gellerman. The grant will support Gellerman’s research during the Summer of 2018. Gellerman also won an Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowship for the fall of 2018 from the Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Congratulations!