{"id":2076,"date":"2017-01-30T11:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=2076"},"modified":"2017-01-30T11:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T11:21:54","slug":"history-honors-students-mcglade-and-perlman-receive-fchi-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2017\/01\/30\/history-honors-students-mcglade-and-perlman-receive-fchi-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"History Honors Students McGlade and Perlman Receive FCHI Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to History Honors students\u00a0Hugh McGlade and Samantha Perlman, who have received\u00a0Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI) Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowships for Spring 2017.\u00a0The fellowship receives support from the Emory College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program and aids students completing honors projects for one semester. Along with\u00a0office space at the FCHI and fellowship resources, recipients participate in a dynamic community of cross-generational scholars. Learn more about the <a href=\"http:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/home\/fellowships\/programs.html\">FCHI fellowships<\/a> and check out the brief profiles of McGlade and Perlman below.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/home\/images\/16-17FellowHeads\/Hugh.jpg\" alt=\"Hugh\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Hugh McGlade<\/strong> is majoring in History and International Studies. He focuses on Latin America, especially Brazil, and is a student of Portuguese. His thesis investigates a hunger alleviation program in Brazil during the early 1940s, exploring questions of capitalism, politics, and cultural exchange.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/fchi.emory.edu\/home\/images\/16-17FellowHeads\/Samantha.jpg\" alt=\"Samantha\" \/><\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>Samantha Perlman<\/strong> is double majoring in History and African American Studies. Her honors thesis stems from her experience witnessing student protest movements while abroad in South Africa, as well as her interest in American educational reform. Her thesis examines the history of affirmative action at Emory College from 1969 to 1989.\u00a0 By uncovering the story of affirmative action at Emory, her project provides historical context for how Emory can address systemic problems of underrepresentation and promote a more inclusive campus climate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to History Honors students\u00a0Hugh McGlade and Samantha Perlman, who have received\u00a0Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry (FCHI) Undergraduate Humanities Honors Fellowships for Spring 2017.\u00a0The fellowship receives support from the Emory College of Arts and Sciences Honors Program and aids students completing honors projects for one semester. Along with\u00a0office space at the FCHI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,19,1,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-grants-and-fellowships","category-research","category-uncategorized","category-undergraduate-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}