{"id":6846,"date":"2023-08-23T00:44:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T00:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=6846"},"modified":"2023-08-23T00:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T00:44:46","slug":"anjuli-webster-awarded-2023-niss-dissertation-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2023\/08\/23\/anjuli-webster-awarded-2023-niss-dissertation-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Anjuli Webster Awarded 2023 NISS Dissertation Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/webster-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6847\" style=\"width:446px;height:297px\" width=\"446\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/webster-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/webster-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/webster-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/webster-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2023\/08\/webster.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 446px) 100vw, 446px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Anjuli Webster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Doctoral student <a href=\"http:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/graduate\/webster-anjuli.html\">Anjuli Webster<\/a> has been awarded a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialsciencesinstitute.org\/grants\">2023 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS<\/a>) to support fieldwork for her dissertation, titled &#8220;Fluid Empires: Histories of Environment and Sovereignty in Southern Africa, 1750-1900.&#8221; Webster is currently conducting research in South Africa, Eswatini, and Mozambique. The NISS funding will support additional research in Mozambique central to two chapters of her dissertation. Read a quote from Webster about her work below, along with an illuminating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gs.emory.edu\/happening\/studentspotlight\/awebster.html\">feature story about Webster written by Karina Antenucci<\/a> for the Laney Graduate School. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>\u201cUnderstanding the afterlives of empire is a central concern of my work as a historian. Histories of imperialism and colonialism have not only shaped our present climate crisis, but they have also undermined indigenous modes of responding to and managing ecological emergency across the world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral student Anjuli Webster has been awarded a\u00a02023 Dissertation Grant from the National Institute of Social Sciences (NISS) to support fieldwork for her dissertation, titled &#8220;Fluid Empires: Histories of Environment and Sovereignty in Southern Africa, 1750-1900.&#8221; Webster is currently conducting research in South Africa, Eswatini, and Mozambique. The NISS funding will support additional research in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-global-reach","category-graduate-students","category-grants-and-fellowships","category-research","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846","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\/8470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6848,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6846\/revisions\/6848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}