{"id":7627,"date":"2025-08-01T20:37:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T20:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/?p=7627"},"modified":"2025-08-01T21:04:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T21:04:45","slug":"graduate-student-cocking-wins-dissertation-fellowships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2025\/08\/01\/graduate-student-cocking-wins-dissertation-fellowships\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctoral Candidate Olivia Cocking Wins Dissertation Fellowships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/08\/cocking-olivia1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7629\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/08\/cocking-olivia1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/08\/cocking-olivia1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/08\/cocking-olivia1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/08\/cocking-olivia1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/files\/2025\/08\/cocking-olivia1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>Doctoral candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/graduate\/cocking-olivia.html\">Olivia Cocking<\/a> has won two fellowships to support her dissertation, titled \u201cFrance After Empire: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Rights, 1946 &#8211; Present.\u201d The European Union Studies Association awarded Cocking its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eustudies.org\/about\/eusa-prizes\/haas-fellowship\">Ernst Haas Dissertation Fellowship<\/a>, and Emory&#8217;s Laney Graduate School awarded her the <a href=\"https:\/\/graduateschool.emory.edu\/_includes\/documents\/sections\/professional-development\/advanced-fellowships\/ay25-26-womens-club.pdf\">Emory University Women&#8217;s Club Memorial Fellowship<\/a>. Cocking is completing research and dissertation write up in Paris. She has presented papers at the Society for the Study of French History conference in Manchester, UK, and the Groupe de recherche sur les orders coloniaux colloquium, in Nantes, France. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cocking has also received honorable mention for the Edward T. Gargan Prize from the Western Society for French History for her paper \u201c\u2018Je ne comprends pas pourquoi j\u2019ai perdu tous mes droits\u2019: Migration and Welfare in France After Empire.\u201d She presented the paper at the society&#8217;s conference in San Francisco in November 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Profs. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.ox.ac.uk\/people\/professor-tehila-sasson\">Tehila Sasson<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/miller-judith-a.html\">Judith Miller<\/a> (co-directors), and <a href=\"https:\/\/history.emory.edu\/people\/bios\/faculty-bios\/candido-mariana.html\">Mariana Candido<\/a> serve on her dissertation committee.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctoral candidate Olivia Cocking has won two fellowships to support her dissertation, titled \u201cFrance After Empire: Migration, Citizenship, and Social Rights, 1946 &#8211; Present.\u201d The European Union Studies Association awarded Cocking its Ernst Haas Dissertation Fellowship, and Emory&#8217;s Laney Graduate School awarded her the Emory University Women&#8217;s Club Memorial Fellowship. Cocking is completing research and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8470,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,13,14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-awards","category-conferences","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\/7627","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=7627"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7640,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7627\/revisions\/7640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}