2009 Howard & Natalie Shawn Summer Research Fellows
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Howard and Natalie Shawn, long-standing friends of the History
Department, have renewed their generous support for the Shawn Summer
Research Fellowships for Ph.D. students. The Shawn's gift enables five
students to receive fellowship support for dissertation research this
summer. The students will present their research at the Symposium on
Future Directions in Historical Scholarship on October 21, 2009. The
department is delighted to announce this year’s Shawn Fellows:
Rosie Bsheer, oral history research in Syria
Constanza Castro, popular political culture, Bogatá 1880-1910
Aimee Genell, legal and diplomatic aspects of the British occupation of Egypt, 1882-1914
Alexander Kaye, intellectual and legal history of the Chief Rabbinate of Palestine, 1921-1960
Susan Mays, semiconductor industry in the Chang Jiang Triangle
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2009-2010 Doris G. Quinn Foundation Dissertation FellowshipsThe History Department is pleased to announce the 2009-10 recipients of
the Quinn Fellowship. Sponsored annually by the Doris G. Quinn
Foundation with matching support from Columbia, this fellowship assists
students in the final year of dissertation-writing. This year’s Quinn
fellowship funds are being matched by the generous donations of The
Weatherhead Institute, The Mailman School of Public Health, and the
Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. The recipient of the 2009-10
recipients of the Quinn Fellowship are:
Gregory Baggett, “Slavery and Emancipation Ten Miles Square, 1801-1871: A Study of Political Authority before Federal Rule”
Brandon County, “Cheminots into Citizens: Labor, Migration and Political Imagination along the Dakar-Niger Railroad, 1923-1974”
Huan Tian, “Governing Imperial Borders: Insights from the Study of the Implementation of Law in Qing Xinjian”
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