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2007-2008 Graduate Student Travel Grants

Cynthia Turner Camp (Medieval Studies)
travel to Scotland to examine a recently discovered manuscript related to one chapter of her dissertation, “Embodying the Anglo-Saxons: Incorrupt Saints and Late Medieval Constructions of National Communities”

Katherine Groo (Comparative Literature)
travel to four major film archives and research institutions in and around Paris, France for research on her dissertation topic, “Ethnographic Cinema in Early Twentieth-Century France”

Héctor Hoyos (Romance Studies, Spanish)
travel to Mexico for acquisition of materials for a dissertation on “A Poetics of Gesture: The Trace of the Living Global in Contemporary Latin American Fiction”

Diana Looser (Theatre, Film & Dance)
travel to the Pacific region (Hawai`I, Fiji and New Zealand) for research on her dissertation topic, “A Comparative Study of Contemporary Indigenous and Diasporic Theatre in Oceania”

Anita Nicholson (English)
travel to London to conduct research on her dissertation project, “Transitional Figures: Literary and Visual Representations of the Anglo-African in the Mid-Late Eighteenth Century”

William Michael Schmidli (History)
travel to libraries in Boston, MA and Austin, TX for archival research for a dissertation project on “Competition, Collaboration, and Human Rights: the ‘Third World War’ and U.S.-Argentine Relations, 1976-1980

Jennifer Shannon (English)
travel to Dominica for dissertation research on a project entitled “Collaborative Exhibit Making at the National Museum of the American Indian: An Ethnography of the Our Lives Exhibition