Congratulations - Research funding

Dr Gillian Roberts, Associate Professor (American and Canadian Studies), has received a British Academy small grant for her project 'Postcolonial Film Adaptation: Race, Nation, and Cultural Power in the Global Cultural Marketplace.'

Dr Ting Chang from the Department of History of Art has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for 12 months for to research “Playing Empire in the 19^th Century: Games, Spectacles and Colonial Subjects”

Jimmy Brookes, PhD student, was recently awarded a year-long pre-doctoral fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, under the direct supervision of Eleanor J. Harvey (senior curator) and James Barber (historian at the National Portrait Gallery), commencing 30 September 2018. Jimmy would would like to ensure that staff are aware of the placement for their own PG students (https://www.smithsonianofi.com/fellowship-opportunities/smithsonian-institution-fellowship-program/), and to make it known he would be very happy to share advice, examples from his application form, etc. to ensure that others can make use of this opportunity in the future.

Posted on Thursday 19th April 2018

Department of American and Canadian Studies

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