Jakob Burnham Awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant

The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is pleased to announce that History PhD candidate Jakob Burnham has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) grant to France and India for 2021.

Jakob writes, “My research questions how social categories of race, gender, and class that emerged from the collaborations between French and South Asian residents shaped the urban development in Pondichéry. Thinking of the city as a social space as much as an economic one, I will draw connections between the ways people socially defined the city and its reciprocal effects on its development as a global economic center.” He plans to use the grant to spend four months in France at the Archives Nationales d’Outre Mer and four months in India at the National Archives of India-Puducherry Branch, using notarial records of Pondichéry, memoirs, private correspondence, and legal records to trace how the multi-cultural residents of Pondichéry lived in the city with each other.

The US Department of Education’s Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) program supports research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies for a period of 6 to 12 months. The types of projects that are considered for this scholarship include projects that deepen research knowledge on and help the nation develop capabilities in areas of the world not generally included in U.S. curricula. For more information, visit our webpage.