Congratulations to Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellows
Congratulations to History PhD candidates Jeanette Charles and Lily Hindy, who are among the twelve UCLA graduate students awarded a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research fellowship! Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Fulbright-Hays program allows students to conduct international research abroad.
Jeanette Charles will conduct fieldwork in Trinidad and Tobago and Nigeria to understand contemporary Afro-Venezuelan religiosity and Black consciousness. Charles explores histories of spiritual citizenship, religious kinship and Afro-Venezuelan grassroots organizing from 1958–2018. Her research helps us understand how spirituality and politics have worked together in the history of rebellions, resistance and revolutions in Africa and the African diaspora.
Lily Hindy will study in England and Sweden. Hindy’s research examines how the Kurdish nationalist movement in Iraq and the diaspora harnessed the bureaucracy of human rights to gain international attention for their plight and support for autonomy between 1975 and 2003. England and Sweden are home to relatively large and politically active Kurdish communities from Iraq; Hindy will engage in oral history interviews and archival research during the grant period.
