Congratulations to the GC’s 2018 Mellon/ACLS Fellows

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Four Graduate Center doctoral candidates were named 2018 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellows. The fellows, selected from a pool of more than 1,000 applicants, will receive a one-year stipend of $30,000, plus funds for research costs and university fees of up to $8,000.

Evaluation criteria for the prestigious fellowship include the potential of the research project to make a significant contribution to knowledge and the student's potential for scholarly achievement.

The Graduate Center's 2018 fellows are


Fabio Battista
Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature
Dissertation title: Cultural Translation in Early Modern Italy: Fiction and English Affairs, 1590-1690





Zoltán Glück
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology
Dissertation title: Security and Social Transformation: An Anthropology of Kenya’s War on Terror, 1998-2018





Elizabeth Newton
Ph.D. Program in Music
Dissertation title: Lo-fi Recordings and the Reproduction of Affect, 1988-1996






Helen Panagiotopoulos
Ph.D. Program in Anthropology
Dissertation title: The Question of Money: State, Protest, and Informal Currencies in the Wake of Greece’s Economic Crisis



Congratulations to this year's Mellon/ACLS Fellows.

Submitted on: MAY 22, 2018