Andrés Acosta de la Cruz (PhD student in Latin American/US history) was accepted into the prestigious Dominican Studies Institute's summer research internship at City College in New York.  He will use the opportunity to continue his research on Puerto Rican-Dominican relations.

Congratulations to PhD students Donal Thomas, recipient of the Graduate School's prestigious Alumni Association's Dean's Choice Award for Leadership, and Huzaifa Dokaji, who has been awarded the Edward Guiliano Global Fellowship in support of his thesis, "The Making of a Muslim Minority: Dissent, Gender, and Transnationalism in Nigeria's Emerging Shi'a Community, 1979–2015."  The fellowship will support three weeks of archival research at the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.