Katherine Cosby, Second-year graduate student, awarded a graduate research grant from the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California.

Department: History

Post Date: March 1, 2017

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Katherine Cosby (a second-year PhD student in our program) has been awarded a graduate research grant from the UC Consortium for Black Studies in California. Her proposal was selected from  a competition that included 44 submitted proposals with 4 resulting faculty awards and 8 resulting student awards. Katherine will be using her award this summer to conduct research in a number of Brazilian archives, advancing her dissertation project, "Afro-descendant Women's Political Actions Early-Twentieth Century.