Fulbright Awards

September 15, 2016

Congratulations to two of our PhD candidates, Adrienne Davidson and Emily Scott, who have both been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Canada award.

Beginning in September, Emily will be stationed at The Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) at the Elliot School for International Affairs working with Michael Barnett, a foremost scholar of IR and humanitarianism and Dr. Amanda Murdie at the University of Georgia. Emily, who studies why humanitarian organisations choose intervention or non-intervention through the lens of health, completed her field research in Lebanon and Jordan last year and plans to spend the year completing her dissertation alongside the deep scholarly engagement that the year will entail both at IMES and at The Institute for Security and Conflict Studies (ISCS).

Adrienne will be in residence at the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. While there, she’ll be working under the mentorship of Dr. Christopher Sands, an expert on Canadian and US policy, Canadian federalism and a long-time contributor to public policy and Canada-US relations. Adrienne studies the conditions for, and implications of policy innovation in federal systems; her dissertation explores these dynamics through the lens of modern Indigenous land claims in Canada and the United States and investigates how emergent governance models shape the politics of resource development in the North American Arctic. She finished her field research in Alaska and northern Canada last year, and also intends to spend the year completing her dissertation. During her tenure at Johns Hopkins-SAIS she plans to be actively engaged with the scholarly community, lecturing within the graduate program and building collaboratively on comparative US-Canadian climate change policy and resource politics.

The Traditional Fulbright Canada Award is aimed at fostering intellectual development through international exchange. Fulbright Canada awards work to advance excellence in scholarship, diversity and community service. Traditional Fulbright Student Awards are open to Canadian students in all fields and are designed to enable emerging scholars to conduct research for a full academic year at the university or research centre of their choice within the United States. In 2016-17, Fulbright Canada awarded 15 Traditional Fulbright Student Awards to students throughout Canada to pursue their studies in the United States.

Pic: Adrienne Davidson