UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN DAAD SCHOLARSHIPS
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Eric Roubinek, a PhD candidate in history, received a DAAD Scholarship for 2009-10 to conduct extensive archival research at the Bundesarchiv in Berlin. In his dissertation, he will examine how ideas of racial difference were defined and negotiated in the colonial administrations of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy through their native policy and how these ideas were implicated in policies and practices that circulated within popular and scientific discourses at home. Roubinek received a BA in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2004. |
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Sean Nye, a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society, received a DAAD Scholarship for 2008-09. His dissertation examines how electronic music has presented postmodern tropes of German identity by means of performance practice, cover art, and a range of musical techniques. Nye received a B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of California-Berkeley in 2001. |
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