Ph.D. candidate Derek Schaefer receives scholarship
Congratulations to Ph.D. candidate Derek Schaefer, who has been awarded a 12-month scholarship for the Academic Year 2013-14 from the Study Foundation of the Berlin House of Representatives (Studienstiftung des Abgeordneten Hauses von Berlin).
During the scholarship year in Berlin, Derek will conduct research for his dissertation on East German discourses on the legacy of the German Democratic Republic and the impact of the “Wende” (Reunification) in the post-1989 period.
The Studienstiftung was "established by the Parliament of Berlin in 1994 as a late sign of gratitude to the Allied Forces who occupied, befriended, and protected Berlin and its citizens for almost fifty years after the end of World War Two. Because of the impending loss of social and cultural contact that would inevitably occur after the withdrawal of the Allies, the representatives of Berlin created the Study Foundation to sustain and develop contact with France, Great Britain, the United States, Russia and other successor states of former Soviet Union." The foundation serves exceptionally promising early-career scholars in the humanities and social sciences who plan to "work on Berlin along with German/international issues."