This week, graduate student Butch Wright was awarded a 2020 U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship for the amount of $22,398. The Fulbright Scholarship board notes that, "The Fulbright-Hays (DDRA) Fellowship Program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages and area studies in the United States. The DDRA grant is highly competitive with only approximately 90 awards selected annually for funding nationwide, across disciplines. "
This Fellowship will support Butch's project, "Social Networks and Food Security among Urban Indigenous in the Brazilian Amazon."
Congratulations, Butch!