David Shames Wins GRAF
David Shames, a PhD student in our Hispanic Language and Literatures program, has won a GRS Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF). Shames will use his fellowship to do archival research exploring the relationship between cinema cultures and the new ways intellectuals began to visualize and imagine the city in post-revolutionary, 1920s Mexico.
In particular, Shames will investigate “the varying ideological and aesthetic sensibilities of young intellectuals who, informed by the latest products of visual culture and unaffiliated with state urbanization projects, began thinking about the modern city as a sociopolitical configuration with utopian or dystopian possibilities.”
Congratulations, David!