PhD Candidate Agnes Burt Receives GRAF to Conduct Research in the UK
PhD candidate Agnes Burt was awarded a short-term Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship. The short-term GRAF will provide funds for her continued dissertation research in the United Kingdom. Her dissertation examines Britons’ varied responses to the extension of married women’s property rights under the 1870 and 1882 Married Women’s Property Acts and the ways married women used the Acts to make claims about their economic rights in the years after 1882.