Prix de prolongement de séjour 2022

Félicitations aux huit lauréats Fulbright qui ont remporté un des trois prix de prolongement de séjour proposés par la Commission franco-américaine

Prix Arthur King Peters.  Créé en 2001 en mémoire de l’ancien président de la French American Foundation de New York et lauréat Fulbright en lettres, ce prix permet à cinq lauréats américains de financer des déplacements en France pour des projets de recherche.

• Haley Bertram, doctorant en archéologie de l’Université de Cincinnati et lauréate Fulbright à l’Université de Bordeaux Montaigne.  Projet:  Archaic Corinth and the West: A case study at Massalia and Saint Blaise.  Haley’s Arthur King Peters Memorial project will develop her work as a Fulbright grantee this year, in which she has been studying Corinthian pottery excavated from the colonial zone of Marseille (ancient Massalia) in southern France. The travel grant will allow Haley to live in Marseille for a month to study the unpublished ceramics from recent rescue excavations around the city. She will also visit Iron Age hillforts along the southern coast, where local populations imported Corinthian vessels for drinking, serving, or carrying perfumed oil, to use alongside their own pottery. Haley aims to draw on these ceramic assemblages at both the colonial and indigenous settlements to reconstruct a more inclusive, balanced narrative of the reciprocal impact of exchange in the western Mediterranean. The research will form the basis for a chapter of her dissertation, “Producing for the Mediterranean World: Corinthian Pottery Abroad, 750-450 BCE.”

• Simon Frisch, doctorant en musique de la Juilliard School et lauréat Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley au Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Projet : "Deux fois reine" : The Political and Musical Legacy of Anne de Bretagne.  With the support of the Arthur King Peters grant, Simon will spend spring and early summer on creative pursuits and academic research between the Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP), the Fondation des États-Unis, and various institutions outside of Paris(the Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, archives in Nantes and Brittany, and various workshops specific to Renaissance training). The focus of these efforts is the cultural and political history of music at the French court in the early16th century, a time of enormous artistic influence from the chapel of Anne of Brittany (and her king-successor, Francis I).These studies in turn inform compositional work that is inspired by, and in turn illuminates, the expressive elements of notation and musical style in such works. The culminating events will be a profile concert of new compositions at the Fondation des États-Unis and several talks showcasing creative work and research.

• Kenz Kallal, Fulbright étudiant en mathématique à l’Université Paris-Saclay.   Projet : "Studying the relationship between income inequality and undocumented migration" Thanks to the Arthur King Peters extension grant, Kenz will attend two summer conferences related to his research: one aboutp-adic Hodge theory (www.ihes.fr/-abbes/Luminy/luminy2022.html) held at the Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques in Luminy (near Marseille), and one about the Langlands program (www.indico.math.cnrs.fr/event/6909) held at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in Bures-sur-Yvette (near Paris).

• Lexie Russo, Fulbright doctorante en histoire de New York University au Centre international de recherches sur les esclavages, CNRS.   Projet : "The Politics of Care: Decolonization and Women's Work inFrance, 1945-1981"   In the decades following the Second World War, the French state recruited many thousands of women from France’s overseas departments as domestic workers for the mainland labor market. Lexie's project situates this unprecedented government action in context to question how domestic labor became integral to quotidian processes of decolonization and postwar reconstruction. By tracing the relationships between migrants and their employers, she probes how these groups negotiated the racial politics of the home and examines the consequences of such personal and economic ties on the making of a postcolonial France. With the support of the Arthur King Peters Memorial Travel Grant, Lexie will travel to Martinique,Guadeloupe, and La Réunion to pursue historical research.

• Kimberly Tower, Fulbright doctorante en sciences politiques de American University à Sciences Po-Paris.  Projet : "Campaigning for Kebabs: Identity, Local Commerce & Political Behavior in Toulouse, France.  Kimberly's Fulbright project deals with two chapters of her dissertation, examining food as a symbol of national and cultural identity in French politics. Building on previous large-N statistical analyses, which compare an original dataset of restaurants across France to voter choice for far-right candidates, Kimberly's grant period has focused on how causal mechanisms operate in a local context. She has used participant observation and semi-structured interviews in five "emblematic" and "outlier" towns across the greater Île-de-France region to understand: under what conditions does far-right discourse successfully frame "foreign" food as a symbolic threat to French identity? When does it not? And when does that symbolism translate into observable political action? The Arthur King Peters Travel Award will allow Kimberly to conduct "out-of-sample" testing in and around Toulouse, France, providing a critical robustness check on the framework she developed during the first few months of her Fulbright grant. The grant extension provided by this award will also enable Kimberly to observe the role of food as a political symbol over the course of the 2022 French presidential elections. Kimberly's Fulbright project is supported through a co-affiliation with the CEVIPOF research center at Sciences Po - Paris and the LaSSP and LEREPS research centers at Sciences Po - Toulouse.

Prix Arnaud Roujou de Boubée : Créé en 2021 en mémoire de l’ancien directeur de la Commission franco-américaine, ce prix récompense un étudiant français aux États-Unis et un étudiant américain en France et leur permet de prolonger leurs séjours de deux mois.

• Dan Tran est étudiant en immunologie à l’Université de Paris-Cité.  Projet:  As part of his internship in immunology at the Hôpital Bichat in Paris, Dan will continue his research on vaccines against Pseudomonas.  He will conduct experiments on mice with a vaccine including the protein PopB, which stimulates the T helper cells.  This sort of protein has shown its effectiveness in other vaccines but has not yet tried in connection to Pseudomonas. 

• Maryne Rondot est étudiante en psychologie à Columbia University à New York.  Projet : Maryne vient d’être sélectionnée pour mener une recherche indépendante sous la supervision du Dr Greene, psychiatre et professeur qui dirige des recherches au sein du programme santé et migration de l’école de santé publique de l’Université de Columbia.  Le soutien du prix Arnaud Roujou de Boubée lui permettra de contribuer à la recherche sur la mise en place d’un programme de santé mentale culturellement adaptée à destination des femmes et hommes victimes de violences basées sur le genre dans des camps de réfugiés en Tanzanie et au sein des communautés de déplacés en Ethiopie.

Prix Rosalind Swenson  Créé en 2016 en mémoire de l’ancienne directrice du bureau Fulbright au Département d’État américain, ce prix permet à un lauréat américain de prolonger son séjour en France d’un mois pour poursuivre un projet en lien avec la diversité, le leadership, l’innovation, l’entrepreneuriat social ou la compréhension mutuelle entre des peuples. 

• Tom Gurin est diplômé de Yale University, et est actuellement lauréat Fulbright-Harriet Hale Woolley à l’École Normale de Musique à Paris, et Artist in Residence à la Fondation des États-Unis.  Projet: Tom Gurin will compose and perform the music for a youth-oriented community arts project aimed at encouraging children and teens to read and to picture themselves as leaders in their communities. This piece will contribute to an existing mural art series depicting young community members as heroes in young adult fantasy novels. Adding a musical dimension to this theme, Gurin will compose and perform a work that uses physical books as percussion instruments. The composition will utilize the full range of sounds that hardcover and paperback volumes can produce, as well as amplification and live electronic processing to build textures and layers of rhythm. In addition to creating innovative music that inspires and engages with the young audience, this project aims to empower young leaders by boosting interest in books as dynamic materials for storytelling.