Jennifer Kosmin of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has received a 2011-2012 Fulbright U.S. Student Program award to fund dissertation research in Italy.
“Embodied Knowledge: Midwives and the Medicalization of Childbirth in Early Modern Italy” is the title of her Fulbright research proposal. Kosmin, of Chapel Hill, is a history doctoral candidate in the College of Arts and Sciences.
For names of the 17 UNC student and graduate Fulbright recipients announced earlier, visit http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/4584/107/.
The Fulbright program operates in more than 135 countries. The late Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas established the program in 1946 to build mutual understanding among people of the United States and the world. The Fulbright program is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Fulbright website: http://www.iie.org/fulbright
