University of Virginia Library

Wilson Fellow
Awarded Grant

Carol Chowdhry, a Ph.D. candidate in
the field of history at the University, has
been awarded a $3700 grant by the
Dissertation Fellowship Program of the
Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
Foundation.

Mrs. Chowdhry is one of 65 Ph.D.
candidates from 39 schools in the United
States and Canada to receive such a grant.
The proposed title of Mrs. Chowdhry's
dissertation is "Roosevelt and the problem of
Colonialism."

Mrs. Chowdhry, who graduated from the
University of Texas in 1967, is a member of Phi
Beta Kappa and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

Each year approximately 200 Dissertation
Fellowships are awarded to outstanding
graduate students in order to devote their full
attention to research and writing. The
Dissertation Fellowship Program is funded by
the Ford Foundation.

Since 1967 the program has presented a
total of 594 awards to Fellows who were
enrolled at 80 universities in the United States
and Canada.