Okla Elliott Travel Scholarship

Peter Thompson (2019) 

Peter presented “The Limits of Sympathy: The German Medical Treatment of Gas during and after World War I" at the Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science in March 2019 at the University of Virginia. 

Dilaria Caliskan (2019) 

Dilaria received funds for, Decolonizing Memory, Ludically Unsettling Space and Time, a working ground that she helped organize and participated in at Encuentro 2019 (a bi-annual conference/performance festival sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics) in Mexico City. 

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