Duke GSF Studies Graduate Certificate student, Joe Hiller (PhD Candidate in the Department of Cultural Anthropology) was awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Award for the 2022-2023 academic year. This award provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad and contribute to the development and improvement of the study of modern foreign languages. It will allow him to conduct nine months of research in Colombia for his dissertation, titled “Love-Politics and the Prison-Society Nexus: Care Confinement and Carceral Transformation in Colombia", where he will collaborate with prison reform organizations and accompany family members of incarcerated individuals on prison visitations in an attempt to understand what imprisonment means for them and what they hope to achieve in terms of carceral reform.
Source: Duke Office of Global Affairs