Vilas Grant Award Winners

Congratulations to Rasha Diab, Mary Fiorenza and Eric Pritchard, all of whom have been awarded Vilas Travel Grants from the UW Graduate School to support archival research travel in connection with their dissertations. Each is working on a fascinating project.

Rasha will be traveling to archives in Cairo to track the uptake of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's
historic 1977 speech to the Israeli Knesset in which he brought the indigenous Arab reconciliatory
practice called suhl into the international diplomatic arena. She will be looking specifically at editorials and political cartoons. Her dissertation is called "Suhl and In(ter)vention: Sadat's Peacemaking/Peacebuilding Rhetoric (1977) and Its Reception."

Mary will use her travel grant to conduct research at the New York Public Library and the Stamford
Connecticut Historical Society in connection with her project, "Brenda Ueland's Twentieth Century
Writing Life: Feminist Biography as a Method of Historical Inquiry in Composition and Rhetoric."

Eric will use his travel grant to analyze papers at the National Black Gay and Lesbian Task Force
headquarters and the Combahee River Collective as part of a larger project on the role of reading and
writing in Black LGBT identity formation 1940-1988. His dissertation is "A Litany for Survival: Black
Queer Literacies."

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