On Tuesday, October 20th, Tim Frye (MA/PhD Hispanic Literatures & Cultures Grad Student), along with seventeen other graduate and professional degree students, will be celebrated for receiving the 2015 Walter Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowship.
Walter H. Judd International Graduate & Professional Fellowships are designed to support the continued internationalization of the University of Minnesota by providing critical assistance to students enrolled in master’s and professional degree programs, and to increase opportunities for students to study, undertake internships, and conduct research projects abroad.
Tim's research involves literary fieldwork of memory sites of the Canal Zone in Panama. His research goes beyond the study of race alone by examining the way power and politics in Panama are spatially determined. The Canal Zone is best understood as space that bridges race, commerce, and ecology at once intertwined with social and economic marginalization, but which are invisible to the official historical record. For that reason, the study of these spaces is paramount in the study of cultural narratives of Panama.
