Friday, May 16, 2003

WRITER: Phil Williams, 706/542-8501, phil@franklin.uga.edu
CONTACT: Susan Quinlan, 706/542-3161, susieq@uga.edu

UGA DOCTORAL STUDENT WINS WOODROW WILSON SENIOR SCHOLAR FELLOWSHIP FOR SUMMER WORK IN WASHINGTON, D. C.

ATHENS, Ga. – Katia Regina Santos, a doctoral student in Portuguese in the department of Romance languages at the University of Georgia, has been named recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Senior Scholar Fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation in Washington, D.C.

The fellowship is part of the foundation’s Brazil Project, and Santos will be in residence in Washington from June 16-Aug. 16. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Santos completed a master’s degree in her country and has completed a minor in African-American studies at UGA and has earned a women’s studies certificate.

"The syllabus from her women’s studies course ‘Women and the Construction of Knowledge’ was instrumental in her winning the award," said Susan Quinlan, a professor of Roman languages and Santos’s major professor.

Despite the United States and Brazil's numerous shared interests, the U.S.-Brazil relationship has failed to achieve its full potential, according to the Web site of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In response to this and in keeping with the center's mission to bridge scholarly research and public action, the project is designed to create a "presence" for Brazil in Washington that captures the attention of the policy-making community through the quality of its presentations and its role as a nonpartisan forum for serious discussion of Brazilian issues.

The project differs from the treatment given Brazil at other Washington institutions by the Wilson Center's in-depth and comprehensive approach to the issues that policymakers face in Brazil, in the United States and in Washington's various international banks and agencies. The Brazil Project at the Wilson Center is also set apart by its capacity to house public policy scholars.

The project is supported by the embassy of Brazil, though its thematic content and participants are determined solely by the Wilson Center

Activities for the program take three forms: public meetings, appointments of public policy scholars and the development of a working group on Brazil.

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