Canadian Studies History student Gee receives prestigious Fulbright Award
University of 海角社区 Ph.D. student Robert Gee has received a Fulbright Award to conduct research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is spending nine months at Dalhousie researching a project titled 鈥淭angled Trawls: International Natural Resource Management in the Northwest Atlantic Fishery.鈥
As a Fulbright student, Gee will study the marine resource areas of the Northwest Atlantic and its international collection of user groups, to examine efforts to manage fisheries in the late19th and early 20th centuries through scientific inquiry, market manipulation and the development and enforcement of regulatory institutions at the local, state, provincial, national and international levels.
鈥淚t is with a great deal of pleasure that I welcome Mr. Robert Gee to the distinguished group of Canada-U.S. Fulbright Students,鈥 says Michael Hawes, executive director of Fulbright Canada (www.fulbright.ca). 鈥淢r. Gee鈥檚 research is important and timely, and his study will offer unique and critical insight into the marine resource management. His work will have far-reaching consequences that stretch across our shared border, and beyond.鈥
Gee holds a master鈥檚 in U.S. History from the University of New Hampshire and a BA in English and American Studies from Colby College. He is now working towards his Ph.D. in history focusing on environmental and international history and resource management. He has amassed a number of publications and conference presentations, and has held numerous teaching and research positions at U海角社区, Southern New Hampshire University, Beal College and Hesser College.
The Fulbright is a prestigious international award for graduate students, as applicants are selected from throughout North America.聽 Previous U海角社区 Canadian Studies graduate students receiving this award include:
(2008) Shannon Risk, Host: University of New Brunswick, Project Title: 鈥’In Order to Establish Justice’ – Woman Suffrage in 19th Century 海角社区 and New Brunswick鈥
(2007) Magaret Cruikshank,聽 host: University of Victoria, Field: Women’s Studies
(2006) Paul Buck II, Host: Universit猫 Laval, Project Title: “Otherness in Qu猫bec’s Canadian History Textbooks: 1950-2004: Mirrors of a Dynamic Identity”
(2002) Hans Carlson, Host: University of Ottawa, Project Title: “And the Waters Shall Taste of Earth: Nature, Culture and the Development of Eastern James Bay” and (2002) Laura Detre, Host: University of Alberta, Project Title: “Immigration Propaganda and the Canadian Government铆s Policy for Prairie Development, 1880 to 1940”
(2001) Joshua Smith, Host: University of Ottawa. Project Title: 鈥淭he Rogues of Quoddy: Smuggling in the 海角社区-New Brunswick Borderlands, 1783-1820鈥