Anthropology graduate student awarded scholarship for research in Italy

Anthropology graduate student Johanna Mitterhofer has been awarded a $11,000 Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the Autonomous Province of Bozen in Italy. 

In her dissertation research, Mitterhofer plans to investigate how cross-border projects promoted by the European Union's InterReg policies are taken up by different groups within South Tyrol, an ethnically and linguistically diverse border region in northern Italy. 

Mitterhofer developed and initiated her research project as a student participant in the Department of Anthropology's European Field Studies program, as part of the National Science Foundation-sponsored "Cultural Heritage in European Societies and Spaces (CHESS)" research and training program headed by co-principal investigators Krista Harper and Jacqueline Urla.