Published: April 21, 2015
Emily Frazier-Rath

GSLL congratulates doctoral student Emily Frazier-Rath on her receipt of a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Long-Term Research Grant.  Emily will spend five months in Berlin and five months in Heidelberg, Germany, during the 2015-2016 school year.  In Berlin, she will be interviewing members of the refugee communities who have inhabited, and now frequent, Oranienplatz in the Kreuzberg district.  She will spend time with members of the ISD (Initiative schwarze Menschen in Deutschland) and Karawane für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen in Deutschland, two groups which have been at the forefront of the fight for refugee and migrant rights during the last several years. In Heidelberg, she will work with the Feministisches Netzwerk Heidelberg, in order to conduct interviews with members of the feminist community in Heidelberg and in broader Germany.  These interviews will provide the basis for Emily’s dissertation, tentatively titled "Precarious in Germany and Europe: Making Feminist Sense of Incomprehensible Lives."