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Around Myers Hollow
History Professor Honored With Fulbright Award
 A foremost expert in Coptic monastic archeology, Assistant Professor of History Dar Brooks Hedstrom has received more prestigious recognition for her research. The Binational Fulbright Commission in Egypt has awarded Brooks Hedstrom a research fellowship for her proposal, "Constructing Monastic Space in Egypt." As a nine-month Fulbright scholar, Brooks Hedstrom will continue her archeological work at the White Monastery, one of the largest Christian settlements in the Middle East, as well as document other monastic settlements and visit a range of archeological sites in the region. A member of the Wittenberg faculty since 2001, Brooks Hedstrom has received numerous awards for her Coptic research, including a $100,000 collaborative grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2005. She also has coordinated two archeological digs in Springfield as part of an Archeological Field Methods course and continues to teach a range of courses on the history, culture and religion of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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