JMCE EU Summer Research Award: Katie Laird
Over the span of several months during 2022, funding granted through the JMCE EU Summer Research Award allowed me to travel to France, Belgium, and Germany to pursue research in various archives that would contribute to my dissertation on European influences on women’s lives in the Levant through law, missionary efforts, and cultural outreach.
Archives in Nantes and Paris, Brussels, and Berlin all contributed valuable insights into my project. In addition to the archives, I was able to interact with and observe some 21st century effects of European involvement in the Levant, such as large population of refugees from those areas, and strong religious and linguistic threads running through these European cities.
French laws in Syria and Lebanon after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and Belgian and German letters from missionaries in Palestine all helped expand my understanding of the ways Europeans and Levantines have interacted with and impacted each other.
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