Mario Bianchini, a doctoral candidate in the School of History and Sociology, has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Germany on his dissertation entitled “Modeling a Technological Future: Culture and Technological Imagination in East Germany, 1945-1990.” He will be affiliated with Germany’s leading research center on East Germany, the Potsdam Center for Contemporary Research. Mario is the recipient of numerous other awards including a DAAD Fellowship in 2017-18 when he launched research for his dissertation and a Linda Hall Fellowship also for 2019-20. In addition to many presentations at conferences about his work, Mario’s modified masters paper research “Soldiers of Theory: German Economists and the Cold War”  will be published in the journal German Studies Review, 2020.

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