PULLMAN – Diane E. King, adjunct professor of anthropology at Washington State University, is a recipient of the 2006–2007 Howard Foundation Fellowship.
King received her doctorate degree in anthropology in 2000 and has been conducting research in the Middle East and teaching at the American University of Beirut.
“We received 120 applications nationwide and had many excellent proposals in the competition this year,” said Henry F. Majewski, administrative director of the Howard Foundation. The 11 Howard Foundation Fellowship recipients represent the fields of anthropology, sociology and political science. King’s research is focused on the history of Kurdish migration.
King applied for the $25,000 fellowship to allow her time and support to write a book called “Kurdish Migration Histories.”
“This work, derived from my nearly-completed research project of the same name, is an inquiry into migration and its bearing on identity and culture in the lives of Kurdish people living in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, Lebanon and the United States,” said King in her Howard Foundation Fellowship application. “I am interested in what narratives of migration episodes told by Kurdish people in both in the Kurdish homeland and the diaspora can tell us about identity and hybrid identities, gender, migration and conflict.”
“King’s research addresses so many important contemporary global issues,” said Linda Stone, professor of anthropology at WSU. “Transnational migration, politics in the Arab world, the experiences of ethnic minorities and the importance of cultural history in understanding all these processes are all part of King’s long-term intensive fieldwork in Iraq and elsewhere.”
