Alejandra Osejo-Varona has been named as one of the outstanding PhD candidates for this year’s Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellows for her research project, Hippos in the Afterlives of the Drug Trafficking in Colombia: Enduring Marks on the Magdalena River. Colombia’s hippos raise a difficult question: when animals don’t belong, who decides whether they should live or die?
The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship supports doctoral work that demonstrates moral or ethical or theological/religious relevance with nuance, depth, and intellectual sophistication. Started in 1981, the Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship has funded over 1,400 Fellows and is the nation’s largest and most prestigious award for PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of religion, ethics, morals, or values.
Alejandra Osejo-Varona is one of twenty fellows chosen this year from a pool of 600 applicants and will receive a $31,000 stipend.
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