Christy Wahl, Ph.D. Candidate, has been awarded a research grant through the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst or DAAD). This generous grant, funded by the German government and the European Union, provides Christy an additional six months of research time in lovely Berlin. She is currently on a yearlong doctoral fellowship in the Berlin Program for Advanced German and European Studies at the Freie Universität.