Ph.D. Student Receives Killam Doctoral Scholarship



Shoshana Schwebel, a Ph.D. student in the Germanic Studies program, was awarded a UBC Killam Doctoral Scholarship earlier this month. Killam Doctoral Scholarships are the most prestigious awards available to graduate students at UBC. Approximately 15-20 awards are made each year to the top doctoral candidates in the Affiliated Fellowships competition.

Shoshana’s current research interests are postwar Germanic literature, trauma studies, memory studies, ecocriticism, mineralogy, cultural insect studies, and media and materiality studies. See Shoshana’s full profile as an award holder on the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies website.