John Jay Research Associate, Marty Manor, Receives Mellon Foundation Graduate Fellowship
Marty Manor, a research associate with the John Jay Institute, has been awarded the Mellon Foundation's Institute of International Education Graduate Fellowship for the academic year 2011-2012.
As a PhD Candidate in History at the University of Washington, Ms. Manor’s research and scholarship focus on East Central European history, politics and urbanity as well as Soviet history.
“I was delighted to receive the award as it enables me to conduct dissertation research in eastern Slovakia,” Ms. Manor said.
She is currently investigating the urban history of Slovakia's second-largest city, Kosice. Specifically, her topic examines how key dates in Czechoslovak history--1948 (consolidation of Communism), 1968 (Prague Spring Soviet invasion), and 1988-89 (collapse of the regime)--played out uniquely in Kosice.
Ms. Manor ‘s interest in the region stems from her work as a missionary teaching English to university students from 2000-2002 and her full-time teaching at a Slovak secondary school in Kosice from 2005-2008.
While in Slovakia she was an active participant in the Ladislav Hanus Fellowship, a professional fraternity of public service professionals and an organizational partner in the John Jay Institute’s Global Leadership Network.
Ms. Manor speaks fluent Slovak and plans to publish chapters from her dissertation as articles to correspond with Kosice's being named the European Union's 'European Capital of Culture' for 2013.
“Eventually I hope to publish my dissertation as a book to contribute to English language scholarship of the region,” Ms. Manor added.
Ms. Manor graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Central Florida with a bachelor’s degree in Social Science Education and earned her Master’s degree in History at the University of Richmond in Virginia. A former Witherspoon Fellow in Washington, D.C., Ms. Manor also received the Imre Boba Fellowship enabling her to speak at the State Scientific Library in Kosice in the summer of 2010. Her full biography is available on the John Jay Institute staff page.
