Duncan College senior Colleen Fugate received this year’s Thomas J. Watson fellowship, which will fund a year of world travel and independent study after graduation.
Fugate said she will use her fellowship to study women in migrant towns in five different countries.
“The social, political and economic transformations caused by human migration indelibly affect the communities from where migrants originate,” Fugate said. “I will spend my year immersed in five national contexts, collecting and documenting women’s stories of strength and resilience through both writing and photography.”