{"id":1692,"date":"2019-04-19T10:47:15","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/?page_id=1692"},"modified":"2020-05-28T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T15:36:58","slug":"2019-graduate-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/2019-graduate-news\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Graduate Student News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Graduate Student News<\/h1>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n
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Ryan Booth named Fulbright Fellow!<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n

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\"\"<\/em><\/span>Ryan Booth is a current doctoral student on the WSU Pullman campus. Booth’s in progress doctoral dissertation, “Crossed Arrows: The U.S. Indian Scouts, 1866-1942,”\u00a0 revolves around his love for Native American history. Originally focusing around the work of American Indian frontier scouts and elite soldiers during the time between the United States Civil War and World War II, Booth’s thesis inquires as to how these Native Americans and their families felt about their service in the United States military.<\/p>\n

Director of the Distinguished Scholarships Program, part of WSU Undergraduate Education, April Seehafer praised Booth, saying, “We are excited that the Fulbright will support Ryan\u2019s work in India, which will help to advance him as a scholar.”<\/p>\n

Booth is WSU\u2019s 62nd<\/span><\/sup> student to receive a Fulbright since 1949, the ninth from the history discipline, and the fifth to study or teach in India; the next-most-recent studied there in 1965. \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honor for me to become a Fulbrighter,\u201d said Booth. \u201cI\u2019m already experiencing that the award will open new doors for me, professionally as well as personally.\u201d<\/p>\n

As seen in WSU Insider, written by Bev Makhani<\/a>:<\/span><\/h6>\n

“The title of Booth\u2019s Fulbright project is ‘Indians to Indians: A Comparison of Imperial Armies of the American West and the British Raj,’ as written in his application.<\/p>\n

When he arrives in Kolkata in northeast India in August, he will work with a faculty mentor at Jadavpur University. He will scour military and civil documents in the national library and university archives. Then he heads to the national capital New Delhi in the northern middle of the country to examine Raj documents detailing ‘life on the Indian frontier.’ He will look for shifts in descriptions of the indigenous soldiers (such as from ‘savage’ or ‘wild’ to ‘gallant’ or ‘noble’), which could indicate that they were being assimilated, he said.<\/p>\n

For the final five\u00a0months, Booth will live in India\u2019s far-northeastern state of Assam. He will examine records in the state archives in Guwahati, and live at a Jesuit-school community in Tezpur. There, with help from an interpreter, he will interview several descendants of the British Auxiliary soldiers and gather oral histories.<\/p>\n

‘I speak a little Hindi now, but I think the interpreter is a necessity since they speak Assamese,’ said Booth. Thanks to financial support from the Distinguished Scholarships Program in summer and fall 2018, Booth connected online with WSU Everett student and Indian native Sumit Karn to study the Hindi language and Indian culture.<\/p>\n

During his India experience, Booth will visit Karn\u2019s mother in New\u00a0Delhi; tour the 15th<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0century, west\u2011coast city of Velha\u00a0Goa on the Arabian\u00a0Sea, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; and meditate at Indian activist Mahatma Gandhi\u2019s spiritual home at Sevagram in the middle of the country.<\/p>\n

All of the information collected in India will help the historian to identify similarities and differences between those Indian soldiers and American Indian scouts thousands of miles around the globe who served the U.S.\u00a0Army during the same period.<\/p>\n

He is already an expert the second topic, namely Native Americans working as frontier scouts and elite soldiers from the close of the U.S. Civil War into early World War II. In fact, they are the focus of his in\u2011progress doctoral dissertation, ‘Crossed Arrows: The U.S. Indian Scouts, 1866-1942.'”<\/p>\n

Great work and congratulations Ryan!<\/p>\n

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Graduate Student News Ryan Booth named Fulbright Fellow!   Ryan Booth is a current doctoral student on the WSU Pullman campus. Booth’s in progress doctoral dissertation, “Crossed Arrows: The U.S. Indian Scouts, 1866-1942,”\u00a0 revolves around his love for Native American history. Originally focusing around the work of American Indian frontier scouts and elite soldiers during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5421,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-builder.php","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1692\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/history.wsu.edu\/history-newsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}