Students win Chateaubriand Scholarships

Two students at UW–Madison have been awarded Chateaubriand Scholarships, the Office of International Studies and Programs has announced.

The Chateaubriand Scholarship Program, named after the 18th-century French writer, is a prestigious fellowship awarded annually by the French government to approximately 20 American doctoral candidates. The award, which is designed to foster Franco-American academic partnerships and relationships, allows dissertators to conduct research in France. It carries a stipend of approximately $13,500, plus travel expenses.

UW–Madison recipients are Sarah E. Robinson, of Sylvania, Ohio, a graduate student in history, and Karen (“Casey”) Casebier, of Louisville, Kentucky, a graduate student in French. Robinson, whose area of specialization is early modern France, is studying the French civil service under Napoleon and France’s occupation of the Netherlands. Casebier, whose research focuses on medieval French literature, is studying genre theory and the short narrative in 13th-century French literature.